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April 1, 2020

KC Maintains Some Arts Funding but Eliminates Office of Culture and Creative Services

After weeks of uncertainty, the Kansas City Council on March 26 approved a budget that maintains the city’s commitment to fund arts programs. At the..
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April 1, 2020

For Now, the Small Screen Reigns Supreme

With a stay-at-home order for Kansas City and, as of midnight Sunday, all of Kansas, there’s a new chamber music that is proving essential: concerts only available through social media.
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March 30, 2020

KC Performing Arts See Uncertain Future Amid COVID-19 Lockdown

As the theater community reels from a community-wide shutdown ordered by public officials on both sides of the state line, artistic leaders are faced with..
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March 26, 2020

Spartan Press: Purveyor of Poetry

Launched in 1998 by Prospero’s Books, Spartan Press has published more than 200 books, ranging from poetry and essay collections to memoirs, short fiction and coffee-table art books.
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March 24, 2020

Arts News: Kansas City Women’s Chorus Combines Music and Social Justice

Cancellation notice: The Kansas City Women’s Chorus concert, “Reach Out, Reach Up,” April 17 and 18, is one of many performances throughout the city that..
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March 19, 2020

Arts News: Hartman Presents His Last ‘Beyond Bounds’

Walk into any Kansas City area art collection, modest or major, and chances are you’ll find an artwork created from a vinyl LP, a silk scarf, a wood box or specific mediums in colors including ruby red, electric blue and brilliant yellow. Gold leaf and sterling silver also figure in the mix. All of these specially themed objects have a single source.
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March 17, 2020

Love, Death and Power – On Steroids

What should you expect from an opera based on one of the most terrifying horror stories of all time? Believe it or not, a story about humanity. That’s what composer Paul Moravec and librettist Mark Campbell discovered when they turned Stephen King’s novel into an opera for the Minnesota Opera.
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March 15, 2020

COVID-19: Kansas City Goes Dark

It was a Friday the 13th like no other.  Friday is normally a big day for the performing arts. But this was not a normal..
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March 12, 2020

Kansas City Performing Artists See Incomes Trending Upward, But Community Support is Needed More Than Ever

As new technologies wreak creative destruction in our nation’s workplaces, many Kansas City performing artists are making a good living doing what they love. For..
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