All Library locations will open late Tuesday, July 9 at 10:30 a.m. due to staff training.
Signature Event
Tuesday, June 12, 2012
6:30pm
In his new book, Philip E. Auerswald envisions an optimistic future in which forward-thinking entrepreneurs emerge from cultures arou...
Signature Event
Sunday, June 10, 2012
2:00pm
The sixth season of Script-in-Hand performances by the Metropolitan Ensemble Theatre concludes with the children’s c...
Signature Event
Thursday, June 7, 2012
3:00pm
The shift from old-fashioned paper ballots to electronic voting has raised concerns over whether elections results can be manipulated. Are our votes...
Signature Event
Tuesday, June 5, 2012
6:30pm
Biographer Douglas Brinkley looks at the life and career of CBS newsman Walter Cronkite, the St. Joseph native who became the most tr...
Signature Event
Monday, June 4, 2012
1:30pm
In Person
Founded in 1993, the Heart of America Shakespeare Festival is dedicated to bringing the Bard’s great plays free of charge to Kansas City audiences....
Signature Event
Thursday, May 31, 2012
6:30pm
Choral director Simon Carrington and members of his Simon Carrington Chamber Singers join their voices to those of 3...
Signature Event
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
Author Zachary Karabell examines Chester Alan Arthur, who was propelled into the presidency by the assassination of James Garfield an...
Signature Event
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
6:30pm
Curator of decorative arts Catherine Futter and her colleagues from the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art provide an illustrated behind-the...
Signature Event
Sunday, May 20, 2012
2:30pm
Former Kansas City Star columnist Bill Tammeus discusses his anger over the loss of his nephew in the terrorist attacks on S...
Signature Event
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
6:30pm
Candice Millard, author of Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine & the Murder of a President...