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Signature Event
Thursday, September 8, 2016
6:30pm
In Person
Iranian-born Siah Armajani is a leading figure in conceptualizing the role and function of public art, including its incorporation...
Signature Event
Wednesday, September 7, 2016
7:00pm
In Person
Gary Lezak is one of the most familiar and popular faces on Kansas City television, a six-time Emmy Award winner who has delivered...
Signature Event
Saturday, September 3, 2016
1:30pm
In Person
Fifty years ago this month, on September 8, 1966, NBC launched a new science-fiction television series that would become one of the most revered franc...
Signature Event
Wednesday, August 31, 2016
6:30pm
In Person
America’s longest war began with an Apache raid and kidnapping of an Arizona rancher’s 12-year-old stepson in 1861. It would last more than a quart...
Signature Event
Tuesday, August 30, 2016
6:30pm
In Person
Amid humanitarian crises in Syria and Iraq and debate in the U.S. about how to address them, a panel of Kansas City-area faith leaders sat down in...
Signature Event
Thursday, August 25, 2016
6:30pm
In Person
Irene Tinker helped compile and edit Developing Power: How Women Transformed International Development,...
Signature Event
Wednesday, August 24, 2016
6:30pm
In Person
With the new novel The Cosmopolitans by lesbian author and activist Sarah Schulman, the New York-based F...
Signature Event
Tuesday, August 23, 2016
6:30pm
In Person
From racist cartoons and spray-painted anti-Semitic symbols to protest chants and signs condemning gays, hate speech has a long and perplexing hist...
Signature Event
Sunday, August 21, 2016
2:00pm
In Person
Faith healer? Fraud? Or both?
The enigma that was Francis Schlatter emerged in the American West in the late 1800s. In looks, he resemble...
Signature Event
Saturday, August 20, 2016
10:30am
In Person
Start your MidAmeriCon II day at the Kansas City Public Library with a presentation by science fiction/fantasy authors Beth Cato a...