Kansas City Calendar

June 25: This FREE, one-day festival invites youth and families to experience a diverse range of performances and interactive arts activities. Future Stages Festival is a free community event that showcases more than 700 youth performers and is an extension of the Kauffman Center's Open Doors Spotlight on Youth program. Featuring a variety of performing arts organizations and interactive arts activity partners, the festival provides fun for ALL ages!

June 23: It's Harry Potter Night at the ballpark! We've got special character appearances, music, fun, and more! Dress up in your favorite Harry Potter gear and come out for a night of #FunWellDone! Also enjoy $1.25 hot dogs and the Falcon Skydiving Team flying in on the field!

June 24-25: Maker Faire Kansas City celebrates things people create themselves — from new technology and electronic gizmos to urban farming and “slow-made” foods to homemade clothes, quilts and sculptures. This family-friendly event demonstrates what and how people are inventing, making and creating. It brings together Makers, Crafters, Inventors, Hackers, Scientists and Artists for a faire full of fun and inspiration. Come see what others are making and be inspired to tap into your own creativity!

thru Aug. 6 at The Coterie: In this brand new musical adaptation of everyone’s favorite sarcastic tubby tabby, Garfield awakens to find his birthday – the most important day of the year – has fallen on a Monday. In the end, Garfield learns little things like, you know, the value of friendship and also that “home is where the heart - and the food - is.”

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June 24: Come explore a world "Under the Sea" as local skaters tell the story of Ariel, Sebastian, Prince Eric, and so many more on Saturday, June 24th. Show 1 will begin at 3:30 PM (doors open at 3:00 PM). Show 2 will begin at 6:30 PM (doors open at 6:00 PM). Be sure to arrive early to snag good seats!

June 22: Bring a blanket or lawn chair and join us for our first ever Moo-vie Night at the Farmstead. Gates open at 7:30 p.m. Moo-vie begins at dusk.

June 20-July 9: What would a librarian do if storytime at the library was interrupted by an oncoming tornado? Move everyone to the safety of the library basement and tell the most famous tornado story of all...The Wizard of Oz! Journey down the yellow brick road in this new adaptation of L. Frank Baum’s beloved tale of Dorothy, the Scarecrow, Tin Woodsman, and Cowardly Lion. The librarian and her friends use their wits, hearts, and a bit of courage to tell the famous Oz story with puppets as colorful as the Land of Oz itself!

thru Sept. 4: This summer the Arboretum and Botanical Gardens are again home to the mystical domains of gnomes, fairies, elves, sprites, trolls, and other garden creatures along a woodland trail. This is a delightful exhibit you won't want to miss!

thru Sept. 10: All aboard for fun learning adventures with Thomas The Tank Engine as you help him be a "Really Useful Engine." Explore the sights and sounds of the Island of Sodor: visit Knapford Station and the Sodor Steamworks, climb inside Thomas' cab, fix Percy's wobble wheels, pull levers for train noises, and race trains along a giant track. This free exhibit is an imaginative adventure for the whole family!

thru Oct. 22: Goblins and fairies and trolls, oh my! See these and other mythical creatures this summer as part of Gardens of Myth, which is making its garden debut at Powell Gardens!