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May 8, 2019

Arts News: Spinning Tree Finds a Home

Spinning Tree Theatre, a not-for-profit company known for quality work and staging shows new to Kansas City audiences, has found a new home: the Johnson County Arts and Heritage Center.The center, which houses a small theater as well as the Johnson County Museum, is where the theater company founded by Andrew Grayman-Parkhurst and Michael Grayman-Parkhurst will stage its ninth season.
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May 7, 2019

Concert to Come | Celebrating the Contributions of Musica Vocale’s Arnold Epley

Arnold Epley has devoted nearly half his life to the musical culture of Kansas City and he’s not finished yet. “I used to say, if you wake me up at 3 a.m. and shake me and ask, ‘What do you do?’ I would say, ‘I’m a singer,’” said Epley. Epley turns 80 years old May 18.
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May 6, 2019

Gallery Glance: “Ahram Park: Almost Nothing” at Haw Contemporary Stockyards

Last seen in KC in a 2017 solo show at Haw Contemporary, former Kansas City artist Ahram Park, now of Los Angeles, returns to the..
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May 3, 2019

A Break With Tradition

Funny what a difference just a few words can make. Not long ago Sidonie Garrett, executive artistic director of the Heart of America Shakespeare Festival, and the organization’s board of directors agreed to alter the theater company’s mission statement. It marked a major shift.
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May 2, 2019

Arts News: Block Artspace Project Wall Features Eminent KCAI Alum Stanley Whitney

Kansas City knows the alluring gridded abstractions of Stanley Whitney from his paintings in the permanent collections of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art and the..
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May 2, 2019

‘A New Sacred Space’ for Congregation Beth Shalom

Congregation Beth Shalom traces its roots to 1915, when a group of congregants separated from Congregation Keneseth and took up temporary lodging at 31st and Charlotte streets in Kansas City. Over the next century, Beth Shalom occupied a series of properties on the Missouri, and then the Kansas, side of the state line, reflecting the growth and migration of the Jewish community in the Kansas City area.
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May 1, 2019

Editor’s Letter, May/June 2019

The passing of Lennie Berkowitz marks the further diminution of a generation of Jewish art dealers and collectors who played a critical role in making..
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May 1, 2019

Tom Gregg: Still Lifes for Tense Times

Grenades and a MAGA hat, apples and playing cards. They’re all fair game for inclusion in the paintings of well-known Kansas City artist Tom Gregg,..
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May 1, 2019

Arts News: Kansas City Friends of Alvin Ailey Celebrates 35 Years of Dance, Education and Commitment to Community

Kansas City Friends of Alvin Ailey, the second home of New York City-based Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, plays a major role in combining modern..
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