All Library locations will be closed Wednesday, June 19, for Juneteenth.
Signature Event
Friday, April 19, 2024
5:30pm
In Person
To celebrate two decades at 14 W. 10th Street, the public is invited to an all-ages drop-in happy hour on April 19, 2024, that includes refreshments,...
Signature Event
Tuesday, February 7, 2023
6:00pm
Online
In Person
Three local business owners -- Kemet Coleman, La’Nae Robinson, and La’Nesha Frazier -- help the Library kick off a new four-pa...
Signature Event
Tuesday, July 26, 2022
6:30pm
In Person
Learn about the past, present, and future of vision loss during the premiere of the podcast and video series Foresight, produced by Kansas City’s A...
Signature Event
Tuesday, March 3, 2020
6:30pm
In Person
Kansas City has an infrastructure problem. Simply put, it can’t afford what it needs. Dennis Strait of the Kansas City studio of Gould Evans, an archi...
Signature Event
Thursday, November 14, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
Some 38 million people, nearly one in eight, live in poverty in today’s America as liberals and conservatives spar over solutions. Researcher and w...
Signature Event
Thursday, October 4, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
University of Kansas paleontologist David Burnham discusses his work unearthing several young T. rex fossils in the Hell Creek rocks...
Signature Event
Wednesday, May 24, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
For all of its diplomatic and military efforts, the U.S. has been unable to end unrest and extremism in the Middle East and other troubled regions of...
Signature Event
Tuesday, May 3, 2016
6:30pm
In Person
From modest attendance of 120 at its first service held in 1990 in the chapel of a local funeral home – the Rev. Adam Hamilton has nu...
Signature Event
Thursday, March 3, 2016
6:30pm
In Person
At 83, SuEllen Fried’s social conscience has scarcely ebbed. The Prairie Village native – one of former President George H.W. Bush's...
Signature Event
Friday, November 6, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
The 16th Annual Kansas City Storytelling Celebration features a lineup of lively stories, anecdotes, myths, legends, and lessons....