The North-East branch will be closed Monday, September 23, for staff training.
Signature Event
Thursday, October 5, 2023
6:00pm
In Person
Writers for Readers, one of Kansas City's premier literary events, returns with an exciting lineup featuring celebrated author Lan Samantha Chang in c...
Signature Event
Wednesday, November 16, 2022
6:00pm
In Person
Writers for Readers returns with a special lineup featuring celebrated author Alexander Chee and the announcement of...
Signature Event
Sunday, September 19, 2021
4:00pm
In Person
The Kansas City Symphony offers a free outdoor chamber concert at the Library, with a woodwind quintet – flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, and horn – pe...
Signature Event
Sunday, May 20, 2018
2:00pm
In Person
Thomas Fox Averill discusses his most recent novel – Found Documents from the Life of Nell Johnson Doerr...
Signature Event
Saturday, July 15, 2017
2:00pm
In Person
Eugene Ionesco's The Bald Sopranois one of the seminal works of the Theatre of the Absurd. He got the idea for the play from the...
Signature Event
Sunday, February 22, 2015
2:00pm
In Person
Join Bernard Norcott-Mahany and friends in an afternoon of stories and songs about “love gone wrong,” part of the Library’s...
Signature Event
Wednesday, November 19, 2014
7:00pm
In Person
For four years, noted pedestrian Henry Fortunato, the Library’s director of public affairs, has been planning and preparing for hi...
Signature Event
Sunday, August 10, 2014
2:00pm
In Person
Best-selling mystery and horror author J.A. Jance introduced Joanna Brady to readers in Desert Heat in 1993. Her fictiona...
Signature Event
Sunday, February 23, 2014
2:00pm
In Person
Join Bernard Norcott-Mahany as he recounts “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” (the movie Mitty is not the real Mit...
Signature Event
Sunday, April 28, 2013
2:00pm
In Person
Named for a prominent turn-of-the-century business mogul, the area around Jacob Loose Park is still one of Kansas City’s most beautiful areas large...