Kansas City Events Calendar
10:00–11:00am
Theater
The Pigeon Gets a Big Time Holiday Extravaganza
The Unlimited Squirrels deck the halls and Elephant and Piggie come ready to celebrate! But will The Pigeon join in the festivities, or will he run all the way to the North Pole in search of the greatest gift ever…
12:00–1:00pm
Theater
The Pigeon Gets a Big Time Holiday Extravaganza
The Unlimited Squirrels deck the halls and Elephant and Piggie come ready to celebrate! But will The Pigeon join in the festivities, or will he run all the way to the North Pole in search of the greatest gift ever…
7:30–9:30pm
Theater
Conservatory Theatre presents PASSAGE
Inspired in part by E.M. Forster’s A Passage to India, Chen’s play explores relationships between members of two communities — those who have been colonized, and the colonizers themselves — after an unfortunate encounter results in unjust treatment and negative…
7:30–9:30pm
Theater
SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE ADVENTURE OF THE ELUSIVE EAR
The notorious and as-yet undiscovered genius, Vincent Van Gogh, presents Sherlock Holmes with a most unusual case. Aided by his partner Dr. Watson and his paramour Irene Adler, the trio embark on a rousing adventure and find themselves confronting the…
All Day
Visual Arts
Amy Kligman: The Salon for Possible Futures
Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art
Amy Kligman: The Salon for Possible Futures is a built environment installation that takes on the familiar shape of a living room. It acts at once as a library, a gallery, a cabinet of curiosity, a third space, a common…
All Day
Visual Arts
Betsabeé Romero: A Field with Roots (Un campo con raíces)
Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art
Betsabeé Romero, a Mexican visual artist known for her installations, will have three site-specific works installed in the Nerman Museum lobby, coming together to create A Field with Roots (Un campo con raíces).A Field with Roots is comprised of three…
All Day
Visual Arts
Carlos Rolón: ALL WE HAVE IS RIGHT NOW
Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art
Carlos Rolón’s works operate as memory capsules and as acts of preservation. The works also serve as a meditation on impermanence, survival, and the fragile beauty of the present moment. Rolón explores how histories of migration, colonialism, environmental devastation, and…
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
Judy Chicago: Big Blue Pink
Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art
Contained by a grid, the colors of Big Blue Pink gradually fade to white within each section. What appears at first to be a simple design of misty colors is a thoughtful feminist statement. Chicago’s male contemporaries produced precise paintings…
All Day
Visual Arts
Norman Akers Navigates the Space Between
Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art
Norman Akers has been mapping the world. His large canvases are filled with an interlayered web of cartographic iconography drawn from road maps, Osage philosophy, and his own visual vernacular. Through these maps, his images have become records documenting an…
All Day
Visual Arts
Sport and Spectator
Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art
Sport and Spectator celebrates the dynamic intersection of the visual arts and sports culture, presenting an array of works that transform sports imagery and equipment such as basketballs, helmets, and jerseys into artworks. The exhibition invites viewers to consider how…
All Day
Visual Arts
The Unseen
Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art
The Unseen is the result of the first Nerman Museum undergraduate curatorial practicum developed throughout the summer of 2026. Each student surveyed and researched the museum's permanent collection and collectively curated this installation. Selecting Terran Last Gun's Another Human Being…
