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Community calendar highlights upcoming events with emphasis on youth activities and local arts. Tuesday spotlights participants aged 18 and under while Wednesday features culinary happenings, Friday presents scene building moments, Saturday covers broader community arts and living events.
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Arts
Lawrence City Band Opens Summer Concert Series in Lawrence
The Lawrence City Band kicks off its summer South Park concert season performing A Sesquicentennial Celebration conducted by Robert E. Foster. Featured tenor Genaro Mendez, narrator Bob Newton, and a program of American and Western expansion tunes. broadcast on KLWN 1320.
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Lawrence
South Park
P.m
Robert E. Foster
Westward
Genaro Mendez
Bob Newton
James Barnes
J.J. Richards
Claude T. Smith
Robert Russell Bennett
Foster
Mendez
Paul Yoder
James Sochinsky
Lawrence City Band
City of Lawrence and Parks and Recreation
Rice Foundation
KLWN
Wayne Thiebaud exhibit opens at Kemper Museum
Kansas City event highlights Wayne Thiebaud fifty years of painting collection with more than 40 works. Opening reception Friday 5:30 to 7:30 pm at Kemper Museum 4420 Warwick Blvd. Thiebaud speaks June 8 at Nelson-Atkins Museum 4525 Oak St. He once cartooned for Rexall Drug and taught at UC Davis with artists Wiley Neri Arneson.
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Kansas City
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art
Wayne Thiebaud
California
Warwick Blvd
Thiebaud
Nelson- Atkins Museum of Art
Oak St
Rexall Drug Company
University of California, Davis
William Wiley
Manuel Neri
Robert Arneson
Museum
Sculptor Jon Swindell Preserves War's Hidden Voices Through Art
Kansas University design professor Jon Keith Swindell has spent a decade documenting his mother's wartime memories. He traveled to England in 1994 to interview British relatives and collect letters, photographs, and diaries. After his mother’s illness and death, he returned to England to Sussex University for access to extensive war diaries by service members.
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Vinland
Jon Keith Swindell
Swindell
Douglas County
U.S
Northampton
England
London
Kansas University
Atlantic Ocean
States
On Being Blue exhibit at Lawrence Arts Center
Solo show On Being Blue Dream Portals and War Diaries by Vinland sculptor Jon Keith Swindell opens Friday July 18 at Lawrence Arts Center 940 N H with 7 to 9 pm reception. Swindell KU design professor invites five former students Nicola Ginzel Dimitre Barde Carolyn Richardson Steven Elliott Marc Berghaus to collaborate on pieces.
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Vinland
Jon Keith Swindell
Lawrence Arts Center
N.H
Swindell
Kansas University
Nicola Ginzel
Dimitre (Barde
Carolyn Richardson
Steven Elliott
Marc Berghaus
Tanya Shaffer's solo trek fuels debut memoir Somebodys Heart
Tanya Shaffer, a Berkeley actress and writer, chronicles a year in Ghana aiding schools and hospitals in Somebody's Heart is Burning. The travel memoir centers on West African life, vivid places, and strong personal relationships as the drama of the story unfolds. Page 60 reference follows.
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Lawrence
Tanya Shaffer
Africa
Hen Lawrence
West
Shaffer
Berkeley
Calif
Ghana
Afranguah
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