Upcoming events

Part flesh, part felt and packed with heart, AVENUE Q is a laugh-out-loud musical telling the timeless story of a bright-eyed college grad named Princeton. When he arrives in the city with big dreams and a tiny bank account, he has to move into a shabby apartment all the way out on AVENUE Q. Still, the neighbors seem nice. There, he meets Kate (the girl next door), Lucy (the slut), Rod (the Republican), Trekkie (the internet entrepreneur), superintendent Gary Coleman (yes, that Gary Coleman) and other new friends! Together, they struggle to find jobs, dates, and their ever-elusive purpose in life.

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

http://www.playhouseatwestport.com

Stephen Bellamy is a wunderkind press secretary who has built a career that men twice his age would envy. During a tight presidential primary race, Stephen's meteoric rise falls prey to the backroom politics of more seasoned operatives. FARRAGUT NORTH is a timely story about the lust for power and the costs one will endure to achieve it.

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

http://stlas.org/play/farragut-north/

midwest sunday punk night at your favorite coffee & beer spot

Complainer. (Ann Arbor)

a little ska, a little punk, a little folk, a lot good! not the complainer from stl!

Farseek (Columbus)

ohio punk gonna have you yelling at your parents on the phone

^those two just put out a split^

https://complainermi.bandcamp.com/album/farseek-x-complainer-split

locals tba i'm working on it sorry

be good be nice bring $5 for the touring bands please!

8:30 start time and I mean it

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

https://www.facebook.com/events/334551557162939/

St. Charles Community College will host “Urban,” a multimedia invitation art exhibit featuring eight professional artists from the St. Louis region who use the theme of the urban landscape in their artwork. Participating artists include John DenHouter, Amber Ellison, Ken Konchel, William Lobdell, Don McKenna, JB Nearsy, Bryan Robertson and Justin Tolentino. 

The exhibit will run from Monday, Feb. 4, through Saturday, March 9 in the Donald D. Shook Fine Arts Building gallery. Gallery hours are 8 a.m.-8 p.m. Monday through Thursday, 8 a.m.-4 p.m. Friday, and 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday.

A free reception is open to the public and will take place from 6-8 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 6.

For more information contact Brian D. Smith at 636-922-8575 or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. 

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.

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

https://www.stchas.edu/about-scc/map

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

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

Left Bank Books welcomes Missouri author Eliot Sappingfield for an after-school signing and discussion of his new middle grade novel, "The Unspeakable Unknown"!

This event is free and open to the public, but proof of purchase of "The Unspeakable Unknown" or "A Problematic Paradox" from Left Bank Books will be required to enter the signing line.

Guardians of the Galaxy meets The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy in this wild, warm-hearted, and hilarious sci-fi companion to "A Problematic Paradox." Nikola Kross has battled aliens and won. But her father, who was kidnapped by evil extraterrestrials, is still missing, and now it’s up to Nikola and her friends to find and rescue him before it’s too late. He could be anywhere in the known universe, and they have little to go on except a desperate secret communication and an unhelpful clue that he’s in a secure facility somewhere deep underground. But the extraterrestrials are still determined to capture Nikola. And if she gets abducted, she won’t have to wonder where her father is…because she’ll already be there.

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

https://www.left-bank.com/event/eliot-sappingfield

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/

This class series provides an introduction to Zen Meditation. It is open to people of all faiths. The classes include a presentation of the history of Zen and basic principles of zazen meditation, and discussion of how to practice Zen in daily life - while at work and at leisure - that is, how to find inner peace anytime, anywhere.

Each class includes zazen meditation, beginning with 10 minutes during the first class, and working up to 30 minutes by the end of the series. You will also learn how to do walking meditation. The classes are taught by Rev. Daigaku Rumme, a Zen priest in the Soto tradition. He is the resident priest and teacher of the Confluence Zen Center STL.

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

http://www.confluencezen.org

Left Bank Books welcomes award-winning investigative journalist Kyle Swenson, who will sign and discuss his new book, "Good Kids, Bad City: A Story of Race and Wrongful Conviction in America"!

This event is free and open to the public, but proof of purchase of "Good Kids, Bad City" from Left Bank Books will be required to enter the signing line.

After 39 years – at the age of 60 – Wiley Bridgeman walked out of Cuyahoga County Justice Center in Cleveland, OH, arm-in-arm with his brother Kwame Bridgeman. After a cumulative 106 years serving time for a crime they didn’t commit, the Bridgeman brothers and their best friend, Rickey Jackson, were suddenly free men after their murder conviction was thrown out based on the key witness—after decades—confessing to false testimony. In "Good Kids, Bad City," Kyle Swenson tells their stunning story, a story of a Midwestern city’s struggle against larger forces of deindustrialization and corruption, and a story of race in America against a flawed justice system.

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

https://www.left-bank.com/event/kyle-swenson

Part flesh, part felt and packed with heart, AVENUE Q is a laugh-out-loud musical telling the timeless story of a bright-eyed college grad named Princeton. When he arrives in the city with big dreams and a tiny bank account, he has to move into a shabby apartment all the way out on AVENUE Q. Still, the neighbors seem nice. There, he meets Kate (the girl next door), Lucy (the slut), Rod (the Republican), Trekkie (the internet entrepreneur), superintendent Gary Coleman (yes, that Gary Coleman) and other new friends! Together, they struggle to find jobs, dates, and their ever-elusive purpose in life.

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

http://www.playhouseatwestport.com

a night of solo acts + duo sets (-: 

chill time w curt!!

curt oren: self expressive weirdo jazz pop fusion ????

https://curtoren.bandcamp.com

matt sullentrup: first show !!! come show this bby some luv !! 

motherbear: u kno the deal, bring tissues + hug ur friends

https://kwur.bandcamp.com/album/motherbear-stack-session

kleb: new yangers online time to see them in the flesh 

https://kleb.bandcamp.com

ALL AGES//8PM//$5//RESPECT THE SPACE AND EACH OTHER

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

https://www.facebook.com/events/1021239258083912/

St. Charles Community College will host “Urban,” a multimedia invitation art exhibit featuring eight professional artists from the St. Louis region who use the theme of the urban landscape in their artwork. Participating artists include John DenHouter, Amber Ellison, Ken Konchel, William Lobdell, Don McKenna, JB Nearsy, Bryan Robertson and Justin Tolentino. 

The exhibit will run from Monday, Feb. 4, through Saturday, March 9 in the Donald D. Shook Fine Arts Building gallery. Gallery hours are 8 a.m.-8 p.m. Monday through Thursday, 8 a.m.-4 p.m. Friday, and 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday.

A free reception is open to the public and will take place from 6-8 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 6.

For more information contact Brian D. Smith at 636-922-8575 or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. 

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.

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

https://www.stchas.edu/about-scc/map

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