Join The Bird Comedy Theater Players for an evening of comedy, inspired by your suggestions!
You’ll see games. You’ll see scenes. You’ll meet characters. You’ll laugh.
Every Friday & Saturday at 7:30pm. Only at The Bird Comedy Theater.
Proof of Vaccination Required. Masks Encouraged.
The Bird Comedy Theater is Kansas City’s newest comedy theater, located in the historic Hemingway Building in The Crossroad’s Arts District. Featuring improv, sketch and stand-up, every Thursday through Saturday!
Join The Bird Comedy Theater Players for an evening of comedy, inspired by your suggestions!
You’ll see games. You’ll see scenes. You’ll meet characters. You’ll laugh.
Every Friday & Saturday at 7:30pm. Only at The Bird Comedy Theater.
Proof of Vaccination Required. Masks Encouraged.
The Bird Comedy Theater is Kansas City’s newest comedy theater, located in the historic Hemingway Building in The Crossroad’s Arts District. Featuring improv, sketch and stand-up, every Thursday through Saturday!
Enjoy art, poetry, and music
and meet artist Ada Koch and Rosily Temple from KC Mothers in Charge.
Artist Talk begins at 4 pm.
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Ada Koch’s preoccupation with war began with her childhood in Oak Ridge, TN where both parents worked at the Oak Ridge National Laboratories, a production site for the Manhattan Project where researchers developed the atomic bomb. She was persistently reminded of WAR: the Cold War, the Vietnam War, anti-war songs, local bomb shelters, and bomb drills in school. Now, decades later, Ada revisits anti-war protest songs from the 60’s, 70’s, and 80’s in her quest to understand the repetition of violent cycles. Sadly, the songs of the past are currently relevant in the context of local and international violence.
Collectively, the pieces in this show touch on causes of war (power, fear, confusion, misinformation) which lead to violence, hate, and death. Yet Ada promotes a REMIX, taking what we have learned from a violent history and hoping for a more positive outcome with an emphasis on love and individuals.
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In the 1970 protest song, Edwin Starr asked the question: “War … what is it good for?”
It’s a question artist Ada Koch has grappled with since childhood and continues to explore in an exhibition at Leedy-Voulkos Art Center.
There are nearly a dozen multimedia works, all inspired by anti-war protest songs from the 1960s, ’70s and ’80s, including artists from Bob Dylan to Iron Maiden.
“So the title of the show is ‘Remix: Love Over War,’” said Koch. “And the subtitle is ‘Changing the Narrative,’ which is an important part of our message.”
Koch grew up in Tennessee, where her parents worked at a production site for the Manhattan Project, which developed the atomic bomb.
“So I was indeed surrounded by this idea of the bomb,” she said, “and war and the Vietnam War and the Cold War.” .…
Emily Sall is a painter whose studio practice and work seek to transform the perception of space, references architecture and plays on geometric abstraction. There is a visual play between 2D and 3D hardedge paintings, mixed media assemblages, installation and murals.
She is interested in creating; shifting, mounting, teetering landscapes of tension, balance, imbalance and harmonious visual relationships. Emily considers herself to be a builder of these ideas. The results can often be surprising and rich as the work takes on a life of its own as chance an accidental play juxtaposed with intentional design move the work.
Emily received her BFA in painting from KCAI in 2005. She has shown both locally and nationally. In 2007 Emily was awarded the Charlotte Street Foundations Visual Artist Fellowship. Emily has been commissioned in the past to create artboards for Missouri Bank, public murals and commissioned paintings for establishments in KCMO.
Emily Sall is a painter whose studio practice and work seek to transform the perception of space, references architecture and plays on geometric abstraction. There is a visual play between 2D and 3D hardedge paintings, mixed media assemblages, installation and murals.
She is interested in creating; shifting, mounting, teetering landscapes of tension, balance, imbalance and harmonious visual relationships. Emily considers herself to be a builder of these ideas. The results can often be surprising and rich as the work takes on a life of its own as chance an accidental play juxtaposed with intentional design move the work.
Emily received her BFA in painting from KCAI in 2005. She has shown both locally and nationally. In 2007 Emily was awarded the Charlotte Street Foundations Visual Artist Fellowship. Emily has been commissioned in the past to create artboards for Missouri Bank, public murals and commissioned paintings for establishments in KCMO.
