Wednesday Evenings through Aug. 8
Whitaker Music Festival
Nationally known, homegrown musicians and singers will perform
at the Missouri Botanical Garden’s Whitaker Music Festival.
Now in its 13th season, the popular music festival is funded
by the Whitaker Foundation, which supports St. Louis arts and
parks to promote common heritage, celebrate diversity and encourage
vitality within the community.
The festival is the only time that picnicking is allowed on
the Garden grounds. Pack a cooler or picnic basket or buy sandwiches,
snacks and beverages on site. Pets and barbecue grills are not
allowed.
If it rains, check the Garden’s Web site at www.mobot.org
or tune in to radio station WSIE, 88.7 FM, for cancellation
information.
Schedule:
July 4 — The Flying Mules (Missouri folk, bluegrass and
more)
July 11 — Wil Maring (acoustic country-rock)
July 18 — Baker-McClaren Band (roadhouse rock and blues)
July 25 — Melissa Neels (blues-rock singer-guitarist)
Aug. 1 — Peter Mayer (singer-songwriter)
Aug. 8 — Gumbohead (Louisiana zydeco funk)
FREE
Music starts at 7:30 p.m.
Cohen Amphitheater, Missouri Botanical Garden,
4344 Shaw Blvd.
www.mobot.org
Wednesday, July 25
How to plan a Successful Construction Project:
Perspectives for Project Owners
Presented by Jefferson Wells and Stinson Morrison Hecker LLP
Learn and understand how to protect your investment and prevent
mistakes that cost you time and money with simple upfront planning.
This presentation and panel discussion is designed for project
owners and project directors with budget responsibilities on
any construction project. Facilitator: Brad Hornburg, CEO, Landmark
Contract Management Inc.
Panel Members: Leonard Ruzicka, Attorney at Law, Stinson Morrison
Hecker LLP; Dale Helle, Construction Audit Manager, Jefferson
Wells and Marty Thomas, Project Manager, Pinnacle Entertainment
7:30 to 9:30 a.m.
Missouri Athletic Club - West
Free event. Register online at: www.cvent.com (click RSVP for
an event) and enter event code: 7BNYGUXMER2. Or contact Trish
Hull at trish.hull@jeffersonwells.com or (314) 659-4013. (R.S.V.P.
by July 20)
Continuing through August 5
KATIE HOLTEN: PATHS OF DESIRE AND SHOOT
THE FAMILY
-KATIE HOLTEN: PATHS OF DESIRE
The Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis presents Irish artist
Katie Holten in her first solo museum exhibition in the U.S.
Paths of Desire is Holten’s largest and most ambitious
exhibition to date, featuring a large-scale sculptural installation
and drawings that explore global ecology and the importance
of advocacy at a time of environmental crisis.
-SHOOT THE FAMILY
The Contemporary is also proud to welcome Shoot the Family,
a traveling exhibition of photography and video works by 15
international artists. Shoot the Family explores the
artists’ portrayals of their own families: photography and video
works of relatives and partners.
Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis
www.contemporarystl.org
Continuing through August 19
“Andreas Feininger’s New York”
Former LIFE Magazine Photographer’s Work is an exhibition
of eight large black and white prints that form a compelling
portrait of the city and its environs in the late 1940s.
Gallery 321
The Saint Louis Art Museum
www.slam.org
Continuing Friday Night Concert Series
Through August 31
Jungle Boogie
Kick up your heels or sit back and relax with free live music.
All ages can enjoy rock, rhythm-and-blues, zydeco, disco, Motown
and more on the outdoor stage in Central Plaza outside Lakeside
Café at the St. Louis Zoo. 5 to 7 p.m.
FREE
Jungle Boogie is sponsored by Build-A-Bear Workshop® At The
Zoo and supported by Soft Rock 102.5 KEZK. For more information,
call (314) 781-0900 or visit www.stlzoo.org
Thursday, July 12
St. Louis IT Coalition Emerging Technology
Forum
Driving Business Results: Technology In Action
The IT Coalition of Innovate St. Louis presents the second event
in its Emerging Technology Forum series. Executives from local
companies will present case studies showing how emerging technologies
have impacted business results. A Q&A session will be led by
a diverse panel of leaders from the St. Louis IT Coalition,
business/entrepreneurial organizations and academic institutions.
7 to 9 a.m. (7 a.m. Registration & Continental Breakfast, 7:30
a.m. Presentation)
One CityPlace Auditorium, (Lower Level) Olive Street
Road between Craig and New Ballas Road Free Admission/Registration
Required:
- Online: www.itcoalitionstl.org
- Email: register@itcoalitionstl.org
- By Phone: (314) 432-8200 x4027
Sponsored by: St. Louis IT Coalition, RCGA, and Daugherty Business
Solutions www.itcoalitionstl.org
July 20 through January 5
Water
The Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts’ new. exhibition
will engage the prevalence of water in the Pulitzer’s building
by addressing the range of responses that water has elicited
from modern and contemporary artists. Artwork by Max Beckmann,
Robert Gober, Roni Horn, Roy Lichtenstein, Richard Long, Henri
Matisse, Claes Oldenburg, Cy Twombly, and others will be exhibited
in relation to the building’s prominent watercourt and the space
itself, which was conceived as a fluid substance directed by
walls.
www.pulitzerarts.org
Tuesday through Thursday, July 24-26
“Project Management Simulation”
Brought to you by the Center for the Application of Information
Technology (CAIT) at Washington University in St. Louis, offers
three days at $1,515 (reduced fees available for CAIT member
organizations) 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.
CAIT, 5 North Jackson, Clayton
For info and to register, contact CAIT Training Services at (314)
935-4444 or training@cait.wustl.edu
Tuesday, July 31
RCGA Breakfast with the Gazelles
7:15 to 9 a.m. (Program begins at 8 a.m.)
Presenter: Cynthia J. Brinkley, President, AT&T Missouri
Breakfast with Gazelles programs are offered throughout the
year for all members. Outstanding St. Louis-area entrepreneurs,
“The Gazelles,” share the secrets of how they successfully turned
their ideas and hard work into growth and profits.
$20 for RCGA members, $35 for non-members
Includes continental breakfast and validated parking in Metropolitan
Square garage.
RCGA Regional Collaboration Center, One Metropolitan
Square, Ste. 1200
Sponsored by KWMU-FM
Saturday, August 11, 18, 25 and September
1
Grand Outdoor/Summer Film Series.
Audiences will gather on the grassy lot to the east of Bruno
David Art Gallery, 3721 Washington Ave. to watch the cult
comedy films:
Aug. 11 — “The Goonies”
Aug. 18 — “Ghostbusters”
Aug. 25 — “Young Frankenstein”
Sept. 1 — “Pee Wee’s Big Adventure”
Starts at 8 p.m. with live music. The films begin at 9 p.m.
Enjoy food and beverage concession.
Grand Center is collaborating with Cinema St. Louis to bring
these films to the district. For additional information on Grand
Center’s Arts Initiative, call (314) 289-1591.
August 30
4th Annual Kwame Foundation Golf Tournament
Norman K. Probstein Golf Course
Forest Park
kwame.golfreg.com
