The English-Speaking Union

Kansas City Branch

August 17, 2024
 King Charles' Birthday Tea Party
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June 26, 2024
Festival Group Night
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April 9, 2024
Happy Hour: Winston Churchill and the United States of America with Timothy Riley
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May 1, 2024
WorldQuest 2024
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March 20, 2024
Happy Hour: The Remarkable Tommy Lascelles with Terry Mulchahey
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February 28, 2024
Happy Hour: The Kindertransport to Britain with Holly Mandelkern
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February 26, 2024
2024 Kansas City Branch Shakespeare Competition Winners Announced 
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February 25, 2024
Shakespeare Competition Finals
Plaza Library
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February 3, 2024
 Kansas City Annual Meeting and Luncheon Program
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January 17, 2024
Happy Hour: Potatoes Are Not Irish
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January 13, 2024
Women of Note
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December 13, 2023
 Happy Hour: The Dark Secret Behind Charles Dickens' Christmas Tales
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December 7, 8, 9, and 10, 2023
It's a Wonderful Life Live Radio Play
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November 15, 2023
Happy Hour: Ending the Regency Marriage
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November 11, 2023
Annual British Faire & Tea
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November 3, 2023
A Christmas Carol with Gerald Dickens
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October 30, 2023
The Questionable Identity of Shakespeare
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October 20-22, 2023
2023 ESU Annual Conference
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October 19, 2023
Classical Shindig Book Signing
at Nell Hill's
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October 15, 2023
A Candle Against the Dark
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October 11, 2023
Happy Hour: What I Know About Shakespeare
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September 30, 2023
Let's Get Trivial: An ESU FUNdraiser
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September 15, 2023
Lecture Program: Dr. Andrew Lownie Stalin's Englishman
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September 13, 2023
Happy Hour: Classical Shindig
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August 16, 2023
Happy Hour: The Kennedys in England
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 August 10, 14 & 22
ESU Salutes A Chorus Line with 3 events
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June 28, 2023
A Special Happy Hour of Coronation Tributes and Memories
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June 27, 2023
ESU Festival Group Night: The Tempest
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June 7, 2023
Happy Hour: Evan Williams Virtual Bourbon Experience
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Wednesdays from June 7 - 21 and July 5
Gypsy Book Club and Musical

May 17, 2023
Happy Hour: Life of Flora Macdonald
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April 26, 2023
2023 WorldQuest Trivia Night
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April 26, 2023
Happy Hour: Kipling's Kim
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April 24, 2023
Pierre Madlangbayan
Wins First Place in
People's Choice Award

April 24, 2023
2023 Shakespeare Competition Finals
Winners Announced

April 19, 2023
The Secret Garden The Musical
 At Music Theatre Heritage Crown Center

Mondays from March 13 - 27 and April 3, 2023
The Secret Garden Book Club Film

March 15, 2023
Happy Hour Series: 
Churchill: Mobilizing the English Language

March 15, 2023
Happy Hour Series: 
Sherlock Holmes

February 22, 2023
Happy Hour Series:
History of London Architecture

February 19th, 2023
39th Annual Shakespeare Competition
Plaza Library
Registration Now Open
Deadline to Register School: January 27, 2023
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February 1, 2023
Happy Hour Series: Weird Moby-Dick
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January 30, 2023
500 Years of Looking for Richard III
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January 22nd, 2023
Kansas City Annual Meeting and Lecture Program
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December 14th, 2022
A British Christmas Tradition: The English Pantomime
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October 31st, 2022
Lecture: The Questionable Identity of William Shakespeare
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October 29th, 2022
Annual British Faire & Tea
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October 19th, 2022
Happy Hour Series: Royal Collection Trust Victoria and Albert
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October 12th, 2022
Global Motivations: United Kingdom 
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October 3rd, 2022
ESU Gala: Kansas City Watch Party
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September 28th, 2022
Happy Hour Series: Sisters in Arms
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September 25th, 2022
Twelfth Night & Sunday Brunch
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September 19th, 2022
A Queen's Tea: The Final Tribute
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September 7th, 2022
Happy Hour Series: Victory At Sea
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August 17th, 2022
Happy Hour Series: Churchill at War On the Nile
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August 14th, 2022
Lecture and Dinner Buffet: Kansas City's French Heritage Salutes Moliere
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July 10th, 2022
Membership Renewal Party
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June 29th, 2022
Happy Hour: ESU Members Sharing... Poems, Sonnets, Verses, & Prose
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June 29th, 2022
Festival Group Night: Romeo & Juliet
Reserved Seats

June 11th, 2022
Queen's Platinum Jubilee Tea Party
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June 8th, 2022
Happy Hour Series: Eccentric Billionaire
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May 18th, 2022
Happy Hour Series: Lusitania
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April - June 2022
H4th Quarter Membership Bonus
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April 25th, 2022
Winners Announced for the 2022 National Shakespeare Competitions Finals and People's Choice Award
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April 22th, 2022
Vote in the People's Choice Awards - Deadline to vote:11pm Central Time
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April 6, 2022
Happy Hour Series: History of restaurants with Elliot Shore 
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March 16, 2022
Happy Hour Series: The Royal Collection 
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March 8, 2022
Christopher Hum Lecture
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February 27, 2022
2022 Kansas City Shakespeare Competition Branch Winners Announced
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February 23, 2022
Happy Hour
Lawless and the Devil
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February 5, 2022
Virtual Annual Meeting
For Kansas City Branch
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February 2, 2022
Happy Hour
Ulysses at 100
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January 24, 2022-Deadline
Shakespeare Competition
Registration Now Open
Deadline to Register:
January 24, 2022
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January 19, 2022
Happy Hour
John Singer Sargent- The move to London
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December 8, 2021
Happy Hour
Charles Dickens's London
The Spirit of Victorian Christmas
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November 18, 2021
ESU Virtual ARNIC Thanksgiving
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November 10, 2021
Wrench Speaker Program
The White Ship: Lord Charles Spencer
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November 3, 2021
ESU Happy Hour: Rusty Kanokog
The History of Women's Olympic Judo
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October 25, 2021
The Questionable identity of William Shakespeare

October 15-17, 2021
ESU Annual Virtual Conference
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October 10, 2021
ESU's Outdoor Group Night presents: Ghost Light
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September 29, 2021
ESU Happy Hour: Antique Appraisal
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September 24 at 7:30 pm
ESU's Outdoor Group Night presents The Tempest
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September 19, 2021
ESU's Outdoor Group Night presents Mary's Wedding
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September 8, 2021
ESU Happy Hour Queen Victoria and the Victorian Novel
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August 18, 2021
ESU Happy Hour Unforgotten for Generations
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