🌈✨ FIRST FRIDAYS AT CAFÉ CORAZÓN ✨🌈

Join us for a night of culture, community, and creativity at Café Corazón ❤️

🎶 Live music by Pedipano
💃 Dance class by Aládùn (7 – 8PM)
🎨 Art showcase featuring Healing Heroic Healers
🍹 Special non-profit drink: TBD
🤝 Supporting this month’s non-profit spotlight: Healing Heroic Healers

Come vibe with artists, dancers, musicians, and the community for an unforgettable First Friday night ✨

📍 Café Corazón Crossroads
🗓 Friday, June 5
⏰ 6 – 10PM

Culture • Community • Creative Arts 🎨🎶🌈

Please join us in the Purpose Technology Workshop to witness the incredible talent of Kim Goldberg. Kim, artist and graphic designer with a rich background in the art world, resides and creates in Omaha, Nebraska. An experimental and conceptual process artist, Kim explores the spaces between the physical and the abstract. She pairs materials like paper, water, and ink with the intangible — time, instinct, chance, movement and introspection — to create unique visual expressions. Goldberg’s work embodies both insightful and therapeutic aspects of contending with imperfections, regrets, openness, adaptability, rehabilitation and the state of not knowing. Kim received her BFA from San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI) and has shown work nationally and internationally. Her upcoming solo exhibition will be a part of the Jerusalem Biennale in fall 2026.

Tap into your wild side at Casual Animal Brewing Company where local beer, plants, and art intersect! Our taproom brims with floor to ceiling greenhouse vibes and graphic design. Enjoy a pint or flight of our 11 rotating taps, including our Local Motive beer where $2 of every pint is donated to a different KC non-profit every two months.

This month, every pint of the Local Motive beer benefits Literacy KC. $2 of every pint sold goes directly to the organization to support their mission to advance literacy within the Kansas City metropolitan area through direct services, advocacy, and collaboration.

Meet some Literacy KC representatives onsite 5 – 7 pm to learn more about the organization, volunteer opportunities, and upcoming events.

We are also crazy excited to announce our food partnership with @affarekc in anticipation of the World (Stage) ⚽️ this summer! We formally invite you to our May 1st First Friday where we will be taste-testing and trialing our collaboration. Your feedback and help as we ready all systems would mean, well, THE WORLD 😉 .

Food is hot at 5pm and served until they sell out! Come hungry and come early to ensure a taste of this unique partnership.

For your sweet tooth, we have Whaley Sweet cookies selling their designer yums 5 – 8pm.

Growing Pains is a solo exhibition and installation centered around the home by Jaedyn Roberts that features painting, quilting, ceramics, items from the home, and more.

Growing Pains are a normal part of becoming someone new.

This work is in equal parts a celebration of human connection and a reflection on homesickness for things that won’t ever come back. It is an ode to an upbringing in the American heartland, a collection of intimate moments, and a declaration of love so deep it’s the closest thing you have to religion.

Through highlighting everyday moments and everyday things, this exhibition explores the complicated ways we define home.

Opening Reception: Friday, May 1, 6 – 9 PM

An Avoidant’s Guide to Love is a group exhibition that examines topics of masculinity and avoidant behavior featuring Kwanza Humphrey, Chico Sierra, Harold Smith, Wolfe Brack, Aaron Howell, Phil Dunn and Justin Canja.

A collaborative exhibition of works presented by seven male artists of various ages, races, and sexual orientations, An Avoidant’s Guide to Love examines the topics of masculinity, avoidant behavior (craving closeness while also fearing it), how society can push men towards this behavior, and how they use art to accept it, combat it, and flourish, love, and connect in spite of it.

Through their own lenses and visual languages the artists communicate the delicate balance between the needs for autonomy and connection through emotional bonds; how one can struggle with vulnerability and deep connection while simultaneously craving it.

The exhibition invites viewers to engage with the themes of love, healthy masculinity, community, vulnerability, self growth and awareness, culture, isolation, humor, activism, and the right to experience the full range of human emotion despite society’s unsubtle messaging to the contrary.

Opening Reception: Friday, May 1, 6 – 9 PM