The Plaza branch will close early at 5 p.m. Monday, July 1, due to water line repairs.
Signature Event
Tuesday, January 14, 2020
6:30pm
In Person
As the civil rights movement waned in the 1960s and early ’70s, federal programs promoted a new means of racial equality: the franchising of McDona...
Signature Event
Tuesday, December 10, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
In an industry—local television news—that churns through on-air talent with nearly every ratings dip and shift in management, Al Wallace...
Signature Event
Tuesday, November 19, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
There may be no more ardent disciple of literature today than John Freeman, founder of Freeman’s anthology of new writing and the...
Signature Event
In Person
In this special fundraising event benefitting a new creative writing initiative from the Library and UMKC, Academy Award-winning screenwriter ...
Signature Event
Monday, November 4, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
We want to make our children readers. The question is: How? Which books are best to read to babies? How do we judge our kids’ reading progress? Are te...
Signature Event
Wednesday, October 30, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
Megan Phelps-Roper took part in her first Westboro Baptist Church protest at age 5. Granddaughter of the late Fred Phelps, patriarch...
Signature Event
Tuesday, October 22, 2019
6:30pm
In a discussion of his book A Pilgrimage to Eternity, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Timothy Egan recount...
Signature Event
Monday, October 14, 2019
6:30pm
We take our seats in a darkened movie theater, turn ourselves over for a couple of hours to a romantic storyline and the romantic leads, and walk away...
Signature Event
Thursday, October 10, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
In a discussion of her new memoir Here We Are: American Dreams, American Nightmares, Aarti Shahani walks th...
Signature Event
Tuesday, October 8, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
Author Mallory O’Meara spotlights the history-making but too-long-overlooked creator of one of movies’ most iconic monsters in a d...