The Lawrence Arts Center will lead a two-year project to create an art installation about the La Yarda community in eastern Lawrence. The art installation, "Finding La Yarda," will be an “immersive art experience” that will recreate a room from La Yarda using film, sound, art and ...
The Lawrence Art Center’s student-led curatorial board will host an art-based block party Saturday. The free event, SNAP OUT!, is described as an “immersive, multi-dimensional community art block party.” The event will feature performances from local artists and musicians, as well as ...
John Waters says the COVID-19 pandemic has been terrifying, but also boring, and he’d rather make it terrifying and funny. Waters will bring his one-man show — described as a fast-moving, comic monologue about his career, movies, fashion, crime and the urge to startle — to Lawrence as ...
Those who want to see what this year’s Sundance Film Festival has to offer need look no further than downtown Lawrence. Liberty Hall, 644 Massachusetts St., was selected as one of seven independently owned art house cinemas across the U.S. to be a satellite screening partner for the 2022 ...
As part of programming for the ongoing "Ghosts of Segregation" exhibit at the Lawrence Arts Center, bestselling author Clint Smith will be in Lawrence to talk about his book “How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America.” Smith is a poet, scholar and a ...
A community Día de los Muertos celebration will include Mexican folkloric dancing, stories, food and an ofrenda where attendees can offer a remembrance of their deceased loved ones. The University of Kansas Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies will host the free event Monday from ...