TeenTix KC Events Calendar
1:00pm
Workshops/Classes
Teen-led Saturday: Love is Everywhere
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art
It’s love month! Join the Kemper Teen Arts Council for a day of art-making inspired by the people and things we love!TEENS ONLY!Draw inspiration from work on view and artists from Kemper Museum’s permanent collection and create a drawing, collage…
2:00pm
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…
2:30pm
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.
7:30pm
Theater
The Acting Company 'Great Expectations'
Yardley Hall in the Midwest Trust Center
The Acting Company reinvigorates Charles Dickens’ “Great Expectations” with an effervescent stage adaptation brimming with unexpected hilarity and romantic heart.Akin to a bingeable dramedy carved with the beautiful prose that made Dickens so popular, Nikki Massoud’s take on this timeless…
7:30pm
Theater
Casey & Diana
In 1991, the residents of Casey House, Canada’s first AIDS hospice, learned Princess Diana would visit. Casey and Diana tells a powerful true story of compassion, unity, and hope amid grief. Praised as “a moving celebration of women who choose…
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…
