Time for weekend calendar picks from KC Studio editor Alice Thorson. We have lots of events tonight, including: the Kansas City Symphony accompanying the classic silent horror film The Phantom of the Opera for Halloween at the Kauffman; Owen/Cox Dance Group and Kansas City Chamber Orchestra at Polsky Theatre on the JCCC campus; and poetry readings from Susan Aizenberg and Hadara Bar-Nadav at Writers Place. The Physical Theatre Festival continues at Just Off Broadway Theatre through Sunday. And Sunday afternoon see the Kansas City Chorale perform Brahms’ Requiem at Grace & Holy Trinity Cathedral. For more ideas this weekend, visit Kansas City’s most comprehensive arts calendar at kcstudio.org/events.
Screenland at the Symphony: The Phantom of the Opera
October 27 @ 7:00 pm
Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts
Spend a frightful yet delightful Halloween night in Helzberg Hall. With live organ accompaniment, this classic 1929 silent film starring Lon Chaney tells the creepy tale of a demented organist lurking in the catacombs beneath the opera house. The entire movie is shown on the giant Helzberg Hall screen, with acclaimed organist Dorothy Papadakos providing the spooky soundtrack on the Julia Irene Kauffman Casavant Organ.
Milestones – Music and Movement
October 27 @ 7:30 pm | $15 – $30
Polsky Theatre, JCCC
Owen/Cox Dance Group and the Kansas City Chamber Orchestra join together to present four world premiere dance works to the music of J.S. Bach, Dmitri Shostakovich, Benjamin Britten, and Antonio Vivaldi. Don’t miss this exhilarating collaborative performance as Owen/Cox Dance Group and the Kansas City Chamber Orchestra celebrate their 10th and 30th milestone anniversaries!
An Evening with Susan Aizenberg and Hadara Bar-Nadav
October 27 @ 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm
The Writers Place
Please join us for an evening of readings with Susan Aizenberg and Hadara Bar-Nadav. This event is co-sponsored by BkMk Press and UMKC’s Creative Writing program.
Susan Aizenberg’s newest collection of poems is Quiet City (BkMk Press), featured in Ted Kooser’s American Life in Poetry project. She also is the author of two previous collections, Muse (Crab Orchard Poetry Series/SIUP) and Peru (Take Three/2: AGNI New Poets Series/Graywolf) and co-editor, with Erin Belieu, of The Extraordinary Tide: New Poetry by American Women (Columbia UP). Her poems have appeared in such places as Prairie Schooner, Blackbird, The Journal, the Philadelphia Inquirer, and Spoon River Poetry Review. Her fellowships and awards include the Nebraska Book Award and Virginia Commonwealth University’s Levis Prize for Muse, a Distinguished Artist Fellowship from the Nebraska Arts Council, the Mari Sandoz Award from the Nebraska Library Association, and a Glenna Luschei Prairie Schooner award. She recently retired from Creighton University in Omaha and now lives in Iowa City.
Hadara Bar-Nadav’s newest book of poetry, The New Nudity, is forthcoming from Saturnalia Books in 2017. She is the author of Lullaby (with Exit Sign) (Saturnalia Books, 2013), awarded the Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize; The Frame Called Ruin (New Issues, 2012), Runner Up for the Green Rose Prize; and A Glass of Milk to Kiss Goodnight (Margie/Intuit House, 2007), awarded the Margie Book Prize. She is also author of two chapbooks, Fountain and Furnace (Tupelo Press, 2015), awarded the Sunken Garden Poetry Prize, andShow Me Yours (Laurel Review/Green Tower Press 2010), awarded the Midwest Poets Series Prize. In addition, she is co-author of the textbook Writing Poems, 8th ed. (Pearson/Longman, 2011). Her poetry has recently appeared in American Poetry Review, Iowa Review, Ploughshares, Kenyon Review, and elsewhere. She is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.
This event is co-sponsored by BkMk Press and UMKC’s Creative Writing program.
Byrd Productions’ Physical Theatre Festival
October 24 – October 30
Just Off Broadway Theatre
Celebrate 21 years of Physical Theatre with Byrd Productions with 4 workshops and 3 performances of pure Physical Theatre expression, featuring some of the best local and international performers in the field.
BRAHMS: REQUIEM
October 30 @ 2:00 pm
Grace and Holy Trinity Cathedral
“It was not his intention to pattern his Requiem after the Latin mass for the dead… instead, Ein Deutsches Requiem is a work of consolation for those left behind.” Performed with piano duet accompaniment
