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01may8:00 pm03(may 3)6:00 pmEvent CancelledConsuming Kinetics Dance Company Presents Human Disturbance8PM & 2PM | $30The Marcelle, 3310 Samuel Shepard Dr. St. Louis, MO 63103Art Form:DanceBuy Tickets

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Consuming Kinetics Dance Company’s (CKDC) spring 2020 concert, Human Disturbance, is an interrogation of humankind’s impact on Earth. Through the medium of contemporary dance, Human Disturbance explores topics including climate change, material resource consumption, wildlife preservation, and natural disaster. Our choreographers investigate many of the challenges we face on our planet today while also proposing approaches to address these concerns. In Human Disturbance, we acknowledge the duality of humankind’s destructive and creative impact on the planet; we hold loss, chaos, and apocalypse together with abundance, possibility, and regeneration.

Through both the spring concert and through our organizational mission and vision, CKDC hopes to model how every single person has the power to create change, even when it doesn’t seem possible. More importantly, we seek to continue using dance and performance arts as vehicles for community organizing, culture-shifting, and public activism. We believe that not only is dance a catalyst for life in motion, but that dance can cultivate change on a larger scale, impact business practices, and encourage community members of all backgrounds and experiences towards social action.

Join us for an extended Earth Day celebration on May 1st, 2nd and 3rd at The Marcelle. Ticket details will be made available in early spring on our website at www.ckdc.org.

CKDC is proud to be a Kranzberg Arts Foundation Resident Company.

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Consuming Kinetics Dance CompanyConsuming Kinetics Dance Company is a 501c3 non-profit professional dance company and community dance education center in St. Louis, Missouri. CKDC specializes in a diverse blend of adult drop-in classes and runs a comprehensive youth program that educates children ages 3 – 18. CKDC is committed to making dance accessible to everyone by providing scholarship opportunities to youth and adults in need. CKDC’s program welcomes all levels of dancers including beginners, at every age. CKDC’s educational program also supports their mission to create job opportunities for full time artists. CKDC has a full concert season, producing two full-length professional dance concerts and over a dozen performances at community events and fundraisers annually. Learn more at www.ckdc.org.

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1 (Friday) 8:00 pm - 3 (Sunday) 6:00 pm

Location

The Marcelle

3310 Samuel Shepard Dr. St. Louis, MO 63103

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07may7:00 pm8:30 pmEvent CancelledLeft Bank Books presents Michael Kahn, author of "Bad Trust"7pmThe Kranzberg, 501 N Grand Blvd St. Louis, MO 63103Art Form:Literary ArtsRSVP

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Left Bank Books welcomes St. Louis local award-winning author Michael Kahn, who will sign and discuss his newest addition to the Rachel Gold Mystery Series, “Bad Trust.”

Two lawsuits spiral out of control, one ending in murder, the other in courtroom humiliation — both challenging St. Louis attorney Rachel Gold

An ugly trust fund dispute among siblings turns deadly when the trustee brother, Isaiah, CEO of the family firm he stole from their father, is murdered in his office. St. Louis attorney Rachel Gold, hired to bring suit against Isaiah on behalf of his sisters, must now defend one against the charge of fratricide. As Rachel and her team seek essential evidence, the widowed Rachel struggles with family issues of her own, including relationships with her young son Sam and the attractive Abe her mother pushes her to do more than date. The jury is still out on whether or not Rachel can create the work-life balance she is seeking. Meanwhile what starts out as a lawsuit filed to cover up a minor fraud by a rich social climber spirals into a courtroom showdown when the victim refuses to be one and hires Rachel to defend him. With few strategic options, Rachel concocts a spectacular courtroom bluff.

Bad Trust, the 11th book in the fascinating Attorney Rachel Gold Mysteries, is the perfect pick for fans of Lisa Scottoline and Sara Paretsky.

Michael Kahn is a trial lawyer by day and an author at night. He wrote his first novel, Grave Designs, on a challenge from his wife Margi, who got tired of listening to the same answer whenever she asked him about a book he was reading. “Not bad,” he would say, “but I could write a better book than that.” “Then write one,” she finally said, “or please shut up.” So he shut up-no easy task for an attorney-and then he wrote one.

Kahn is the award-winning author of: 11 Rachel Gold novels; three standalone novels: “Played!,” “The Sirena Quest,” and — under the pen name Michael Baron — “The Mourning Sexton,” and several short stories. In addition to his day job as a trial lawyer, he is an adjunct professor of law at Washington University in St. Louis, where he teaches a class on censorship and free expression. Married to his high school sweetheart, he is the father of five and the grandfather of, so far, seven.

Time

(Thursday) 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

Location

The Kranzberg

501 N Grand Blvd St. Louis, MO 63103

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08may7:30 pm10:00 pmEvent CancelledNashville Live in Grand Center presents Royal South7:30 PMThe Kranzberg, 501 N Grand Blvd St. Louis, MO 63103Art Form:MusicTICKETS

11may7:00 pm10:00 pmEvent Cancelled14th annual UMSL Storytelling Mini-Festival7PMHigh Low, 3301 Washington Ave, St. Louis, MO 63103Art Form:Literary ArtsMore Info

15may10:00 pm1:00 amEvent CancelledSophie's Hang Suite10pmSophie's Artist Lounge, 3224 Locust Street, St. Louis, MO 63103Art Form:MusicRSVP

16may1:00 pm5:00 pmEvent Cancelled9th Annual Lupulin Carnival1 PMThe Big Top, 3401 Washington Blvd, St. Louis, MO 63103Art Form:OtherBuy Tickets

22may10:00 pm1:00 amEvent CancelledSophie's Hang Suite10pmSophie's Artist Lounge, 3224 Locust Street, St. Louis, MO 63103Art Form:MusicRSVP

24may5:00 pm7:00 pmEvent CancelledQueer Soup NightHigh Low, 3301 Washington Ave, St. Louis, MO 63103Art Form:Culinary ArtsMORE INFO

26may7:00 pm9:00 pmEvent CancelledLeft Bank Books presents Kathy Valentine in conversation with Steve Ewing7pmThe Grandel, 3610 Grandel Sq., St. Louis, MO 63103Art Form:Literary Arts,MusicTICKETS

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Left Bank Books presents musician, songwriter, and author Kathy Valentine, who will sign and discuss her book All I Ever Wanted, a memoir of her time as bass player with the all-female band the Go-Go’s. Kathy will be in conversation Steve Ewing, former lead singer for the Urge.

At twenty-one, Kathy Valentine was at the Whisky in Los Angeles when she met a guitarist from a fledgling band called the Go-Go’s–and the band needed a bassist. The Go-Go’s became the first multi-platinum-selling, all-female band to play instruments themselves, write their own songs, and have a number one album. Their debut, Beauty and the Beat, spent six weeks at the top of the Billboard 200 and featured the hit songs “We Got the Beat” and “Our Lips Are Sealed.” The record’s success brought the pressures of a relentless workload and schedule culminating in a wild, hazy, substance-fueled tour that took the band from the club circuit to arenas, where fans, promoters, and crew were more than ready to keep the party going.

For Valentine, the band’s success was the fulfillment of a lifelong dream–but it’s only part of her story. All I Ever Wanted traces the path that took her from her childhood in Texas–where she all but raised herself–to the height of rock n’ roll stardom, devastation after the collapse of the band that had come to define her, and the quest to regain her sense of self after its end. Valentine also speaks candidly about the lasting effects of parental betrayal, abortion, rape, and her struggles with drugs and alcohol–and the music that saved her every step of the way. Populated with vivid portraits of Valentine’s interactions during the 1980s with musicians and actors from the Police and Rod Stewart to John Belushi and Rob Lowe, All I Ever Wanted is a deeply personal reflection on a life spent in music.

Kathy Valentine is a working musician and songwriter known for being part of the all-female band the Go-Go’s. She wrote or cowrote many of the band’s most renowned songs, including “Vacation” and “Head Over Heels.” In addition to playing music and writing songs, Valentine has worked as an actor, public speaker and spokesperson, and producer. In 2017 she created “She Factory,” an event series to raise money for women-centered nonprofits. She currently lives in her hometown of Austin with her daughter, where she plays in a band and is completing her first college degree.

Time

(Tuesday) 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Location

The Grandel

3610 Grandel Sq., St. Louis, MO 63103

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29may10:00 pm1:00 amEvent CancelledSophie's Hang Suite10pmSophie's Artist Lounge, 3224 Locust Street, St. Louis, MO 63103Art Form:MusicRSVP

31may11:00 am1:00 pmEvent CancelledThe Okeee Dokee Brothers11amThe Kranzberg, 501 N Grand Blvd St. Louis, MO 63103Art Form:MusicTICKETS

Tickets/Box Office

All advance tickets for productions taking place at a Kranzberg Arts Foundation venue can be purchased via any MetroTix outlet, or online at www.metrotix.com. Walk-up sales are available at The Fabulous Fox Theatre Box Office (531 North Grand Blvd., open 10 am – 6 pm, Monday through Friday and 10 am – 2 pm, Saturday). An inbound call center (1-800-293-5949) for events info and ticket sales is also in service daily from 9 am – 9 pm.

MetroTix operates a robust mobile and tablet web platform, and patrons will have the option of mail, print your own, or will-call delivery of tickets. Pending availability, tickets can also be purchased on-site when doors open, which is one hour before every production.