All Library locations will be closed Monday, May 27, for Memorial Day.
Signature Event
Sunday, December 17, 2023
2:00pm
Online
In Person
In a discussion drawing from his new book The Bars Are Ours: Histories and Cultures of Gay Bars in America, 1960 and After, Lucas Hilderbrand of the U...
Signature Event
Sunday, February 26, 2023
2:00pm
In Person
Lawrence, Kansas, photographer Ann Dean discusses the impact and inspiration found in three seminal books – The Learning Tree...
Signature Event
Sunday, May 22, 2022
2:00pm
Online
In Person
Sitting at the nation’s crossroads, Kansas C...
Signature Event
Sunday, February 10, 2019
2:00pm
Powerful imagery of protests and violence helped bring attention to America's civil rights movement. Black photographers of the era broadened the nati...
Signature Event
Sunday, November 12, 2017
2:00pm
Artist and filmmaker Brian Hawkins examines our state’s mostly east-side French Creole community – specifically its rich collection of folktale...
Signature Event
Sunday, July 31, 2016
2:00pm
From its early days as a cowtown – a jumping-off point to the West and shipping center for meat and wheat – Kansas City not only grew into a Midwest m...
Signature Event
Sunday, December 6, 2015
2:00pm
No other resident of Kansas City, past or present, has achieved the worldwide fame of Walt Disney. He created the animated Mickey Mouse and establishe...
Signature Event
Sunday, July 19, 2015
2:00pm
In July 1974, an estimated 100,000 members—and probably more—of the Woodstock generation descended on the Missouri State Fairgrounds in Se...
Signature Event
Sunday, February 8, 2015
2:00pm
Richard L. Berkley once said, “I like meeting people.” Before, during, and after his record three-term tenure as Kansas City’s mayor...
Signature Event
Sunday, October 19, 2014
2:00pm
Not only is Kansas City home to world-class art museums, outstanding performing arts venues, and some of the planet’s best barbecue, it also boasts su...