ALICE: DREAMING OF WONDERLAND
Family Series Event
Be ready to experience an amazing journey in the crazy world of Wonderland! Based on Alice's adventure "Dreaming of Wonderland" is an action packed and exciting theatrical circus show full of surprise and amazing acts, enhanced with video projection, 3D mapping and live music.
NASHVILLE LEGACY: THE MUSIC OF FLOYD CRAMER & CHET ATKINS
Music Series Event
Pianist Jason Coleman and guitarist Meagan Taylor take audiences on a journey back in time to Nashville’s “golden era,” sharing the music made famous by Jason’s grandfather, piano legend Floyd Cramer, and Meagan’s uncle, guitar virtuoso Chet Atkins, as well as by the countless country, pop, and rock artists whose careers they impacted.
Smithsonian Crossroads: Change in Rural America Exhibit
“Crossroads: Change in Rural America,” offers small towns a chance to look at their own paths to highlight the changes that affected their fortunes over the past century. The exhibition will prompt discussions about what happened when America’s rural population became a minority of the country’s population and the ripple effects that occurred. The exhibit covers themes such as: Identity, Land, Community, Persistence and Managing Change with photographs, hands-on activities, and audio and video clips provided by the Smithsonian in the “Crossroads” exhibition to tell the history and culture of local rural life in Kansas and spark conversations about our state’s future.
A local companion exhibit will be housed in the Mary L. Martin Art Gallery. “Allen County: From Trails to Rails to Highway and Back,” will take you on a journey with a fictitious family who found their way into the South East Kansas territory in 1856. The historical fiction is told by way of the diary writings of Jerimiah Wilson and his subsequent children in the later years. Working with the local newspaper and the writings of local historian, Larry Manes, this diary will be printed in the format of a special newspaper section in the proceeding weeks of the exhibit opening, along with extra prints to be available at the exhibition. The exhibition layout will be in the chronological order of the diary. Certain passages highlighted in the printing will be displayed on the walls with surrounding supportive photographs, articles, and artifacts. The diary writings take patrons through the many crossroads experienced throughout Allen County’s history and will invite the viewing patron to imagine what will be the next chapter for the Wilson family as the next generations come to their crossroads.