The Ruiz Branch is closed Saturday, September 28, due to a malfunctioning fire alarm.
Signature Event
Sunday, February 10, 2019
2:00pm
Powerful imagery of protests and violence helped bring attention to America's civil rights movement. Black photographers of the era broadened the nati...
Signature Event
Wednesday, February 6, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
Pulitzer Prize recipient Tyehimba Jess “is inventive, prophetic, wondrous,” says fellow award-winning poet Nikky Finney. Jess highlig...
Signature Event
Thursday, January 31, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
Kansas City artist Ben Wills details his outreach to prisoners and how it has affected his approach to his work. The presentation coi...
Signature Event
Thursday, January 24, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
There’s a certain uneasiness about former concentration camps, ghettos, and other sites associated with the Holocaust being draws for tourists. But Gr...
Signature Event
Wednesday, January 23, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
University of Virginia historian William I. Hitchcock takes stock of Dwight Eisenhower’s far-reaching legacy as president in a discus...
Signature Event
Tuesday, January 15, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
The University of Kansas’ John Tibbetts draws from 35 years of conversations with some of the world’s finest musicians in discussing...
Signature Event
Wednesday, January 9, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
In a discussion of the new book Wide-Open Town, its editors – historians Diane Mutti Burke, John He...
Signature Event
Tuesday, December 18, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
Former Kansas City Star editorial writer Yael Abouhalkah and his wife Beci Bosley discuss their alternative...
Signature Event
Thursday, December 13, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
Victory distant but in view, the U.S. and its World War II allies gathered in Egypt and Iran late in 1943 to map out strategy for the coming year and...
Signature Event
Wednesday, December 12, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
Nationally renowned lettering artist and illustrator Jessica Hische discusses her work and her newest dear-to-her-heart project:...