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Wednesday, November 19, 2025 from 7:30-9 PM; Doors at 7 PM
EMAS Presents: KC/EMAS Renegade Cobra led by Jeff Harshbarger
For the November EMAS Presents: we will be hosting a performance of John Zorn's Cobra (KC/EMAS Renegade Cobra) led by bandleader Jeff Harshbarger. The performance will consist of two sets—the first set is group improvisations, the second is the KC/EMAS Renegade Cobra. NO VIDEO RECORDINGS ARE ALLOWED DURING KC RENEGADE COBRAKC/EMAS Renegade Cobra:
Shante Clair - guitar Brad Cox - piano Seth Andrew Davis - guitar Pete Fucinaro - tenor Kelly Gant - vocals Jeff Harshbarger - prompter Jade Harvey - drums Ryan Heinlein - trombone Brooke Knoll - harp Aaron Osborne - bass Zak Pischnotte - alto Brian Steever - drumsAbout Cobra
From Wikipedia: Cobra is an unpublished[1] but recorded and frequently performed musical composition by John Zorn that was conceived as a system with very detailed rules but with no pre-conceived sequence of events, or game piece, for a group of musical improvisors and a prompter.[2][3][4] Zorn completed Cobra on October 9, 1984. The composition consists of a set of cues notated on cards, and rules corresponding to the cues that direct the players what to do. The number of players, instrumentation, and length of the piece is indeterminate. Because there is no traditional musical notation and the players improvise, the piece may sound radically different from performance to performance. As was commented upon in some length in a 2004 interview, Zorn has, with his own words, "deliberately chosen not to publish (or even write down) the rules" to his game pieces, being concerned with the importance of personal instruction.[5] Despite this, photocopies circulate among musicians internationally, and there is even a clean printing of all the cue categories in a CD booklet (see recordings). Cobra was first performed at the original TriBeCa location of Roulette Intermedium in 1984. EMAS Presents is an experimental and improvised music series curated by Seth Andrew Davis + Evan Verploegh. An extension of the collective Extemporaneous Music & Arts Society, EMAS Presents highlights local, national, and international music practitioners to grow Kansas City’s improvised music community.Saturday, November 29, 2025 from 1:00-3:00 PM
Artist Market – November 2025
Occurring on the last Saturday of every other month, Charlotte Street is hosting a pop-up vendor market featuring a curated selection of Kansas City’s creative entrepreneurs. Come join us and explore a breadth of offerings for sale, from ceramics to books, wearables, prints, and more! Check back here soon to see who we will have offerings from!Thursday, December 4, 2025 from 6–7:30 PM
Beyond the Studio: Ellie Naeger
Experience the Kemper Museum’s collections through the unique perspective of interdisciplinary artist and Studio Resident, Ellie Naeger!
Friday, December 5, 2025 from 7-8 PM
My Mother’s Tongue Ties Me Together Video Screenings
Join us for a screening of the two films featured in the 2026 Charlotte Street Visual Artist Awards, My Mother's Tongue Ties Me Together—Hùng Lê'sTrở Về Quê Hương and Noelle Choy's Wonders of the World. Trở Về Quê Hương—In 2023, Hùng Lê traveled back to Việt Nam with his family for the first time in many years. During the trip, Lê documented intimate moments of everyday life to recreate a sense of place without relying on language. Overlaid with patterns and stylized text, Lê’s video attempts to forgo the use of written language in storytelling and instead relies on visual motifs and sounds as the main interpreters.Wonders of the World–Noelle Choy’s mother immigrated to San Francisco from Taiwan. In 2024, Choy and her brother met their aunt in the Bay Area to remap their mother’s life before they were born. They visited landmark locations from her story, including the restaurant her family would go to in Oakland and the rose garden where she married. This rhythmic, non-linear, collage-style video feels dream-like and becomes focused on the relationships between Choy, her aunt, and her brother, with Choy’s mother and grandmother as silent fourth and fifth characters. This rhythmic, non-linear, collage-style video feels dream-like and becomes focused on the relationships between Choy, her aunt, and her brother, with Choy’s mother and grandmother as silent fourth and fifth characters.
Featured Image courtesy of the Spencer Museum of Art.