The North-East branch will be closed Monday, September 23, for staff training.
Signature Event
Saturday, November 12, 2016
10:00am
In Person
Which Kansas City school is best for your child? At the annual City School Fair, families can learn more about over 60 public, privat...
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
Wednesday, May 11, 2016
6:30pm
In Person
Incentives of various types are widely offered to encourage and promote economic development – a point of competition and controversy in a years-lo...
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, April 6, 2016
6:30pm
In Person
Philanthropy is essential to making America what it is. Individuals, foundations, and businesses donate more than $360 billion annually, underwriti...
Signature Event
Thursday, March 3, 2016
6:30pm
In Person
At 83, SuEllen Fried’s social conscience has scarcely ebbed. The Prairie Village native – one of former President George H.W. Bush...
Signature Event
Tuesday, February 9, 2016
6:30pm
Kansas City’s Barkley advertising agency hatched the enormously successful “Two Guys” campaign for Sonic Drive-In a little more than 12 years ago, let...
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...