Music Group for all ages. This group is led by a board-certified music therapist working in special education and is designed for the whole family to participate with each other. This group will be 30 minutes in length for the large group, and if there are some more motivated individuals, they will have an opportunity to explore the music and instruments before and after the group at their leisure.

We are hosting a SOAR Social Club for individuals who are 18 and older with lower support needs, who desire to build community.  We will share a meal, play games, participate in a themed activity, and socialize with friends.   Where: SOAR office (12201 W 88th St, Lenexa, KS 66215) When: 2nd Tuesdays of each month, 6pm-8:30pm

Join New Horizon Academy for a FREE preschool round-up event featuring children's activities, information about kindergarten readiness, and tours of New Horizon Academy Olathe's preschool and pre-kindergarten classrooms.

Join us for a dialogue between artist, educator, and Charlotte Street 2023 fellow Ruben Castillo and Stuart Hinds, Curator of Special Collections & Archives, University Libraries at UMKC. Ruben Castillo and Stuart Hinds will discuss how artists use research and archives to inform and expand their artistic practice. Castillo’s current installation at the Nerman Museum features works that reference specific objects in the Gay and Lesbian Archives of Mid-America (GLAMA), which is part of the Special Collections & Archives at UMKC. Over the course of several years, Castillo worked with Hinds to conduct research into the histories and aesthetics of these important objects and incorporated them into his ongoing printmaking and installation practice. Learn more about his artistic journey and about the resources that the Special Collections have to offer. This dialogue will occur online only. RSVP for livestreaming link The Charlotte Street Fellows · 2023 exhibition will be on view through April 14, 2024. The 2023 recipients, Ruben Castillo, Sean Nash, and Sun Young Park were selected by a panel of local and national curators. Annually, Charlotte Street honors three exceptional Kansas City-based visual artists with unrestricted cash awards and a professionally curated exhibition at esteemed non-profit art institutions. The 2023 awards and exhibition received major underwriting from the Jedel Family Foundation.