Riverfront Events
Philip Miller Scholarship Reading & Open Mic
Zoom Kansas City, MO, United StatesAnnual Philip Miller Scholarship Reading and Open Mic
Riverfront Special: Feeling the Gap
The Writers Place | The Nonprofit Village 31 W. 31st Street, Kansas City, MO, United StatesFeeling the Gap Through poetry, fiction, and music, artists Gena Bardwell, Angela Hagenbach, and Phyllis Becker feel their ancestral history and fill in the gaps between yesterday, today, and tomorrow. Gena Bardwell is a Kansas City native, New York actor, writer, professor, and chair of the Department of Speech and Communication at Touro University, NY. Her latest play, Just Before Sunrise, was written and produced for NYC New Perspectives Theater 2022 Short Lab Series. She wrote Irene Stories, a collection of early 20th century remembrances from her centenarian Aunt. She has written and performed numerous monologues for theater companies in New York and historical dramatizations for the Juneteenth Jubilee Heritage Festivals in Weston, MO. Angela Hagenbach is the founder of the Black Ancestors Awareness Campaign, a Trustee of the Weston Historical Museum, and a fifth-generation descendant of Weston, Missouri’s historically Black forebears. She authors Resilience in the Face of Adversity, a column in the quarterly Museum Musings newsletter for the Weston Historical Museum. Jazz recording artist and two-term Cultural Jazz Ambassador for the USA, Hagenbach is a historical fiction novelist and student of ancestral research. Phyllis Becker is the coordinator of the Riverfront Reading series in KC. She has a book, How I Came to Love Jazz and Other Poems (2008, Helicon Nine Editions). Her poems have also been set to jazz on the compact disc Poetry of Love produced by jazz vocalist, Angela Hagenbach. Her latest book, Proof of Existence, is forthcoming from Scapegoat Press. Phyllis is also a senior fellow with the Full Frame Initiative and a consultant in juvenile justice reform. Also featuring special guest artist classical vocalist Cassie Leon.
Riverfront Readings features Denise Low, Xánath Caraza, & Gloria Vando
Zoom Kansas City, MO, United StatesPlease join us for our December 8th Zoom reading featuring Denise Low, Xánath Caraza, and Gloria Vando.
Riverfront Readings with Diane Silver, Sarah Worrel, and Anthony Procopio Ross
The Writers Place | The Nonprofit Village 31 W. 31st Street, Kansas City, MO, United StatesPlease join us for our March 8th reading featuring Diane Silver, Sarah Worrel, and Anthony Procopio Ross.
Riverfront Readings features Patricia Jabbeh Wesley, Victoria Garton, and Jermaine Thompson
Zoom Kansas City, MO, United StatesPlease join us for our April 12th Zoom reading featuring Patricia Jabbeh Wesley, Victoria Garton and Jermaine Thompson.
Riverfront Readings features the Collaborators and the Diversifiers
The Writers Place | The Nonprofit Village 31 W. 31st Street, Kansas City, MO, United StatesThe reading will feature poetry by members of the Collaborators and the Diversifiers, with a special tribute to Collaborator and Diversifier Eve Ott, who recently passed away.
Riverfront Readings featuring Maril Crabtree and Richard Newman
The Writers Place | The Nonprofit Village 31 W. 31st Street, Kansas City, MO, United StatesPlease join us for our June 14th reading featuring Maria Crabtree and Richard Newman.
Phyllis Becker Book Release Celebration at the Kansas City Museum
Kansas City Museum 3218 Gladstone Blvd, Kansas City, MO, United StatesPhyllis Becker book release celebration at the Kansas City Museum.
Riverfront Readings with Brian Daldorph and Boyd Bauman
The Writers Place | The Nonprofit Village 31 W. 31st Street, Kansas City, MO, United StatesRiverfront Readings features Brian Daldorph and Boyd Bauman.
Riverfront Readings Autumn Open Mic: A Phil Miller Scholarship Reading
The Writers Place | The Nonprofit Village 31 W. 31st Street, Kansas City, MO, United StatesThemes: anything autumnal, or the poetry of Phil Miller. All funds from this event are donated to benefit students of Kansas City Kansas Community College.
Glenn North and José Faus
Nerman Museum, Hudson Auditorium 12345 College Boulevard, Overland Park, KS, United StatesRiverfront Readings, The Johnson County Community College Student Literary Magazine, Mind’s Eye & the Black Student Union co-host a reading featuring Glenn North and José Faus.
Riverfront Readings with Jason Ryberg, Amber Fraley, Jesse Kates
The Writers Place | The Nonprofit Village 31 W. 31st Street, Kansas City, MO, United StatesPlease join us for our December 13th reading featuring Jason Ryberg, Amber Fraley, and Jesse Kates.