The North-East branch will close early at 4 p.m. Tuesday, July 16, due to staff shortages.
Signature Event
Sunday, February 10, 2019
2:00pm
Powerful imagery of protests and violence helped bring attention to America's civil rights movement. Black photographers of the era broadened the nati...
Signature Event
Wednesday, February 6, 2019
6:30pm
Pulitzer Prize recipient Tyehimba Jess “is inventive, prophetic, wondrous,” says fellow award-winning poet Nikky Finney. Jess highlig...
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
Thursday, January 31, 2019
6:30pm
Kansas City artist Ben Wills details his outreach to prisoners and how it has affected his approach to his work. The presentation coi...
Signature Event
Sunday, December 9, 2018
2:00pm
A little more than two weeks before Christmas, members of Kansas City’s Equity Actors' Readers' Theatre (EARTh) delivers two script-i...
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
Monday, November 12, 2018
6:30pm
Commemorating Veterans Day, members of Kansas City’s Equity Actors' Readers' Theatre (EARTh) deliver a script-in-hand performance of...
Signature Event
Thursday, November 1, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
You’ve got gardening and landscaping questions. We’ve got answers from a panel of experts on everything from the best fruit and flowering trees for...
Signature Event
Friday, October 12, 2018
6:30pm
The Jazz at Lincoln Center digital concert series spills into Friday Night Fun with a streamed presentation of Wynton Marsalis’ Space...
Signature Event
Thursday, October 4, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
University of Kansas paleontologist David Burnham discusses his work unearthing several young T. rex fossils in the Hell Creek rocks...