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KC Rainbow Tour highlights LGBTQ+ history: You can legislate us, but our stories keep us alive
Kansas City’s LGBTQ+ history is one of its best kept secrets, Joel Barrett said, explaining his journey to share a wealth of local lore with residents and visitors alike. The KC Rainbow Tour — a free, 90-minute self-guided driving tour — uses the VoiceMap app to highlight about 20 destinations with LGBTQ+ significance, including the sites of notable historic gay bars like the Dixie Belle and Jewel Box, the former Womontown neighborhood, and the former workhouse in the historic 18th and Vine Jazz District.
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Call Opens for Crossroads Artboards, Charlotte Street’s 15-Year Public Art Initiative
Installation of the 2023 Summer Crossroads Artboards featuring Michelle Chan and Jeff Tamblyn, To Reject Modernity and Embrace Tradition? KANSAS CITY, MO, NOVEMBER 20, 2023: Charlotte Street is seeking submissions from local artists who want their work …
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Honors: Tiara Nicole
Known for her gritty yet sensitive tone, the award-winning Kansas City spoken word artist is a true-to-form storyteller 2023 Charlotte Street Generative Performing Artist Award recipient Tiara Nicole’s path to spoken word began on her way to an anthropology class at Penn Valley Community College. As she passed through the student union, someone handed her a flier about a spoken word competition.
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Arts News: We Open Shop Opens Wood and Metalworking Instruction to Women, Trans and Nonbinary Makers
The smell of sawdust, the deafening din of power tools, the dull click and spark of the welding gun — these are the visceral, full-bodied sensations of being in a shop, of creating something new and seeing it take shape. However, for women, trans and nonbinary makers, this environment can be thorny with undercurrents of misogyny.
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Charlotte Street Fellows 2023
Charlotte Street annually honors three outstanding Kansas City-based visual artists with unrestricted cash awards. These Charlotte Street Awards recognize local artists who are creating outstanding artwork and provide financial support, critical attention and increased exposure for Award Fellows with the aim of fostering their continued artistic and professional development.
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Creative incubator Charlotte Street brings meaning to the meaningless at their Dada Fun House Gala
Charlotte Street knows how to party. In a semi- industrial pocket of midtown on October 21, artists, vendors, and patrons showed up and showed out for an absurd night. The Dada Fun House Gala came together with whimsy, candy, and color. Charlotte Street (CS) acts as Kansas City’s primary “incubator, provocateur, and connector” for contemporary artists in the community while advocating for the arts and artists on a national scale.
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Transgender representation takes the screen at Stray Cat Film Center
Transgender lives were first depicted on screen with a focus on tragedy, gender dysphoria and discrimination. Stray Cat Film Center, located in Kansas City, Missouri, is taking a closer look at trans representation in cinema with the Trans Lives On-Screen series alongside University of Kansas film graduate teaching assistant Saturn Rage.
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Upcoming Exhibition Black Being is a Testament to Black Existence, Opening November 10, 2023
(Left) Brian Ellison, Barbershop Series, Inkjet print, 24 x 26 inches, 2020 (image courtesy of the artist); (Right) William Toney, Sagging (Akademiks), Inkjet print (1 of 10), 37 x 30 inches, 2017 (image courtesy of the artist) KANSAS CITY, MO, OCTOBER …
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ReBuild KC Awards $4.4 Million
The City of Kansas City proudly announces its continued commitment to enhancing the community through its ReBuild KC Grant Program. These funds support essential community projects and programs that promote growth, well-being, and development. ReBuild KC has selected 69 projects and programs to receive funds this round.
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Latino Performance Troupe La Pocha Nostra Presents The Mex Files: A Divination Ritual
Gómez-Peña + Balitrónica, International Performance Art Week, Venice, Italy 2014 (Photo by Piero Viti) KANSAS CITY, MO, OCTOBER 6, 2023: In collaboration with the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art on the eve of the Cultura Fest, transdisciplinary artis …
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“The First of Its Kind”: The Defender’s Inaugural Young Black Writer’s Social An Innovative, Revolutionary Event
On September 19th, The Kansas City Defender held its inaugural “Young Black Writer’s Social“–an event for 13-25 year old’s to build solidarity with writers across the Kansas City Metro and learn from seasoned professionals.
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New Crossroads Artboards Installed for 2023 Winter Season Featuring Madeline Brice and Kit Landwehr
Madeline Brice, hair net and big moms, Acrylic and oil on aluminum, 2022 KANSAS CITY, MO, OCTOBER 3, 2023: Charlotte Street is pleased to announce the new Crossroads Artboards for the 2023 Winter season, featuring artwork by Madeline Brice and Kit Land …
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Charlotte Street announces open call for Visual Artist and Generative Performing Artist Awards
Charlotte Street Foundation is looking for submissions for the 2024 Visual Artist Award and Generative Performing Artist Award. Since its conception in 1997, Charlotte Street Foundation has worked to provide resources and support for local artists.
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Charlotte Street Announces Call for 2024 Visual Artist Award and Generative Performing Artist Award Applications
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art partners with Charlotte Street to host the 2024 Fellows Exhibition (Left) 2023 Visual Artist Fellow Harold Smith (Photo by E.G. Schempf) ; (Right) 2023 Generative Performing Artist Fellow Stephonne Singleton (Photo by Ji …
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Kansas folk artist M.T. Liggett is more than his eccentric ‘character’ in a new documentary
"It Started With A Horse," which is scheduled to screen at the Kansas City Underground Film Festival, provides an intimate look into the eccentric and unapologetic folk artist M.T. Liggett, whose sculptures can be seen outside Mullinville, Kansas. Those who drive through Mullinville, Kansas, population 197, might not remember the town. But they probably remember the miles of metal sculptures that line U.S. 400 just outside of it.
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Casey Whittier’s Project Cup Reinvestigates the Cup in Five-Part Workshop at Charlotte Street
KANSAS CITY, MO, SEPTEMBER 14, 2023: Close your eyes and picture a cup. Imagine a spectrum of ultra-functionality on one end, and absurdity on the other. Organized by artist Casey Whittier, Project Cup teams up with artist Andrew Castañeda to lead a th …
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Honors: Sean Nash
The Kansas City artist fuses painting and sculpture with culinary arts into a unique social practice Known for his combination of fine art and fermentation, Sean Nash fuses painting and sculpture with culinary arts into a unique social practice.
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Kansas City Underground Film Festival offers its strongest lineup yet
Sam Raimi. George Romero. Greta Gerwig. Richard Linklater. Cheryl Dunye. All of these filmmakers (and many more) are among the cinema luminaries who got their start making low-budget and no-budget independent movies with little more than vague dreams, available equipment, and a cadre of willing collaborators.
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Kansas City Underground Film Festival presents José Luis Solís Olivares’ “Pool of Nobodies”
Award-winning film addresses the “violence and rejection” of migrants “I’m sorry to affect you, but that was my goal from the beginning.” Director and Monterrey native José Luis Solís Olivares is referring to how he wants his audiences to feel after seeing his latest film, “Pool of Nobodies,” which plays the second weekend of the Kansas City Underground Film Festival.
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Compelling, Moving & the Perverse: Kansas City Underground Film Festival, Year 4
The Kansas City Underground Film Festival opens this weekend, Sept. 7-9, and continues Sept. 13- 16 at Charlotte Street, 3333 Wyoming St. The festival, in its fourth year, features 71 titles, whittled down from 793 submissions, from all over the world, as well as our corner of it. The festival’s local showcase, Sept. 16, features roughly a dozen filmmakers from Missouri and Kansas.