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X-WR-CALNAME:CalDiscovery - st-louis-mo BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Speaker Series: Poetry with Laureate Justin Hamm DTSTART:20260905T180000Z DTEND:20260905T190000Z DTSTAMP:20260901T061556Z UID:10002788-1788613200-1788616800@mohumanities.org CATEGORIES:literary DESCRIPTION:The Field House Museum is pleased to welcome Missouri Poet Lau reate\, Justin Hamm\, for a special live performance.\nJustin Hamm\, named Poet Laureate in 2025\, will bring his modern verse to the birthplace and boyhood home of the “Children’s Poet\,” Eugene Field. Join us at th e Field House Museum to enjoy an afternoon of poetry honoring the form Eug ene Field held dear.\nThis program is free with limited availability in pe rson and on Zoom. Reservations must be made in advance on our website\, by calling the Museum at 314-421-4689\, or by emailing info@fieldhousemuseum .org. \nAbout the Speaker:\nJustin Hamm is the current Missouri Poet Laure ate (2025-2027). He is the author of five books of poetry—O Death\, Drin king Guinness With the Dead: Poems 2007–2021\, The Inheritance\, America n Ephemeral\, and Lessons in Ruin—as well as the creator of Poet Basebal l Cards and founding editor of the museum of americana. Justin was chosen as a 2024 and 2022 Woody Guthrie Poet\, a 2020 Missouri Arts Council Featu red Artist\, a finalist for the 2018 River Styx International Poetry Prize \, and the winner of the 2014 Stanley Hanks Memorial Poetry Prize.\nHis po ems\, stories\, collages\, and reviews have appeared in Nimrod Internation al Journal\, The Midwest Quarterly\, Sugar House Review\, Verse Daily\, So uthern Indiana Review\, the New Poetry from the Midwest anthology series\, and many other publications. In 2022 he delivered a performance entitled “The American Midwest: a Story in Poems” at TEDx Oshkosh\, and in 2019 his poem “Goodbye\, Sancho Panza” was studied by approximately 50\,00 0 students worldwide as part of the World Scholar’s Cup curriculum. LAST-MODIFIED:20260901T061556Z LOCATION:Field House Museum\, 634 S Broadway\, Saint Louis\, MO\, 63102\, United States URL:https://mohumanities.org/event/speaker-series-poetry-with-laureate-jus tin-hamm/ X-SOURCE-NAME:Missouri Humanities X-SOURCE-URL:https://mohumanities.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Unseen St. Louis DTSTART:20260911T170000Z DTEND:20260911T180000Z DTSTAMP:20260901T061556Z UID:10003629-1789128000-1789131600@mohumanities.org CATEGORIES:community DESCRIPTION:When historians visit the archive\, they often find weird\, su rprising\, and fun material that they rarely get to share with others…bu t that ends here! This event shares the stories of a selection of images a nd objects from various St. Louis archives that reveal an unknown side of St. Louis history. The presentation is fun\, upbeat\, and conversational s panning from the nineteenth century to today\, from newspapers and magazin es to photography and phonograph records. LAST-MODIFIED:20260901T061556Z LOCATION:Jefferson College\, 1000 Viking Drive\, Hillsboro\, 63050 URL:https://mohumanities.org/event/unseen-st-louis-3/ X-SOURCE-NAME:Missouri Humanities X-SOURCE-URL:https://mohumanities.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:National Day of Service and Remembrance DTSTART:20260912T150000Z DTEND:20260912T180000Z DTSTAMP:20260901T181845Z UID:10003642-1789207200-1789218000@mohumanities.org CATEGORIES:community DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, September 12\, join communities across the country as we honor the nearly 3\,000 lives lost on September 11\, 2001\, and pay tribute to the first responders and service members who answered the call in the days that followed. In partnership with the National Cemetery Admin istration\, the National Day of Service and Remembrance brings volunteers together at more than 140 participating national\, grant-funded\, and loca l cemeteries across the country. Volunteers will help clean headstones and beautify these sacred grounds in tribute to our military members\, vetera ns\, first responders\, and their families. Registration is free\, but req uired. LAST-MODIFIED:20260901T181845Z LOCATION:Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery\, 2900 Sheridan Road\, St.Lo uis\, 63125 URL:https://mohumanities.org/event/national-day-of-service-and-remembrance / X-SOURCE-NAME:Missouri Humanities X-SOURCE-URL:https://mohumanities.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:ARCHER ALEXANDER MEMORIAL DTSTART:20260920T180000Z DTEND:20260920T200000Z DTSTAMP:20260901T061556Z UID:10003632-1789909200-1789916400@mohumanities.org CATEGORIES:community DESCRIPTION:In 1876\, Archer Alexander (1806-1880) became America’s embo diment of the word Emancipation. On the only memorial ever erected by the formerly enslaved to President Abraham Lincoln in Washington\, D.C. he sti ll rises on the Emancipation Memorial. Though born in Virginia\, he would become the last fugitive slave captured in Missouri\, a border state under Martial Law during the Civil War. In 1863\, he had overheard the area’s Confederate’s planning an attack on a nearby railroad bridge near the U nion’s Fort Peruque\; and risked his life to report it. He saved hundred s of lives\, supplies\, the payroll and a vital link for the Union Army by so doing. Then he would lead sixteen men on a run for freedom at Howell ’s Ferry on the Underground Railroad. He was granted freedom for his ser vices to the military on September 24\, 1863\, and is the third great- gra ndfather of Muhammad Ali. Yet\, he is buried in an unmarked grave in St. L ouis.\nJoin us as we commemorate his day of Freedom\, on the third Sunday in September\, September 20\, 2026\, at 1:00 pm at the St. Peter’s Unite d Church of Christ Cemetery at 2101 Lucas and Hunt Drive for the annual Me morial Service for Archer Alexander. Both the Howell’s Ferry Crossing an d Archer Alexander’s burial are listed on the National Park Service’s National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom\, which has over 800 list ings across our country\, with fourteen listings here in St. Louis. The pu blic is invited and this is a program for all ages\, please bring lawn cha irs. LAST-MODIFIED:20260901T061556Z LOCATION:St. Peters UCC Cemetery\, 2101 Lucas & Hunt\, St. Louis\, MO\, 21 01 Lucas and Hunt Road\, St. Louis (Normandy)\, 63121 URL:https://mohumanities.org/event/archer-alexander-memorial/ X-SOURCE-NAME:Missouri Humanities X-SOURCE-URL:https://mohumanities.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:The Black Rep Presents: The Color Purple (The Musical) DTSTART:20260923T040000Z DTEND:20261010T063000Z DTSTAMP:20260901T181845Z UID:10003651-1790118000-1791595800@mohumanities.org CATEGORIES:theater DESCRIPTION:The Black Rep kicks off it’s 50th season with The Color Purp le (The Musical) \nJazz\, blues and gospel music carry us through Celie’ s odyssey and all who affect her in this landmark musical based on Alice W alker’s Pulitzer Prize winning novel. Born into a life of brutality in t he 19th century American South\, Celie perseveres as everyone she loves sl ips through her fingers. Daring to survive against the odds\, she discover s the power of her own voice and that love is worth believing. \nPresented with the support of the Whitaker Foundation. LAST-MODIFIED:20260901T181845Z LOCATION:Edison Theatre\, 6465 Forsyth Blvd\, St. Louis\, 63105 URL:https://mohumanities.org/event/the-black-rep-presents-the-color-purple -the-musical/ X-SOURCE-NAME:Missouri Humanities X-SOURCE-URL:https://mohumanities.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Open House: Missouri Humanities & The Museum of Kansas City DTSTART:20260924T213000Z DTEND:20260924T233000Z DTSTAMP:20260903T181718Z UID:10003667-1790267400-1790274600@mohumanities.org CATEGORIES:arts DESCRIPTION:Join us as we celebrate the restoration of the historic Lodge and its exciting new chapter as home to Missouri Humanities! This event is co-hosted by Missouri Humanities and The Museum of Kansas City. \nLight s nacks and drinks will be provided inside the Museum at Café 3218. \nPleas e let us know if you’re coming by Sept. 17 so we can plan for food and d rinks accordingly. RSVPs are appreciated but not required to attend\, and you can register here. \nParking is free and available on Gladstone Blvd. and around the perimeter of the Museum property. An accessible parking ent rance is located at the west gate. LAST-MODIFIED:20260903T181718Z URL:https://mohumanities.org/event/open-house-missouri-humanities-the-muse um-of-kansas-city/ X-SOURCE-NAME:Missouri Humanities X-SOURCE-URL:https://mohumanities.org END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR