This new, all-synthetic turf baseball field at The J is capable of hosting one regulation baseball game or up to three youth games simultaneously.
It will be Opening Day at The J on Tuesday, April 17, when the Jewish Community Center of Greater Kansas City (The J) officially opens its new expanded baseball field.
Artist Matthew Krawcheck wears a slide projector on his head like a hat. Instead of a 35mm slide, his machine projects images that he painted on transparent film. The handle with the ball (upper left) is used to wind the film through the projector.
The photo here of artist Matthew Krawcheck may look like someone from another world, but this is how he creates his art. He’s wearing a kinetic (motion) projector he created in order to enable him to project images onto walls, ceilings and screens that he painted on transparent film.
This is one of the works of art by Gloria Baker Feinstein that will be on display at SevenDays First Fridays event Friday, April 13, at BicMedia.
From April 10-16, acts of kindness and interfaith dialogue will be in the spotlight during the fourth annual SevenDays Make a Ripple, Change the World.
Yvette Manessis Corporon
Author and Emmy Award winner Yvette Manessis Corporon always enjoys coming to Kansas City and staying with relatives in Johnson County. That will be the case when she arrives next week as a featured speaker in association with the SevenDays® 2018 event series happening April 10-16.
Kansas City’s 2018 Jewish Film Festival (KCJFF) will feature eight diverse films from Israel and around the globe. Now in its 18th year, The Festival is presented by the Arts & Culture Department of the Jewish Community Center of Greater Kansas City (The J). The Festival opens Saturday evening, April 28, and continues through Saturday, May 12. All the films will be screened in The Lewis and Shirley White Theatre at the Jewish Community Campus.
As Passover draws to a close, we remember that 66 years ago, in 1952, six local Jewish GIs gathered in Seoul, Korea, to take part in a Passover service in celebration of the festival of freedom. The six men got together at the Jewish Community Campus for a new photo in March of 2012, which was published in the April 5, 2012, edition of the Chronicle. All told, they believe 800 Jewish soldiers were driven to the service in Seoul. Only a service was held, they were not served a Passover meal. Sadly, two of these six men have passed away since the 2012 photo was taken — Abe Levine in 2015 and Jack Hirsekorn in 2017. In both photos, 1952 at top and 2012 below it, the men are shown in this order: Back row: Abe Levine, Stan Silverman, Bob Hoffman and Jack Hirsekorn. Seated in front are Marvin Denton and Mel Cosner.
Tom Dugan as Simon Wiesenthal in ‘Wiesenthal,’ which will be presented at the White Theatre April 11, April 12 and April 14.
The one-man play “Wiesenthal,” written by and starring Tom Dugan, is scheduled for three performances April 11, 12 and 14 at the White Theatre at the Jewish Community Center (The J).
