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Movie Screening
Signature Event
Friday, September 20, 2019
8:00pm
In Person
This animated arachnopalooza spins a web of multidimensional adventure. Young Miles Morales (voiced by Shameik Moore) gets the radioactive spider bite...
Signature Event
Sunday, September 15, 2019
1:30pm
In Person
The Library launches a new film series showcasing the diverse roles of girls in cinematic storytelling with the dark, deadpan, strikingly origin...
Signature Event
Friday, August 16, 2019
8:00pm
In Person
Neighbors from the Red Planet arrive under a pretense of peace, but it soon becomes clear their real intent is to colonize and conquer. Maybe vaporizi...
Signature Event
Wednesday, August 14, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
Writer and director Doug Roland joins in a screening and discussion of his groundbreaking short film Feeling Through...
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...
Signature Event
Saturday, July 6, 2019
11:00am
In Person
Kansas City engages in educational, cultural, and commercial exchanges with a dozen sister cities across the globe, in part through the annual Kans...
Signature Event
Friday, June 21, 2019
8:00pm
In Person
One of Saturday Night Live’s signature comedy sketches gets the big-screen treatment, following Dan Aykroyd and Jane Curtin as stranded cone-...
Signature Event
Monday, June 10, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
The Library punctuates a months-long study of immigration in America with a look into the personal journeys of immigrants who have settled in the Lawr...
Signature Event
Friday, May 17, 2019
8:00pm
In Person
The fate of the galaxy is at stake in Mel Brooks’ classic Star Wars parody. Reluctant hero Lone Starr (Bill Pullman) teams up with trusty sid...
Signature Event
Monday, May 13, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
The Library concludes its examination of immigration in America with a look at pop culture’s role in the assimilation of newcomers to our country—a...