Sunday, Jan. 29 is the state's 151st birthday. Museums in the area will have special programs to celeberate, along with other activities and events you can enjoy that, while not part of the celebration, are certainly Kansas themed.
SATURDAY
Wichita Children's Theatre, Goldilocks and the Three Bears, 11:30 a.m. The classic tale comes to life as Goldilocks stumbles into the home of the three bears. But then the bears come home! 201 S. Lulu, 316-262-2282.
Kauffman Muesum, Newton, KS, 15th-annual Celebrate Kansas Day!, this year marking Kansas’ 151st birthday, is from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. Jan. 28, with the museum and all special activities and exhibits free and open to the public. At 2:45 p.m., Hesston musician Ken Rodgers, a member of the Hesston College music faculty, will lead a “Home on the Range Sing-Along” with the museum’s 262-year-old Teschemacher-Deknatel-van der Smissen organ, which is a Kansas cultural resource and treasure in itself. At 3:45 p.m., is Paul Friesen of Hesston, former Bethel art faculty and emeritus member of the Hesston College art faculty, who will give a pottery demonstration using Kansas clay and talking about where in Kansas clay can be found. Many hands-on activities and demonstrations will be offered throughout the day. 2701 N. Main, Newton.
Tornado Alley is showing at the Kansas Cosmosphere, 1100 N. Plum, Hutchinson. Join storm chasers as they take you through the birth of a tornado and right into the heart of the storm. Traversing the “severe weather capital of the world,” VORTEX2 Tornado Alley documents two unprecedented missions seeking to encounter one of Earth’s most awe-inspiring events—the birth of a tornado. Filmmaker Sean Casey’s personal quest to capture the birth of a tornado with a 70mm camera takes viewers on a breathtaking journey into the heart of the storm.Show times are 2, 4 and 6 p.m. Saturday and 2 & 4 p.m. Sunday.
Wichita Symphony Orchestra Popular Classics Concert with Time for Three, 8 p.m. Century II Concert Hall, 225 W. Douglas. Time for Three, a classically trained, genre-bending string trio, will uniquely blend symphonic music with bluegrass, jazz, fusion, country swing and just about every other style imaginable. Time for Three will perform all their signature works, including Travels in Time for Three, a work co-commissioned by the Wichita Symphony Orchestra from Chris Brubeck to showcase this amazing group.
SUNDAY
Celebrate Kansas Day at the Wichita/Sedgwick County Historical Museum, 204 S. Main. At 1 p.m., the traveling exhibit “Our Lives, Our Stories: America’s Greatest Generation” opens to the public; 2 p.m., Kansas Day program by Jay Price, director of public history at Wichita State University. Be sure to take in “100 Years of American Furniture 1860-1960” while you're at the Museum. This exhibit coincides with Wichita's first century and is reflected through the furniture designed and produced.
Wichita Symphony Orchestra Popular Classics Concert with Time for Three, 3 p.m. Century II Concert Hall, 225 W. Douglas. Time for Three, a classically trained, genre-bending string trio, will uniquely blend symphonic music with bluegrass, jazz, fusion, country swing and just about every other style imaginable. Time for Three will perform all their signature works, including Travels in Time for Three, a work co-commissioned by the Wichita Symphony Orchestra from Chris Brubeck to showcase this amazing group.
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