On Saturday, October 11, the Central Library is open to registered Heartland Book Festival attendees only. Regular services, such as hold pickups, public computers and phones, and public meeting rooms, will not be available.
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Signature Event
Friday, August 9, 2019
9:30pm
In Person
Bring your energy. Bust out some moves. Young attendees don special headphones and choose from several different musical, DJ-hosted channels to which...
Signature Event
Wednesday, August 7, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
Less than one week after taking office, new Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas joins veteran KMBC television news reporter Mi...
Signature Event
Tuesday, August 6, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
Military historian Harry S. Laver of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College looks back at Paris’ deliverance in 1944 from mo...
Signature Event
Wednesday, July 31, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
What does film tell us about our fascination with and perception of the moon? University of Missouri-Kansas City film studies professor Mitch...
Signature Event
Thursday, July 25, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
He has been the face of Kansas City for eight years. Now, as Sly James completes his second and mandatory final term as mayor, he loo...
Signature Event
Wednesday, July 24, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
The legend of George S. Patton is one of triumph touched by controversy. He delivered both in the Mediterranean theater of World War II, setting the s...
Signature Event
Tuesday, July 23, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
The son of a World War II veteran and himself a decorated former Marine who fought a year in Vietnam, Karl Marlantes based his fir...
Signature Event
Sunday, July 21, 2019
2:00pm
In Person
No artist captured the people and landscape of early 20th-century Missouri more than native son Thomas Hart Benton. As a child growing up in southwest...
Signature Event
Saturday, July 20, 2019
12:00pm
In Person
For Benjamin Todd Wills, art is born of curiosity as well as creativity.
The Kansas City artist launched the first of two ball...
Signature Event
Friday, July 19, 2019
8:00pm
In Person
Hollywood actors from a Star Trek-like TV show (Tim Allen, Sigourney Weaver, Alan Rickman, Tony Shalhoub, and Sam Rockwell) get mistaken for...