The Plaza branch will close early at 5 p.m. Monday, July 1, due to water line repairs.
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
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
Online
Poet Threa Almontaser won the 2021 Maya Angelou Book Award for her collection The Wild Fo...
Signature Event
Tuesday, April 12, 2022
6:00pm
Online
In Person
Alexandra Brodsky is a civil rights lawyer, author, and founder of Know Your IX, a youth-led organization working to fight gender violence in schools....
Signature Event
Tuesday, March 15, 2022
6:00pm
Online
In Person
In rescuing some 70 enslaved people from Maryland’s Eastern Shore in the 1850s, shepherding them north along the Underground Railroad, Harriet Tubman...