Upcoming events

You better watch out. You better not cry—because Santa Claus is cruising to town! This holiday season, treat the whole family to a magical morning with the man in red. Leave your PJs on and leave the cooking to us as we prepare a kid-approved breakfast. After breakfast, families will enjoy fun games, crafting activities and plenty of photo ops with Santa.

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https://tickets.gatewayarch.com/webstore/shop/viewItems.aspx?cg=cat&c=PPRBC

Green Door Art Gallery presents Finding Flow: Immersed in the Act of Creating featuring acrylic paintings by Angela Fromme, Gary Lang and Luciana Sabatino, mixed media paintings by Elena Rybak and silver and stone jewelry by Joe Bova Conti. The artwork and jewelry will be on display and available for sale November 1 – December 30, 2023. Join us for the opening reception on Friday November 3, 2023, 5:00 - 8:00 pm.

Green Door Art Gallery’s 36 resident artists will also be exhibiting and selling artwork including fused glass, mosaics, watercolor, oil and acrylic paintings, collage, mixed media, wood, pottery, textile art, jewelry and more. Green Door Art Gallery is located at 21 N. Gore in Old Webster Groves. Hours: Wednesday thru Sunday 10:00 am to 5:00 pm. www.greendoorartgallery.com (314) 202-4071

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

What would you do with 8x8x8 feet of gallery space? This was the question posed to artists for the Foundry Art Centre’s 8x8x8 Winter Exhibition. Regional artists and art collectives will take over the Main Galleries and uniquely utilize their designated sections. All media is represented, from traditional painting to sculpture.

Participating artists are Beth Burns, Samantha Clarke, Jim Drescher, Foundry Studio Artists, Maggie Jackman, Carolyn Lewis, Dee Levang & Lisa Hinrichs, Emily Lucas, Barbara Marshall, Erica Popp, Shannon Roman, Ren Schwent, Leslie Song, Darlene Spell, Katherine Alexander, Ahmed Eldarrat, Emily Elhoffer, Annabelle Fogerty, and Erin Alice. As a cash & carry exhibition, this is the perfect opportunity to support local artists and shop for the holidays!

For more information, please visit us at www.foundryartcentre.org or email Jessica Mannisi, Director of Art & Exhibitions, at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

The Benton Park Philo Cafe is an open, civil conversation about ideas that matter to us, facilitated by an academic philosopher, Dr. Dave Hilditch. As a facilitator, Dave works hard at ensuring all viewpoints are welcome and treated with respect. Topics are picked from suggestions from the group at the start of the meeting. Every first Thursday of the month. 1:30pm-3:30pm. Discussion begins at 2pm and continues until 3:30.

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

https://www.facebook.com/groups/thebentonparkphilocafe

Join the Sam Fox School at Washington University in St. Louis December 7 for a free public lecture from artist, designer, and animator Kelli Anderson. Known for reinventing commonplace objects in ways that disrupt audience expectations, artist, designer, and animator Anderson is the creator of — among other projects — “This Book is a Camera” (2015), a pop-up book that transforms into a working camera, and “This Book is a Planetarium” (2017), which explores how paper taps into larger phenomena of light, time, sound and mathematics.

Free parking available in the East End Garage beginning at 5:00 p.m. Enter the garage from Forsyth Boulevard or Forest Park Parkway. Lecture will be in Steinberg Hall.

This lecture is the Henry L. and Natalie E. Freund Visiting Artist Lecture, part of the Public Lecture Series hosted by the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis.

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

https://samfoxschool.wustl.edu/pls

Eternal Jungle, an exhibition by artist Jasmine Raskas, is an immersive installation including sculpture, painting, light, sound, and touch. The goal of this installation is to explore sentience and question our relationship to non-animal forms of life (both real and imagined). In seeking to understand the point at which objects and systems are labeled as intelligent, conscious, or alive, we can together explore our ability to feel empathy and connectedness toward our environment. This exhibit investigates feelings of awe, wonder, and ethereal delight. Strange yet familiar, it is an embrace of play and an experience of otherworldly desires.

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

https://www.cocastl.org/calendar/eternal-jungle/

In the early years of his young adult life C. S. Lewis believed the story of Christ’s birth was nothing more than feel-good myth. That all changed after a particular encounter with his great friend and fellow author, J R R Tolkien. Although both men loved mythology in general, Tolkien was convinced that the Jesus myth was the one true myth. That was the start of Lewis’ journey from Atheism to Christianity. From that point on, Christmas, for Lewis, took on an entirely different meaning. Here we find him at his home near Oxford on Christmas Eve hosting a group of Americans who are Christmassing in England. They are about to experience an unforgettable assortment of Yuletide recollections which stimulates a whole range of emotions – curiosity, laughter, gladness and even some tears. Above all, they will discover how that encounter with Tolkien forever changed his Christmas celebrations. To learn more, visit https://www.aneveningwithcslewis.com

Gregory Williams Welsch trained in New York and has trod the boards in the guise of some of the greatest roles ever created for the stage and he has been entertaining audiences for years with the authenticity of his performances. Welsch has graced both the small and big screen as well, of course, but it is in the amphitheatre of live performances where he truly shines.

Turn the Dial to Holiday!

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

https://cli.re/51491-its-a-wonderful-life-a-live-radio-play

Twenty-four years ago, Rose 'Dawson' miraculously survived the sinking of the Titanic. But her lover, Jack Dawson, did not, and she is not over it. Despite her grief, she's pursuing her dream of becoming an Academy Award-nominated actress. In this production, Rose pitches the idea of turning her story into a work of theatre, or even a motion picture, to an audience of potential producers and investors. She shifts seamlessly from past and present, often without warning, and artistically, and maybe somewhat insanely, blurs the distinction between reality and imagination. Join us for the maiden voyage of your life and never let go!

Playing at The Kranzberg Blackbox, 501 N Grand Blvd, St. Louis, MO 63103. Thursdays-Saturdays 7 p.m.
Dec 7-16, 2023 ($25)

Tickets: www.metrotix.com 

PRODUCTION TEAM
Playwrights: Will Bonfiglio and Lucy Cashion
Starring: Rachel Tibbetts
With Appearances by: Will Bonfiglio
Director: Lucy Cashion
Stage Manager and Dramaturg: Miranda Jagels-Felix 
Production Manager / Technical Director: Jimmy Bernatowicz
Costume & Props Designers: Morgan Fisher & Bess Moynihan
Lighting Designer: Denisse Chavez
Sound Technician: Joey Taylor
House Manager/Patron Services/Marketing: Spencer Lawton
Graphic Designer: Ryan Wiechmann
Select Opening Performances: Paul Cereghnino

With public support from the Missouri Arts Council, a state agency.

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

http://eratheatre.org

Join us as this STL-based female indie electro-pop duo, with their interesting vocal harmonies powered by catchy hip hop beats and fun synth patches, takes the stage @HaydensIrishPub. They will feature acoustic covers of rock, pop and electronic music, as well as some of their originals.

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

David Giuntoli invites you to "A Swinging' Holiday Soirée" at Blue Strawberry.

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

https://cli.re/53025-david-giuntoli

Modeled after pub quizzes in Ireland and the U.K., Geeks Who Drink is an authentic homegrown trivia quiz. It’s a great way to drink with friends, without burning brain cells. And it’s where useless knowledge means everything. Our quizzes cover everything from Hungary to The Hunger Games, from science to sports, from the Billboard Hot 100 to Better Call Saul. Each quiz consists of seven rounds of eight questions each, in a variety of formats, including audio and visual rounds. Teams can be up to six players, so bring your smartest friends (or some likable dummies)—or come solo. We can always help you join a team! No reservations needed, just show up! Winning teams get bar cash and other prizes, depending on the venue. Bonus questions sprinkled throughout the quiz will net you additional goodies. But mostly it’s about establishing your dominance—or at least pleasantly surprising yourself. You’re into that, right?

This event runs from Oct 5, 2023 to Dec 28, 2023 and happens every:
Thursdays: 8:00pm - 10:00pm

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

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GET STUMPED every First Thursday with 45 trivia questions from a variety of categories, designed to astound, gobsmack, flummox, baffle, bamboozle, and vex! If you answer just one question correctly, you've done the impossible. If they're all too hard, ya can't say you weren't warned by the very name of the event itself! That said, I have never agreed with a single person I've ever heard say the words "I'm not good at trivia." We begin sometime between 8:30PM and 9:00PM, and we play three games. Show up late to catch the second or third game, or leave after the first or second game if you have an earlier bedtime or somethin' else to do! Prizes will be awarded for each game as well as a grand prize for highest score of the entire night. (It's mostly drinks. This is a bar, after all.) Team size is limited to SIX per team, and admission is FREE. (But buy some drinks. This is a bar, after all.)

I'll also typically do my best to ensure that there's free, fresh popcorn available on-site in basically whatever amount you could wish for. Bring Your Own Bowl or Cup! Show What Ya Know, And Learn What Ya Don't! Every First Thursday at the #1 bar of downtown Saint Louis: The Crack Fox. It's IMPOSSIBLE TRIVIA.

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

GET STUMPED every First Thursday with 45 trivia questions from a variety of categories, designed to astound, gob smack, flummox, baffle, bamboozle, and vex! If you answer just one question correctly, you've done the impossible. If they're all too hard, ya can't say you weren't warned by the very name of the event itself! That said, I have never agreed with a single person I've ever heard say the words "I'm not good at trivia" We all have our niche! We begin around 8:45PM, so arrival by 8:30PM is recommended. We play three games. Show up late to catch the second or third game, or leave after the first or second game if you have an earlier bedtime or somethin' else to do! Prizes will be awarded for each game as well as a grand prize for highest score of the entire night. (It's mostly drinks. This is a bar, after all.) Team size is limited to SIX per team, and admission is FREE. (But buy some drinks. This is a bar, after all.)

I'll also typically do my best to ensure that there's free, fresh popcorn available on-site in basically whatever amount you could wish for. BRING YOUR OWN Bowl or Cup! Show What Ya Know, And Learn What Ya Don't! Every First Thursday at Saint Louis's premiere boutique trivia event, in the #1 bar of downtown: The Crack Fox. It's IMPOSSIBLE TRIVIA.

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

You better watch out. You better not cry—because Santa Claus is cruising to town! This holiday season, treat the whole family to a magical morning with the man in red. Leave your PJs on and leave the cooking to us as we prepare a kid-approved breakfast. After breakfast, families will enjoy fun games, crafting activities and plenty of photo ops with Santa.

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

https://tickets.gatewayarch.com/webstore/shop/viewItems.aspx?cg=cat&c=PPRBC

Green Door Art Gallery presents Finding Flow: Immersed in the Act of Creating featuring acrylic paintings by Angela Fromme, Gary Lang and Luciana Sabatino, mixed media paintings by Elena Rybak and silver and stone jewelry by Joe Bova Conti. The artwork and jewelry will be on display and available for sale November 1 – December 30, 2023. Join us for the opening reception on Friday November 3, 2023, 5:00 - 8:00 pm.

Green Door Art Gallery’s 36 resident artists will also be exhibiting and selling artwork including fused glass, mosaics, watercolor, oil and acrylic paintings, collage, mixed media, wood, pottery, textile art, jewelry and more. Green Door Art Gallery is located at 21 N. Gore in Old Webster Groves. Hours: Wednesday thru Sunday 10:00 am to 5:00 pm. www.greendoorartgallery.com (314) 202-4071

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

What would you do with 8x8x8 feet of gallery space? This was the question posed to artists for the Foundry Art Centre’s 8x8x8 Winter Exhibition. Regional artists and art collectives will take over the Main Galleries and uniquely utilize their designated sections. All media is represented, from traditional painting to sculpture.

Participating artists are Beth Burns, Samantha Clarke, Jim Drescher, Foundry Studio Artists, Maggie Jackman, Carolyn Lewis, Dee Levang & Lisa Hinrichs, Emily Lucas, Barbara Marshall, Erica Popp, Shannon Roman, Ren Schwent, Leslie Song, Darlene Spell, Katherine Alexander, Ahmed Eldarrat, Emily Elhoffer, Annabelle Fogerty, and Erin Alice. As a cash & carry exhibition, this is the perfect opportunity to support local artists and shop for the holidays!

For more information, please visit us at www.foundryartcentre.org or email Jessica Mannisi, Director of Art & Exhibitions, at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

The Soulard Art Gallery presents the artwork of the Jacoby Arts Center's resident artists along with small works by local St. Louis artists. The Jacoby Arts Center resident artists represent some of the best Alton Illinois regional artists. Their mediums include painting, photography, sculpture, print making, stained glass and more. The local St. Louis small works (8" x 10" and under) are of varying styles and subject and are sure to bring a smile to your face. The exhibit is free and open to the public and runs from December 8 2023 till January 5 2024. The Soulard Art Gallery voted as best gallery in the St. Louis Magazine A list 2021 thru 2023 as well as voted best gallery in the Riverfront Times in 2023 is a co-op art gallery located in Historic Soulard. With artwork by 13 resident artists, we offer a diverse collection of works, including painting, drawing, ceramics, sculpture, photography, and jewelry. The gallery also hosts a group exhibitions in the main gallery every month for artists to submit their work for display.
Gallery hours are Thursdays 4-8 pm, Fridays and Saturdays 12-8 pm and Sundays 1-5 pm.

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

http://www.soulardartgallery.com

On Friday, December 8th the Missouri Department of Conservation is hosting Mammals of Missouri. Mammals are marvelous warm and fuzzy critters, but what makes them unique from other animals? This is your chance to find out. Be sure and register for Mammals of Missouri being held on Friday, December 8th from 3pm to 4pm Virtually at https://mdc.mo.gov

Free Open Play! This event runs from Feb 10, 2023 to Dec 29, 2023 and happens every:

Fridays: 3:00pm - 10:00pm

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

https://cli.re/32409-magic-the-gathering-commander-weekly