Community Calendar for March 18-26

MARCH 18
Kansas City Mayor Mark Funkhouser will hold a town hall meeting with area college students at 5 p.m. at Massman Hall Gallery at Rockhurst University, 1100 Rockhurst Road. The hour-long meeting will feature a 15-minute introductory address and then 45 minutes of questions and answers from the audience. For more information, visit www.kcmo.org.

Improvisational comedy troupe Tantrum will present “Talking Out of Turn” at 7 p.m. at the Plaza Branch of the Kansas City Public Library, 4801 Main St.
Taking suggestions, Tantrum does impromptu skits that generate a succession of spontaneous scenes aimed at making the audience laugh. This is the second of three installments of the “Talking Out of Turn” performances. For more information or to R.S.V.P., call 701-3407 or visit www.kclibrary.org.

MARCH 25
Authors Dovile Budryte, Lisa M. Vaughn and Natalya Riegg will talk about their book “Feminist Conversations: Women, Trauma and Empowerment in Post-Transitional Societies” at 6:30 p.m. at the Plaza Branch of the Kansas City Public Library, 4801 Main St.
Budryte is an associate professor of political science at Georgia Gwinnett College, Vaughn is an associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Cincinnati, and Riegg is a professor of political science and global studies at the University of St. Mary. Feminist Conversations draws on gender studies, psychology and political science to gain insight into the following questions: Do post-transitional societies become more women-friendly as they become more democratic? Which strategies of empowerment can women use to obtain political voice and improve their everyday lives? How do they cope with traumatic experiences and memories?
For more information or to R.S.V.P., call 701-3407 or visit www.kclibrary.org.

The Kansas City Public Library’s Waldo Branch, 201 E. 75th St., hosts story readying for children age 1 and 2 to 5. The Stories for One program starts at 9:30 a.m. and Preschool Story Time is at 10:30 a.m. For more information, call 701-3486 or visit www.kclibrary.org.

Composer, multimedia artist and writer Paul Miller will speak at 7 p.m. in Vanderslice Hall on the Kansas City Art Institute campus, 4415 Warwick Blvd.
Miller is known under the moniker of his constructed persona as D.J. Spooky That Subliminal Kid. Miller has recorded and collaborated with a variety of musicians and composers including Killa Priest, Thurston Moore, Yoko Ono, Steve Reich and Kool Keith. Miller’s work as a media artist appeared in contexts such as the Whitney Biennial; The Venice Biennale for Architecture; the Ludwig Museum in Cologne, Germany; and The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh.
For more information, call 802-3423.

Graphologist Arlyn Imberman looks at one of America’s great writers with “Quoth the Quill: A Handwriting Analysis of Edgar Allen Poe” at 6:30 p.m. at the Kansas City Public Library’s Central Library, 14 W. 10th St.
This year serves as the bicentennial of Poe’s birth and his contributions to American literature. His lesser-known work “Chapter on Autography” is an early classic that contains as much literary gossip as handwriting analysis. For more information or to R.S.V.P., call 701-3407 or visit www.kclibrary.org.

MARCH 26
The AARP Tax Assistance program will provide free tax preparation and assistance services to low- and middle-income taxpayers with special attention to those 60 and older from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at the Kansas City Public Library’s Waldo Branch, 201 E. 75th St. Volunteer tax preparers will assist people on a first-come, first-served basis. For more information, call 701-3486 or visit www.kclibrary.org.

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