Events

During the Civil War Missouri was a state divided, suffering from a fractured identity and caught up in a struggle of no quarter between its battling factions. That violent period of near-anarchy is examined in the traveling exhibit A State Divided: The Civil War in Missouri, a joint effort of the Missouri Humanities Council and the Missouri History Museum.

This colorful and informative exhibit follows the “bushwhackers” and “Jayhawkers” whose bitter enmity continues to color the relations between Missourians and Kansans.

Fred Geary (1894-1955) attended the Kansas City Art Institute and worked as a commercial artist for the Fred Harvey Company in Union Station. Geary became caught up in the wood engraving movement that became popular in the U.S. in the 1930s and in his spare time produced exquisite depictions of small-town life and Missouri landscapes and landmarks.

Easily and cheaply reproduced, woodcuts put art into the hands of working-class Americans.

A new exhibit based on the Kansas City Star Magazine series and book by Steve Paul. It features 22-by-28-inch reproductions of pages from the book, which celebrates Kansas City’s architectural scene one letter at a time.

This exhibit is on display in the Fifth Floor Exhibit Space.

The newest exhibition of the Orval Hixon Gallery, New Compositions: The Dance Portraiture of Orval Hixon, is on display from June 11, 2011 through 2013 at the Central Library, 14 W. 10th St. The exhibit features a rich selection of Hixon’s portraits, including images of some of the best-known dancers of his time.

To most local landscape architects, Hare & Hare is a household name. The firm has left an indelible mark on some of the most iconic and often-visited areas of Kansas City—the Country Club Plaza, the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Loose Park, Ward Parkway, and Mission Hills among them.

Learn the fundamentals of Microsoft Word in this 50-minute class. This word processing program is used for letter writing, papers, and other professional documents. Registration is required. Call 701-3488 to register.

Sign up for a free e-mail account and follow along this tutorial teaches the ins and outs of sending and receiving email, as well as how to organize your messages.

A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Weiner

The purpose of cinema, said director Vincente Minnelli, is to provide “a little magic.”

For nearly two decades Minnelli (one-time husband of Judy Garland) did just that in lavish Technicolor musicals and intimate black-and-white dramas. Join us in the Film Vault in May for music, magic, and emotions.

An intensive two-day immersion in robotic science culminates with the Geek vs. Geek face-off. Robots built by technology professionals will go up against those created by student inventors.

The event is sponsored by the LEARN Science and Math Club, which provides children with rich science and math experiences through robotics, engineering, programming projects, and laboratory experiments.

Come share poetry you have written, share work from your favorite poet or just come to listen and enjoy. Call Christy at 816-701-3489 or Marcia at Stone Church Ministry at 816-254-2211 for more info.