All Library locations will be closed Thursday, July 4, for Independence Day.
Signature Event
Thursday, November 16, 2017
6:30pm
Former ambassador David F. Lambertson, who served in Saigon in the mid-1960s as a member of the American embassy’s political secti...
Signature Event
Wednesday, November 15, 2017
6:30pm
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Signature Event
Tuesday, November 14, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
Columbia University professor and writer Helen Benedict and the University of Missouri-Kansas City’s Whitney Terrell...
Signature Event
Sunday, November 12, 2017
2:00pm
Coterie Theatre artists resume their monthly interactive story times for children and their parents, reading from Mustach...
Signature Event
Wednesday, November 8, 2017
6:30pm
Returning to Kansas City on the heels of the Heart of America Shakespeare Festival’s 25th anniversary season, national Shakespeare authority...
Signature Event
Sunday, November 5, 2017
2:00pm
The Library continues its movie series for individuals with dementia, their friends, and families with the lighthearted documentary The Sear...
Signature Event
Thursday, November 2, 2017
6:30pm
As the Vietnam War escalated in the 1960s, Hollywood was struggling financially and the longtime studio system was collapsing. Into the vacuum step...
Signature Event
Wednesday, November 1, 2017
6:30pm
Donald Trump became the 45th president of the United States in large part by campaigning against the establishment. Now, author and conservative...
Signature Event
Thursday, October 26, 2017
6:30pm
In a discussion of his new book, Dearest Mother: Letters from a Lonesome Sammy, 1915-1919, Kansas City marketing icon, local...
Signature Event
Tuesday, October 24, 2017
6:30pm
Stewart O’Nan's work spans from Snow Angels and Last Night at the Lobster to a nonfiction collaboration with Stephe...