Kansas City Events Calendar
11:00am–3:00pm
Theater
Pete the Cat
The grooviest cat in town is BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND!For Pete the Cat, life is an adventure no matter where you wind up. So, the minute the groovy blue cat meets The Biddles, he gets the whole family rocking. That…
1:00–3:00pm
Theater
Pete the Cat
The grooviest cat in town is BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND!For Pete the Cat, life is an adventure no matter where you wind up. So, the minute the groovy blue cat meets The Biddles, he gets the whole family rocking. That…
6:00–8:30pm
Music
Sound Mandala: The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari
One of cinema's most haunting masterpieces gets the sonic treatment it has always deserved. The nightmarish 1920 German Expressionist landmark returns with a brand-new live score by Kansas City composer Thomas Newby and psychedelic chamber pop innovators The Green Zoo…
7:00–9:00pm
Theater
Wildfire: An American Dramedy
An odd family of four living in Altadena, California gets a fire evacuation notice. When Harry, the father, decides he won’t leave the couch, his loving but exasperated family must get him off of his rear before something terrible happens. …
7:30–8:30pm
Music
Sound Mandala: Signal & Soul
A variety program in the Sound Mandala's immersive 100-loudspeaker theatre. No two pieces alike. No genre off-limits. Signal&Soul is the Sound Mandala at its most adventurous — a single evening that moves from hip-hop to the cosmos, from Beatles psychedelia…
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…
All Day
Visual Arts
The World in Kansas City
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art
Initially inspired by conversations around the 2026 World Cup and potential influx of international visitors to Kansas City, this exhibition foregrounds the already present and increasingly expansive global context in which we live. For hundreds of years, people from different…
