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Ecuador Mission Trip
Feb 07, 2025
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Feb 07, 2025 - Feb 14, 2025
Lock It for Love – February 7 and 14 The Justice Committee, under the leadership of Nancy Shawver and Darron Story, will again organize the Lock it for Love fundraiser. On February 7 and 14, club members will be asked to donate $7 in honor of someone they love, and those funds will purchase a gun lock. The club foundation will match the amount of funds donated. |
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Feb 07, 2025 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Vocational Service - First Fridays at Zhou B Art Center Join us for First Fridays at Zhou B Art Center (1801 E. 18th Street, Kansas City, MO 64108) on Friday, February 7, 2025, from 5-8 p.m. Rotarians and their guests are invited on a self-guided tour of the new exhibition, Homage to the Hand, an exhibition that delves into the intimate relationship between creators and their materials. A cashless bar (bring a credit card) is available beginning at 5 p.m., and at 5:30 p.m., we will hear brief remarks from Allan Gray, Partner at Zhou B Art Center, and Izzy Vivas, Art Director. |
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Feb 10, 2025
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KC Reparations Coalition & Mayor's Task Force
Feb 14, 2025
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Feb 19, 2025
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UMKC Roo Athletics 2025
Feb 21, 2025
Dr. Brandon E. Martin began his tenure as Kansas City Athletics Director on December 3, 2018. Martin’s leadership has helped change the culture within Kansas City Athletics, as his positive energy, passion and strategic vision have helped elevate the Roos' momentum on-and-off the field. Martin has been a visionary, focused on comprehensive excellence. Since arriving in Kansas City, he has orchestrated the transformational changes below:
May 2020, Chancellor C. Mauli Agrawal selected Dr. Martin as committee chair of UMKC Forward, a campus-wide Covid-19 strategic initiative aimed at re-envisioning UMKC regarding efficiency, growth, innovation and revenue-generation. As chair of the Community Outreach/Auxiliary/Events Committee, Martin assisted in identifying university-wide opportunities for innovation and investment that lead to revenue growth through auxiliary and external services to advance the mission of UMKC. |
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Feb 22, 2025 3:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Kansas City PBS Event Details:
Kansas City PBS is proud to invite the community to its first-ever film festival dedicated to showcasing local Black filmmakers from Kansas City. The Reel Black Film Fest will take place on Saturday, Feb. 22, at 3 p.m., at The Truman in downtown Kansas City.
The film festival will feature Emmy Award-winning filmmakers Nico Giles Wiggins, Jacob Handy and Kerry Rounds and their respective films: Land of Opportunity: The Road of Resistance: Inspired by Richard Rothstein’s ‘The Color of Law,’ this film focuses on Kansas City’s U.S. Highway 71 project and reveals how the city’s urban renewal efforts displaced 10,000 families. The Potato King: A Dynasty Built on Dirt and Dreams: Told from the perspective of local farmer Mike B. Rollen, this film tells the story of potato farmer Junius Groves and his pioneering journey to become one of the wealthiest men of his time. Diamond Jubilee: A 75-Year Celebration of Carter Broadcast: In 1950, Andrew “Skip” Carter began operating KPRS as the nation’s first Black radio station west of the Mississippi River. Seventy-five years later, the Kansas City radio station is still alive and well, celebrating its Diamond Jubilee anniversary.
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Feb 23, 2025 2:00 PM - 3:12 PM
Mapping InequalityPresented By Donna Rae PearsonFederal and state housing policies in the mid-20th century restricted financial resources to African Americans. In the wake of the Great Depression, the government made mortgages available to homeowners to stave off a foreclosure crisis and published color-coded maps identifying the loan worthiness of individual neighborhoods across the U.S. Those areas considered high-risk were shaded in red – referred to as redlining – disproportionately impacting communities of color and impeding Black residents from securing mortgage loans. Decades later, another historically discriminatory movement followed: urban renewal. Historian Donna Rae Pearson makes her second appearance at the Library, this time examining how these two programs propagated residential segregation and changed communities across the nation. She talks about the lingering negative impact of redlining and urban renewal on today’s communities. Pearson is curator at the Kansas State Historical Society. Through her consultation firm Kitchen Table History, she researches, develops, and presents historical scholarship on the Black experience in Kansas. |
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![]() Rotary in Cuba
Mar 07, 2025
Merna Gill Bio and Session Description Merna Gill has a Masters Degree in Education. Teaching HS Vocational Home Economics, then, Personal Finance and lastly a program called "Jobs for Americas Graduates". She still substitute teaches in Tulsa, Ok where she lives and mentors students all over the globe, thanks to Rotary. It was her love for students that inspired her to join Rotary to work with Interactors and Rotaractors but it was speaking to Rotary Clubs about her Cuba travels that opened her eyes to Rotary's many missions. Cuba actually brought Merna to Rotary. She's here today to share how Rotarians are working in Cuba today and the many efforts to re-establish Rotary there. Merna Gill 480-686-6503 |
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Mar 10, 2025
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Mar 19, 2025
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K.C. Municipal Court - Domestic Violence
Mar 21, 2025
Courtney graduated from the University of Nebraska – Lincoln in 2001 with Bachelor of Arts degree. She received her law degree from the University of Kansas in 2004. Immediately following her graduation from law school Courtney accepted a position with the Missouri State Public Defender System. She left the public defender system in 2011 to begin serving as an assistant prosecuting attorney with the City of Kansas City. In January, 2015, Courtney was appointed by the Mayor Sly James and City Council to serve as Kansas City Municipal Court Judge in Division 203, which has primary jurisdiction over all domestic violence cases filed in municipal court. As part of her commitment to offender accountability and victim safety she initiated the compliance docket, a specialized supervised probation docket for high-risk domestic violence offenders. In October, 2017 the U.S. Department of Justice awarded the Kansas City Domestic Violence Docket a mentor court grant. The grant is used to instruct other courts from around the nation regarding best practices for offender accountability and victim safety. Kansas City is the first municipal court in the nation to receive this honor. In June, 2019, the domestic violence compliance docket developed a drug court track. This specialized, supervised docket addresses high risk domestic violence offenders with substance use disorders. The docket is designed to permit domestic violence offenders the therapeutic environment needed to recover from their substance use disorder while simultaneously holding them accountable for their battering behavior. Kansas City operates the second drug court program specifically for domestic violence offenders in the nation. In October, 2021 the U.S. Department of Justice awarded the Kansas City Municipal Court a $1 million grant for two early intervention domestic violence programs. The first is a class required as a condition of bond designed to increase domestic violence awareness with first time offenders. The second is a Relationship and Sexual Violence Prevention (RSVP) docket that provides targeted services for young adult intimate partner violence offenders and their intimate partners. In September, 2022, Courtney was appointed as presiding judge of the Kansas City Municipal Court. Under her term as presiding judge the municipal court debuted it first ever evening and weekend dockets. Courtney is Past President of the board of directors for Sheffield Place and currently serves on their advisory board. She is an ex-officio member the board of directors for the Association for Women Lawyers of Greater Kansas City. She is a member of the Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association. She is a mentor with the Association for Women Lawyers Foundation Denise Henning Connections Program. |
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![]() Improv
Mar 28, 2025
Hilari Holt is a Kansas City, Missouri born and raised actor, comedic performer, as well as the founder and Executive Director/Producer of Black Comedy Fest KC. She specializes in comedic improv performing, and is an instructor & coach. There are many facets to her interests and skills but performing & creating shows & events are at the top of the list. |
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Apr 14, 2025
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Apr 16, 2025
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May 12, 2025
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May 21, 2025
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Jun 09, 2025
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Jun 18, 2025
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Jun 21, 2025 - Jun 25, 2025
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Jun 26, 2025 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM
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Jun 30, 2025
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Jul 16, 2025
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