Community Calendar

Join us for pre-literacy play designed just for babies and toddlers. Children will explore their senses with a variety of textures, sounds, and stimulating environments. For Ages 2 and under.

Join us for a creative session where you'll design and craft your very own mini book ornament. Call (316) 261-8500 or visit wichitalibrary.org/events to register.

Learn basic sewing skills while making your own gift card holder. No prior sewing experience is needed, and all materials will be provided. Registration is requested. Call (316) 337-9456 or visit wichitalibrary.org/events to register.

Learn basic sewing skills while making your own gift card holder. No prior sewing experience is needed, and all materials will be provided. Registration is requested. Call (316) 337-9456 or visit wichitalibrary.org/events to register.

Learn basic sewing skills while making your own gift card holder. No prior sewing experience is needed, and all materials will be provided. Registration is requested. Call (316) 337-9456 or visit wichitalibrary.org/events to register.

Learn basic sewing skills while making your own gift card holder. No prior sewing experience is needed, and all materials will be provided. Registration is requested. Call (316) 337-9456 or visit wichitalibrary.org/events to register.

Come and join us for a chance to spend time with neighbors and friends, all while enjoying a bit of healthy board game competition! This is a come-and-go event.

Monthly meeting for Teen Advisory Board members to enjoy snacks together while discussing upcoming programming, volunteer opportunities, and collection suggestions. For ages 12-17.

Calling all teens! Come join our monthly book club where we'll chat about our current reads, explore different genres and participate in lively discussions. Registration is required; visit the Teen Pavilion at the ALL to register and get the latest book club pick. For ages 12-17.

North America's largest interactive comedy murder mystery dinner theatre show is now playing in Wichita, KS! Solve a hilarious true crime murder mystery while you feast on a fantastic dinner. Just beware! The culprit is hiding in plain sight somewhere in the room, and you may find yourself as a Prime Suspect before you know it!

Join us for an event that is very different from a traditional mystery dinner show. Our actors are not dressed in costume and are hidden in the audience! This results in a fun, social and interactive evening suitable for all adults.

Each ticket includes our signature award-winning mystery dinner theatre show, along with a full plated dinner, waitstaff gratuity, and plenty of surprises during the show.

Metropolitan Ballet brings you the magic of Christmas in their annual production of "The Nutcracker." This timeless classic will feature many local dancers and a few exquisite guest artists. Don’t miss this Wichita holiday tradition for the entire family to enjoy!

1 HR 30 MIN
Rated G
Make this your new Wichita holiday tradition. A live celebration featuring festive songs, crafted right here at home, building the kind of memories your family talks about every holiday season.

December 5 - 8:00 PM

Wichitans desired to be modern since the City’s beginning in 1870. The Modern era had been evolving for a century at that time and it would take another 100 years before Wichita achieved a “modern” look. World War II (1939-1945) greatly disrupted development in design.

Over the next two decades, postwar prosperity propelled design of the modern era to its zenith. By that time, Wichita’s modernization was most apparent in its new urban 1969 skyline, which remains in place today.

In the 1950s and 1960s, modern design from architecture to fashions and furnishings became familiar as people followed popular trends replacing old with new. Visual art and advertising led the way for the modern look - which by the 1960s, people referred to as “Mod.” This new look coincided with changes as society became more pluralistic and increasingly aware of its diversity. The post-war baby boom gave rise to a prominent youth culture creating new markets. New technology improving the ability to travel and share information led to wide acceptance of modern style.

This modern sensibility cast a popular and unifying mindset. This era featured non-representational abstract design to create engaging effects rather than portray objects or scenes. The effects were both dazzling and confusing, challenging everyone’s perception of reality. Our visual world was forever changed.

(This exhibition follows (and is directly patterned after) the Museum’s previous exhibit Art Deco on the Plains. It takes the timeline forward to explore modern design experienced locally in the 1950s and 1960s. The exhibition is a feature of the Lois Kay Walls Local Visual Art History Series.)

On view through 2025 in the Slawson Gallery, 4th floor.

Tues-Fri 11am-4pm, Sat & Sun 1-5pm

Wichita-Sedgwick County Historical Museum - 204 S Main

The urge to create or possess a visual representation of a specific person – a portrait – is present throughout history. Portraits are created for many reasons: from sentimental to celebratory, for public or private viewing, as memorials, and as icons. .

Until the introduction of photography in the 1840s, portraits were rendered by artists in both two and three-dimensional mediums such as paintings and sculptures.

The Museum’s collection includes a variety of portraits, most of which depict local people. In this exhibition, we learn of portraiture and the people portrayed.

On view during regular Museum hours

March 2025 - March 2026

Tues-Fri 11am-4pm, Sat & Sun 1-5pm

Wichita-Sedgwick County Historical Museum - 204 S Main

Located in the Musem's Lois Kay Walls Gallery - 3rd Floor