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Artspeak Radio, Wednesday, September 3, 2025, 9am -10am CST, 90.1fm KKFI Kansas City Community Radio, streaming live audio www.kkfi.org
Producer/host Maria Vasquez Boyd welcomes comedians Kacy Barta and Tay Castillo, Jennifer Hong Chief Curator Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art.
KACY BARTA & TAY CASTILLO- Local comedy group Truck Noises will return to the Bird Comedy Theater for Trucktoberfest, a comedy beer festival, promising to showcase the cultural splendor of Truckovia– A country that does not exist.
Trucktoberfest returns to Kansas City for a third time, turning the Bird Comedy Theater into a “carnival like” atmosphere. Promising an immersive experience, Trucktoberfest will include games, comedy, and the famous “Sausage Toss,” where the audience is invited on stage to see who can hit a target by throwing a sausage.
The festivities will be hosted by Truck Noises, a comedy group voted #2 in Kansas City by The Pitch. This will be the third Trucktoberfest event Truck Noises has hosted and they promise this one will be the best one yet.
Doors open at 7:30 PM for general admission. The show will start at 8:00 PM with the opening procession and the Tapping of the Keg ceremony with different comedy acts taking place throughout the theater. There will be a Dirndl contest at 9:45 with the entire event coming to a close at 10:00 with the Sausage Toss competition.
Guests will be provided a passport and are encouraged to “apply for citizenship” with Truckovia by getting a stamp at the various acts within Trucktoberfest. Attendees are encouraged to wear lederhosen and dirndls.
Truck Noises and The Bird Comedy theater continue to bring comedy shows that are both hilarious and refreshingly different from what is typically on stage at other comedy clubs.
Tickets can be purchased via Eventbrite:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/truktoberfest-tickets-1610566340279?aff=ebdssbdestsearch
Contact Info:
Name: Kacy Barta
Email: [email protected]
Organization: Truck Noises
Website: https://thebirdkc.com
JESSICA HONG, Chief Curator Kemper Museum of Art- Andrea Carlson (Grand Portage Ojibwe/European descent, b. 1979; based in northern Minnesota and Chicago, IL) considers how landscapes are shaped by history, relationships, and power. Her artworks imagine places that are “everywhere and nowhere,” visualizing these shifting yet ever-present dynamics. Grounded in Anishinaabe understandings of space and time, the works in this exhibition reflect on how land carries memories of colonial expansion and violence, as well as Indigenous presence and resistance.
Across painting, video, and sculpture, Carlson organizes imagined landscapes around one constant—the horizon. This line is reminiscent of her homelands on Lake Superior. It is also a significant art historical trope that artists have employed to depict territories as vast and vacant, ripe for the taking. Carlson’s prismatic works are not empty: they are densely layered with an abundance of motifs, making reference to the tactics of colonialism as well as her family and peers, Ojibwe culture, and Indigenous sovereignty. Confronting ongoing histories of erasure and dispossession, Carlson proposes that what appears to be lost can be remade, reimagined, or otherwise regained.
Andrea Carlson: Shimmer on Horizons is curated by Iris Colburn, Curatorial Associate at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. The Kansas City presentation is organized by Jessica S. Hong, Chief Curator, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art.
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art is located at 4420 Warwick Blvd. KCMO
Wednesday 10am - 4pm
Thursday 10am – 4pm
Friday- Sunday 10am – 4pm
Monday & Tuesday Closed
www.kemperart.org
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Artspeak Radio, Wednesday, September 3, 2025, 9am -10am CST, 90.1fm KKFI Kansas City Community Radio, streaming live audio www.kkfi.org
Producer/host Maria Vasquez Boyd welcomes comedians Kacy Barta and Tay Castillo, Jennifer Hong Chief Curator Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art.
KACY BARTA & TAY CASTILLO- Local comedy group Truck Noises will return to the Bird Comedy Theater for Trucktoberfest, a comedy beer festival, promising to showcase the cultural splendor of Truckovia– A country that does not exist.
Trucktoberfest returns to Kansas City for a third time, turning the Bird Comedy Theater into a “carnival like” atmosphere. Promising an immersive experience, Trucktoberfest will include games, comedy, and the famous “Sausage Toss,” where the audience is invited on stage to see who can hit a target by throwing a sausage.
The festivities will be hosted by Truck Noises, a comedy group voted #2 in Kansas City by The Pitch. This will be the third Trucktoberfest event Truck Noises has hosted and they promise this one will be the best one yet.
Doors open at 7:30 PM for general admission. The show will start at 8:00 PM with the opening procession and the Tapping of the Keg ceremony with different comedy acts taking place throughout the theater. There will be a Dirndl contest at 9:45 with the entire event coming to a close at 10:00 with the Sausage Toss competition.
Guests will be provided a passport and are encouraged to “apply for citizenship” with Truckovia by getting a stamp at the various acts within Trucktoberfest. Attendees are encouraged to wear lederhosen and dirndls.
Truck Noises and The Bird Comedy theater continue to bring comedy shows that are both hilarious and refreshingly different from what is typically on stage at other comedy clubs.
Tickets can be purchased via Eventbrite:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/truktoberfest-tickets-1610566340279?aff=ebdssbdestsearch
Contact Info:
Name: Kacy Barta
Email: [email protected]
Organization: Truck Noises
Website: https://thebirdkc.com
JESSICA HONG, Chief Curator Kemper Museum of Art- Andrea Carlson (Grand Portage Ojibwe/European descent, b. 1979; based in northern Minnesota and Chicago, IL) considers how landscapes are shaped by history, relationships, and power. Her artworks imagine places that are “everywhere and nowhere,” visualizing these shifting yet ever-present dynamics. Grounded in Anishinaabe understandings of space and time, the works in this exhibition reflect on how land carries memories of colonial expansion and violence, as well as Indigenous presence and resistance.
Across painting, video, and sculpture, Carlson organizes imagined landscapes around one constant—the horizon. This line is reminiscent of her homelands on Lake Superior. It is also a significant art historical trope that artists have employed to depict territories as vast and vacant, ripe for the taking. Carlson’s prismatic works are not empty: they are densely layered with an abundance of motifs, making reference to the tactics of colonialism as well as her family and peers, Ojibwe culture, and Indigenous sovereignty. Confronting ongoing histories of erasure and dispossession, Carlson proposes that what appears to be lost can be remade, reimagined, or otherwise regained.
Andrea Carlson: Shimmer on Horizons is curated by Iris Colburn, Curatorial Associate at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. The Kansas City presentation is organized by Jessica S. Hong, Chief Curator, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art.
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art is located at 4420 Warwick Blvd. KCMO
Wednesday 10am - 4pm
Thursday 10am – 4pm
Friday- Sunday 10am – 4pm
Monday & Tuesday Closed
www.kemperart.org