Apr 19 Friday
The Wichita Jazz Festival is back for its 52nd year! Join us April 16-20 as we welcome jazz greats Mike Steinel, Rosana Eckert, Stanley Jordan, Melissa Aldana and The Tierney Sutton Band. A 2024 Wichita Jazz Festival Pass will get you access to all shows.
Tuesday, April 16 - Mike Steinel Quintet with Rosana Eckert
7pm | Wichita Art Museum
Wednesday, April 17 - Mike Steinel & Rosana Eckert with the Delano Jazz Orchestra
Thursday, April 18 - An Evening of Guitar with Stanley Jordan
Friday, April 19 - Melissa Aldana with WSU Jazz Arts 1 and the Mid-Kansas Jazz Band
7:30pm | WSU Miller Concert Hall
Saturday, April 20 - The Tierney Sutton Band
7:30pm | Orpheum Theatre
Wichitalks is an eclectic and insightful event series featuring lightning-fast, 5-minute talks with 20 slides auto-progressing every 15 seconds. We bring together passionate individuals and an active audience for an evening of diverse presentations. For this special NEA Big Read Edition of Wichitalks in partnership with KMUW and the Wichita Public Library, we invited presentations pertaining to the concept of generational identity to coincide with the themes in this year's NEA Big Read: Wichita book There There by Tommy Orange.
Apr 20 Saturday
Pine Valley Christian Church is hosting the fundraiser for Camp Sunflower. The camp believes that all young people deserve and need supportive and affirming communities. That’s what the camp does by holding camps and retreats for LGBTQIA+ middle and high school youth. You can show your support for Camp Sunflower by attending the spaghetti supper! You can dine-in or carry-out. Vegetarian and gluten-free options are also available. Suggested donation is $15 ($7.50 for ages 10 and under) including dessert and beverage. Live music, Silent Auction, and a Raffle. Come for a GREAT cause and fun evening!
Apr 24 Wednesday
KMUW's monthly book club features selections made by KMUW staff. For April, we're reading James by Percival Everett.
We'll meet at KMUW for a group discussion over dinner from 6:00 to 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, April 24. Dinner is provided by Public, guests are invited to bring a beverage to share with the group.
Apr 27 Saturday
The annual Ark River Clean-Up is an event sponsored by Cargill Cares, the Kansas Alliance for Wetlands & Streams, the City of Wichita, the Evergy GreenTeam, INTRUST Bank, and numerous other partners.The GROUP REGISTRATION feature is back! If you are coordinating a office group, scouts, students, or just a bunch of friends, you can set up a group and provide your team with a registration code.While supplies last, volunteers will receive an eco-friendly event t-shirt and a free lunch. Gloves and trash bags will be provided.Enjoy the cookout beginning at 11:30 am with TNT burgers supplied by Cargill and grilled by the Wichita Wagon Masters
This course will explore the science behind weather systems by teaching the observational skills needed to make a forecast without using instruments or computer models. Learning Circles are lightly-facilitated study groups for learners who want to take online courses together in person. This course consists of 6 sessions beginning April 5. Call 261-8500 or visit p2pu.org/wichita to register.
Grab a bite to eat or a cup of coffee for this online lunch-time virtual chat, open-access session with Bonita Gooch, Editor-in-Chief of The Community Voice. Friday, July 7, 12:00pm-1:00pmWe'll talk about community issues, ideas for stories, your likes or dislikes about the paper or anything else.It's our chance to hear from our readers. We care what you think! We'll share what we know!! This event happens on the first Friday of each month, just register and on the Thursday before the event we will email you the link to join in the webinar.
Join in a classic high fantasy Dungeons and Dragons campaign! New participants are welcome, but this campaign is designed for experienced players. Call 350-3261 to register.
Ever wanted to learn how to play Dungeons and Dragons? These sessions are designed to teach you about the world's most popular role-playing game. Learn how to make a character, how combat and magic work, using your character's abilities, and more! This is an introductory level program for ages 13 to 18. Call 350-3261 to register.
Watermark Books & Café will host bestselling and award-winning author Leif Enger on Friday, April 19th at 6 pm. Leif Enger is the best-selling author of So Brave, Young, and Handsome; Virgil Wander; and Peace Like A River. He will be here to celebrate the release of his latest book, I Cheerfully Refuse. The book is the tale of a bereaved and pursued musician embarking under sail on a sentient Lake Superior in search of his departed, deeply beloved, bookselling wife. Rainy, an endearing bear of a narrator, seeks refuge in the harbors, fogs, and remote islands of the inland sea. A rollicking narrative in the most evocative of settings, this latest novel is a symphony against despair and a rallying cry for the future. Leif will be here to discuss the book, do a Q&A with the audience, and do a book signing.
Learn more about artist Mary Cassatt in a lecture with art historian Dr. Hollis Clayson.
Join Dr. S. Hollis Clayson, Professor Emerita of Art History and Bergen Evans Professor Emerita in the Humanities at Northwestern University, for this talk about impressionist artist Mary Cassatt. Two of Cassatt’s artworks are currently on view – Mother and Child from WAM’s collection, and Baby on Mother’s Arm in the featured exhibition Making American Artists: Stories from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1776-1976.
Dr. Clayson is a historian of modern art who specializes in 19th-century Europe, especially France, and the transatlantic exchanges between France and the U.S.
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About WAM Nights:We’re open late on Fridays until 9 pm! Get your weekend started with after-hours access to the galleries and shopping in the Museum Store. WAM Nights will include programs with artists, musicians, and performers–don’t miss your chance to see the art at WAM in a new way! The museum comes to life with local creatives during WAM Nights!
You are an archaeology student attending a seminar that opens a hidden university cold case. In 1965 Northern California, a team of archaeologists excavated the lands of the Indigenous Ohlone, Mutsun, and Awaswas peoples in search of historical artifacts, but the excavation was abruptly halted when one of the team was found mysteriously dead. Now you are called to uncover the truth – what happened on those lands, who is to blame, and what stories of the past are buried beneath the bones? Dinner provided by Truly Amazing Catering. For Adults 18+
Tickets are on sale now to see The Mountain Goats Friday, April 19 @ 7:30PM at the Stiefel Theatre. The Mountain Goats’ catalog is thick with recurring characters—Jenny, who originally appears in the All Hail West Texas track bearing her name, as well as in “Straight Six” from Jam Eater Blues and Transcendental Youth side two jam “Night Light,” is one of these. Jenny from Thebes is a lush collection of showtunes, pushing Darnielle as a vocalist and the Mountain Goats as a band, broadening their sonic palette once again by leaning into influences like Godspell, Jim Steinman, and The Cars. The resulting album cuts a path that is simultaneously full of allusions longtime Mountain Goats fans will spin entire mythologies from while also being their most inviting record for those who’ve yet to be converted to the cause. Lifted by Matt Douglas’ horn and string arrangements, the dreamy guitar of Bully leader (and Bleed Out producer) Alicia Bognanno, and backing vocals from Kathy Valentine of The Go-Go’s (“Only One Way,” “Same as Cash,” “Going to Dallas”) and Matt Nathanson (“Fresh Tattoo”), Jenny from Thebes is a widescreen musical in scope, a melodrama of richly detailed characters and sweeping emotions. Tickets start @ $39 and are available at our box office at stiefeltheatre.org, in person at the Box Office at 151 S. Santa Fe or by calling 785-827-1998.
Day 4 of the 2024 Wichita Jazz Festival welcomes tenor saxophone player Melissa Aldana playing with the Wichita State University Jazz Arts 1 and the Mid-Kansas Jazz Band!
Melissa Aldana is a GRAMMY-nominated saxophonist and composer tenor player from Santiago, Chile. She is based in Brooklyn, NY and has garnered international recognition for her visionary works as a band leader, as well as her deeply meditative interpretation of language and vocabulary. Melissa is also an in-demand clinician and educator and has recently been appointed to the faculty of the New England Conservatory’s Jazz Studies Department.
Melissa will be joining the Wichita State University Jazz Arts 1 and the Mid-Kansas Jazz Band. Wichita Jazz Festival is proud of our partnership with Wichita State University’s Jazz Arts giving jazz students the opportunity to connect with some of the finest talents in the jazz world.
The Wichita Jazz Festival is back for its 52nd year! Join us April 16-20 as we welcome the biggest names in jazz to the stage and celebrate the history and legacy of jazz music! Visit www.wichitajazzfestival.com to view the musical lineup and purchase the 2024 Festival Pass to see all the amazing shows or buy single tickets.
Direct from Broadway, MEAN GIRLS is the hilarious hit musical from an award-winning creative team, including book writer TINA FEY (“30 Rock), composer JEFF RICHMOND (“Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt”), lyricist NELL BENJAMIN (Legally Blonde) and director CASEY NICHOLAW (The Book of Mormon).
Cady Heron may have grown up on an African savanna, but nothing prepared her for the vicious ways of her strange new home: suburban Illinois. Soon, this naïve newbie falls prey to a trio of lionized frenemies led by the charming but ruthless Regina George. But when Cady devises a plan to end Regina’s reign, she learns the hard way that you can’t cross a Queen Bee without getting stung.New York Magazine cheers, “MEAN GIRLS delivers with immense energy, a wicked sense of humor and joyful inside-jokery.” USA Today says, “We’ll let you in on a little secret, because we’re such good friends: GET YOUR TICKETS NOW!”
One of the best known art forms practiced by American Indians is beadwork. Today, beadwork has come to symbolize Native American heritage and is used to make belts, jewelry, and most notably, adorns much of the regalia worn at powwows and dance contests. In this native beading workshop, you'll create a tiny feather banner in the fire colors to wear or watch over your houseplants. This is a beginner loom beading class using larger beads taught by Indian Museum Education Coordinator, Michelle Conine (Shawnee-Delaware). Instructor will supply all materials. Class size is limited and registration is required. Visit wichitalibrary.org/events or call 316-261-8500 to register.
Watermark Books & Café will be hosting the award-winning author and former journalist Lindsay Metcalf for her wonderful new book Outdoor Farm, Indoor Farm on Saturday, April 20th at 10 am. Lindsay Metcalf is known for Beatrix Potter, Scientist, No Voice Too Small: Fourteen Young Americans Making History, and No World Too Big: Young People Fighting Global Climate Change. She will be at Watermark to discuss her latest book Outdoor Farm, Indoor Farm which helps illustrate to young people how both outdoor and indoor farms sustainably grow food we eat throughout the year in this vibrant, rhyming picture book. Lindsay will be here to do a Storytime and a book signing after. We hope to see you there!
Join us for an engaging and enjoyable program centered around low-impact exercise where we'll be following the iconic workout videos by Richard Simmons. Feel free to work out at a pace that suits you, and most importantly, have a blast!
In this class participants will have a chance to learn more about some of the more advanced features available in the PrusaSlicer such as variable layer height, spiral vase mode, and fuzzy skin mode. We will also demonstrate ways you can customize the supports in the Prusa Slicer. This class requires prior experience with the Prusa Slicer as well as intermediate mouse and keyboarding skills. Call 261-8500 to register.