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#AAPI TRAILBLAZER: Naomi Tanioka

Toast To Olde Tymes – Harold D. Rice

Rose Brooks Center – Cabaret

MOCSA – Mary Larkin

The Symphony League of Kansas City – Symphony Ball

Congratulations, Annemarie & Ethan!

Cheers to Volunteers! – Liz Rowe

The Children’s Place – Party for The Place: Studio 45

Horizon Academy – A Novel Night: True Grit

Park University’s International Center for Music – Stanislav & Friends

Rachel’s Reads – April 2023

Notre Dame de Sion Schools – 37th Annual Gala, “There’s No Place Like Sion”

Congratulations, Katherine & Scott!

Cheers to Volunteers! – Chas Vincent

Heart of America Shakespeare Festival – Patrons Party for Romantic Revels

DIVA DOGS: Local pets continue to energize Kansas City stages

Johnson County Library Foundation – Library Lets Loose

Park University’s International Center for Music – Benefactor Party for Stanislav & Friends 2023

Growing Futures Early Education Center – Pickleball & Jams

Congratulations, Amy & David!

Children’s Mercy – 2023 Red Hot Night

TEN CENTURIES AND COUNTING: Students defy declarations of classical music’s demise

Defying the Odds: A HALO Art Auction Benefiting Homeless Youth

Benedictine College – 51st Scholarship Ball

2023 Paw Print Issue

Friends of Chamber Music – Soirée 2023

Toast To Olde Tymes – Ruth Warrick

Volunteer Appreciation Month at Children’s Mercy

K-State Alumni Association – Wabash CannonBall

Alphapointe – Seventh Annual Boots and Pearls: Wine and Whiskey

Congratulations, Ericka & Jim!

Metropolitan Organization to Counter Sexual Assault – 2023 Community Luncheon

Congratulations, McKenzie & Riley!

TRAILBLAZING: Kansas City opens arms to woman conductor as her renown grows

TRAILBLAZING: Central Exchange

TRAILBLAZING: Society of Women Engineers

TRAILBLAZING: National Congress of Black Women – Kansas City Chapter

TRAILBLAZING: The Nia Project

TRAILBLAZING: Awesome Ambitions

TRAILBLAZING: Mother’s Refuge

TRAILBLAZING: Purses With Power

TRAILBLAZER: Kim Riley

TRAILBLAZERS: Stellar Students

Rachel’s Reads – March 2023

TRAILBLAZER: Amaya Rodriguez

Cheers To Volunteers! – Kansas City Women

Art Scene – Kansas City Trailblazers

Congratulations, Jenny & Eric!

Heart of America Shakespeare Festival – Romantic Revels

Lyric Opera Circle – 2023 Lyric Opera Ball

TRAILBLAZERS: Kansas City Rising Stars

REVIEW: Stephen King-inspired opera makes strong case for new operatic genre

Paul's Perspective

TRAILBLAZING: Girls on the Run Serving Greater Kansas City

TRAILBLAZER: Anastasia Vorotnaya

Palatable Pursuits: Trailblazer Cindy McClain

THE ROUND PEG: The alchemy of collaboration continues to attract artists seeking the unexpected

Cheers To Volunteers! – Anne Bowling

Toast To Olde Tymes – Eleanor Massie Hope

The Symphony League of Kansas City – Symphony Ball, “Seasons”

Kansas City Girls Preparatory Academy – Leading with Love

Life Unlimited – Hats Off to Mothers Luncheon

Kansas City Ballet’s Bolender Society – A Musical Evening with Ramona

The Independent’s 2022 Top Ten Party

Hyman Brand Hebrew Academy – Civic Service Award Celebration, “A Family United”

Toast To Olde Tymes – Gertrude Freyman

ALL WORK AND NO PLAY: Lyric Opera finally brings the Torrances to town

PLAYING WELL WITH OTHERS: New program for young chamber musicians stresses collaboration and fun

BOTAR – Winter Meeting

The Independent’s Top Ten Events of 2022

Catholic Charities of Northeast Kansas – 49th Annual Snow Ball

Congratulations, Hannah & Robert!

Cheers to Volunteers! – Colin Woods

Cristo Rey Kansas City – 17th Annual Dancing with the Kansas City Stars

Celebrating Black History with KC Melting Pot Theatre

BEST OF SPRING 2023

Celebrating Black History with Kansas City G.I.F.T.

Celebrating Black History with Kansas City Friends of Alvin Ailey

Celebrating Black History with Chioma Anyanwu

Celebrating Black History Month with Exceeds Expectations

Palatable Pursuits – Fannie’s African & Tropical Cuisine

Cheers To Volunteers! – Concerned Mothers Group at High Aspirations

Celebrating Black History with aSTEAM Village

Celebrating Black History with Local Authors

Celebrating Black History with Christian dos Santos, International Center for Music at Park University

Celebrating Black History with The Village KC

Rachel’s Reads – February 2023

Celebrating Black History with Whitney Huell, Kansas City Ballet

Celebrating Black History with the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum

Art Scene – Dean Mitchell

Celebrating Black History with The Independent’s Rising Stars

Celebrating Black History with The Black Repertory Theatre of Kansas City

Celebrating Black History with The Nia Project

Celebrating Black History with Black Archives of Mid-America in Kansas City

Harriman-Jewell Series – 1,000th Concert Celebration

Kansas City Ballet Guild – Nutcracker Luncheon

Truman Library Institute – Wild About Harry

THE MORE THINGS CHANGE: New play uses tender family story to address Kansas City’s racial history

YEAR OF LIVING MARVELOUSLY: Local arts groups emerge full-throttle from hibernation

Congratulations, Kathryn & Jason!