SAINT LUKE’S BISHOP SPENCER PLACE December 2018 ACTIVITY KEY Celebration Movie Jazz Carol Festival at Community Christian Church Sunday, December 2 | BSP bus departs at 3:15 p.m. Theatre Sign up for the bus to the annual with Tim Whitmer, Millie jazz Christmas celebration at Edwards, and many other BSP Community Christian Church, and Kansas City jazz favorites. Arts Music Nature Speaker Series | Gen. Excursion Printmaking Class | Michael Symanski Nelson-Atkins Artists Tuesday, December 4 Wednesday, December 5 Speaker 3:00 p.m. | Westport Room 3:00 p.m. | Activity Center During his 37-year career, Christine Boutros and Jackie retired Major General Michael W. Niekamp from the Nelson- Cocktails Symanski commanded the 89th Atkins Museum will be here to Reserve Readiness Command lead a hands-on printmaking and USAR theater level logistics workshop. The irst 15 residents Dining command. He served as a to sign up will create small gift Battalion Commander in Desert cards and wrapping paper. Join Cofee & Storm, Deputy Commanding us! No printmaking experience Conversation General for logistics in the or creativity needed! Balkans, and on active duty on the Army Staf in the Pentagon Class as the Assistant Deputy Chief Christmas Day of Staf of Operations for Tuesday, December 25 Mobilization and Reserve Afairs. The BSP oice, Salon, and Health He has represented the Army in Bistro will be closed. the Joint Operations “Tank.” This is a monthly magazine for residents of Saint Luke’s Bishop Spencer Place. Bishop Spencer Place 4301 Madison Ave., Kansas City, MO 64111 816-931-4277 BishopSpencerPlace.org 2 Spirituality & All That TubaChristmas Abigail Pabst Student Jazz Friday, December 7 Piano Recital Wednesday, December 5 BSP bus departs at 11:00 a.m. Saturday, December 8 | 2:00 p.m. BSP bus departs at 6:30 p.m. Madison Living Room The irst TubaChristmas took This month, jazz group A La place December 22, 1974, at Come listen to holiday music Mode, featuring Clayton and Rockefeller Plaza in New York. played by Abigail Pabst’s piano Jessica DeLong, will perform Kansas City’s irst TubaChristmas students! We’ll have cookies and with Tim Whitmer and The was in 1979 when the group plenty of holiday cheer. Abigail is Consort Band. performed for the lighting of our former BSP Activities Assistant. the Crown Center Christmas Sign up with the concierge. tree and has happened annually since, often bringing together more than 500 tuba and euphonium players. The irst 12 to sign up will get free tickets. We need to leave a bit early as this is irst- come, irst-served seating for a Saints & Singers popular event! Sunday, December 9, 1:30 p.m. Speaker Series | Jefrey Madison Living Room Weidman | William Sign up with the concierge. Rimmer: A Yankee Our own Chaplain Kathy Hall and her friends make up Saints Michelangelo and Singers—a musical group Thursday, December 6 that blends whimsy with folk and 3:00 p.m. | Westport Room Celtic music, with guitars, lute, Teacher, reviewer, presenter, recorder, keyboard, and ham- writer, and BSP resident Jefrey mered dulcimer. The trio loves to Weidman’s knowledge of art, play together and hopes you will art history, and library science Movie Classic with join them as they perform some of their favorite Christmas carols. is exceptional. He has a Ph.D. in Robert Butler | Drums art history and a master’s degree Along the Mohawk in library science and was Head Friday, December 7 | 2:00 p.m. of Reference and Collection Westport Room Development in the Spencer Spa and Salon gift Art Reference Library at the 1939’s Drums Along the certiicates are available Nelson-Atkins Musuem of Art. Mohawk, directed by John for purchase from Ford, stars Claudette Colbert Jefrey will discuss painter and the concierges. The and Henry Fonda as newlyweds sculptor William Rimmer, one of certiicates make perfect trying to start a farm in the the artists who exhibited in the gifts for your loved ones. Mohawk Valley on the New groundbreaking 1913 Armory York frontier as the American Show of modern art in New York. Revolution begins. 3 Lunch & Learn | NEW Speaker Series | Speaker Series | Carter SERIES: Brain Myths Jermaine Reed Rostron: Three Mini- Exploded Tuesday, December 11 Documentaries on KC Monday, December 10 2:30 p.m. | Westport Room Thursday, December 13 Lunch | 11:30 a.m.–12:00 noon 3:00 p.m. | Westport Room Kansas City mayoral candidate Program | starts at 12:00 noon and Kansas City Councilman Carter Rostron is an eighth grader Westport Room Jermaine Reed was reared in at St Paul’s Episcopal Day School. A We continue the Great Kansas City, and graduated budding ilmmaker, he has won irst Courses DVD series Brain from Northeast High and the place trophies for his submissions Myth’s Exploded: Lessons from University of Missouri, Columbia. to the Kansas City International Neuroscience. Lunch begins He received an Executive Film Festival youth competition promptly at 11:30. Two talks Masters in Public Administration over the past ive years. He begin at noon and run until 1:00. from UMKC. He has served two completed his irst documentary, Lunch will be provided terms representing the Third about a haunted UMKC mansion, (10 points). Sign up with the District on the Kansas City was when he was eight years old. concierge by Saturday, city council. Carter will show three ive-minute December 8, to allow PB&J documentary ilms, The Epperson time to prepare lunch. House—A Kansas City Ghost Story, The Missouri Irish Brigade, and A Remarkable Gift—The Linda Hall Library. He will discuss and answer questions about the ilms. Betse & Clarke Duo Wednesday, December 12 Kansas City Symphony 3:00 p.m. Woodwind Duo Madison Living Room Monday, December 10, 3:00 p.m. Betse & Clarke return to BSP. Madison Living Room Betse plays the iddle and sings, and Clarke plays banjo and Dinnertime Caroling | Join us for the woodwind duo guitar. Both are classically-trained Episcopal Diocese of of Rebecca Tobin and Nicole musicians who became folk music West Missouri Youth Haywood. Rebecca has served as and history scholars. The duo Friday, December 14 associate principal clarinet with traces songs and iddle tunes 6:00 p.m. | Madison Living Room the Kansas City Symphony since back to their roots. Related & Canterbury Dining Room 2017. Nicole is acting second stories recall a sense of place bassoon for the 2018–19 season The youth choir of the Episcopal and meaning in the music. and was recently appointed Diocese of West Missouri will Betse & Clarke have a lot of fun assistant principal and second entertain us with a few holiday performing, and it’s catching— bassoon of the Grant Park carols during our Friday singing along is encouraged! Orchestra in Chicago. evening dinner. 4 DECEMBER 2018 SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY 1 9:30 Grocery Store Trip ] 11–12 Librarian Hours WR 11:00 Rosary CH 7:00 Movie JLR 2 Hanukkah 3 4 5 6 7 8 10:00 Holy Eucharist CH 9:30 Tai Chi AC 10:00 Strength & Balance AC 10:00 Stretch AC 10:00 Strength & Balance AC 10:00 Stretch AC 9:30 Grocery Store Trip ] 11–1 Brunch CDR 10:30 Stretch AC 11:00 Advent Studies WR 10:30 Grocery Store Trip ] 1:30 Arthritis Exercise AC 11:00 Bus Departs to 11–12 Librarian Hours WR 3:00 Movie JLR 1:00 Blood Pressure Check 109 1:00 Tai Chi AC 2:00 Life Enrichment Committee P TubaChristmas ] 11:00 Rosary CH 11:00 Welcome Committee A 2–4 CC Bank MLR 3:15 Bus Departs to Jazz 12:00 Lunch & Bridge Mixer CDR ] 1:30 Arthritis Exercise AC 3:00 Printmaking Class with 2:00 Movie Classic with Robert 2:00 Abigail Pabst Student Piano Carol Festival | A Nelson-Atkins Artists AC 2:30 Dining Committee A Butler | Drums Along the 1:00 Art Class AC 2:30 Alterations ] 3:00 Speaker Series | Jefrey Recital MLR Community Christian 1:30 Dollar Tree Trip ] 3:00 Speaker Series | Retired 6:30 Bus Departs for Spirituality Weidman | William Rimmer: Mohawk WR 7:00 Movie JLR Church ] 4:30 Men’s Club P General Michael Symanski WR & All hat Jazz ] A Yankee Michelangelo WR 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 10:00 Holy Eucharist CH 9:30 Tai Chi AC 9:30 Catholic Mass CH 10:00 Stretch AC 10:00 Strength & Balance AC 10:00 Stretch AC 9:30 Grocery Store Trip ] 11–1 Brunch CDR 10:30 Stretch AC 10:00 Strength & Balance AC 10:30 Grocery Store Trip ] 11:00 Resident Council WR 1:30 Chair Volleyball WR 11–12 Librarian Hours WR 1:30 Saints & Singers 11:30 Lunch & Learn | Brain Myths 11:00 Advent Studies WR 1:00 Tai Chi AC 1:30 Arthritis Exercise AC 6:00 Dinnertime Caroling | 11:00 Rosary CH Dulcimer Trio MLR Exploded WR ] 1:00 Blood Pressure Check 109 3:00 Betse & Clarke Duo MLR 2–4 CC Bank MLR Diocese of Western Missouri 11:15 Bus Departs to Plaza 3:00 Movie JLR 3:00 KC Symphony Woodwind 1:30 Arthritis Exercise AC 3:00 Speaker Series | Carter Youth MLR | CDR heater for Opera in HD | Duo MLR 2:30 Speaker Series | Mayoral Rostron: hree Mini- La Traviata ] 4:30 Ladies’ Club P Candidate Jermaine Reed WR Documentaries on KC WR 7:00 Movie JLR 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 LIFE ENRICHMENT | INDEPENDENT LIVING 10:00 Holy Eucharist CH 9:30 Tai Chi AC 10:00 Strength & Balance AC 10:00 Stretch AC 10:00 Strength & Balance AC 10:00 Stretch AC 9:30 Grocery Store Trip ] 11–1 Brunch CDR 10:30 Stretch AC 11:00 Advent Studies WR 10:30 Grocery Store Trip ] 11:00 Friendly Neighbor 1:30 Chair Volleyball WR 11–12 Librarian Hours WR 1:15 Bus Departs to KC 1:00 Art Class AC 1:00 Blood Pressure Check 109 11:00 Café Hope CH Committee WR 3:00 he Dickens Carolers MLR 11:00 Rosary CH Chorale Holiday Music | 1:30 Walmart Trip ] 1:30 Arthritis Exercise AC 12–2:30 Podiatrist AC 1:30 Arthritis