Signature Events - Video | Kansas City Public Library

State of Poetry: The Poets Laureate of Missouri and Kansas

Maryfrances Wagner, Huascar Medina

October 4, 2022

Drawn to Greatness: The Art of Caldecott Medal-Winning Books

Chris Raschka, Crystal Faris

October 3, 2022

Can We Trust Mainstream Media?

Ari Fleischer, David Von Drehle

September 28, 2022

Ban These Books? Let’s Talk

Crystal Faris, Kaite Stover, Steven Woolfolk

September 22, 2022

Hollywood vs. History: 'Patton'

William S. Nance

September 12, 2022

Voting Access: Where We’ve Been and Where We’re Headed

September 8, 2022

Taking a ‘Collective’ Approach to Equitable Development in KC

Tiffany Elder, Terrell “TJ” Jolly, Shawnna Murrell

September 7, 2022

River of the Gods: Genius, Courage, and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile

Candice Millard

August 30, 2022

They Fought the Fight: The 1965 Voting Rights Act

Emilye Crosby

August 25, 2022

The Art of Desiree Kelly: Storytelling Through Portraits

Desiree Kelly

August 24, 2022

You Don’t Have to Move Out of Your Neighborhood to Live in a Better One

Majora Carter

August 11, 2022

Hollywood vs. History: '55 Days at Peking'

Geoff Babb

August 8, 2022

Boys and Oil: Growing Up Gay in a Fractured Land

Taylor Brorby

July 28, 2022

Blindness Community Changemakers: An Alphapointe Film Premiere and Conversation

David Paterson, Robbie Makinen, David Westbrook

July 26, 2022

Hollywood vs. History: The Great Escape

David W. Mills, Kayla L. Westra

July 11, 2022

Hollywood vs. History: World War II and The Best Years of Our Lives

Brian L. Steed

June 27, 2022

Broke: Patients Talk about Money with Their Doctor

Michael Stein

May 19, 2022

Dissident: Songs for Anna Akhmatova

Musical Performance

May 15, 2022

The Lords of Easy Money: How the Federal Reserve Broke the American Economy

Christopher Leonard

May 10, 2022

Hollywood vs. History: Kingdom of Heaven

John D. Hosler

May 9, 2022

Indigenous Cinema Now: Native American and First Nations Filmmaking in the 21st Century

Joanna Hearne

April 28, 2022

An Evening With Alexandra Brodsky

Sexual Justice: Supporting Victims, Ensuring Due Process, and Resisting the Conservative Backlash

April 12, 2022

All Boys Aren’t Blue

George M. Johnson, Justice Horn

February 23, 2022

How to Stitch an American Dream

Jenny Doan

February 9, 2022