A new North Kansas City company is putting on both private events and pop-ups that will be open to the public including a Kansas City Chiefs home-opener.
It started when Chris Boyle was looking for a bigger production facility for his growing Daily Culture kombucha business. A barrel-roof, circa 1932 brick building at 1447 Gentry St. in North Kansas City caught his eye, but he only needed half the space.
So Boyle, his wife Meagan, her sister Charlene Kloeblen, and Charlene’s husband, Kurt, teamed up on the new Culture Collective event space.
“We have a really good team. Our four family members have all been in and around the hospitality business for a long time so we know how it should be run and we do the best we can to take care of the guests,” he says.
The Boyles and Charlene grew up in the Northland and attended Oak Park High School. Charlene also owns Char’s Beauty Shop and Kurt owns a mobile business, Feel The Music DJ.
Culture Collective has a bar and can hold up to 100 inside. It also has patio seating.
Since opening in early July it has hosted mostly birthday parties. But it has baby showers, bridal showers and engagement parties booked too. The owners also plan to do micro-weddings.
Events open to the public will include a home-opener watch party for the Kansas City Chiefs Sept. 5. Straight Outta KC, a Crossroads ghost kitchen, will offer pizza, and The Good Stuff Truck will have funnel cakes.
Another sister of Charlene’s, Mandy Hudson Gusman, is a nurse but had been a bartender for several years with Meagan. Now the duo can often be found working the bar together at Culture Collective events.
“Me and my sisters have always been really close and our families have supported whatever we want to do,” Charlene says. “We’ve put our blood, sweat and tears into the event space. We just have so much passion and we just enjoy being together and doing these events together.” Culture Collective has Daily Culture kombucha on tap for all events. The kombucha also is sold in more than 30 small businesses throughout the Kansas City metro, including coffee shops, restaurants and speciality markets.The North Kansas City building was previously home to Misc., a themed cocktail bar, and Callsign Brewing (which relocated to 1340 Burlington St. in North Kansas City).
