Crossroads Arts District

Kansas City's Creative Neighborhood

Fall Fest at the Belger Glass Annex

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Fall Fest is a free, family-friendly celebration of the season and area creatives that happens October 7, from 11 am to 5 pm, at the Belger Glass Annex (1219 East 19th Street, Kansas City, MO). The event includes the following festivities:

  • 11 am – 5 pm: Glassblowing and clay demonstrations;
  • 11 am – 5 pm: Pumpkin patch with a colorful selection of glass pumpkins available for purchase;
  • 11 am – 5pm: Art for sale by area glass artists including Shelby Allen, Ben Crawford, Katie Hogan, Cole Kennedy, Jessalyn Mailoa, Monarch Glass Studio, Jeff Sidney, Lauryl Sidwell, Jake Valasek, and Hoseok Youn;
  • 12 pm – 4pm: Julita’s Food Truck serves up fried chicken and other southern favorites.
  • 12pm – 4 pm: Maria the Mexican performs LIVE.

Enjoy the festivities, fun family art activities, and more!

Infused Taco Tuesday at 1739 Gallery

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Guess what today is? INFUSED Taco Tuesday! ???? TACO RESPONSIBLY ????

❌Come join us & Chef Mary @aprivilege at 1739 Gallery TONIGHT Tues, Sept 26th from 7 – 10pm for some amazing tacos, treats and refreshing infused lemonades. Choose from: Beef, Chicken or a Vegan option! There will also be Birria Noodles ???? Fresh lemonade or pair it with Strawberry, Kiwi or Blueberry.

https://InfusedTacoTuesday.eventbrite.com

???? On the fence about infused tacos? Don’t worry we’ve got you covered with tacos for EVERYONE, canna-connoisseur, canna-curious or just taco lovers! Infused and Non-Infused options will be available, even for the lemonade ❤️

Make sure you’re not left out, pre-purchase your taco/lemonade order or take your chances (which I don’t recommend) and purchase the day of!

If you’ve never had a chance to visit 1739 Gallery, Infused Taco Tuesday is the perfect chance to come and check out some urban pop culture art. We have some of the best local artist and their pieces at the gallery available for purchase.

NO CASH, CREDIT CARD & APPLE PAY ONLY!

HALLOWEEN FAMILY EVENT

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Join us for a day of Halloween activities at 18th/Grand Blvd. Bring your family for Halloween fun in Downtown Kansas City! The afternoon will be filled with: games, face painting, trick or treating, cookie decorating, tours of haunted house as well as price for best Halloween costume.

INTERNATIONAL DAY OF PEACE

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International Day of Peace Day is devoted to strengthening the ideals of peace among all nations and people. It is also a time to learn what we can do to make the world a peaceful place and what human rights have to do with it. Our guest speaker Dr. Mary Shuttleworth, Founder and President of Youth for Human Rights International, is going to share her experience of bringing human rights to over 90 nations for over 20 years while circling the globe 17 times over.

“The question is not what it would cost to teach human rights, but what it would cost not to.” Dr. Mary Shuttleworth

Closing Reception: “I Will Destroy You.”

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Join Studios Inc on the evening of October 20th for a closing reception for Lilly McElroy’s Solo Exhibition “I Will Destroy You.”

Artist’s Statement:
“You are standing in a landscape. Maybe it is a pasture, or maybe it is the lakeshore on a summer evening, or maybe it is the top of a mountain, the wilderness past the end of the trail, but whatever this place is, in this moment, it feels safe. It feels stable. Then it doesn’t. All at once, there is dread and melancholy. You are here, waiting for an inevitable end. It is coming, you are grieving, but at least this place is pretty.

I will destroy you.

It’s natural to make photographs while you wait for the inevitable. Photography captures light and freezes time. It is an attempt to preserve the fleeting. For this exhibition photographs of the setting sun were made by McElroy using a 4 x 5 film camera. She then irrevocably altered the negatives, using her fingernail to scratch away the image of the sun. This action is small yet devastating; the anxious picking at a scab that leaves you with a lifelong scar. The sun, the very thing whose light makes the photograph possible, has been gouged out of the negative, the printed picture rendering this absence not as erasure revealing blank paper, but as the ominous birth of an angry black void. McElroy’s hand is directly linked to this destruction as the sun becomes a meteor, dark and crackling in the sky, a malevolent yellow nimbus dancing around it as it hurtles toward the surface of the earth, toward you.

In her monolithic works the sun is a dark orb that hovers over a bucolic field. It no longer emits energy or light; it only absorbs and you are standing in front of it. The innate silence of the photograph now presses down on the landscape. The rustling of the grass in the wind, the susurration of the insects in the field are cut off, and you can only hear the sounds of your own breath. McElroy made these images in the darkroom, laying negatives directly on top of light sensitive paper. With the press of a button, light flashed through the negative and struck the paper, chemically altering its structure. This transformation signals a shift, an irrevocable change, a violence that has been enacted and can’t be taken back.”

I Will Destroy You. will be on view thru October 21st.

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