All Library locations will open late Tuesday, July 9 at 10:30 a.m. due to staff training.
Signature Event
Wednesday, January 20, 2016
6:30pm
The Library, in partnership with American Public Square, launches a series of discussions of polarizing local issues – minus the inci...
Signature Event
Sunday, January 17, 2016
2:00pm
The Library kicks off its 10th season of Script-in-Hand performances and launches more than six months of...
Signature Event
Tuesday, January 12, 2016
6:30pm
On their first date, a canoe outing in southern Africa, where they both lived, Alexandra Fuller and husband-to-be Charlie Ross were c...
Signature Event
Tuesday, January 5, 2016
3:00pm
Kansas City's Shane W. Evans, who has earned national acclaim as the illustrator of more than 30 children's books, joins actress, mod...
Signature Event
Thursday, December 10, 2015
6:30pm
Everyone has a reader in their life, even if that reader is you.
In a first-of-its-kind event the Kansas City Public Library’s...
Signature Event
Wednesday, December 2, 2015
6:30pm
The stories seem more prevalent and disturbing today than ever: kids being pushed in one or more sports to the point of burnout before high school, pa...
Signature Event
Wednesday, November 11, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
World chess champion-turned-human rights activist Garry Kasparov sounded his first warning about Vladimir Putin in 2001.
He now c...
Signature Event
Tuesday, November 10, 2015
6:30pm
Lady Bird Johnson was no mere White House photo prop.
The former Claudia Taylor once was described by husband Lyndon Johnson as “the brains and mon...
Signature Event
Monday, November 9, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
Many, if not most, Americans’ understanding of Gen. George Armstrong Custer begins and ends with his demise at Little Bighorn. But that belies the com...
Signature Event
Sunday, November 8, 2015
2:00pm
In Person
Thomas Hart Benton’s national notoriety – as one of the most visible and controversial American painters of the 1930s – has overshadowed his time a...