All Library locations will be closed Thursday, July 4, for Independence Day.
Signature Event
Monday, March 26, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
Frustrated with the slow pace of civil rights reforms and outraged at the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., protesters in Kansas City took to t...
Signature Event
Sunday, March 18, 2018
2:00pm
In the latest installment of the Library’s popular Script-in-Hand series, the Heart of America Shakespeare Festival offers a unique performance of The...
Signature Event
Thursday, March 15, 2018
6:30pm
Florida Atlantic University ethnobotanist Maria Fadiman discusses the deep relationship between people and plants worldwide, from people growing food,...
Signature Event
Sunday, March 11, 2018
2:00pm
Coterie Theatre artists resume their monthly interactive story times for children and their parents, reading from Jon Agee’s engaging...
Signature Event
Saturday, March 10, 2018
2:00pm
The latest installment of the Indie Lens Pop-Up film series spotlights Dolores Huerta, co-founder of the first farmworkers union with Cesar Cha...
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
Sunday, March 4, 2018
1:30pm
The 2017 Searching the Psyche Through Cinema series, spotlighting the works of stylish, idiosyncratic director David Lynch, wraps up...
Signature Event
Thursday, March 1, 2018
6:30pm
Kala Visvanathan of Johns Hopkins University, part of a team conducting a comprehensive new study of breast cancer in Missouri, discusses her findings...
Signature Event
Wednesday, February 21, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
Dodge City, Kansas, native Robert Rebein revisits his hometown and Kansas’ high plains often in a discussion of his third book,...
Signature Event