The North-East branch will close early at 4 p.m. Tuesday, July 16, due to staff shortages.
Signature Event
Sunday, December 8, 2019
2:00pm
Recorded by Dylan Thomas in 1952 and published in book form two years later, A Child’s Christmas in Wales endures as one of the...
Signature Event
Tuesday, December 3, 2019
6:30pm
Adam Arredondo, executive director of the KC Startup Foundation, and Maria Meyers, executive director of the UMKC In...
Signature Event
Thursday, November 21, 2019
6:30pm
Adrienne Walker Hoard began her long relationship with South Africa’s Ndzundza Ndebele people in 1996. The country was settling...
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
Tuesday, November 12, 2019
6:30pm
In conjunction with the opening of the new Library exhibit UpStart, a panel of Kansas City’s foremost entrepreneurs and business e...
Signature Event
Monday, November 11, 2019
6:30pm
Kansas City’s Equity Actors' Readers' Theatre (EARTh) commemorates Veterans Day with a script-in-hand reading of Aaron Sorkin’s sizzl...
Signature Event
Wednesday, November 6, 2019
6:30pm
Celebrate what made the 2019 Art in the Loop Project: Make/Believe great. The curated outdoor exhibition, staged in partnership...
Signature Event
Wednesday, October 23, 2019
6:30pm
First performed in Turin, Italy, in 1896, La bohème became one of the world’s most eternally popular operas and a signature work of com...
Signature Event
Thursday, October 17, 2019
6:30pm
Photographer B.A. Van Sise, whose work is featured in the Library exhibit One Second, discusses the convergence o...
Signature Event
Thursday, October 3, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
Born and raised in Topeka (which appears in some fashion in all of his works), novelist, essayist, and poet Ben Lerner is one of t...