Community Calendar

Part artistic spectacle, part fashion show, part underground ball—ALTBALL is a unique creative showcase that is both *of* the community and *for* the community.

For over 35 years, DOORWAYS has provided emergency housing and supportive services for individuals living with HIV in St. Louis and across Missouri and Illinois. Each year DOORWAYS’ programs serve over 3,500 clients facing homelessness and poverty with wrap-around services to stabilize and rebuild their lives.

ALTBALL celebrates the strength, resilience and beauty of this community—demonstrating what’s possible when everyone is free to be and express themselves at the height of their potential. Designers, artists, drag queens, circus performers, ballroom legends and community leaders will showcase inspired avant-garde creations on the runway while raising funds for DOORWAYS’ programs.

We’ll have avant-garde looks from over two dozen designers, energetic performances, an electrifying vogue ball competition, and a special showcase from Mondo Guerra and Crystal Methyd. Not to mention a killer party before and after.

All proceeds to benefit the mission and programs of DOORWAYS—which improves the quality of life of people affected by HIV, illness, and poverty, advancing their stability and well-being through housing, health, and empowerment services.

Featured are works by, Leila Daw, James Kuiper, and Mary Joan Waid. Please join us for an Opening Reception, Friday, April 25, 6 - 8 PM. Exhibition will run through June 7th.

Consistently rated the best local scavenger hunt since 2016!

Puzzling Adventures are a cross between a scavenger hunt, an adventure race, and an informative self-guided walking tour. Each adventure consists of a series of locations that you are guided to where you are required to answer a question or solve a puzzle to receive your next instruction. Compete as a group, individually or create multiple teams and race each other. Almost all of our adventures are designed to be wheelchair and stroller friendly and all are carefully crafted to be entertaining and informative with something to appeal to all ages. Complete the adventure as quickly as possible to win first place or take your time and enjoy the journey. Price is per team, not per person. Groups can be any size, but small groups are recommended for the best experience.

Enter the code EVENTPASS on the payment page for a $10 discount!

Join us for a spring walk through Bellefontaine Cemetery and Arboretum! In the months of March, April, and May, we offer a two-hour walking tour of the Cemetery and Arboretum. This two-hour walk will be led by one of our Master Guides who will convey highlights of the Cemetery grounds, horticulture, and a variety of intriguing figures who call Bellefontaine their last address. Particular attention will be paid to the horticulture side of the Cemetery while in different levels of bloom during these spring tours.

View work by Hoseok Youn, a respected South Korean glass artist from Belger Fine Arts in Kansas City, at his solo exhibition at TDG. His pieces for “It’s Just A Toy” are both playful and exquisite. Using traditional Venetian glass techniques, he builds intricate figurative sculptures based on comic book and video game characters – pieces that captivate all ages.

Bruno David Gallery presents The Mess Is Us, an exhibition of new works by Yvonne Osei. This is the artist’s fourth solo exhibition with the gallery. Yvonne Osei’s creative practice explores beauty, systemic racism, colonialism, clothing politics, and the erasure and distortion of history. In The Mess Is Us, she employs photo-based textile works to confront cultural amnesia and spotlight narratives of racial violence in the United States, grounding her inquiry in St. Louis, where she lives and works.

Bruno David is pleased to present Sticks and Stones, an exhibition by Korean-born artist Becky Moon. This is the artist’s first solo exhibition with the gallery. Sticks and Stones, a series of paintings that explore the themes of belief, tangibility, mass, and gravity. There is nothing as everlasting as the invisible human mind. The mind is a refuge for those who long for a land they can never return to. I want my paintings to be flag posts that remind the existence of the mind that it is real, alive, and persistent. Even when all is lost, the mind lives on.

Bruno David is pleased to present Adaptations, an exhibition by artist Arny Nadler. This is the artist’s fourth solo exhibition with the gallery. In this new series, Nadler’s work explores ideas of wholeness in physical and psychological forms. In clay and ink, he contemplates the body’s precarity and its ability to adapt. Nadler says: “These simultaneously heroic and absurd forms question our fixed notions of defeat and triumph. In the face of danger, desire, or even loss, theirs is a system that adjusts toward survival.”

Bruno David is pleased to present Undercolor, an exhibition by New York-based artist James Austin Murray. This is the artist’s fourth solo exhibition with the gallery. Through the keen eye of an art critic, one might view the Undercolor series as a reservoir of creative potential—Murray's secret garden of exploration. Kept within the studio for years, these pieces represent an intimate, almost alchemical process, where artistic inquiry flourishes in solitude. Murray reflects on their role as a wellspring of inspiration, feeding directly into the contemplative elegance of his Light Black series.

Bruno David Gallery presents Vanitas Vanitatum. A video-work by multi-disciplinary Chicago-based artist Carlos Salazar-Lermont. This is the artist’s second solo exhibition with the gallery. Vanitas Vanitatum presents a split-screen composition. On the left side, surgical and carpentry tools such as a saw and a hammer are shown, which Salazar-Lermont uses energetically but without purpose. On the right side, two assistants pierce the artist's skin to insert eyelets, which they then use, along with Salazar-Lermont’s shoelace, to tie a bouquet of flowers to his chest.