All Library locations will be closed Thursday, July 4, for Independence Day.
Signature Event
Thursday, June 14, 2018
6:30pm
Wander the highways and byways of eastern Kansas and western Missouri, from the Flint Hills to the Ozarks, and you’ll almost inevitably come across...
Signature Event
Signature Event
Monday, June 11, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
American politics, and democracy itself, are seemingly in crisis amid today’s hyper-partisanship, legislative gridlock, and growing public distrust...
Signature Event
Thursday, June 7, 2018
7:00pm
In Person
The four-day HEAR Now Festival, the audio equivalent of a film festival, returns to Kansas City to celebrate storytelling in all f...
Signature Event
Signature Event
Tuesday, June 5, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
The 92-year-old Holocaust survivor from Prairie Village, who endured internment in three Nazi concentration camps during World War II, sits down wi...
Signature Event
Thursday, May 24, 2018
6:30pm
Representatives of the Kansas City area’s journalism community examine a local media landscape buffeted by dwindling revenues, cost-saving cuts in sta...
Signature Event
Sunday, May 13, 2018
2:00pm
Coterie Theatre artists resume their monthly interactive story times for children and their parents, reading from indie rocker Tim Ha...
Signature Event
Thursday, May 10, 2018
6:30pm
Harvard University professor Edward Glaeser looks at joblessness among “prime age” men between 25 and 54 and the public policies he says are cr...
Signature Event
Wednesday, May 9, 2018
6:30pm
The First Amendment facilitated such essential American reforms as ending slavery and extending voting rights to women. Former USA TODAY edit...