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<img src="/UserFiles/Servers/Server_7662734/Image/CalendarImages/2021/GamesAtTheMarket.jpg" alt="Games at the Market graphic with text overlay on an interior black and white photo of the Public Market." title="Games at the Market graphic with text overlay on an interior black and white photo of the Public Market." style="width: 100%; height: 50%;"> Open game night with a library of games provided by Cardboard Corner. There will be a small selection of games to purchase from local company, TableTop Game and Hobby. Game experts will be on hand to help teach games.  Games will be located on the main market floor at the tables behind Mr. D's Coffee. Regular COVID-19 precautions remain in place. This event is free and open to the public. Limited spacing available.

15Apr

Games at the Market

5:00PM - 9:00PM

<img src="/UserFiles/Servers/Server_7662734/Image/CalendarImages/2021/04162021_FNSB_Canceled_PublicMarket.png" alt="Friday Night Sound Bites graphic with April 16 date and The Outtakes band name." title="Friday Night Sound Bites graphic with April 16 date and The Outtakes band name." style="width: 100%; height: 53%;"> **This event has been canceled due to the inclement weather forecast for Friday. ** Looking for a cool place to hang out and listen to live music on a Friday night? Head to the Market for Friday Night Sound Bites. Come eat, drink and be entertained by local band, The Outtakes. Music is located outside the Market on the Lower Commons. COVID-19 restrictions and social distancing still apply. Patio seating is available; however, we encourage attendees to bring their own foldable lawn chairs. Food and drink will be available for purchase from Public Market merchants and rotating guest food trucks. Free admission. No pre-registration required to attend.

16Apr

CANCELED: Friday Night Sound Bites: The Outtakes

5:30PM - 8:30PM

<img src="/UserFiles/Servers/Server_7662734/Image/CalendarImages/2021/03052021_KCCookies.jpg" alt="Cookies from KCCookies" title="Cookies from KCCookies" style="width: 600px; height: 300px;"> If you’ve been looking for the perfect chocolate chip cookies, look no further because KCookies is bringing their specialty cookies to the Lenexa Public Market! They make all their cookies in small batches from the highest quality ingredients. Their cookies use all European butter, Belgium chocolate chips and cocoa, organic eggs, and premium flour. Each cookie is a whopping 6 oz with a perfectly crisp exterior while remaining ooey gooey on the inside. Check out their cookie menu below. The Duke: their original chocolate chip walnut cookie. El Jefe: a chocolate cookie loaded with peanut butter chips. Oreo Dream: milk’s new favorite cookie – loaded with Oreos and Belgium white chocolate chips. The Dark Knight: a blend of fudge brownie and chocolate cookie. Toffee Chip: a toffee-chocolate chip cookie. The Chunk: chocolate ship, graham crackers and marshmallows. The Bonnie: Not your grandma’s oatmeal raisin cookie! Oatmeal, cranberry, walnuts, and chocolate chips. The Biscoff: a refined European cookie blending the cinnamon biscuit with white chocolate chips.

17Apr

Pop-up Restaurant: KCookies

11:00AM - 2:00PM

<img src="/UserFiles/Servers/Server_7662734/Image/CalendarImages/2021/03052021_KCCookies.jpg" alt="Cookies from KCCookies" title="Cookies from KCCookies" style="width: 600px; height: 300px;"> If you’ve been looking for the perfect chocolate chip cookies, look no further because KCookies is bringing their specialty cookies to the Lenexa Public Market! They make all their cookies in small batches from the highest quality ingredients. Their cookies use all European butter, Belgium chocolate chips and cocoa, organic eggs, and premium flour. Each cookie is a whopping 6 oz with a perfectly crisp exterior while remaining ooey gooey on the inside. Check out their cookie menu below. The Duke: their original chocolate chip walnut cookie. El Jefe: a chocolate cookie loaded with peanut butter chips. Oreo Dream: milk’s new favorite cookie – loaded with Oreos and Belgium white chocolate chips. The Dark Knight: a blend of fudge brownie and chocolate cookie. Toffee Chip: a toffee-chocolate chip cookie. The Chunk: chocolate ship, graham crackers and marshmallows. The Bonnie: Not your grandma’s oatmeal raisin cookie! Oatmeal, cranberry, walnuts, and chocolate chips. The Biscoff: a refined European cookie blending the cinnamon biscuit with white chocolate chips.

18Apr

Pop-up Restaurant: KCookies

11:00AM - 2:00PM

<img src="/UserFiles/Servers/Server_7662734/Image/CalendarImages/2021/04232021_FNSB_QuiteFranklyTheBand.png" alt="Friday Night Sound Bites graphic with April 23 date and Quite Frankly the Band band name." title="Friday Night Sound Bites graphic with April 23 date and Quite Frankly the Band band name." style="width: 100%; height: 53%;"> Looking for a cool place to hang out and listen to live music on a Friday night? Head to the Market for Friday Night Sound Bites. Come eat, drink and be entertained by local band, Quite Frankly the Band. Music is located outside the Market on the Lower Commons. COVID-19 restrictions and social distancing still apply. Patio seating is available; however, we encourage attendees to bring their own foldable lawn chairs. Food and drink will be available for purchase from Public Market merchants and rotating guest food trucks. Free admission. No pre-registration required to attend.

23Apr

Friday Night Sound Bites: Quite Frankly the Band

5:30PM - 8:30PM

<img src="/UserFiles/Servers/Server_7662734/Image/CalendarImages/2021/04242021_Utepils.jpg" alt="Sunshine graphic with beer." title="Sunshine graphic with beer." style="width: 100%; height: 57%;"> Our beloved Utepils celebration is back and in person this year. Utepils is a Norwegian word that essentially translates to “outdoors lager.” It marks the enjoyment of a first beer outside after a long, cold (and quarantined) winter. With the arrival of spring and the addition of several new breweries in Johnson County, there is no better time to cheers to outdoor beers! We'll have beer, outdoor games, food, music, and more! Admission is free. To make the most of your Utepils experience, we’ll issue you a special passport. Make sure you stop by the information table to pick one up. Get it stamped at each brewery booth and the Farmers Market information table, then turn it in for your chance to win a prize.  Buy local. Buy beer. Buy local beer. SCHEDULE <ul> <li>8 a.m. to noon: Opening day of the Lenexa Farmers Market on the Upper Commons.</li> <li>10 a.m. to 2 p.m.: Free samples of beer provided by local breweries: Limitless Brewing, Transport Brewery, Sandhills Brewing, Brew Lab and Lost Evenings Brewery Co.</li> <li>10 a.m. to 1 p.m.: Check in for the Beer’d & Mustache Contest.</li> <li>1:15 p.m.: Ceremonial "first beer" of spring on the Lower Commons. </li> <li>1:20 p.m.: Beer’d & Mustache Contest judging and winners announced, and last call for stamped passports.</li> <li>1:30 p.m.: Passport prize winners will be announced (participants must be present to win).</li> <li>2 p.m.: Event ends but we hope you’ll stick around to enjoy more beer, sunshine, good food, and live music. </li> </ul> WEATHER: We hope it doesn’t rain on our celebration but in the unfortunate event that it does, the event will be cancelled and we’ll have tears in our beers. <hr> Beer’d & Mustache Contest Do you have a dapper beard or stylish 'stache? We'll be the judge of that! Enter the second annual Beer'd & Mustache Contest during Utepils at the Lenexa Public Market. You could be crowned the champion of facial hair in several categories. Win a prize package of groovy grooming products! Cost: Free to enter. Check-in: Anytime between 10 a.m. and 1 at the information table on the Lower Commons outside the Lenexa Public Market. Judging will take place at 1:20 p.m. Winners will be announced shortly afterward. SPONSORS To be announced

24Apr

Utepils

10:00AM - 2:00PM

<img src="/UserFiles/Servers/Server_7662734/Image/CalendarImages/2019/06182019_African-Dream-Cuisine.jpg" alt="Chefs from African Dream Cuisine with food" title="Chefs from African Dream Cuisine with food" style="">  Taste the flavors of authentic West African cuisine brought to you by owners Neba Ngwa and Stella Musongong. You will have the opportunity to sample a wide variety of delicious dishes prepared with vegetables, roots, grains and leaf spices that work together to create the traditional flavors of West Africa, accompanied by meat, chicken and fish. Come to this pop-up restaurant in The Kitchen at the Lenexa Public Market, and let Neba and Stella share their African Dream with you. Dine in or carry out. Credit/debit accepted. Order ahead for curbside pickup: Call 913.963.8737 to place your order, and to notify them of your arrival. For curbside delivery, there is parking on Eastbound 87th street in front of the market. For carryout — enter the market through the NE entrance, off East bound 87th street and Penrose Lane. For $13.99, customers will design their plates and they will build it for you. Each plate will include four pieces of meat. It will come with two pieces of African Dream's BBQ chicken and two pieces of African Dream's pork bibs, unless otherwise specified. You can get three and one or four pieces of chickens and no pork ribs. You pick your sides and sauces. MENU Meat: BBQ chicken Pork ribs Sides: Kongla fried coconut rice Fried green rice Banso seasoned potatoes Sautéed spinach Fried crunchy cabbage Sauces: African Dream's Dream sauce (regular) Hot & Spicy sauce A la a carte:  Puff Puffs to go $8.99/dozen

24Apr

Pop-up Restaurant: African Dream Cuisine

12:00PM - 9:00PM

<img src="/UserFiles/Servers/Server_7662734/Image/CalendarImages/2021/03052021_KCCookies.jpg" alt="Cookies from KCCookies" title="Cookies from KCCookies" style="width: 600px; height: 300px;"> If you’ve been looking for the perfect chocolate chip cookies, look no further because KCookies is bringing their specialty cookies to the Lenexa Public Market! They make all their cookies in small batches from the highest quality ingredients. Their cookies use all European butter, Belgium chocolate chips and cocoa, organic eggs, and premium flour. Each cookie is a whopping 6 oz with a perfectly crisp exterior while remaining ooey gooey on the inside. Check out their cookie menu below. The Duke: their original chocolate chip walnut cookie. El Jefe: a chocolate cookie loaded with peanut butter chips. Oreo Dream: milk’s new favorite cookie – loaded with Oreos and Belgium white chocolate chips. The Dark Knight: a blend of fudge brownie and chocolate cookie. Toffee Chip: a toffee-chocolate chip cookie. The Chunk: chocolate ship, graham crackers and marshmallows. The Bonnie: Not your grandma’s oatmeal raisin cookie! Oatmeal, cranberry, walnuts, and chocolate chips. The Biscoff: a refined European cookie blending the cinnamon biscuit with white chocolate chips.

25Apr

Pop-up Restaurant: KCookies

11:00AM - 2:00PM

<img src="/UserFiles/Servers/Server_7662734/Image/CalendarImages/2019/06182019_African-Dream-Cuisine.jpg" alt="Chefs from African Dream Cuisine with food" title="Chefs from African Dream Cuisine with food" style="">  Taste the flavors of authentic West African cuisine brought to you by owners Neba Ngwa and Stella Musongong. You will have the opportunity to sample a wide variety of delicious dishes prepared with vegetables, roots, grains and leaf spices that work together to create the traditional flavors of West Africa, accompanied by meat, chicken and fish. Come to this pop-up restaurant in The Kitchen at the Lenexa Public Market, and let Neba and Stella share their African Dream with you. Dine in or carry out. Credit/debit accepted. Order ahead for curbside pickup: Call 913.963.8737 to place your order, and to notify them of your arrival. For curbside delivery, there is parking on Eastbound 87th street in front of the market. For carryout — enter the market through the NE entrance, off East bound 87th street and Penrose Lane. For $13.99, customers will design their plates and they will build it for you. Each plate will include four pieces of meat. It will come with two pieces of African Dream's BBQ chicken and two pieces of African Dream's pork bibs, unless otherwise specified. You can get three and one or four pieces of chickens and no pork ribs. You pick your sides and sauces. MENU Meat: BBQ chicken Pork ribs Sides: Kongla fried coconut rice Fried green rice Banso seasoned potatoes Sautéed spinach Fried crunchy cabbage Sauces: African Dream's Dream sauce (regular) Hot & Spicy sauce A la a carte:  Puff Puffs to go $8.99/dozen

25Apr

Pop-up Restaurant: African Dream Cuisine

12:00PM - 8:00PM

<img src="/UserFiles/Servers/Server_7662734/Image/CalendarImages/2021/GamesAtTheMarket.jpg" alt="Games at the Market graphic with text overlay on an interior black and white photo of the Public Market." title="Games at the Market graphic with text overlay on an interior black and white photo of the Public Market." style="width: 100%; height: 50%;"> Open game night with a library of games provided by Cardboard Corner. There will be a small selection of games to purchase from local company, TableTop Game and Hobby. Game experts will be on hand to help teach games.  Games will be located on the main market floor at the tables behind Mr. D's Coffee. Regular COVID-19 precautions remain in place. This event is free and open to the public. Limited spacing available.

29Apr

Games at the Market

5:00PM - 9:00PM

<img src="/UserFiles/Servers/Server_7662734/Image/CalendarImages/2021/04302021_FNSB_NickNaveBand.png" alt="Friday Night Sound Bites graphic with April 30 date and Nick Nave Band band name." title="Friday Night Sound Bites graphic with April 30 date and Nick Nave Band band name." style="width: 100%; height: 53%;"> Looking for a cool place to hang out and listen to live music on a Friday night? Head to the Market for Friday Night Sound Bites. Come eat, drink and be entertained by local band, Nick Nave Band. Music is located outside the Market on the Lower Commons. COVID-19 restrictions and social distancing still apply. Patio seating is available; however, we encourage attendees to bring their own foldable lawn chairs. Food and drink will be available for purchase from Public Market merchants and rotating guest food trucks. Free admission. No pre-registration required to attend.

30Apr

Friday Night Sound Bites: Nick Nave Band

5:30PM - 8:30PM

<img src="/UserFiles/Servers/Server_7662734/Image/CalendarImages/2021/2021_BayBoySpecialtySandwiches.jpg" alt="Variety of sandwiches. " longdesc="Variety of toasted sanwiches." title="Sandwiches. " style="width: 100%; height: 50%;"> They brought "dutch crunch" bread to KC, and now Bay Boy Specialty Sandwiches is bringing their signature sandwiches to the Lenexa Public Market! With freshly baked bread and unique flavor combinations, you will not want to miss this culinary treat. Credit/debit cards accepted.

01May

Pop-up Restaurant: Bay Boy Specialty Sandwiches

11:00AM - 5:00PM

<img src="/UserFiles/Servers/Server_7662734/Image/CalendarImages/2021/05072021_FNSB_Stage5Clinger.jpg" alt="Friday Night Sound Bites graphic with May 7 date and Stage 5 Clinger band name." title="Friday Night Sound Bites graphic with May 7 date and Stage 5 Clinger band name." style="width: 100%; height: 50%;"> Looking for a cool place to hang out and listen to live music on a Friday night? Head to the Market for Friday Night Sound Bites. Come eat, drink and be entertained by local band, Stage 5 Clinger. Music is located outside the Market on the Lower Commons. COVID-19 restrictions and social distancing still apply. Patio seating is available; however, we encourage attendees to bring their own foldable lawn chairs. Food and drink will be available for purchase from Public Market merchants and rotating guest food trucks. Free admission. No pre-registration required to attend.

07May

Friday Night Sound Bites: Stage 5 Clinger

5:30PM - 8:30PM

<img src="/UserFiles/Servers/Server_7662734/Image/CalendarImages/2021/05142021_TheWannabees.png" alt="Friday Night Sound Bites graphic with May 14 date and The Wannabees band name." title="Friday Night Sound Bites graphic with May 14 date and The Wannabees band name." style="width: 100%; height: 53%;"> Looking for a cool place to hang out and listen to live music on a Friday night? Head to the Market for Friday Night Sound Bites. Come eat, drink and be entertained by local band, The Wannabees. Music is located outside the Market on the Lower Commons. COVID-19 restrictions and social distancing still apply. Patio seating is available; however, we encourage attendees to bring their own foldable lawn chairs. Food and drink will be available for purchase from Public Market merchants and rotating guest food trucks. Free admission. No pre-registration required to attend.

14May

Friday Night Sound Bites: The Wannabees

5:30PM - 8:30PM

<img src="/UserFiles/Servers/Server_7662734/Image/CalendarImages/2019/06182019_African-Dream-Cuisine.jpg" alt="Chefs from African Dream Cuisine with food" title="Chefs from African Dream Cuisine with food" style="">  Taste the flavors of authentic West African cuisine brought to you by owners Neba Ngwa and Stella Musongong. You will have the opportunity to sample a wide variety of delicious dishes prepared with vegetables, roots, grains and leaf spices that work together to create the traditional flavors of West Africa, accompanied by meat, chicken and fish. Come to this pop-up restaurant in The Kitchen at the Lenexa Public Market, and let Neba and Stella share their African Dream with you. Dine in or carry out. Credit/debit accepted. Order ahead for curbside pickup: Call 913.963.8737 to place your order, and to notify them of your arrival. For curbside delivery, there is parking on Eastbound 87th street in front of the market. For carryout — enter the market through the NE entrance, off East bound 87th street and Penrose Lane. For $13.99, customers will design their plates and they will build it for you. Each plate will include four pieces of meat. It will come with two pieces of African Dream's BBQ chicken and two pieces of African Dream's pork bibs, unless otherwise specified. You can get three and one or four pieces of chickens and no pork ribs. You pick your sides and sauces. MENU Meat: BBQ chicken Pork ribs Sides: Kongla fried coconut rice Fried green rice Banso seasoned potatoes Sautéed spinach Fried crunchy cabbage Sauces: African Dream's Dream sauce (regular) Hot & Spicy sauce A la a carte:  Puff Puffs to go $8.99/dozen

15May

Pop-up Restaurant: African Dream Cuisine

12:00PM - 9:00PM

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