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Weekly Highlights in Kansas

Every featured event of the week, past and present

Queertauqua at West Wyandotte
Weekly Highlight Oct 12–19, 2026

Queertauqua at West Wyandotte

Queertauqua brings "A Series of Unmentionable Acts," a camp-infused queer history theater piece, to the West Wyandotte Library in Kansas City, Kansas, on October 15, 2026.

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Trunk-or-Treat at Schlagle Library
Weekly Highlight Oct 12–19, 2026

Trunk-or-Treat at Schlagle Library

The Mr. & Mrs. F. L. Schlagle Library in Wyandotte County Lake Park hosts a free, costume-friendly Trunk-or-Treat in its parking lot on Saturday, October 17, 2026, from 2 to 4 p.m.

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Día de los Muertos Lights Up
Weekly Highlight Oct 12–19, 2026

Día de los Muertos Lights Up

Emporia Main Street and H.O.T.T. turn the 600 and 700 blocks of Commercial Street into a glowing after-dark Día de los Muertos festival on Saturday, Oct. 17, 2026.

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Bedazzled at West Wyandotte Library
Weekly Highlight Oct 12–19, 2026

Bedazzled at West Wyandotte Library

The Kansas City, Kansas Public Library's Mad for the Movies series screens Stanley Donen's 1967 Faust comedy 'Bedazzled' free on Wednesday, October 14, 2026, at the West Wyandotte Library.

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National Fossil Day at KU's Dyche
Weekly Highlight Oct 12–19, 2026

National Fossil Day at KU's Dyche

The KU Natural History Museum in Dyche Hall opens its Fossil Hall on October 14, 2026 for a free, self-guided National Fossil Day hunt for saber-toothed cats, giant ground sloths and more.

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The Force at the Library
Weekly Highlight Oct 5–12, 2026

The Force at the Library

A free, all-ages Star Wars trivia night lands in the Lawrence Public Library auditorium, a room built for exactly this kind of gathering.

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Phillis Wheatley's Lost Years
Weekly Highlight Oct 5–12, 2026

Phillis Wheatley's Lost Years

A new documentary screening at KU's Watson Library recovers the marriage and final years of America's first published Black poet, built on archival discoveries that rewrote her story.

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Free Period Kits on the Beach
Weekly Highlight Oct 5–12, 2026

Free Period Kits on the Beach

A student-led project that put free menstrual products in KU bathrooms is now handing out emergency kits on Wescoe Beach.

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Sixteen Years of Chasing the Big
Weekly Highlight Sep 28 – Oct 5, 2026

Sixteen Years of Chasing the Big

Pittsburg State's Midwest Trumpet Festival returns with a Grammy-winning jazz trumpeter and Kansas City's long-running Brazilian jazz ensemble, both playing free concerts.

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Thirty Years in Lester Raymer's
Weekly Highlight Sep 28 – Oct 5, 2026

Thirty Years in Lester Raymer's

For nearly three decades, an Iowa painter, illustrator, and actor has come back to the Red Barn Studio Museum to wander a small Swedish-American town, sketch what he sees, and turn it into paintings — and visitors are welcome to watch.

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Open Gates, Open Barns
Weekly Highlight Sep 28 – Oct 5, 2026

Open Gates, Open Barns

For 22 years, the Kaw Valley Farm Tour has turned northeast Kansas farmland into a self-guided weekend road trip — and this year it spans 32 farms and four heritage sites.

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The Last Splash Goes to the Dogs
Weekly Highlight Sep 7–13, 2026

The Last Splash Goes to the Dogs

For one golden hour each September, the Leawood Aquatic Center closes its summer season by handing the pool over to the city's most enthusiastic swimmers — its dogs.

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Kansas flag
Weekly Highlight Sep 7–13, 2026

Six Decades of Summer Shade: The

From a Hallmark artist's wish to 130 juried booths, Lawrence's beloved September art fair has been a Lawrence tradition since 1964.

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From Slur to Celebration
Weekly Highlight Aug 31 – Sep 6, 2026

From Slur to Celebration

As Pittsburg marks its sesquicentennial, a four-day Labor Day weekend revives the region's once-scorned 'Little Balkans' identity with storytelling, quilts, bingo, and a cookbook born of immigrant kitchens.

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Raising a Glass to Those Who
Weekly Highlight Aug 31 – Sep 6, 2026

Raising a Glass to Those Who

The Lawrence Restaurant Association's annual cocktail crawl pours $1 from every drink into a relief fund that has supported more than 700 hospitality workers since the pandemic.

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A Sea of Gold: How an Oil Crisis
Weekly Highlight Aug 31 – Sep 6, 2026

A Sea of Gold: How an Oil Crisis

Every late summer, thousands of visitors from around the world descend on a working family farm in rural Leavenworth County to stand among acres of towering sunflowers—a phenomenon that began with an OPEC embargo and a grandfather's biofuel dream.

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Under the Elms: FidPick Celebrates 45 Years of Fiddles, Banjos and Community in Lawrence
Weekly Highlight Aug 24–30, 2026

Under the Elms: FidPick Celebrates 45 Years of Fiddles, Banjos and Community in Lawrence

The Kansas State Fiddling and Picking Championships returns to South Park on August 23, 2026, with Grammy winner Dom Flemons headlining a free afternoon of competitions, jam circles and the enduring spirit of traditional acoustic music.

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Under the Elms: FidPick Celebrates
Weekly Highlight Aug 24–30, 2026

Under the Elms: FidPick Celebrates

The Kansas State Fiddling and Picking Championships returns to South Park on August 23, 2026, with Grammy winner Dom Flemons headlining a free afternoon of competitions, jam circles and the enduring spirit of traditional acoustic music.

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