The North-East branch will be closed Monday, September 23, for staff training.
Signature Event
Thursday, May 5, 2022
6:00pm
In Person
Participants from Glenn North’s May 1 poetry workshop take the stage to share their work. The readings draw heavily from U.S. Poet...
Signature Event
Saturday, April 23, 2022
1:30pm
In Person
An elderly Native American couple make their last journey together – to Wewoka, capital of the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma. Frankie is dying and in...
Signature Event
Thursday, April 14, 2022
6:30pm
Online
In Person
U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo, whose acclaimed An American Sunrise is the focus of the Library’s Big...
Signature Event
Saturday, April 9, 2022
1:30pm
In Person
The Library continues a month-long series of film screenings in conjunction with Big Read 2022 with the thought-provoking...
Signature Event
Saturday, April 2, 2022
1:30pm
In Person
The Library opens a month-long series of film screenings in conjunction with Big Read 2022 with Smoke Signals...
Signature Event
Monday, November 11, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
Kansas City’s Equity Actors' Readers' Theatre (EARTh) commemorates Veterans Day with a script-in-hand reading of Aaron Sorkin’s sizzl...
Signature Event
Thursday, January 10, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
Efforts to marginalize Native Americans and their culture could not diminish their transformational impact on popular music, from the Delta blues a...
Signature Event
Monday, November 12, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
Commemorating Veterans Day, members of Kansas City’s Equity Actors' Readers' Theatre (EARTh) deliver a script-in-hand performance of...
Signature Event
Monday, September 10, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
In a script-in-hand performance commemorating Labor Day, members of Kansas City’s Equity Actors' Readers' Theatre (EARTh) read select...
Signature Event
Sunday, May 13, 2018
2:00pm
In Person
Coterie Theatre artists resume their monthly interactive story times for children and their parents, reading from indie rocker Tim Ha...