The Lawrence Juice Vol 2 - Iss 23

Vol. 2 • Iss. 23 • May 11-25, 2022

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Sihka Ann Destroy poses with her daughter Willow and son Wylder Photos courtesy of Sihka Ann Destroy

Busker Festival Showcases Area Talent

By Dave Sloan - Lawrence Juice

the country. “The wanderlust was strong and I never wanted to stop living life on The Lawrence Busker Festival fire.” always dreamt of running away with is taking place this year from Friday, May the“Icircus and living a life of art,” she 27 through Monday May 30. Things get continued. “My desire to be always started around 2 o’clock on Friday in the immersed in art led me to exploring many afternoon with music and continues with different forms of art from my busking acrobatic and juggling and dancing acts poetry days, early circus antics with fire, into Monday night. as well as prior crafty explorations like when I ran my own clothing line when I Sometimes you just have to find a way was in high school.” to let your talent out. You learn and you After years of training and traveling practice. You just know you have and eventually finding her niche, Sihka something to offer the world. You want decided to start a circus school here in people to see what you can do, to hear Lawrence. The Last Carnival Acrobats your message, or just to enjoy the Troupe is composed of Sihka, her two moment with you. children Willow and Wylder and other Perhaps there is no proper venue for local performers. your act, especially if you are an acrobat, “I love getting to make my living with or a juggler, or if you have an animal act my kids by my side and feel lucky to have … any number of things. But man, you had the community support to grow this gotta show people what you can do. So, business,” Sihka explained. “Being a you take it to the street. When people stop small business owner, I juggle many and watch and then toss money into the things, all puns intended. I juggle my kids hat, man that is a real thrill. That is the on my feet, props in the air, oh and all the moment you have been waiting for. How jobs needed to run a small family gratifying it is to know that other people business.” appreciate your talents and effort.

Now her two kids are involved with You are a busker. Yep, that’s right, a running the business. Her oldest, Willow street performer, a troubadour. And you has begun teaching youth and teen classes are following a path that has been laid as well as entry level adult classes as well down for you by people since before as performing, and Wylder has a great history was being recorded. interest in photography and can be seen Sihka Ann Destroy is one such. She has taking pictures on the sideline after his been a street performer since the early own performance.

2000’s, at first sharing her poetry and “There are two things I love most about playing accordion. Over time she has my job,” said Sihka, “Seeing the smiles explored the arts of contortion, fire dance See Busker Fest, Continued on Page 8 and break-dancing while traveling around

Photos Courtesy of Lawrence Busker Festival

To Do List!

Once & Monthly Events!

Wed, May 11

The

• DONATE A DAY'S WAGES TO CHARITY DAY • EAT WHAT YOU WANT DAY • NATIONAL ROOT CANAL APPRECIATION DAY • NATIONAL THIRD SHIFT WORKERS DAY • NATIONAL TWILIGHT ZONE DAY

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Sustainability Advisory Board 6 E 6th St

5:30pm

Wednesday Coed Adult Power Double Header Food and Fiber Farm Tour Volleyball | LPRD | LPRD Sports Pavilion Lawrence Holcom Park Recreation 6-10:30pm Center Cook Like Julia Child 8-11:30am The Merc Co+op ECKAN Head Start Social 6-7pm Services Office Hours Wednesday Men’s Weekly Lawrence Public Library Softball Red | LPRD 10am-Noon Clinton Lake Softball Just Food Cruising Complex Cupboard 6:15-10:15pm Lawrence Public Library Meadowlark 4-H Club 10:30-11:30am St John School 6:30pm Government & Open House Online Community Affairs Osher Lifelong Learning Luncheon Institute at KU KU Innovation Park 6:30-8:30pm (BTBC) Noon-1pm Dessert and A Movie LPL Online Event Sunrise After School 7-8pm Snacks & Garden Brainville Trivia Activities Johnny’s Tavern North Sunrise Project 7pm 1:30-2:30pm Lawrence Cultural Arts Teen Zone Expanded Commission Monthly Lawrence Public Library Meeting 2-5pm 7pm Archery Club (Ages 7 -16) varies | LPRD Prairie Park Nature Center 3-4pm • LIMERICK DAY • NATIONAL FIBROMYALGIA Kids’ Action Club LPL Online Event 4-5pm AWARENESS DAY • NATIONAL NUTTY Free Homebuyer FUDGE DAY Workshop • NATIONAL ODOMETER DAY Lawrence Public Library Chamber Coffee 5-8pm SMART Recovery Groups Connections 2022 Lawrence Chamber of LPL Online & In-Person 8:30-9:30am 5-6:30pm Commerce Community Music School Mobile Blood Drive LMH Health West Recital Campus 9:30am-3:30pm Swarthout Recital Hall 5pm Healthy Moms, Dads, and Sister Cities Lawrence Teens Social Service Online. Contact Office Hours wkeel@ku.edu Lawrence Public Library

Thursday, May 12

5:30-7pm

10am-Noon

Exhibits!

Cider Gallery Fine Art Indigenous Arts Initiative works by Cara Romero!

Thru May 20th

Dole Institute What Would a Woman Offer Her County?

Elizabeth Dole's Groundbreaking, Trailblazing Life of Service

Thru May 28

Kansas Veterans Virtual Memory Wall

Thru Dec 31, 2022

Edgar Heap of Birds Family Gallery (KU Chalmers Hall) “Indigenous Space” by Edgar Heap of Birds

Permanent

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Noon-1pm

5:30-7pm CHAMPSS Orientation County Commission Board (Choosing Healthy Meeting Appetizing Meal Plan Solutions for Seniors) Douglas County Lawrence Public Library Courthouse

Haricombe Gallery (Watson Library) Find the digital Sitting in a Circle (Spring 2022) To Do List! at lawrencecalendar.com Rightfully Yours (Spring 2022)

submit-event

Welcome to Medicare Senior Resource Center

May 13, 4-8pm

Annual Cottonwood Exhibition | Over the Moon, Artists in Bloom

Thru May 22

PLEIN AIR | 3rd Tonganoxie Festival of the Arts Kane Family Farm

7-10pm

Second Thursday Book Club LPL Online Event 7-8pm 2-3pm Student Recital Series: Harvesters Food Pantry @ Tristan McGehee, Heritage Baptist Church Composition 1781 East 800th Road Swarthout Recital Hall 4-6pm

7:30pm

11:45am-1pm

Haskell Commencement Pow Wow Haskell Indian Nations University

1-7pm

Kaw Valley Comedy Night Kaw Valley Public House

Student Recital Series: Andrew Hackenwerth, tenor trombone Swarthout Recital Hall

1-3pm JERK / Sidewalk Celebrity / Calling All Creeps / Kiss New Horizons Band or Kill Sullivan Square, Baldwin Replay Lounge 11pm City

4:30-5:30pm

5pm

8pm

Friday, May 13

Thursday Adult Coed Sand Volleyball | LPRD Holcom Park Sports Complex

• BLAME SOMEONE ELSE DAY • COUGH DROP DAY • FINTASTIC FRIDAY: GIVING SHARKS A VOICE Thursday Women’s Power • FROG JUMPING DAY Volleyball Blue | LPRD • NATIONAL APPLE PIE DAY Holcom Park Sports • NATIONAL FRUIT Complex 6-9pm COCKTAIL DAY Thursday Women’s Power • NATIONAL LEPRECHAUN DAY Volleyball Red | LPRD • SHADES DAY Holcom Park Sports • SKEPTICS DAY Complex 6-9pm INTERNATIONAL Community Police Review • TOP GUN DAY Board Meeting • TULIP DAY 6-9pm

City Commission Room, City Hall 6pm Dinner Time / Zion Isaiah / Spyderland / Paul Jesse / High Society Replay Lounge 6pm

Thursday Men’s Double Header Softball | LPRD Clinton Lake Softball Complex

Friday Fun & Fellowship | Eudora Parks & Rec Eudora Parks & Recreation Department

4pm

Overbrook Sixth Annual All-Star Rodeo Overbrook Osage County Fair

5-11pm

Meet & Greet w/ the Senior Resource Center | Baldwin City Recreation Lumberyard Arts Center, Inc

5-7pm

Wait, Wait...Do Tell Me! | 3rd Tonganoxie Festival of the Arts Kane Family Farm

5-7pm

Mobile Blood Drive LMH Health, Conference Cha Cha Workshop | LPRD Sports Pavilion Room A, D South Lawrence La Estrella Grand 5:45-8pm Opening 2323 Ridge Ct 9am-9pm Children’s Storytelling Festival | Tonganoxie Arts Council Kane Family Farm 9am-1pm

6:15-10:15pm

Thursday Men’s Weekly Softball | LPRD Clinton Lake Softball Complex

6:15-10:15pm

Gullywasher Bluegrass | 3rd Tonganoxie Festival of the Arts Kane Family Farm

7-10pm

Wakarusa River Valley Heritage Museum Community Exhibit Angels of Freedom Remembering Richland Watkins History Museum Exhibits Dear Friends: Lawrence’s Literary Societies

Thru May 13

Confronting the Past: The Douglas County Community Remembrance Project

Thru Aug 19

Do-It-Yourself Orienteering (Orienteer Kansas) Downtown Lawrence All Day Tumble n’ Play (ages 1-5) | LPRD Sports Pavilion Lawrence

10:15-11:15 | Except Sundays

Calls for Submissions!

Mothers of Invention: The Entrepreneurs and Innovators of Lawrence

Art in the Park (Lawrence Art Guild)

Familiar Faces: The Gary Davis Photo Collection

LPR Summer Fest Arts & Crafts Show Exhibitor

Thru Oct 11

May 6 - Nov 4

Wheatfields Bakery Richard Gwin photography, Cuban Scenery Wonder Gallery Emmett Merrill: Dead Deer

Thru June 19

(Publishers note: We want to list exhibits and shows large and small. Send us your info and we'll get it added.)

Daily!

Sunrise Porch Pantry Sunrise Project

Lawrence Visitors Center "Why Lawrence?" Photo Exhibit by Jason Daily Phoenix Gallery Dan Hughes, Every Frame, a Story Spencer Museum of Art Debut Exhibit

Food Pantry Behind Latchkey Deli All Day Little Free Museum In Front of the Spencer Museum of ArtAll Day Do-It-Yourself Orienteering (Orienteer Kansas) KU West Campus All Day

thru Oct 16, 2022

10am-12pm

Lawrence Women’s Network varies

Just Food Cruising Cupboard Stop Starbucks on 23rd St

Lawrence Percolator Still Kickin Show, 123 W 8th St,

Sundays, May 27 - June 19

Haskell Graduation Haskell Indian Nations University

All Day

Submission Deadline May 31

Deadline June 3

LPR Holiday Bazaar Exhibitor

Deadline Sept 30

LPR Holiday Extravaganza Exhibitor

Deadline Nov 11th

Lawrence Percolator Accepting Ready To Hang Art - 3-8pm Sundays

April 17 - May 15

Local Grants & Scholarships!

DCCF Fall Community Grants Due Sept 1st Elizabeth Schultz Environmental Fund Grants Due Oct 3rd DCCF Livewell Community Wellness Grants Due Oct 14th

Winter Family Fund Grants

Due Nov 1st

Due to COVID please check to see if the events listed here are happening as shown before you head out.

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To Do List !

Sunday Adult Coed Double Header Softball | LRPD Clinton Lake Softball Complex

Wine Around the World Bluejacket Crossing Winery, Eudora

Tuesday, May 15, Continued from Page 5

A Question of Freedom with William G. Thomas III Lawrence Public Library

Stillhouse Junkies / Tone Dog Replay Lounge

6pm

4-5pm

SMART Recovery Groups LPL Online & InPerson

5-6:30pm Rachel Ignotofsky: The 5pm 6-7pm History of the Sunrise Community Computer Sunday Adult Coed No Freedom Suits, Meal Bunt Kickball Families, and Raven Bookstore Sunrise Project 5-6pm Reckoning with the Clinton Lake Sports Online via CrowdCast 7pm History of U.S. Slavery Student Recital Series: Complex 5pm Lawrence Public The Chats Shiya Zhang, Piano Sunday Adult Coed The Bottleneck Swarthout Recital Hall Library 7pm 5pm 6pm Recreation Softball | Writer’s Block LFK County Commission LRPD Douglas County Food Board Meeting Policy Council Meeting Facebook Live Clinton Lake Softball 10-11pm Douglas County Location Varies Complex 6:30-8:30pm 5pm Courthouse 5:30pm Tyler Gregory hosts Ghosts Of Johnny Open Mic Night Wednesday Coed Adult Cash • EMERGENCY Kaw Valley Public Replay Lounge MEDICAL SERVICES Power Double Header 6-8pm House FOR CHILDREN DAY Volleyball | LPRD 7-10pm Spring Adult Sports Pavilion • HIV VACCINE Basketball Sunday Kaw Valley Quilters Lawrence AWARENESS DAY 6-10:30pm Men’s Guild Meeting • MOTHER WHISTLER Aviation Advisory Sports Pavilion via Zoom DAY 7pm Board Meeting Lawrence • NATIONAL CHEESE 6pm Online / YouTube SOUFFLÉ DAY 6pm Elena Bosworth (Cello) • NATIONAL SPEECH Brainville Trivia Live PATHOLOGIST DAY • DINOSAUR DAY • NATIONAL VISIT YOUR Johnny’s Tavern North Kaw Valley Public • INTERNATIONAL DAY 7pm RELATIVES DAY House AGAINST HOMOPHOBIA, 6:30pm • NO DIRTY DISHES DAY HUNKS The Show BIPHOBIA AND TRANSPHOBIA • SEND AN ELECTRONIC Venue 1235 Dan Andriano & The • NATIONAL CHERRY 8pm GREETING CARD Bygones COBBLER DAY BASTARDANE / The DAY The Bottleneck • NATIONAL MUSHROOM 7pm Soiled Doves / • TURN BEAUTY HUNTING DAY Oxytoxin INSIDE OUT DAY Replay Lounge

Wed, May 18

Tues, May 17

Mon, May 16

10pm

• BIOGRAPHER'S DAY • INTERNATIONAL DAY OF LIGHT • LOVE A TREE DAY • NATIONAL COQUILLES ST. JACQUES DAY • NATIONAL MIMOSA DAY • NATIONAL PIERCING DAY • NATIONAL SEA MONKEY DAY • NATIONAL WEAR PURPLE FOR PEACE DAY

Thurs, May 19

• ACCOUNTING DAY • BOY'S CLUB DAY • BROWN BAG IT THURSDAY • CELEBRATE YOUR ELECTED OFFICIALS DAY • GLOBAL ACCESSIBILITY AWARENESS DAY • HUMMUS DAY • LAG B'OMER • MAY RAY DAY • NATIONAL APÉRITIF DAY • NATIONAL ASIAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER HIV/AIDS AWARENESS DAY • NATIONAL DEVIL'S FOOD CAKE DAY • NATIONAL HEPATITIS TESTING DAY • NATIONAL NOTEBOOK DAY

Air Force ROTC Commissioning Ceremony Kansas Room, Kansas Union

8-11am

Army ROTC Commissioning Ceremony Memorial Drive - WWII Memorial Campanile / Campanile Plaza

9-10am

Navy ROTC Commissioning Ceremony Kansas Union, Woodruff Auditorium and Big 12 Room

• NATIONAL PACK RAT DAY Just Food Cruising • NATIONAL WALNUT DAY Cupboard Stop • PINOT GRIGIO DAY “Dad” Perry Park on

Leadership Live OneDay Workshop: Leading with Emotional Intelligence KU Online Event

Just Food Cruising Cupboard Stop Holcom Park Recreation Center

4:30-5:30pm

Douglas County CORE Monthly Meeting East Lawrence Wine Academy & Tasting Room

5:30-7:30pm

Friends of Oak Hill Cemetery Monthly Meeting via Zoom

5:30pm

Historic Resources Commission City Commission Room, City Hall

6-9pm

Thursday Adult Coed Sand Volleyball | LPRD Holcom Park Sports Complex

6-9pm

Thursday Women’s Power Volleyball Blue | LPRD Holcom Park Sports Complex

6-9pm

Thursday Women’s Power Volleyball Red | LPRD Holcom Park Sports Complex

6-9pm

nothing, nowhere.

The Granada

6pm

Movies on the Prairie Black Jack Battlefield

7-9:30pm

Thriller Thursdays Book Club Lawrence Public Library

7-8pm

WC Edgar Gaslight Gardens

7pm

NVSBL Music Trivia Lucia Beer Garden & Grill

7:30-10:30pm

DIGIDREAM / DJ SET Replay Lounge 10pm Hadiza. / American Terrorist / Bad Alaskan / Boxknife Replay Lounge 10pm

Friday, May 20

• BE A MILLIONAIRE DAY 8am-12pm • ELIZA DOOLITTLE DAY Harvard St. Time Capsule with 10:30-11:30am Teen D&D Club Watkins Museum • ENDANGERED History of Airplane (Radio Spot) Lawrence Public SPECIES DAY Design: Beginning, Rise FM 101.7 / KLWN AM Library Online 9-10am • FLOWER DAY and Decline of the 8-9am 1320 Mobile Blood Drive • NASCAR DAY 10-10:30am Wichita, KS Aircraft AARP Smart Driver First United Methodist Kaw Valley Quilters • NATIONAL BIKE TO Industry Safety Course Church West Campus Guild Meeting WORK DAY KU Online Event Senior Resource Center Noon-5pm 11am-Noon • NATIONAL DEFENSE via Zoom for Douglas County Caregivers Support 10am Charles R. Powley 9am-1pm TRANSPORTATION DAY Group | Senior (Center for PFAS Lion’s Club Meeting Disability and Dignity: • NATIONAL PIZZA Resources Center Solutions) | ISE Lecture Communication that Murf ’s Grille PARTY DAY Zoom (SRC) Noon Series Cultivates Accessible 2:15-3:45pm • NATIONAL QUICHE Slawson Hall, G192 Lawrence Parkinson’s and Inclusive Rally for a Living LORRAINE DAY Caregiver Support (Beren Center) Workplaces for All Wage & A Strong • NATIONAL RESCUE 11am-Noon KU Online Event Contract for Classified First Presbyterian DOG DAY Sunrise After School 11am-Noon Church Staff!

2-3:30pm Snacks & Garden • O. HENRY PUN-OFF DAY Community Blood 110 McDonald Dr Activities Center-LPL Blood Drive • PICK STRAWBERRIES DAY 4:15pm Student Recital Series: Sunrise Project Lawrence Public • WEIGHTS AND Virtual Library Board Shuning Li, Piano 1:30-2:30pm Library Swarthout Recital Hall Noon-4pm MEASURES DAY of Trustees Meeting 5pm Teen Zone Expanded CarFit | Senior • WORLD AUTOIMMUNE LPL via Zoom Lawrence Public 4:30pm Lawrence City Resources Center ARTHRITIS DAY Commission Meeting Library Lawrence-Douglas County Board of Health Regular Meeting 200 Maine Street, Suite B

5pm

2-5pm

City Commission Room, City Hall

Genealogy Local 5:45-7:45pm History: Research KU Jayhawks Baseball Resources Lawrence Public vs. Missouri Library Hoglund Ballpark 6pm

Student Recital Series: Spring Adult Men’s Abby Atwood, Violin Swarthout Recital Hall Tuesday Basketball 5pm Sport Pavilion Lawrence

6pm

4-5pm

Gray Anatomy: Foot Care LPL Online Event

4-5pm

Senior Resource Center KU Center for for Douglas County Genomics Symposium 1-3pm Maceli's Banquet Hall Lawrence / Douglas County Metro Planning and Catering 8am-6pm Org Advisory Com. Monthly Dollar Bill City Hall Riverfront, Days-Learning the Ad Astra Room Basics of Banking 2:30-3:30pm Central Bank of the Beauty & Bubbles Midwest Eccentricity Womens 9am-5pm Clothing 4-8pm

Casual Coffee Men’s Grief Group Trinity Episcopal Church

John Jervis Memorial Guitar School Lawrence Public Library

Sun, May 22

• BITCOIN PIZZA DAY 9am 10am-3pm • CANADIAN IMMIGRANTS DAY Digital Marketing Native Plant Strategies For Small Gardening Workshop • HARVEY MILK DAY • INTERNATIONAL Businesses (Free) Little Prairie BEING YOU DAY Comfort Inn & Suites, Community Garden 10am-Noon • INTERNATIONAL DAY Lawrence FOR BIOLOGICAL 10am-2pm Saturday Morning DIVERSITY Sunrise Project Social Cartoons • NATIONAL BUY A Services Office Hours Lawrence Public MUSICAL Lawrence Public Library INSTRUMENT DAY 10am-Noon Library • NATIONAL MARITIME 10am-Noon After La Yarda — A AY Two Truths and a Lie - Historic Walking Tour | • D NATIONAL SOLITAIRE Virtual Book Club Lawrence Preservation D AY (May) Alliance Fundraiser • NATIONAL VANILLA https://fb.me/e/ Lawrence Amtrack PUDDING DAY 7rpQTUQDD Santa Fe Depot • SHERLOCK HOLMES Noon 10:30am DAY Forest Bathing Walk | Twisted Flying-Hot Air • WORLD GOTH DAY

Mon, May 23

• INTERNATIONAL DAY TO END OBSTETRIC FISTULA • LUCKY PENNY DAY • NATIONAL TAFFY DAY

JAAA Caregivers Support Group West Side Presbyterian Church 3:30pm Lawrence Douglas County Housing Authority Board monthly meeting varies 5:30pm USD 497 Board of Education Meeting 110 McDonald Dr 6pm Lawrence Douglas County Planning Commission Lawrence Parks and Balloons City Commission Lawrence Humane Rec Z&M Twisted Vines Society Adoption Event Room, City Hall Pat Dawson Billings Vineyard, Tasting 6:30-10:30pm Venue 1235 Nature Area Room & Events 11am Jayhawk Audubon 1:30-3pm Noon-10pm Program - BlackPop Up Science Twisted Flying-Hot Air Kansas Sunflower Documenting Diversity footed Ferrets in Balloons Basket Weavers Kansas KU Natural History Z&M Twisted Vines Eudora Parks & via Zoom 7-9pm Museum--Dyche Hall Vineyard, Tasting Recreation Department Noon-1:30pm Clinton Eagles 4-H Noon-5pm Room & Events Weekly Vigil in Club 4-10pm Little Free Museum Support of the Wakarusa Valley One Boot Band Restocked Ukrainian People School 7pm Kaw Valley Public Spencer Art Museum Douglas County New Dancer Lesson | Noon-5pm House Kansas Happy Time Squares 6-7:30pm Art Cart Modern Take 1-2:30pm Centenary United The Kansas City Bear On Dutch Still Life West Coast Swing, Fighters / Mire Pral Spencer Museum of Art Beginner/ Intermediate Methodist Church 7pm 1-4pm Replay Lounge Workshop | LPRD 6pm USD 497 Lawrence Sports Pavilion Ultimate Dance Party | Virtual School Lawrence Graduation LPRD 1:15-4:15pm • ASPARAGUS DAY 1-2pm Sports Pavilion Drum Circle A Very Special Lawrence Meditation 6-8pm Evening w/ Young Unity of Lawrence Kush Blower Lumberyard Live on 1:30-2:30pm High Songwriter Round Replay Lounge 1pm Banned Book Club Sullivan Square Gaslight Gardens 7-9pm Forest Bathing 2:05pm Celebrate Lawrence Women in Multicultural Divine Nature Therapy the 1890s: From the 3pm Storytime Gilded Age to Lawrence Lawrence Linux User Progressivism Public Group Watkins Museum of Library Virtual History 3:30-4pm 3pm 7-8pm Adult Kickball Buck Creek Chance Encounter Sunday Co-Ed No Bunt Rusty Taco Venue 1235 6-8pm Clinton Lake Sports 7:30-11:30pm Til Willis & Jeff • AVIATION HAYSTAK Complex Pfannenstiel MAINTENANCE The Pub & Hub 4pm TECHNICIAN DAY 9pm Kaw Valley Public Salsa, Beginning/ • BROTHER'S DAY House 6pm Intermediate • NATIONAL Workshop | LPRD Nichols & Millspaugh ESCARGOT DAY • AMERICAN RED • SCAVENGER HUNT Trivedi Wine LLC Sports Pavilion CROSS FOUNDER'S 6-8pm Lawrence DAY DAY Shmedleys 4:30-7:30pm USD 497 Free State • ARMED FORCES DAY The High School • CULTURE FREEDOM Jazzhaus 7-9:30pm Sunday Coed Adult Graduation All day DAY Sand Volleyball | LPRD Harvesters Mobile Rockin’ with Lanie • I NEED A PATCH Holcom Park Sports VFW Post 852 Distribution (Ballard FOR THAT DAY 7-9pm Complex Community Services) • INTERNATIONAL 5-9pm 1930 Harper Main TEA DAY Indoor Arena • NATIONAL Sunday Adult Coed 8:30-10:30am LEARN TO Double Header Softball 1320 KLWN Radio for SWIM DAY | LRPD Grownups with Senior • NATIONAL Clinton Lake Softball Resource Center MEMO DAY Complex AM Radio Station • NATIONAL 5pm RIVER 1320 KLWN 9-9:30am CLEANUP Goldpine / Christena Teen Zone Fun and DAY Graves Band Games • NATIONAL Replay Lounge STRAWBERRIES 6pm Lawrence Public AND CREAM DAY Library Spring Adult 10-11:30am • NATIONAL WAITERS Kim and the Quake Basketball Sunday AND WAITRESSES Library Storytime Z&M Twisted Vines DAY Men’s LPL on Facebook Vineyard, Tasting 10:30-11am • PLANT A LEMON Sports Pavilion Room & Events TREE DAY Chair Yoga | Baldwin 7pm Lawrence • PREAKNESS STAKES 6pm City Recreation Manor Fest 4 - Ebony • RAPTURE PARTY Baldwin Golf Course Tusks, R.I.Peter, The Stand Atlantic 11:30am DAY Cavves, Vanity Plates The Bottleneck North Lawrence 7pm Parasol Patrol Shields White Schoolhouse Kids from Westboro Garage Sales 7pm 4th Sunday Feature | Baptist Church at the North Lawrence Chris Hudson & 7am-7pm Rompe Reggaeton Lawrence Free State Party Gullywasher Collective High School Grad Monthly Dollar Bill The Bottleneck 9pm 4:30-6pm Kaw Valley Public Days-Learning the Anthony Wilkerson / House 7-10pm Family Promise Basics of Banking Ty Toomsen / Flash Fundraiser Central Bank of the Las Cruxes / The Bad Floods Chipotle Mexican Grill Midwest Ideas / Kelroy 5-9pm 9am-12pm Replay Lounge 10pm 10pm Replay Lounge

Tues, May 24

Sat, May 21

Origin: A Genetic History of the Americas Lawrence Public Library

6-7pm

Spring Adult Men’s Tuesday Basketball Sport Pavilion Lawrence

6pm

Todd Snider: Pickin’.

Grinnin’. Tellin’ Stories.

Takin’ Requests Tour The Granada

7pm

Lawrence Democratic Socialists of America Monthly Meeting Online

7-8pm

Wed, May 25

• GEEK PRIDE DAY • NATIONAL BROWNBAG-IT DAY • NATIONAL MISSING CHILDREN'S DAY • NATIONAL SENIOR HEALTH & FITNESS DAY • NATIONAL TAP DANCE DAY • NATIONAL WINE DAY • TOWEL DAY USD 497 Lawrence High School Graduation

All day

Just Food Cruising Cupboard Stop Lawrence Public Library 10:30-11:30am SNAP Registration Senior Resource Center for Douglas County 1-3pm

Teen Zone Expanded Lawrence Public Library 2-5pm

Quality European & Asian Automotive Service Mini & BMW Specialists 901 Delaware St., Lawrence, KS 785.843.5606

Lawrence KS Young Professionals Meet up varies 4-5pm SMART Recovery Groups LPL Online & InPerson

SCREEN PRINTING. SKATEBOARDING. APPAREL.

County Commission Board Meeting Douglas County Courthouse

608 N. 2nd St. PRINT: 785.371.1660 SKATE: 785-691-7787

5-6:30pm

5:30pm

Lawrence Douglas County Planning Commission City Commission Room, City Hall

6:30-10:30pm

Last Wednesday Book Club Lawrence Public Library

7-8pm

Brainville Trivia Johnny’s Tavern North

7pm

DYING FETUS w/ Chelsea Grin, Bodysnatcher, Frozen Soul, and Undeath The Granada

7pm

Audubon Field Trip to Chicken Creek Bridge 770 E. 850 Rd-south of Clinton Dam

8:30pm

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on the faces of families who come to watch our show and helping people achieve things and reach heights that they may have imagined to be impossible.’

People have performed for

tips in public places in every major culture of the world.

Musicians especially found this to be a means of employment long before there were ways to record their works. One-man bands were really popular in the 19th and early 20th centuries of the US. Medicine shows would travel from town to town selling their snake-oils and providing music entertainment as a way to make their patrons feel better.

Artists such as Woody Guthrie and Joan Baez began by performing in bars and pubs. B.B. King started out traveling around the Mississippi Delta area and performing wherever he could.

poetry or prose can also be found.

As a young man, one of our Founding Fathers, Benjamin Franklin was a street performer, offering songs, poetry and prose he composed about current affairs of his time. He was dissuaded from this by his father who was worried about the ‘stigma’ that some people might attach to this behavior. Yet it was this experience which helped form his beliefs in free speech which he later wrote about.

If you have ever gone out Christmas caroling, then you have taken part in busking.

And because we cannot escape the realities of technological evolution, busking online is a thing.

Yeah, “Cyber-Busking” allows artists to post their Janis Joplin, the Grateful works or performances online Dead and Jefferson Airplane and ask for donations if people all participated in “be-ins”, a like their work. precursor to modern busker What talents do you have to festivals. Even Hip Hop began take to the street? on the street at block parties in the Bronx of New York City.

It is not always about music of course. Dancing, acrobatics, juggling, magic, puppeteering swordswallowing all are among the many types of street performance to be witnessed.

Story-telling, the recitation of