The North-East branch will close early at 4 p.m. Tuesday, July 16, due to staff shortages.
Signature Event
Monday, February 4, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
The Piano Lesson endures as one of August Wilson’s most eloquent and powerful plays, an account of a Depression-era black fa...
Signature Event
Wednesday, November 14, 2018
7:30pm
In Person
Near the end of four months of filming in Kansas City, the Fab Five stars of Netflix’ infectious reality series Queer Eye sit down at the Cen...
Signature Event
Thursday, September 13, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
Jamie Bernstein, the eldest daughter of revered composer Leonard Bernstein, and David Charles Abell, who is conducti...
Signature Event
Tuesday, September 11, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
Nationally renowned urban thinker Chuck Marohn, who kicked off the Library’s Making a Great City series in January 2018, returns to assess the crucial...
Signature Event
Wednesday, August 1, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
Denis Kitchen, the founder of Kitchen Sink Press, discusses the life and career of the great Will Eisner, a comics pioneer who created the iconic crim...
Signature Event
Tuesday, July 31, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
Every guitarist has a six-string story. They tell tales of their first guitar, guitars lost or stolen, and guitars that chose the musician. Profession...
Signature Event
Thursday, July 19, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
From Patsy Cline (two days before she perished in a plane crash in 1963) to the Beatles to the Jacksons’ Victory Tour, former Kansas City Star...
Signature Event
Tuesday, June 26, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
It appears to be the find of a lifetime. Shakespeareans worldwide were electrified earlier this year by the announced discovery of a previously unk...
Signature Event
Thursday, June 21, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
In the second part of a two-day Songwriter in You program, Victor & Penny discuss their work as professional musicians in...
Signature Event
Tuesday, June 19, 2018
11:30am
In Person
For part one of a two-day Songwriter in You activity, popular Kansas City pop-jazz duo Victor & Penny will visit...