All Library locations will be close early Wednesday, November 27, at 5 p.m. & will be closed Thursday, November 28, for Thanksgiving.
Movie Screening
Signature Event
Friday, May 20, 2016
8:00pm
In Person
Doors open: 8 p.m. • Program: 8:45 p.m. The Library’s 2016 Off-the-Wall film series kicks...
Signature Event
Saturday, May 14, 2016
11:30am
In Person
In conjunction with Planet Comicon, Kansas City’s largest pop culture and comic book convention, scheduled for May 20-22 at Bartle Hall, the Library s...
Signature Event
Saturday, May 14, 2016
11:00am
In Person
As a county sheriff and creator of Utah’s first SWAT team, William “Dub” Lawrence was once an unlikely critic of law enforcement. That SWAT team, howe...
Signature Event
Saturday, May 7, 2016
1:30pm
In Person
In conjunction with Planet Comicon, Kansas City’s largest pop culture and comic book convention, scheduled for May 20-22 at Bartle Hall, the Library s...
Signature Event
Thursday, May 5, 2016
6:30pm
In Person
The PBS documentary series Latino Americans: The 500 Year Legacy That Reshaped a Nation chronicles the rich history and expe...
Signature Event
Saturday, April 30, 2016
1:30pm
In Person
Baseball is back, launching a new major-league season April 3. That, of course, is big news in Kansas City, where the Royals begin defense of their fi...
Signature Event
Sunday, April 17, 2016
2:00pm
In Person
Hollywood has adapted, sampled, and stolen from William Shakespeare for more than a century – seeing his works as a source of prestige as soon as the...
Signature Event
Sunday, March 20, 2016
2:00pm
In Person
Hollywood has adapted, sampled, and stolen from William Shakespeare for more than a century – seeing his works as a source of prestige as soon as the...
Signature Event
Saturday, March 12, 2016
11:00am
In Person
Craig Cobb was already notorious before trying to take over Leith, North Dakota, and turn it into an Aryan enclave some three years ago. The struggle...
Signature Event
Thursday, March 10, 2016
6:30pm
In Person
The acclaimed 2010 film Black Swan offers a strange and terrifying interpretation of the dance world, revolving around a bal...