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May - September May 19 - August 5
Kansas City Northern Railroad Open for Season Mayor’s Nights/Club KC Events
(Weekends and Holidays)
May 20
May - October Celebrating Urban Birds at Lakeside Nature Center
KC Organics and Natural Market in Minor Park Open for Orange Fountain for National Orange Popsicle Week at
Season (Saturdays) J.C. Nichols Fountain
May 1 May 26 - 27
Melanoma Monday at J.C. Nichols Fountain Illuminated Waters in Theis Park

May 5
Chillida: Rhythm-Time-Silence

Exhibition Opening in Theis Park

May 11
Free Swim Lesson News Conference at Gregg/Klice
Community Center
May 5 - 13
KC Plein Air Festival in Penn Valley Park
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art and KC Parks opened a joint temporary
May 6 exhibition, Chillida: Rhythm-Time-Silence on May 5. The free exhibition
1st Saturday at Shoal Creek Living History Museum in featured seven large-scale sculptures by internationally esteemed Spanish
Hodge Park sculptor, Eduardo Chillida (1924-2002). Four sculptures were on view
in Theis Park and three on display in the Donald J. Hall through early
The Derby Party, Kansas City Museum December. James B. Nutter was the presenting sponsor of the installation.
Reading in the Roses, Laura Conyers Smith Rose Garden May 27 - September 4
in Loose Park
Major Pools & Spraygrounds Open for Season
May 13
Dig Day (Citywide) May 27
Downtown Open Urban Golf Tournament in Washington Memorial Day Service at Union Cemetery
Square Park May 27 - 29
KC Train Day Celebration at Kansas City Northern Railroad Memorial Day Activities at National World War I Museum
and Memorial
May 18, 25 and June 1, 8, 15 & 22
Thimble Thursday Concerts in Garment Park
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