KMUW Community Calendar

Join a classic high fantasy Dungeons & Dragons campaign! We'll choose a campaign setting and play it throughout the program season. New players welcome! Call (316) 261-8500 or visit wichitalibrary.org/events to register. For ages 12-17.

6 – 8 PM | Free and open to the public
Location: Farha Great Hall
Bring a loved one or enjoy an evening on your own with live music by musician Charlie Wilks. WAM is the perfect place to bring your sketchbook, fiber project, or a date—and even grab dinner and drinks at EAT. Don’t miss the exhibition Seeing America: Regionalism and American Scene Paintings from the Swope Art Museum; Charlie, with Alison Roets, created soundscapes that are designed to make the show accessible for people who are blind and have low vision.

About WAM Nights: We’re open late on Fridays until 9 pm. Start your weekend with after-hours access to the galleries, shopping in the Museum Store, and a stop at EAT for dinner and specialty drinks. WAM Nights feature programs with artists, musicians, and performers, offering a dynamic way to experience the museum. The building comes to life with local creatives during WAM Nights—an energizing, creative start to your weekend. WAM Nights are generously supported by Art Bridges Foundation’s Access for All program.

When wrestling mogul Willy Plex dies, his daughter Sue inherits more than a family business, she inherits a full-blown disaster. With her scheming stepmother, a fish-themed wrestler, and a ghostly dad cracking jokes from beyond the grave, Sue must fight for her family's wrestling empire in the most outrageous showdown of her life.

A fast-paced comedy packed with body slams, bad decisions, supernatural shenanigans, and unexpected romance.

Then following intermission, enjoy the Headbangerz Ball Musical Comedy Revue!

Empire House Players presents...
"The Great Ice Cream Scheme or...Robin Baskins to the Rescue!"

Everyone knows Pop Sicle’s Ice Cream Parlor serves the best ice cream in town. Thanks to a secret recipe known only to him, his sister, Nana Peel, and his adopted son, Robin Baskins, Pop has the competition covered.

When that cold-hearted villain, I.C. Custard, decides to steal Pop’s recipe, things get a little sticky. Custard hires an accomplice, Parfait Deluxe, ex-chorus girl and total klutz. Despite her shortcomings, Parfait is instructed to entice the recipe from Robin. But Robin has given his heart — and lips — to Marsha Mallow, the sweet young waitress Nana has just hired. (Their romance is enough to melt your heart!)

Employees getting locked in the freezer, a stage-struck prop man, a scoop of madcap characters and a show-stopping fight all make The Great Ice Cream Scheme a delightfully flavorful show!

August 21-23 & 28-30
7pm Friday and Saturday
2pm Sundays
Doors open 30 minutes before

$15 Adult, $7 Child, Ages 0-4 FREE

Parking on Fri & Sat is in the WEST lot, 1/4 mile down from the main entrance. (1871 Sim Park Dr) Parking on Sunday in the standard Old Cowtown Museum Visitor Center parking. (1865 Museum Blvd)

Cast of Characters:
Mystic Townley as ETTA LOTTA SPUMONI (customer)
Matt Neises as ALEC DESPOON (customer)
Kristin Moody as CANDY SPRINKLES (waitress)
Theoden Arden Vail as WALT NUTZ (waiter)
Todd Reifschneider as POP SICLE (Ice Cream Parlor Owner)
Alyssa Goerzen as NANA PEEL (shop manager)
Nathan Betzen as I.C. CUSTARD (villain)
Hanson Long as ROBIN BASKINS (hero)
Angela West as MARSHA MALLOW (heroine)
Amanda Dahna as PARFAIT DELUXE (vamp)
Glenn Williams as ERNIE (stage-struck stagehand)

You can’t stop the beat. And honestly — why would you want to?
There is a specific kind of joy that almost nobody talks about because it’s hard to explain.

It happens in a room full of strangers. The music starts — not a slow build, not a careful opening, but immediately — and something in the room shifts. Your foot moves before you decide to move it. The person next to you is smiling. You are smiling. Nobody planned this. It just happened, collectively, to everyone in the building at the same time. And for the duration of that number — that glorious, unstoppable, completely committed number — there are no strangers in the room anymore.

Hairspray does this to audiences. Without apology.

The story is Baltimore, 1962. Tracy Turnblad is sixteen years old, profoundly uncool by the standards of everyone who decides such things, and completely unbothered by that fact. She wants to dance on the local TV show. She wants everyone she loves to have what she has — the certainty that joy is available to anybody willing to show up for it. And when the world tells her, and the people she loves, that not everyone is welcome on the dance floor, she decides — cheerfully, stubbornly, with extraordinary choreography — that this is simply not acceptable.

Tracy is not complicated. She doesn’t brood. She doesn’t monologue about injustice. She dances toward it and dares everyone around her to keep up.

What Hairspray knows is that joy is not a distraction from serious things. It is how some people do the most serious work of their lives. The show holds genuine weight — the civil rights backdrop is real, the stakes are real — and it carries that weight through music and movement and an almost reckless commitment to making the audience feel good. Both things are true at once. This is a show that earns its finale.

Old Town Farm & Art Market is a weekly farmers market in Downtown Wichita, Kansas, attracting thousands of weekly residents and visitors to the city. Located in the historic Old Town district, defined by brick-lined streets and native limestone buildings from the 1800s, the market serves as a central community gathering place celebrating local agriculture, art, and culture.

Open Saturdays
People browsing and shopping at an outdoor market with colorful tents, trees, and buildings in the background.
April 4th - December 19th
April-October
8:00am-1:00pm
Holiday Market Season
(November & December)
10:00am-1:00pm
Market Location
835 E. 1st St. N.
Wichita, KS 67202
Somewhere in Winter
(Nov. 26th - Jan 3rd)
250 N. St. Francis

Want to experience winemaking from the very beginning? Join us for one of our favorite traditions of the year—Harvest Season!

Every Saturday morning in August and September, we invite you to help hand-pick the grapes that will become future Grace Hill wines. Our entire harvest is picked by volunteers, making this one of the most unique winery experiences you'll find anywhere!

🍇 Here's what your morning looks like:
🍇 8:00 AM – Meet in the vineyard and help harvest grapes (about 2 hours)

🍷 Behind-the-scenes winery tour – Follow the grapes into the winery and see how they begin their journey from vineyard to bottle.

🍽 Buffet lunch – Relax after harvest with a delicious lunch, plenty of Grace Hill wine for guests 21+, and fresh grape juice for the kids.

🛍 20% OFF all winery purchases that day for everyone who helps harvest!

📅 2026 Harvest Dates
Saturday, August 8

Saturday, August 15

Saturday, August 22

Saturday, August 29

Saturday, September 5

Saturday, September 12

Saturday, September 19

🎟 Admission
21+ — $12 (includes lunch, wine, Grace Hill sunglasses, and 20% off purchases that day)

Under 21 — $6 (includes lunch, grape juice, Grace Hill sunglasses, and 20% off purchases that day)

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 All ages are welcome!

Start your weekends with movement, mindfulness and fresh air at Riverside Yoga at 9 am and Riverside Zumba at 10 am!

Every Saturday morning (May 9 – September 19), join us for a free community yoga and/or Zumba session along the scenic Arkansas River in the Wichita Foundation Amphitheater. Whether you’re well-experienced or new to the practice, this is your chance to flow and move under the open sky and connect with others in a beautiful outdoor setting overlooking the Keeper of the Plains.

Open to all ages and experience levels.

How It Works
Collect your bingo card from Watermark Books & Café or Love of Character. In-store or online.
Get reading and be sure to mark off the corresponding squares on your bingo card.
Once you’ve hit bingo (5 boxes in a horizontal. Vertical. Or diagonal line.) Bring your card into the store and exchange it for a completion prize!
Your completed card will then be entered into a drawing for a grand prize!
Extra Credit: Feel like earning a few more entries? A full card (All 25 squares filled in) will be entered into the grand prize drawing 5 times!

All completed children's cards will receive a prize for turning in the card, and will be entered into the Grand Prize drawing!

Each age bracket will have a Grand Prize winner, which is a tote with a gift card to Love of Character and to Watermark Books & Cafe, with additional goodies!

Participants are encouraged to enter as many bingo cards as they wish. However, completion prizes will only be awarded upon the first entry. Completion prizes may vary, and certain items will only be available while supplies last.

All entries must be returned to Watermark Books & Café or Love of Character by 3 pm on August 31st, to be eligible for the grand prize drawing. No purchase is necessary to participate. If you have any questions, please email us at books@watermarkbooks.com

Dungeons and Dragons is a Tabletop Roleplaying game that has captivated the imaginations of players for over 50 years. Whether you've played before or this is your first time, come play!

This workshop will remove the mystery around credit scores and reports. How to check credit accuracy and improve scores will be discussed.

Join fellow book lovers for an introverted reading hour!

You can’t stop the beat. And honestly — why would you want to?
There is a specific kind of joy that almost nobody talks about because it’s hard to explain.

It happens in a room full of strangers. The music starts — not a slow build, not a careful opening, but immediately — and something in the room shifts. Your foot moves before you decide to move it. The person next to you is smiling. You are smiling. Nobody planned this. It just happened, collectively, to everyone in the building at the same time. And for the duration of that number — that glorious, unstoppable, completely committed number — there are no strangers in the room anymore.

Hairspray does this to audiences. Without apology.

The story is Baltimore, 1962. Tracy Turnblad is sixteen years old, profoundly uncool by the standards of everyone who decides such things, and completely unbothered by that fact. She wants to dance on the local TV show. She wants everyone she loves to have what she has — the certainty that joy is available to anybody willing to show up for it. And when the world tells her, and the people she loves, that not everyone is welcome on the dance floor, she decides — cheerfully, stubbornly, with extraordinary choreography — that this is simply not acceptable.

Tracy is not complicated. She doesn’t brood. She doesn’t monologue about injustice. She dances toward it and dares everyone around her to keep up.

What Hairspray knows is that joy is not a distraction from serious things. It is how some people do the most serious work of their lives. The show holds genuine weight — the civil rights backdrop is real, the stakes are real — and it carries that weight through music and movement and an almost reckless commitment to making the audience feel good. Both things are true at once. This is a show that earns its finale.

Using music and storytelling, Derrick Doty shares what it's like to be a Kansas musician and what music tells us about time and place. Funding for this program was provided by Humanities Kansas.