TeenTix KC Events Calendar
9:45am
Theater
The Drum Closet
A coming-of-age play about two young, drum-loving African American brothers navigating a white high school, its bias’, bullying, and powers-that-be.The story follows two Nigerian American brothers. Though Timi is a freshman and Kareem is a Senior, they both want to…
11:45am
Theater
The Drum Closet
A coming-of-age play about two young, drum-loving African American brothers navigating a white high school, its bias’, bullying, and powers-that-be.The story follows two Nigerian American brothers. Though Timi is a freshman and Kareem is a Senior, they both want to…
7:00pm
Theater
The Drum Closet
A coming-of-age play about two young, drum-loving African American brothers navigating a white high school, its bias’, bullying, and powers-that-be.The story follows two Nigerian American brothers. Though Timi is a freshman and Kareem is a Senior, they both want to…
7:30pm
Opera
Carmen
White Recital Hall - James C. Olson Performing Arts Center
The UMKC Conservatory presents their winter opera, Carmen. Set in the south of Spain, George Bizet’s famous opera follows Carmen, a free-spirited woman who beguiles a naive soldier; when scorned, his obsessive jealousy leads to ruin.
All Day
Visual Arts
Andrea Carlson: Shimmer on Horizons
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art
Andrea Carlson (Grand Portage Ojibwe/European descent, b. 1979; based in northern Minnesota and Chicago, IL) considers how landscapes are shaped by history, relationships, and power. Her artworks imagine places that are “everywhere and nowhere,” visualizing these shifting yet ever-present dynamics…
All Day
Visual Arts
Edra Soto: the place of dwelling
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art
Edra Soto (b. 1971, Puerto Rico) alters and recontextualizes common functional objects—wrought-iron screens, plastic lawn furniture, and electric fans, ubiquitous in her native Puerto Rico—to create objects and environments that celebrate the voices of working-class communities. Soto’s installation, the place…
All Day
Visual Arts
Julie Buffalohead: Stories of Becoming
Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art
Motherhood transforms you; Indigenous motherhood makes you conscious of impediments. As an Indigenous mother, I quickly realized that even the animals incorporated into the toys, books, and clothes available to my daughter were from distant places. I pondered how this…
