Upcoming events

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

The third year of the acclaimed Haunted Garage Horror Festival is upon us, and we're excited to crown the scariest storytellers! We promise to thrill and excite with film submissions from all around the globe, presentations by horror experts, and the opportunity to meet and connect with other passionate artists. Same love as last year–but a little bit BIGGER. The Haunted Garage Horror Festival is home to the Haunted Piston Awards. Last year, our haunted pistons were pulled from fatal car wrecks, cleaned, polished, and gold-dipped. These haunted objects were bestowed to the very best of the festival. This year, we have a surprise in store from our chief fabricator. Slaughter, slasher, torture, suspense, thriller, creature feature, ghost, and possession are welcome! All selected films will be screened at the Hi-Pointe Theatre's gorgeous, historical location. After the film, we invite each filmmaker in attendance to join the Master of Scaremonies on stage for Q&A with the audience.
Our festival kicks-off with a classic car Trunk or Treat, we'll host DEAD TALKS with Horror Experts in the field, several vendors, Freddy Vs. live band, and more! Visit www.hauntedgaragehorrorfest.com for the full itinerary!

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

The history of zines is one that is rich and diverse, it represents a practice that is accessible and carries the potential for broad impact. In Printed with Purpose Gallery 210@FAB presents zines and artists’ books that explore a vast array of topics and functions. This exhibition provides an opportunity for UMSL’s and the broader St. Louis communities to gain insight as to how artists are using these formats and processes towards works of expression, provocation, and dissemination. In the spirit of multiples and high production, Printed with Purpose will also showcase Risograph Art and offer a workshop to our students demonstrating how the Risograph serves as a powerful tool for contemporary printing and art making. 

Printed with Purpose was curated by Lauren Cardenás, Assistant Professor of Printmaking at Louisiana State University.

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

https://www.umsl.edu/divisions/artscience/art/gallery210/index.html

Live Music by The RetroNerds - 80's Dance Party & Rockin' Rod

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

https://cli.re/47317-the-retronerds-80s-dance-party--rockin-rod

Karlovsky & Company Dance present, InTRANSIT: A Community Performance of Site-Specific Dance and Live music

Karlovsky & Company Dance opens their 11th season with InTRANSIT, a walk, bike, drive-by traveling performance of site-specific dance and live music in the Grand Center Arts District.  Karlovsky & Company Dance collaborates with 20+ community dancers and 6 musicians to offer roaming spectators an opportunity to experience these collaborative performances taking place at unique outdoor locations. InTRANSIT is a free public performance and will coordinate with First Fridays in the Grand Center Arts District.  
 
5:30pm - Start at any of these locations:

•    Tree Grove/The Pulitzer: (along Spring St.) 3687 Olive St, St. Louis, MO 63108
•    Park-Like/The Pulitzer Arts Foundation: 3713 Washington Blvd. 63108
•    Spring Church: (old stone church) 620 N Spring Ave, St. Louis, MO 63108
•    The Sheldon: 3(plaza) 648 Washington Ave, St. Louis, MO 63108

6:00 - 6:20pm - Full ensemble performance at Grand Center Arts Plaza (corner of Grand and Grandel Sq.). Audiences are guided in groups as a tour to the performance sites taking place at multiple outdoor locations. There will be 4-rounds of 4-minute performances at each location with a break in between for audiences to travel to the different locations. All artists arrive together at the Grand Center Arts Plaza for a culminating full ensemble performance.

InTRANSIT is a free public performance and family friendly!
 
Director: Dawn Karlovsky, Founder and Director, Karlovsky & Company Dance
Performers: Dancers of Karlovsky & Company Dance and community dancers
Musicians: Lance Garger, Kalo Hoyle, Rick Kramer, Harvey Lockhart, Tory Starbuck, Sky Kingsland

Support for these events is made possible by the Missouri Arts Council – a state agency, Grand Center, Inc., The Regional Arts Commission, Employees Community Fund of Boeing- St. Louis, and by private donors.

ABOUT KARLOVSKY & COMPANY DANCE
KARLOVSKY & COMPANY DANCE (St. Louis, Missouri) is a contemporary modern dance company dedicated to nurturing and extending the art of dance with innovative choreography that illuminates the human experience. The company engages audiences through dance-theater concert performances, dance for the camera, site-specific dance, and somatic/educational programs for older adults and children. Karlovsky & Company Dance is in residence at the Grandel Theatre with support by the Kranzberg Art Foundation. www.karlovskydance.org

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

On Friday, October 6th, Left Bank Books presents Lori Rader-Day, Edgar Award-nominated and Anthony, Agatha, and Mary Higgins Clark Award-winning author of "Death at Greenway," "The Lucky One," "Under a Dark Sky," "The Day I Died," "Little Pretty Things" and "The Black Hour." Rader-Day returns to St. Louis to celebrate her newest thriller: "Death of Us." Rader-Day will be in conversation with big fan and Left Bank Books event coordinator Shane Mullen. Rader-Day will personalize and sign copies after the presentation!

**About the Book**
One rainy night fifteen years ago, a knock at the door changed Liss Kehoe's life forever. On that night, Ashley Hay stood on Liss's front porch and handed over her brand-new baby Callan.
She was never seen or heard from again. Since then, Liss has raised Callan as her own, and loves him as fiercely as any mother would. But in the back of her mind, she's always wondered whether Ashley is still out there somewhere--and feared what might happen if she comes back.
When Ashley does reappear, it's not in the way Liss expected. After all these years, Ashley's car has been found... in the quarry pond on Kehoe property. But the discovery of the car dredges up more questions than answers. What really happened on the night of Ashley's disappearance? Was it a tragic accident, or something far more sinister? Someone in town knows the truth, and they'll go to great lengths to keep it quiet. As tensions rise in the small community, Liss must fight to protect her family and keep her own secrets hidden--or risk losing everything she loves.

**About the Author**
Lori Rader-Day is the Edgar Award-nominated and Anthony, Agatha, and Mary Higgins Clark Award-winning author of Death at Greenway, The Lucky One, Under a Dark Sky, The Day I Died, Little Pretty Things, and The Black Hour. She lives in Chicago, where she is cochair of the mystery readers' conference Midwest Mystery Conference and teaches creative writing at Northwestern University. She served as the national president of Sisters in Crime in 2020.

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

https://www.left-bank.com/event/lori-rader-day-death-us

Battle Spirits Saga TCG Is Here!!

This is a Weekly Recurring Event. Runs from May 5, 2023 to Oct 18, 2024 and happens every:

Fridays: 6:00pm - 9:00pm CDT

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/37390-battle-spirits-saga-tcg-tournament

Digimon TCG - 3 Rounds - PRIZES!!

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

Enjoy the eclectic tastes of Hwy 61 Roadhouse and sounds of Slight Return.

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

The celebrated virtuoso partnership of “the doyenne of Irish harpers” (SCOTLAND ON SUNDAY) and “one of the UK’s most staggering and influential acoustic guitarists” (fROOTS), has graced venues large and small – from the tiniest of historic churches in England, Germany and Italy to palaces in Kyoto and Istanbul, London’s Barbican, Sydney Town Hall and the Philharmonie in Cologne – in twenty-two countries on five continents. Chris and Máire’s performances are rooted but eclectic, emotional but adventurous: a breathtaking blend of traditional Irish music, hot jazz, bluegrass and baroque, coupled with striking new compositions and Chris’s“delightfully subversive” wit. Máire is one of Ireland’s most important and influential traditional musicians and 2001 recipient of Irish music’s most prestigious award, that of TRADITIONAL MUSICIAN OF THE YEAR – GRADAM CHEOIL TG4 – “for the excellence and pioneering force of her music, the remarkable growth she has brought to the music of the harp and for the positive influence she has had on the young generation of harpers”. She began to play the harp at the age of eleven. A West Cork background steeped in the oral tradition led her, while still a teenager, to develop new techniques that made it possible for the first time to play traditional music on the harp in a stylistically accurate way. She won the All-Ireland and Pan-Celtic Harp Competitions several times and in 1985 recorded the first harp album ever to concentrate on traditional Irish dance music, The New-Strung Harp – “an intensely passionate and intelligent record and a milestone in Irish harp music” – THE IRISH EXAMINER. Her approach has been profoundly influential wherever lever harps are played – “a single-handed reinvention of the harp”.

Maire performs and gives masterclasses at harp festivals throughout the world. Two volumes of her arrangements have been published: The Irish Harper Vols. I and II. She contributed two articles about the Irish harp and modes in Irish music to the Companion to Irish Traditional Music (Cork University Press) and is profiled there, in Celtic Women in Music (Quarry Books, Canada) and in the Rough Guide to Irish Music. “Her work restores the harp to its true voice” – THE IRISH TIMES

Chris is a “brilliant English master of the acoustic guitar” (THE DAILY TELEGRAPH), a “dazzling player” (ACOUSTIC GUITAR, USA) whose work is “nothing short of brilliant” (DIRTY LINEN, USA). He began to play guitar at the age of four and at fourteen played his first paid gig in a folk club. A prolific composer,arranger and record producer, he’s played with luminaries of many musical worlds: folk (harper Máire Ní Chathasaigh and Boys of the Lough), jazz (Stéphane Grappelli and Diz Disley) and comedy (Fred Wedlock) – receiving a silver disc for producing Fred’s international hit Oldest Swinger in Town, to which he also composed the tune and which reached No 2 in the charts in the UK and No 1 in several other countries. As Fred’s Musical Director and bandleader, appearances on such iconic national TV programmes as BBC’s Top of the Pops followed. One day in 1985 he decided he’d really rather play interesting music than pursue interesting paychecks, so turned his back on the commercial world and returned to his folk roots. He has since concentrated on composition and on playing the traditional music of these islands and beyond. In addition to his work with Máire, Chris toured until 1997 as a member of Boys of the Lough in North America, Sweden,Finland, Norway, Estonia, Denmark, China and Italy. He has been principal guitar tutor for Newcastle University’s Folk B.Mus course since its inception and visiting tutor at the University of Limerick, the University of Ulster and the Carl Nielson Institute, Denmark. His book of guitar compositions and arrangements Adventures with a Flatpick was published in 2001.

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

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Every Friday night is LIVE Irish music at Pat Connollys in Dogtown. Bring your instrument and/or voice and come join the fun. Open to all ages!

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

http://www.patconnollytavern.com

Trivia fun to help the babies. Doors open at 6:15 pm. Play starts at 7:00 pm. Beer, soda, water provided. Feel free to bring your own food and drinks. Costumes and spooky table decorations encouraged. $25 per person or $175 for table of 8. For tickets or questions contact Kate Steele 314-544-3433 ext. 317 or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. Online tickets at https://nfnf.ejoinme.org/spookytrivia

Join Adam Pascal, from the original Broadway cast of RENT, for an intimate evening of songs and stories, just him and his guitar.

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/49681-adam-pascal

The Chicago Sessions Tour - Rodney Crowell at The Pageant with special guest Laurel Lewis. Reserved tickets start at $45.00. All Ages.

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

https://www.thepageant.com/event/rodney-crowell-100623/

(Americana Music)

Guitarist & Vocalist from The Mighty Pines playing bluegrass and Americana music.

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

https://www.thefriscostl.com/live-music-schedule

Featuring Rachel Maxann, Grace Givertz, Nicky Diamonds, Tylar Bryant and Sug Daniels. Country music has been a part of Black culture since its inception. The Black Opry Revue explores the sounds and intersections that weave together country, blues, folk and Americana music, and showcases the diversity in the sound and stories that Black artists bring to these genres. The Sheldon invites audiences to discover, support and enjoy the artists that make magic in The Black Opry, which is a home for Black artists and fans of these treasured styles of music.

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

https://www.thesheldon.org/events/the-black-opry-revue/

ComedySportz is an outrageously funny Improv like you've seen on Whose Line Is It Anyway, played like a sport. It’s the perfect Combo of funny and Sports creating an explosion of laughter and competition on stage.

Please check for showtimes. Comedy for everyone and always a blast!!!

Tickets are available!!
Price: Adults $14 / Seniors, children & students $12
https://www.cszstlouis.com/tickets

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

When Ed and his three adult sons come together to celebrate Christmas, they enjoy cheerful trash-talking, pranks, and takeout Chinese. Then they confront a problem that even being a happy family can’t solve: When identity matters, and privilege is problematic, what is the value of being a straight white man? From playwright Young Jean Lee in March 2013, “As an experiment, I wrote a straight white male character who did all of the things I’ve heard people say they wished straight white men would do: acknowledge your privilege, shut up and listen, don’t take up too much room, don’t think you know everything, put yourself in others’ shoes. The result: NOBODY liked him.”

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

https://www.metrotix.com/events/detail/slu-theatre-straight-white-men

Youth, ages 5-9, with their grown up, are invited to join us for drop-in story time and fun, hands-on activities. Join us this week to delve into some amazing books and explore our creativity through art.

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

https://cli.re/45916-convergence-creative-play--storytime

Green Door Art Gallery is pleased to partner with Bobby Lessentine, Financial Advisor, Edward Jones, in presenting The City Beautiful, St. Louis Views 2007-2023, a collection of paintings by Michael Anderson inspired by the parks and architecture of St. Louis. Many of the sixteen works on display were painted on location on outings with Missouri Plein Air Painters Association, a local group of artists dedicated to painting outdoors year-round.
Location: Edward Jones Office of Bobby Lessentine, CFP 3141 South Grand, St. Louis
Exhibit Hours: Monday-Friday 8:30 am – 5:00 pm
Please call before visiting: 314-772-5304

Join us for the opening reception of The City Beautiful, St. Louis Views 2007-2023, a collection of paintings by Michael Anderson inspired by the parks and architecture of St. Louis on Wednesday October 11, 2023 5:00 – 7:00 pm. Enjoy refreshments and meet the artist while you view the exhibit.

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