Make the most of 2026 with our list of Top Things To Do this year. Discover immersive art exhibitions, vibrant dance performances and inspiring live concerts from local musicians. From bold new creativity to beloved classics, celebrate the cultural arts across Kansas City and the surrounding region all year long.
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater – back in Kansas City!
Strength, precision and passion remain the hallmarks of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater more than 67 years after its inception. The company’s legendary dancers return to Kansas City with vibrant programs of new and classic works that showcase and synthesize a dazzling range of cultural influences, from spirituals and church hymns, jazz, R&B and hip-hop, to African dance and classical ballet. Friday, March 13. Tickets at HJSERIES.ORG.
Experience The Salon for Possible Futures at the Nerman Museum
Amy Kligman: The Salon for Possible Futures is a built environment installation that takes on the familiar shape of a living room. It acts at once as a library, a gallery, a cabinet of curiosity, a third space, a common room and a think tank. We are excited to extend The Salon for another year, with more featured artists and new set of activities planned for 2026.
EMULATION: Selections from the Art Blocks 500 opening March 4
In EMULATION: Selections from the Art Blocks 500, each artist achieves emulations of our physical world through digital means. This exhibition brings together ten artists to commemorate the 500th project on Art Blocks. Art Blocks is an online platform for generative art founded in 2020, where artists publish algorithms that produce unique artworks using creative code. On view at MoA+L in Manhattan, Kansas, March 4 – August 16.
Kansas City Women’s Chorus 25th Anniversary Concert
On May 15 and 16, the Kansas City Women’s Chorus celebrates 25 seasons of justice-centered artistry with social impact through a milestone anniversary concert. This performance honors the Chorus’s shared artistic legacy. Audiences are invited into a performance experience that reflects the power of collective voices raised together over twenty-five seasons to challenge, to affirm, and to carry this work forward together.