816 Day 2025

WHAT IS 816 DAY?

816 Day is the annual, city-proclaimed celebration of Kansas City culture, featuring live entertainment, branded events, and fun activities. On this day, community connectedness is strengthened by local business and resident pride. 

LET’S CELEBRATE 816 DAY WITH BINGO!

Celebrate 816 Day between August 16 – September 13, 2025 with a friendly game of Scavenger Hunt Bingo. Discover new destinations and revisit old stomping grounds around downtown Kansas City and along the KC Streetcar route. Complete your Bingo card by snapping a QR Code at a downtown artwork, landmark and on board the KC Streetcar, or picking up a sticker at the select downtown businesses, coffee shops, and restaurants. *Purchase at participating businesses is not required to play 816 Day Bingo.

Click here for the official 816 Day Bingo Card. 

Your completed Bingo card is your ticket to be eligible to win raffle prizes. Completed cards must be turned into the Visit KC Visitor’s Center at 1111 Main Street. Click here for more information about Visit KC and the Visitor’s Center Hours of Operations.  816 Day Bingo are both free to play and open to the public. 

PRIZES All prizes will be raffled off after 913 Day, September 13, 2025.

Blackout (Fill in all squares):

• KC Staycation including 4 tickets to a KC Current match, a hotel room at the CrownePlaza Kansas City Downtown, and a Belger Ceramics Studio – Wheel Throwing class for 2!

Round Robin (Fill in perimeter squares): Two (2) $100 gift cards to select downtown establishments.

Single Row (Fill in a row – either horizontally, vertically or diagonally): Eight (8) $50 gift cards to select downtown establishments.

WHAT’S NEW THIS YEAR? 

Since 2018, the downtown community has been celebrating all things 816! As always, we are partnering with Art in the Loop, the Downtown Council, Downtown Neighborhood Association, the River Market Community Association, Visit KC, and Crown Center, to bring a celebration worthy of our area code to the Historic City Market. Between 6:00 – 8:00 p.m., on Saturday, August 16, the downtown fun will be at City Market with three Art in the Loop performances featuring: 

Myself Embodied | Myself Embodied delivers an immersive self-embodied experience that blends movement, poetry, spoken word, music, dance, and yoga. Over the course of an hour, she will guide participants through communal ritual, weaving together movement, journaling, and sound to catalyze self-love, healing, forgiveness, and joy.

True Lions | True Lions is a traditional folk, Ozark Old-Time style trio traditionally including acoustic guitar, bass, fiddle, and occasionally banjo. The band was originally created as a means to explore guitar and expand her knowledge of traditional folk music.

Jass | Jass is a musician whose work is rooted in jazz, blues, and soul, combined with a modern element of spoken word and hip hop. This particular performance entitled “The Ride,” encourages the audience to enjoy the journey and to be open to exploration throughout. Every note, every shift, is an invitation to ride along, reflect, and release.