Your Money Bus is Coming to Our Town!
Stop by Crown Center Square on July 23rd for free tips on how to get your financial life in tip-top shape. The National Association of Personal Financial Advisors, Consumer Education Foundation, TD AMERITRADE, and Kiplinger’s Personal Finance are joining forces to make you financially savvy. For more information, visit www.crowncenter.com.
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Shake a Tail Feather!
| Shake a Tail Feather at the Lucky Duck Gala! Coterie Under the Stars, an evening of food and fun, will be held Saturday, July 10th. The event kicks off with a cocktail party at the Coterie Theatre before guests head over to Crown Center Square for a delicious dinner. Excerpts from the Coterie’s summer musical, Lucky Duck, will be performed, and composer Henry Krieger will provide musical entertainment. For more information, contact Patrick Yount: 816-474-6785 or pyount@coterietheatre.org, or visit www.coterietheatre.org. |  |
Ice Cream Dreamery
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The Children’s Place will host Ice Cream Festival at 11 a.m. this Saturday, June 26th, at Crown Center. For just $5, you can enjoy delicious ice cream while supporting our community’s youngest children who have survived abuse, neglect, and trauma. For more event details and to purchase tickets, click www.childrensplacekc.org! |
Kansas City Chalk and Walk Festival
Looking for something to do this Father’s Day weekend? The third annual Kansas City Chalk and Walk Festival will decorate Crown Center Square this weekend (June 19th and 20th). Festivities will take place from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Saturday, and from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Sunday. Hundreds of professional, amateur, and student artists from all over Our Town will use chalk pastels to create drawings inspired by the 16th century Italian Renaissance. Three different themes will be showcased – the Masters, Alice in Wonderland, and Originals.
Loads of entertainment for kids will be provided – an adjacent area will be set up where young artists can chalk. Street performers, dressed in Alice in Wonderland costumes, will be on hand, and children can hop in on a photo opportunity of a “Tea Party.”
For more information, visit www.kcchalkandwalk.org.
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Change the Truth
Mark your calendars for the Change the Truth event on June 25th at the Leedy-Voulkos Art Center (2012 Baltimore). Guests will enjoy light appetizers and desserts. The evening will feature silent and live auctions of dolls that were made by Ugandan children and adorned by area artists. Proceeds from the event support the needs of the children at St. Mary Kevin Orphanage Motherhood in Kajjansi, Uganda. To view all the dollars set to be auctioned off, visit www.changethetruth.org.
Featured artists: Shea Gordon, Marcus Cain, Jane Voorhees, Lonnie Powell, Allan Winkler, Peregrine Honig, Tom Corbin, Caroline Shteamer, Paula Shteamer, Lee Heinemann, Kathleen Ireland, Colleen Ireland, Lou Marak, Philomene Bennett, Marie Mason, Joline El-Hai, Michelle Beasley, J. Leroy Beasley, Stephanie Leedy, Janet Kuemmerlein, Linda Lighton, Archie Scott Gobber, Kelly Buntin Johnson, Holly Swangstu, Julie Farstad, Robert Quackenbush, Shane Evans, Nedra Bonds, Leslie Mark, Charmalee Gunaratne, Patricia Caviar, Kim Higgins, Lauren Engelken, Gerry Trilling, Ruby Hanson, Amy Meya, Sonié Joi Ruffin, Susan White, Gloria Baker Feinstein, and Fiona Gowin
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