SOL - Single "Old" Liberals (50s and Up)

Danielle is hosting this event.
The first Tuesday of the month is when Upcycle Piano Craft usually hosts their happy hour concerts in their showroom. FREE beverages and light snacks included (though make sure to tip the bartender - they take cash and Venmo).
The music starts at 4:30 and runs until around 6:30.
The event is streamed on their Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/events/1394779148360189/
This month's show features a Gospel Choir.
I'll be there around 5:15 (feel free to go earlier). I'll hang out in the back right corner of the showroom, so you can find me.
Around 6:30, when the music ends, we can head to Westport for some dinner. We've heard Bistro 303 is nice and we can walk there (it's only 3 blocks from Upcycle). You are welcome to meet us for dinner around 6:45 if you can't make it to the show.

PARKING NOTE: Upcycle is on the east side of Main St, across from Westport Rd. There is parking on 40th St (south of Westport Rd) and there's a wedge-shaped parking lot in front of the store that you can access from 40th St.

Music details: Charles Williams on piano, Chris Hazelton on Hammond B3 organ, and a gospel choir led by Millie Edwards and Pat Brown-Dixon.

Danielle is hosting this event.

Film (70 min) followed by Q&A
https://cart.nelson-atkins.org/48338/48339
Tickets at the museum website: $10 for members; $13 for non-members

Let's meet in the Rozzelle Court cafe on the first floor of the museum at 5:15 (film begins at 6 pm). You can get a snack or a drink, or just have a chat before the film starts.

Learn more about the film from the filmmaker (8 min):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3C3-8KEpTQU
Longer discussion with the filmmaker (1+ hr):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlqiT0vsFwk

"Dario Robleto's film collapses space and time, science and spirituality, art and archives, and the backstory and legacy of NASA's Golden Record (gold-plated disc launched aboard the Voyager spacecraft in 1977, and now in interstellar space, the disc carries a collection of sounds and images purposefully edited to put humanity’s best face forward in a first-contact scenario with other life forms that might someday discover and decipher it). Robleto investigates the moral and practical complexities of collecting and presenting a full accounting of our actions and what it means to be human. What signals the feeling of being in love, or the experience of going hungry or being at war? What is at stake in how we tell our stories?"

Immediately following the screening, Robleto joins Curators Kimberly Masteller (Nelson-Atkins), Jason Dean (Linda Hall Library), and Patricia Cecil (National WWI Museum and Memorial) for a discussion of his multi-year, multi-media exploration of this singular subject.

Hi folks, it's Danielle hosting this event.

Free concert at the main branch of the KC library at 3 pm
https://kclibrary.org/events/js-bach-and-company
Then we can walk down the street to the Asian Cafe for an early dinner or light refreshments (feel free to meet us at the restaurant around 4:15 if you can't make it to the concert).
https://asiancafekc.my.canva.site/menu
Please note that May 11 is Mother's Day
We can meet in the lobby of the library at 3 pm, by the puzzle table (to the left of the entrance).

https://themoth.org/events/only-in-kansas-city-2025
An open-mic storytelling competition - sign up for a chance to tell a story or sit back and enjoy the show. Audience members will share a true, personal, 5-minute story on the night's theme: "ONLY IN KANSAS CITY!"
We will be hearing tales about events that transpired in your town that couldn’t happen elsewhere. Secret histories or local mysteries. Tourist traps or hidden gems. What makes Kansas City unique.
Storytelling starts at 7:30, must arrive by 7:15 - meet in the lobby.
Tickets are $15 plus a $2.50 processing fee