Open Doors Ticket Fund
The Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts is passionate about providing youth in our community opportunities to experience high quality performing arts. The Open Doors Ticket Fund offers reduced or even free tickets to help local social service agencies, schools and home schools bring children to performances.
Social service agencies
We are currently building a network of local social service agencies to help us reach families with Open Doors Ticket Fund opportunities. If you are an agency serving families and children in the Kansas City metropolitan area and are interested in learning more about opportunities to participate in the Ticket Fund, please email us at opendoors@kauffmancenter.org for more details on how you can participate.
National Geographic Live matinees
Kauffman Center is pleased to again offer presentations by two esteemed National Geographic explorers. Social service agencies, schools and home schools in the five-county metropolitan Kansas City area with children in the specified age range are welcome to apply for these free tickets.
Photo credit: Brian Skerry
National Geographic Live: Brian Skerry
Presented by the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts
*All tickets for this performance have been reserved.
February 19, 2013 at 10:30 a.m.
Helzberg Hall
Grades 3-5
Voyage across the oceans with one of National Geographic’s most seasoned photographers and discover a vast, hidden world beneath the waves. Using his camera to communicate, Brian Skerry has spent more than 10,000 hours underwater telling the oceans’ stories. His stunning images celebrate the mystery of the depths, and offer portraits of creatures so intimate they sometimes appear to have been shot in a studio. Skerry dives eight months of the year, often in extreme conditions beneath Arctic ice or in predator-infested waters, and has even lived at the bottom of the sea to get close to his subjects.
This performance is not eligible for bus reimbursement.
Photo credit: Kobie Boykins
National Geographic Live: Kobie Boykins
Presented by the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts
*All tickets for this performance have been reserved.
May 14, 2013 at 10:30 a.m.
Helzberg Hall
Grades 5-7
An engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and an inspiring advocate for space exploration, Kobie Boykins helped design the solar panels that powered the Mars Exploration Rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, for long past their expected life spans. He worked on the Mars Science Laboratory that is currently en route to the Red Planet, contributing to experiments that will search for water. An engaging, energetic speaker who puts a fresh face on America’s space program, Boykins will recount the Mars program’s amazing successes, and offer a look at the possibilities lying just ahead.
This performance is not eligible for bus reimbursement.
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