The North-East branch will close early at 4 p.m. Tuesday, July 16, due to staff shortages.
Signature Event
Tuesday, September 11, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
Nationally renowned urban thinker Chuck Marohn, who kicked off the Library’s Making a Great City series in January 2018, returns to assess the crucial...
Signature Event
Wednesday, May 2, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
Urban designer Jim Kumon looks at the resurgence of small-scale urban neighborhoods in Los Angeles, Denver, and Minneapolis, among other cities, and h...
Signature Event
Thursday, March 8, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
Urban planner Joe Minicozzi looks at the “math” of effective city building, i.e., the financial implications of land use decisions in municipalities l...
Signature Event
Tuesday, January 30, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
Chuck Marohn, founder of the nonprofit Strong Towns, launches the Making a Great City series with a critical look at how we build our cities and towns...
Signature Event
Tuesday, November 28, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
Award-winning writer, critic, and editor John Freeman joins Writers at Work series organizer Whitney Terrell in a public conversation about Freeman’s...
Signature Event
Thursday, February 2, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
Matt Gallagher has emerged in the past decade as one of literature’s most distinctive and perceptive voices on the Iraq War. As an Ar...
Signature Event
Thursday, September 15, 2016
6:30pm
This event has been canceled at the speaker’s request. We will make every effort to notify interested persons when and i...
Signature Event
Wednesday, March 23, 2016
6:30pm
Among the things Osama bin Laden and his lieutenants left behind when they fled Kandahar after the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 was a cache of...
Signature Event
Thursday, February 26, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
Kansas City novelist and Writers at Work series organizer Whitney Terrell sits down with author Elizabeth Ga...
Signature Event
Thursday, November 6, 2014
6:30pm
Kansas City author and Writers at Work series organizer Whitney Terrell sits down with one of the country’s most acc...