All Library locations will be closed Thursday, June 19, for Juneteenth.
Signature Event
Thursday, June 12, 2025
6:00pm
Online
In Person
MSNBC anchor Jonathan Capehart shares stories from his new book Yet Here I Am about growing comfortable with his identity as a gay Black man and the i...
Signature Event
Tuesday, June 10, 2025
6:00pm
In Person
Kansas City PBS host Nick Haines moderates a discussion on the state of aging and caregiving in Kansas City, in light of actor Bradley Cooper's new PB...
Signature Event
Thursday, June 5, 2025
6:00pm
In Person
Join us for a celebration of local art at the 12th annual Art in the Loop Project kickoff event, featuring a musical performance by Monarch Duo, a tra...
Signature Event
Wednesday, May 28, 2025
6:00pm
In Person
The U.S. Army Command and General Staff College returns to the Library to launch a new series on the rise and fall of empires.
Harry S. Laver reco...
Signature Event
Wednesday, May 21, 2025
6:00pm
Online
In Person
Historian Kevin Schultz discusses his new book Why Everyone Hates White Liberals (Including White Liberals): A History, a criticism of modern liberali...
Signature Event
Tuesday, May 20, 2025
6:00pm
In Person
National Trust for Historic Preservation President Carol Quillen discusses the importance of storytelling – rooted in historic places – to a healthy d...
Signature Event
Monday, May 19, 2025
6:00pm
In Person
Bestselling co-authors Queer Eye’s Jonathan Van Ness and Kansas City’s own Julie Murphy discuss their new book, Let Them Stare, a story about a haunte...
Signature Event
Tuesday, May 13, 2025
6:00pm
In Person
New York Times bestselling author Adam Silvera discusses his latest young adult novel, The Survivor Wants to Die at the End, in conversation with Kans...
Signature Event
Sunday, May 11, 2025
3:00pm
In Person
Composer and musician Johann Sebastian Bach’s circle of friends and family included some of the most influential voices of the German Baroque era. Kan...
Signature Event
Thursday, May 8, 2025
6:00pm
Online
More than 50 years after the death of the Man from Missouri, historian John Robert Greene reevaluates a major – and ultimately sca...