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Signature Event
Saturday, January 27, 2024
2:00pm
In Person
In a special Missouri Valley Saturdays discussion of her new book States of Swing: The History of the Kansas City Jazz Orchestra, 2003-2023, author Li...
Signature Event
Sunday, January 21, 2024
1:30pm
In Person
The annual Searching the Psyche Through Cinema series returns, spotlighting a selection of sci-fi films as it looks to illuminate our understanding of...
Signature Event
Thursday, January 18, 2024
6:00pm
Online
In Person
In a discussion of his new book Gun Country: Gun Capitalism, Culture & Control in Cold War America, Louisiana Tech University historian Andrew C. McKe...
Signature Event
Thursday, January 11, 2024
6:00pm
Online
In Person
Crosby Kemper III, who served nearly 15 years as executive director of the Kansas City Public Library, returns to discuss his latest project: a PBS-pr...
Exhibition
January 6, 2024
- March 9, 2024
Wavelength brings together four prolific abstract artists – Ky Anderson, Sally Paul, and Laura Nugent of Kansas City and Alison Tirrell of St. Petersb...
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
Tuesday, December 5, 2023
7:00pm
Online
In Person
**Join us starting at 6 p.m. for a reception hour with food by Dutzel's Catering, music by The Phantastics, and two special drinks.
The Kansas City...
Signature Event
Tuesday, November 28, 2023
6:00pm
Online
In Person
Former Missouri archivist Gary Kremer, one of the state’s foremost historians, discusses the latest of his 12 books,...
Signature Event
Wednesday, November 15, 2023
6:00pm
In Person
In a discussion of his book Designing Camelot: The Kennedy Restoration of the White House, historian James Archer...
Signature Event
Monday, November 13, 2023
6:00pm
In Person
Reporters with ABC television affiliate KMBC 9 have spent a year studying the consequences of both the unchecked pile-up of trash in some parts of Kan...