The North-East branch will close early at 4 p.m. Tuesday, July 16, due to staff shortages.
Signature Event
Monday, September 9, 2019
6:30pm
When first staged in New York City in 1935, Waiting for Lefty made a sensation of its playwright, Clifford Ode...
Signature Event
Saturday, September 7, 2019
1:30pm
From the Carter Family to Bill Monroe, from Hank Williams, Patsy Cline, and Johnny Cash to Garth Brooks, a succession of 20th-century performers—stars...
Signature Event
Wednesday, August 21, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
There was much more to celebrated gonzo writer Hunter S. Thompson than the drug- and booze-addled caricature he fostered in Fear and Loathing i...
Signature Event
Friday, August 9, 2019
9:30pm
In Person
Bring your energy. Bust out some moves. Young attendees don special headphones and choose from several different musical, DJ-hosted channels to which...
Signature Event
Saturday, July 20, 2019
12:00pm
For Benjamin Todd Wills, art is born of curiosity as well as creativity.
The Kansas City artist launched the first of...
Signature Event
Wednesday, July 17, 2019
6:30pm
Anita O’Brien, an original co-curator of the Library’s special traveling exhibit, Ralph Steadman: A Retrospective, d...
Signature Event
Wednesday, June 5, 2019
6:30pm
As the 2019 Art in the Loop Project: Make/Believe begins its nearly five-month run in and around downtown Kansas City, meet its lineu...
Signature Event
Saturday, March 30, 2019
2:00pm
In Person
Artist Benjamin Wills has come to understand what a few lines in a letter – or just the arrival of mail – can mean to someone behind...
Signature Event
Tuesday, March 5, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
Keith Culbertson, the chairman and CEO of Design Workshop and a George Kessler historian, launches a three-part study of Kansas City’s distinctive sys...
Signature Event
Sunday, February 10, 2019
2:00pm
Powerful imagery of protests and violence helped bring attention to America's civil rights movement. Black photographers of the era broadened the nati...