All Library locations will be closed Thursday, July 4, for Independence Day.
Signature Event
Sunday, January 17, 2016
2:00pm
The Library kicks off its 10th season of Script-in-Hand performances and launches more than six months of...
Signature Event
Thursday, December 10, 2015
6:30pm
Everyone has a reader in their life, even if that reader is you.
In a first-of-its-kind event the Kansas City Public Library’s...
Signature Event
Saturday, October 10, 2015
2:00pm
In Person
The Westport Historical Society Speaker Series seeks to promote and foster public interest in and preserve the significance of local history....
Signature Event
Tuesday, September 29, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
Rightly or wrongly—and author Robert E. Litan insists it’s wrongly—the public’s esteem for economists plunged in the w...
Signature Event
Sunday, September 27, 2015
2:00pm
Revamped, revised, reworked, and reimagined fairy tale characters and stories have seen an explosion in contemporary media from graphic novels to tele...
Signature Event
Wednesday, September 23, 2015
6:30pm
Beginning with a silent short released in 1903, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland has intrigued both filmmakers and viewers. Lewis Carroll’s 1...
Signature Event
Wednesday, September 16, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
Few literary works are more quoted, translated, and adapted than Lewis Carroll’s Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. This year marks the sesqui...
Signature Event
Wednesday, August 19, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
Bestselling author and former Kansas City Star columnist Joe Posnanski discusses his new book about the most remarkable r...
Signature Event
Thursday, August 6, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
Historian Adrian Burgos Jr. and Raymond Doswell of the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum discuss the early struggles and now-growing impact of Latinos on...
Signature Event
Wednesday, August 5, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
History books cast William Clark as a wilderness-braving, 1800s action hero, a partner with Meriwether Lewis in the nearly two-and-a-half-year expl...