The North-East branch will be closed Monday, September 23, for staff training.
Signature Event
Thursday, September 22, 2022
6:00pm
Online
In Person
Marking this year’s observance of Banned Books Week from September 18-24, a panel of veteran librarians from Kansas City-area libr...
Signature Event
Thursday, August 25, 2022
6:00pm
Online
In Person
Historian Emilye Crosby of the State University of New York at Geneseo discusses the significance of the 1965 Voting Rights Act and the crucial rol...
Signature Event
Thursday, August 11, 2022
6:00pm
Online
In Person
In a discussion of her book Reclaiming Your Community: You Don’t Have to Move out of Your Neighborhood to Live in a Better One, New York urban revital...
Signature Event
Thursday, July 28, 2022
6:00pm
Online
In Person
Award-winning essayist and poet Taylor Brorby discusses his new memoir Boys and Oil, recounting the uneasiness of being gay in a rugged land of coa...
Signature Event
Wednesday, July 27, 2022
6:00pm
Online
In Person
Get the scoop behind Kansas City’s newest, biggest, and most family-friendly scavenger hunt. Anne Kniggendorf, a writer and editor at the Li...
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 28, 2022
6:00pm
Online
In Person
Using clips of movies from 1998’s seminal Smoke Signals to present-day releases, film and media history scholar Joanna Hearne...
Signature Event
Thursday, April 14, 2022
6:30pm
Online
In Person
U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo, whose acclaimed An American Sunrise is the focus of the Library’s Big...