The North-East branch will be closed Monday, September 23, for staff training.
Signature Event
Tuesday, February 7, 2023
6:00pm
Online
In Person
Three local business owners -- Kemet Coleman, La’Nae Robinson, and La’Nesha Frazier -- help the Library kick off a new four-pa...
Signature Event
Tuesday, July 26, 2022
6:30pm
Online
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
Tuesday, December 3, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
Adam Arredondo, executive director of the KC Startup Foundation, and Maria Meyers, executive director of the UMKC In...
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...
Signature Event
Tuesday, November 12, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
In conjunction with the opening of the new Library exhibit UpStart, a panel of Kansas City’s foremost entrepreneurs and business e...
Signature Event
Tuesday, July 10, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
Stephanie and Adam Carey, new owners of Kansas City’s alternative news publication The Pitch, sit down with editor David Hudnall...
Signature Event
Tuesday, June 19, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
Americans already have seen some benefits, in the form of smaller payroll withholdings, from the new tax law signed last December. But for the most pa...
Signature Event
Wednesday, May 24, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
For all of its diplomatic and military efforts, the U.S. has been unable to end unrest and extremism in the Middle East and other troubled regions of...
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...