Signature Event The State of Education in America Tuesday, June 29, 2021 6:30pm Online As America’s education system approaches a pivotal new school year, former U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan sits down with Lib... Read More
Signature Event On Juneteenth Monday, June 28, 2021 6:30pm Online In an online KC Library program, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Annette Gordon-Reed discusses her new book On Juneteent... Read More
Signature Event Flora and Fauxna Thursday, June 24, 2021 6:30pm Online Nearly half a century’s work in photography and art has brought Patty Carroll to the Central Library’s first-floor Genevieve Guldner Gallery.... Read More
Signature Event Reading Kansas City: A Literary Checklist Tuesday, June 22, 2021 6:30pm In Person Former Kansas City Star writer and editor Steve Paul joins Kaite Stover, the Library’s director of readers’... Read More
Signature Event Why KC Should Want to Be More Walkable – and How It Can Be Tuesday, June 22, 2021 12:00pm Online Cities are made to be walked – or should be, given the economic, environmental, and medical benefits. How far is Kansas City from... Read More
Signature Event Pandemics of the Future and Today Thursday, June 17, 2021 6:30pm Online If, indeed, the COVID-19 pandemic is waning in the United States, the questions and concerns around it have not. Where do dangerous new viruses lik... Read More
Signature Event Climate Courage Wednesday, June 16, 2021 6:30pm Online There is a way to address climate change -- we have the needed technology and financing -- but is there enough collective will? Can a society... Read More
Signature Event The Presidency and the Press Tuesday, June 15, 2021 6:30pm Online Pressing then-President Donald Trump on the issue of voter suppression a little more than 2½ years ago, veteran White House correspondent A... Read More
Signature Event The Man I Knew: The Amazing Story of George H. W. Bush's Post-Presidency Wednesday, June 9, 2021 6:30pm Online These rancorous political times arouse a certain wistfulness for a president who sought a “kinder and gentler nation.” George H. W.... Read More
Signature Event Felon: A Play Tuesday, June 8, 2021 6:30pm Online Before emerging as a critically acclaimed writer and poet and earning appointments to criminal justice panels by President Obama and the governor o... Read More