The North-East branch will close early at 4 p.m. Tuesday, July 16, due to staff shortages.
Signature Event
Thursday, June 16, 2022
6:00pm
Online
In Person
Ari Rabin-Havt, the deputy campaign manager for Bernie Sanders’ 2020 presidential run, joins KC Tenants Director Tara Raghuveer in a discussion of...
Signature Event
Saturday, June 11, 2022
1:00pm
In Person
This half-day workshop in honor of World Doll Day kicks off with a keynote presentation by Lenexa author Elizabeth Bunce, who just released her thi...
Signature Event
Wednesday, June 1, 2022
6:00pm
Online
In Person
Irish comedian and writer Maeve Higgins, a regular panelist on NPR’s Wait Wait … Don’t Tell Me!, discusses her new book Tell Ev...
Signature Event
Thursday, April 14, 2022
6:30pm
In Person
U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo, whose acclaimed An American Sunrise is the focus of the Library’s Big...
Signature Event
Tuesday, March 10, 2020
6:30pm
In Person
Beverly Daniel Tatum, president emerita of Spelman College and an authority on racial issues in the U.S., looks anew at the challe...
Signature Event
Wednesday, February 19, 2020
6:30pm
In Person
In a discussion of her memoir Smacked, former New York Times business columnist Eilene Zimmerman...
Signature Event
Tuesday, February 18, 2020
6:30pm
In Person
Arguments in the divisive right-to-die debate range from legal to spiritual, ethical, and social. Longtime public radio host and podcaster...
Signature Event
Tuesday, February 11, 2020
6:30pm
In Person
Merriam-Webster has thrown its considerable weight behind the use of “they” as a singular, gender-neutral pronoun, expanding its dictionary definit...
Signature Event
Tuesday, February 4, 2020
6:30pm
In Person
When journalist Sarah DiGregorio’s daughter was born nearly three months prematurely, she was cast into a place—t...
Signature Event
Thursday, January 30, 2020
6:30pm
In Person
As sentiment for a new downtown baseball stadium simmers in Kansas City, Vanity Fair contributing editor Paul Goldberger...