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July 12, 2021

Welcome Back to the Library!

Over the past four years, Mid-Continent Public Library has been renovating and modernizing each of its 32 locations.
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July 12, 2021

Peregrine Honig at the Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art

Peregrine Honig will be on view at the Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art in St. Joseph, Missouri from June 20 through September 12, 2021.
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Raven Mask, North American Indian, Kwakwaka’wakw (Kwakiutl), British Columbia, Canada, ca. 1870. Wood, pigment, metal, and cedar bark, 11 1/4 x 11 x 42 inches (28.6 x 27.9 x 106.7 cm). Purchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust, 31-125/7.N
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July 12, 2021

Nelson-Atkins Announces Vibrant Lineup of Exhibitions

The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art is unfolding a dynamic range of exhibitions this summer and fall.
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July 9, 2021

Spotlight on Collections

In 1920, the National WWI Museum and Memorial began collecting objects and documents from all nations involved in the First World War.
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July 9, 2021

Rock ‘N’ Soul This August at Midwest Trust Center’s Outdoor Concerts

The Midwest Trust Center at Johnson County Community College will serve up some of the best live music Kansas City has to offer during its two lawn concerts this summer.
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July 9, 2021

Flora and Fauxna

atty Carroll reached a kind of crossroads almost 30 years ago, after she and her husband, Tony Jones, moved across the Atlantic to London.
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July 8, 2021

Music Has Never Sounded As Sweet: World-Class Series Returns Full Force

Kansas City’s concert halls have been quiet for far too long. But this fall, they will burst forth with music and dance when the Harriman-Jewell..
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July 8, 2021

Our Communities Hold Water…Sweetened by Opportunity

I’ve lived and worked in cities like St. Louis, Missouri; Oberlin, Ohio; Newark, New Jersey; Harlem, New York; Bronzeville, Chicago and now Kansas City, Missouri, witnessing the ephemera and imprint of Black settlement, growth and migration
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May 21, 2021

Sound After Silence: KCJO’s Return to the Stage in Fall 2021

“Americans don’t realize how important jazz is. It’s healing for the soul. It should be played everywhere.”
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