Kansas City Events Calendar
10:00am
Festival
Remake Learning Days
Yardley Hall in the Midwest Trust Center
Join us for a range of FREE hands-on educational activities led by JCCC faculty and community organizations for Remake Learning Days 2026. This Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Math (STEAM) learning festival is completely FREE to the public! All are welcome…
1:30pm
Theater
Lilly and the Pirates
A fun and funny swashbuckling adventure and a love letter to books, access to books, and libraries.Lilly is a ten-year-old worrywart. To keep her concerns at bay, she diligently and fervently lists them in a worry book. Her globe-trotting scientist-parents…
5:00pm
Come As You Are
Come As You Are 2026 invites audiences of all ages into a joyful exploration of vulnerability, connection, and creative expression through music and movement. In partnership with The Coterie Theatre and Owen/Cox Dance Group, this year’s iteration brings together emerging…
7:30pm
Opera
Lyric Opera's Of Mice and Men
Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts
We end our season with a powerful adaptation of Steinbeck's classic novella by the father of American opera Carlisle Floyd. Of Mice and Men delves deep into the American psyche and brings to life the unbreakable bond between George 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
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…
