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Signature Event
Sunday, June 9, 2024
2:00pm
In Person
Local attorney Gary Jenkins, a filmmaker, author and former Kansas City police detective, investigated mafia bombings and murders in the 1970s in the...
Signature Event
Thursday, June 13, 2024
7:00pm
Online
In Person
In a special presentation as part of the Library’s yearlong sesquicentennial celebration, NPR’s Ari Shapiro – host of the award-winning news magazine...
Activity
Wednesday, June 26, 2024
10:30am
In Person
Coffee & Conversation invites people experiencing life challenges to have a cup of coffee, healthy snacks, direct access to resources, and emergenc...
Signature Event
Wednesday, June 26, 2024
6:00pm
In Person
Oscar winner Kevin Willmott (BlacKkKlansman) discusses one of his recent projects, the 2023 documentary sequel to Kansas City journalist C.J. Janovy’s...
Signature Event
Sunday, July 7, 2024
2:00pm
In Person
Although little remembered today, Robert Boatright was one of the greatest con men of the early 20th century. Historian Kimberly Harper shares Boatrig...
Activity
Wednesday, July 10, 2024
7:00pm
In Person
Death Café is an open discussion group with no set agenda-the conversation will flow where the attendees guide it. Our goal is to help facilit...
Signature Event
Friday, July 12, 2024
1:00pm
In Person
This road-tripping, hilarious, heart-wrenching, family-style adventure story is almost completely true, says author Pedro Martín. The Mexikid author,...
Signature Event
Saturday, July 13, 2024
2:00pm
In Person
Before he was known as "Wild Bill,” famed frontiersman and gunfighter James Butler Hickok spent three formative years as a young man in the Kansas Cit...
Activity
Wednesday, July 24, 2024
10:30am
In Person
Coffee & Conversation invites people experiencing life challenges to have a cup of coffee, healthy snacks, direct access to resources, and emergenc...
Signature Event
Wednesday, July 24, 2024
6:00pm
Online
In Person
As part of the Making a Great City series, Jenny Schuetz, Senior Fellow at Brookings Metro, discusses her latest book Fixer-Upper: How to Repair Ameri...