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Young voters are invited to experience a night of music, poetry, and civic awareness. Plus they can register to vote in time for November’s big election.

This is a non-partisan event aimed at getting teens and young adults involved in the electoral process. Following the event, the first presidential debate will be shown in the auditorium.

Co-sponsored by the League of Women Voters.

Staged by the Metropolitan Ensemble Theatre, this work, along with Bingo on the Boulevard on October 7th, is based on stories of real Kansas Citians collected by playwright Donna Ziegenhorn. In The Hindu and the Cowboy audiences meet an Auschwitz survivor, a Muslim student, and a cowboy clinging to his family’s land.

Both plays give voice to everyday people. The performances are part of this year’s Festival of Faiths Kansas City.

Taking the White House requires a team, and America had never seen anything like the husband-and-wife team of Bill and Hillary Clinton.

Historian William H. Chafe, a pioneer in the study of American politics through the personal lives of politicians, reveals the core complexity of the Clintons as individuals, as a couple, and as national figures.

Chafe is the Alice Mary Baldwin Professor of History at Duke University and the author of Bill and Hillary: The Politics of the Personal.

Isn’t it about time for the South to once again secede from the Union? Comic travel writer Chuck Thompson thinks so, arguing that the South is not and never has been wholly committed to being part of the United States.

Thompson discusses his new book Better Off Without ‘Em: A Northern Manifesto for Southern Secession and dishes insight, humor, fearless politics, and sheer nerve. And lots of laughs. The book is based on his recent travels south of the Mason-Dixon Line.