The North-East branch will be closed Monday, September 23, for staff training.
Signature Event
Thursday, February 9, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
The vitality of Kansas City’s arts community today traces back, in part, to David Hughes’ founding of the Charlotte Street Foundat...
Signature Event
Thursday, July 14, 2016
6:30pm
In Person
One of Kansas City’s greatest entrepreneurial success stories traces back to a picnic table in Loose Park in the late 1970s, when Cliff Illig...
Signature Event
Tuesday, May 3, 2016
6:30pm
In Person
From modest attendance of 120 at its first service held in 1990 in the chapel of a local funeral home – the Rev. Adam Hamilton has...
Signature Event
Monday, April 25, 2016
6:30pm
In Person
Everyone is susceptible to implicit bias – unconscious attitudes or stereotypes that affect judgments about others based on their race, ethnicity,...
Signature Event
Wednesday, June 24, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
Opening a five-day series of Urban Grown events—culminating in the...
Signature Event
Tuesday, June 16, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
The Library launches a new series, Real/Modern: KC, that takes a humorous, opinionated, intimate, and informative look at the mode...
Signature Event
Wednesday, February 4, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
Bill Zahner made a tough call shortly after taking charge of the family business in the late 1970s, shifting the focus of the A. Z...
Signature Event
Tuesday, April 8, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
In a discussion of his book, business management and leadership expert Joel Kurtzman makes the argument that America remains by fa...
Signature Event
Wednesday, November 6, 2013
6:30pm
In Person
For nearly 30 years Mark Skousen — financial economist, university professor, and author — has been collecting the wisdom...
Signature Event
Monday, November 4, 2013
6:30pm
In Person
The creative challenges of writing a book are at least matched by the difficulty of shepherding it to publication.
Author Mira Bartok...