Upcoming events

KDHX listeners, bow down! One of the queens of the St. Louis blues, Kim Massie, is anchoring this month's Open House Blues Jam. 

Happy hour runs from 4 - 6 pm, with music from 6 - 9 pm. And Blues Dance St.Louis is now offering free lessons from 5:15 - 5:45 pm. So stop by early and learn the basics.

Backline instruments are provided. Come to play or simply to listen. Either way, put this event on the calendar. This is a rare chance to see a musical legend up close and personal!

Campfire invites you to hear stories about life and how we live it during Season 8 at The Stage at KDHX. Our live events can best be described as TED without the data, The Moth but interactive, and Church but without the religion.

* Campfire starts at 8:00pm BUT get there early because the bar will be open so come hang and relax before the show

* The event is free and open to the public

The Campfire Fellows go through rigorous training and coaching provided by Campfire Faculty so they can share their wisdom through story for you. Our Fellows are the people next to you at stoplights or walking by on the street. These Fellows apply or are are nominated by people like you, who know interesting and introspective people with some wisdom to share. The Fellows go through a unique process with our team to discover a wealth of wisdom inside themselves then are trained on how to share the origin stories of that wisdom.

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What is Campfire?

Campfire provides storytelling and public speaking training in new and innovative ways. We are developing the next era of public speaking rooted in a more human, strengths-based, and accessible curriculum.

Folk School jams are a great way to spend a weekend afternoon. Musicians of all skill levels come together to play and enjoy music under the guidance of a Folk School instructor. Jams are free and open to the public. Participants take turns leading songs and choosing tunes. These informal gatherings are a great way to get back to the basics and simply enjoy playing.  Join in!

Folk School Jams are made possible by 

Folk School jams are a great way to spend a weekend afternoon. Musicians of all skill levels come together to play and enjoy music under the guidance of a Folk School instructor. Jams are free and open to the public. Participants take turns leading songs and choosing tunes. These informal gatherings are a great way to get back to the basics and simply enjoy playing. Join in!

Folk School Jams are made possible by 

Campfire is hosting a showcase of students who went through our Intro to Storytelling Class. These students are telling stories around the theme of Things Left Unsaid.

YOU COULD BE ONE OF THOSE STORYTELLERS! Snag your seat in the Intro to Storytelling class and experience this showcase from the stage.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/intro-to-storytelling-tickets-51795909961

Campfire invites you to hear stories about life and how we live it during Season 8 at The Stage at KDHX. Our live events can best be described as TED without the data, The Moth but interactive, and Church but without the religion.

* Campfire starts at 8:00pm BUT get there early because the bar will be open so come hang and relax before the show

* The event is free and open to the public

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What is Campfire?

Campfire provides storytelling and public speaking training in new and innovative ways. We are developing the next era of public speaking rooted in a more human, strengths-based, and accessible curriculum.

A defecting genius sends Bond on a gem-studded mission to The Diamond Quarter in Belgium, where 007 meets Sapphire Spheres, the beautiful accomplice of an infamous criminal mastermind with a heart of ice. With the help of the blonde bombshell, Bond infiltrates the frigid headquarters of the Missbehavin' Organization in an attempt to stop a chilling plot that threatens the safety of the globe.

Who will keep you warm when you Kiss & Tell?

Special Guests: The Glimmer Cabaret and Terry Bates

The Bonsack Gallery opens Art Marks from Minnesota and Montana to the Confluence: Watershed Cairns by Libby Reuter and Joshua Rowan with a reception on Friday, February 22 from 5:30 to 7:30 pm. 

Artists Reuter and Rowan have collaborated since 2011 on a project they call Watershed Cairns — large-scale color photographs of glass sculptures placed in watersheds throughout the Mississippi-Missouri river basin. Reuter, a sculptor and installation artist, creates reliquary-inspired glass “cairns” constructed from household or antique glass; each piece is made in response to a specific site. Because the cairns are too delicate to keep in place, Rowan photographs them to record their presence in the landscape. The artists display most photographs on watershedcairns.com, along with a short description and GPS coordinates, so viewers may visit the sites themselves and note changes in the landscape and the rivers over time. The work also appears in galleries and museums, with many cairns displayed with their corresponding photograph. 

So far, Reuter and Rowan have traveled to more than 300 locations in the Missouri-Mississippi basin. Their project aims to “mark the watersheds metaphorically as fragile, beautiful, and deeply connected to everyday life,” and to spark community discussions around water. The artists’ current series focuses on Mississippi River basin’s water wealth: the river provides drinking water for 50 million people and irrigates 90 percent of the United States’ agricultural exports. 

The exhibit runs through April 10. The Bonsack Gallery is a not-for-profit educational gallery on the campus of John Burroughs School. Regular gallery hours are 8 am to 6:30 pm, Monday through Friday. For more information, contact Donya Allison (Fine Arts) at 314/993-4045, ext. 229, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

For information about the event, contact Stefene Russell at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

http://www.jburroughs.org

The traditional landscape painting often contains a horizon line, recognizable landforms, and an idealized representation of Nature. Looking deeper, the historic use of the landscape mirrors the inner-state of that society's relationship to the political, religious, economic, and natural world around it. "Layered Place" invites viewers to reevaluate their definition of landscape, and consider the multiple "layers" of the multi-faceted modern landscape. This group exhibit delves into humanity's tumultuous relationship with Nature, visual metaphors for Place, social and cultural identity, family heritage, and way-finding. 

The exhibition includes work by St. Louis-based artists Jenna Bauer, Meghan Grubb, Song Park, Mandy Pedigo, Allana Ross, John Sarra, and Jon Young, and is curated by Charis Norell.

The exhibition will be up FEBRUARY 9 - APRIL 30

GALLERY HOURS ARE WEEKDAYS FROM 9AM - 6PM

For more information, contact April Parviz at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

https://www.intersectstl.org/gallery/

Are you ready for the next step in becoming a changemaker in your own community? Would you like to learn how to apply permaculture to your own life and your community? 

Permaculture examines the interconnectedness of living systems on earth and how we can observe and interact with these systems in ways that increase the health and well being of all life on earth.

Crystal Stevens of Grow Create Inspire presents a 72-hour Permaculture Design Course. The course will run one weekend per month for 6 months. 

The cost is $950

Scholarships are available.

The course will cover:

Introduction to Permaculture

Permaculture Ethics and Principles

The Local Ecosystem, Design, The Home System, zones, and sector analysis, Water, Soil Science, Soil Building, and Soil Health, ecosystems, Food Forests and Cultivated Ecologies, Gardening and regenerative agriculture,

Land access, land grants, and community gardens. and more.

Each participant will create a Permaculture Design Project.

Attendance of all weekends is required for the certificate.

To register: email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

http://www.growcreateinspire.com

Brew in the Lou: Brewing History of St. Louis

The history of brewing in St. Louis goes further back in history than the iconic Anheuser Busch. For 200 years, dozens of breweries have come and gone, including famous names such as Lemp and Falstaff. In this two-session class, we will learn about the history of the earliest and long forgotten breweries in St. Louis, their use of the caves lying underneath the city, and how the history of brewing beer has changed the face of the Gateway City.

Date: 3/26/2019 – 4/2/2019

Sessions: Two (2)

Time: 10 am to 12 pm

Fee: $40

Location:

Center of Clayton

50 Gay Avenue

St. Louis, MO 63105

To register or learn more, contact Oasis at 314.862.4859 ext. 24 or visit www.stloasis.org.

For more information, contact Tina Duckett at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

Showcasing photographers who use 19th and early 20th century processes to comment on contemporary issues and subjects, the exhibit highlights how these antique methods of artistic expression can still have powerful validity in today's world. Despite, or perhaps because of, the readiness, ease and ubiquity of photography in the 21st century, there has been a movement of photographic artists who have turned to early processes like the tintype, ambrotype and daguerreotype to delineate their subjects, imbuing their work with a beauty and material quality not found in the photos made with social media and instant filters. The exhibition will include work by David Emitt Adams, Binh Danh, Jill Enfield, Mark Katzman, Annie Lopez, Barbara McDonnell, Eric Omori, Keliy Anderson Staley and Will Wilson.

For more information, contact Chris Peimann at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

https://www.thesheldon.org/current-exhibits.php

Born in 1901, Wallace Herndon Smith was a traditional painter who absorbed the visual language of artists like Pierre Bonnard, Henri Matisse and Edward Hopper. In the late 1930s, his work gained attention from important American artists like Hopper, Walt Kuhn and Peggy Bacon. He traveled extensively to Europe, Mexico and America's East Coast, and had a summer residence and studio in Harbor Springs, Michigan, subjects of which are found in several works in the exhibit. His works have been exhibited widely including in New York at the Museum of Modern Art and in Philadelphia, St. Louis and many other cities.

For more information, contact Chris Peimann at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

https://www.thesheldon.org/current-exhibits.php

Liminal Spaces is a collection of architectural sculptures by husband-and-wife team Evan and Stacey Smith. Offering immersive and meditative experiences, the sculptures either directly or indirectly mimic artistic and religious spaces. Carefully constructed and lit with programmable LED lighting, the works draw the viewer into the imaginary environments they create.

For more information, contact Chris Peimann at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

https://www.thesheldon.org/current-exhibits.php

This exhibit showcases the talents of students from Wentzville School District High Schools who, in their curriculum, study the expression of identity. Humanity shares a common characteristic–the desire to be recognized by others. One common way we gain recognition is through the individual pursuit of originality. The works in the exhibition aim to convey a sense of how we identify, justly or not, one another's individuality based on the experiences of living in a diverse society.

For more information, contact Chris Peimann at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

https://www.thesheldon.org/current-exhibits.php

Join Oasis to Learn More on Islam/Middle East Issues 

This class will continue on from Islam/Middle East 101 and explore, in more detail, such topics as: issues of the politics of oil and water, Shia and Sunni issues, the mosque to the state in several nations, the pull/push of nationalism-fundamentalism-secularism in the area, imperialism over Arabs the last 100 years, key leaders over last 60 years, the American alliance with the theocratic Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict since 1917 and American foreign policy in the area today.

Date: 3/25/2019 – 4/10/2019

Fee: $90

Sessions: Six (6)

Time: 1 pm to 3 pm

Location: 

Kirkwood Community Center

111 S. Geyer Rd.

Kirkwood, MO 63122 

To register or learn more, contact Oasis at 314.862.4859 ext. 24 or visit www.stloasis.org

For more information, contact Tina Duckett at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

The Foundry Art Centre is excited to present Figurative Works II, a multimedia international juried exhibition, to the community this February 22, 2019. Alex Folla, an Italian born and residing artist who exhibits his figurative paintings internationally, curated this exhibition. The show will include 49 artworks by 29 artists from thirteen states. Craftsmanship and personality shine through this collection of works depicting the human form.

Going Solo Award Winner from 2017 exhibition Tell Me a Story, Voytek, will be exhibiting a collection of his detailed, surreal paintings entitled Real Unreality. This exhibition will reside in Gallery III. His artist statement reads, “Just when you think it isn’t possible... the impossible happens”. In the Ameristar Gallery, a photographer who has traveled all the way from Puerto Rico will display her exhibition of unique portraits entitled Island Beauty. In Zuania Muñiz-Meléndez’s artwork, “The human body juxtaposed with colourful flowers is a celebration of our humanity and the joy of life”.

All exhibitions will open February 22, 2019, with a Gallery Talk in the Main Gallery at 5:30 pm. The Opening Reception will be from 6-8pm. Schlafly Brewery will be providing complimentary beer for the evening to be served with wine and snacks. The community is invited to attend the Opening Reception and meet the exhibiting Artists. The exhibition is free and open to the public at the Foundry Art Centre. Figurative Works II, Real Unreality, and Island Beauty will be on show February 22, 2019 - April 5, 2019.

For more information, contact Natalie Tucker at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

http://www.foundryartcentre.org/figurative-works-ii/

Opening of "Island Beauty" a fine art photography exhibit from a Puerto Rican artist: Zuania Muñiz-Meléndez.

Come and experience the pleasure of contemplating the intimate dialogue between nature and human beings through her photographs. 

Opening date: February 22nd 

Artist talk: 5:30pm. Come and meet the artist!

Opening hr: 6:00pm

Location: Ameristar Gallery at the Foundry Art Center.

For more information, contact Zuania Muniz-Melendez at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

http://www.foundryartcentre.org/emerging-artists-series/

Disney’s “Newsies” the Musical is coming to the Donald D. Shook Fine Arts Building theater at St. Charles Community College at 7 p.m. March 22. 

There will be several additional showings:

• 2 p.m. Saturday, March 23

• 7 p.m. Saturday, March 23

• 2 p.m. Sunday, March 24

• 7 p.m. Friday, March 29

• 2 p.m. Saturday, March 30

• 7 p.m. Saturday, March 30

• 2 p.m. Sunday, March 31

Young People’s Theatre is excited to share their rendition of this popular musical. 

“Newsies” the Musical was originally produced for Broadway by Disney Theatrical Productions and is based on the Disney film written by Bob Tzudiker and Noni White. The musical was written by Harvey Fierstein, with lyrics by Jack Feldman and music by Alan Menken. Orchestrations by Danny Troob, incidental music and vocal arrangements by Michael Kossarin, and dance arrangements by Mark Hummel.

“Newsies” is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI).

This rousing tale of Jack Kelly, a charismatic newsboy and leader of a band of teenaged “newsies,” is a feel-good musical that speaks to us all. When titans of publishing raise distribution prices at the newsboys' expense, Jack rallies newsies from across the city to strike against the unfair conditions. This Disney film-turned-Tony-winning-Broadway hit inspires everyone to fight for what is right and to seize the day! Newsies is packed with non-stop thrills and a timeless message that is perfect for the whole family.

Tickets can be purchased for $10 each at www.stchastickets.com.

For more information, contact the Continuing Education Department at 636-922-8233 or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

If the campus must be closed due to inclement weather or some other unforeseen incident, a performance scheduled during the closure will also be canceled. Email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. to exchange your tickets or receive a refund.

St. Charles Community College strives to provide reasonable accommodations to all people at any SCC-sponsored event. Please contact Disability Support Services at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or 636-922-8581 as early as possible to discuss your needs.

St. Charles Community College is a public, comprehensive two-year community college with associate degrees and certificate programs in the arts, business, sciences and career-technical fields. SCC provides workforce training and community-based personal and professional development as well as cultural, recreational and entertainment opportunities. For more information, visit www.stchas.edu.