All Library locations will be closed Wednesday, June 19, for Juneteenth.
Signature Event
Tuesday, March 26, 2024
6:00pm
Online
In Person
Timothy Westcott, Damon Grosvenor, and Martin Roberson of Park University’s George S. Robb Centre for the Study of the Great War discuss their researc...
Signature Event
Tuesday, March 19, 2024
6:00pm
In Person
In a special and timely town hall session, the Library, Kansas City PBS, and American Public Square examine an issue that has generated considerable l...
Signature Event
Monday, November 13, 2023
6:00pm
In Person
Reporters with ABC television affiliate KMBC 9 have spent a year studying the consequences of both the unchecked pile-up of trash in some parts of Kan...
Signature Event
Wednesday, October 25, 2023
6:00pm
Online
In Person
We want our cities to be more affordable, more equitable, more vibrant and sustainable. Among the necessary fixes, former New York City planner Nolan...
Signature Event
Thursday, May 18, 2023
6:00pm
Online
Jackie Nguyen, founder of Café Cà Phê, highlights the second installment of the Library’s four-part series on how to make entrepreneurship in Kansas C...
Signature Event
Thursday, January 26, 2023
6:00pm
In Person
Four former Kansas City mayors gather for the first time in an extraordinary forum co-presented by the Citizens Association of Kansas City...
Signature Event
Thursday, September 8, 2022
6:00pm
Online
The Library and KCUR 89.3 kick off Securing Democracy, a three-part series inviting the community and its leaders to discuss securing democr...
Signature Event
Tuesday, July 26, 2022
6:30pm
In Person
Learn about the past, present, and future of vision loss during the premiere of the podcast and video series Foresight, produced by Kansas City’s A...
Signature Event
Tuesday, March 3, 2020
6:30pm
In Person
Kansas City has an infrastructure problem. Simply put, it can’t afford what it needs. Dennis Strait of the Kansas City studio of Gould Evans, an archi...
Signature Event
Thursday, November 14, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
Some 38 million people, nearly one in eight, live in poverty in today’s America as liberals and conservatives spar over solutions. Researcher and w...