The Plaza branch will close early at 5 p.m. Monday, July 1, due to water line repairs.
Signature Event
Sunday, May 15, 2022
2:00pm
In Person
Poets and writers are often the most dangerous of resistors. In the 1930s, Joseph Stalin put Ukrainian-born poet Anna Akhmatova on his watch list for...
Signature Event
Sunday, September 19, 2021
4:00pm
The Kansas City Symphony offers a free outdoor chamber concert at the Library, with a woodwind quintet – flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, and horn – pe...
Signature Event
Wednesday, March 4, 2020
6:30pm
In Person
In their current solo exhibitions Sanctuaries and kaleidoscope, Kansas City artists Amy and Misha Klig...
Signature Event
Sunday, February 2, 2020
2:00pm
In Person
Barbara Strozzi defied the constraints of the times in which she lived. Born just over 400 years ago, gifted as a singer and composer, she was o...
Signature Event
Thursday, November 21, 2019
6:30pm
Adrienne Walker Hoard began her long relationship with South Africa’s Ndzundza Ndebele people in 1996. The country was settling...
Signature Event
Wednesday, November 6, 2019
6:30pm
Celebrate what made the 2019 Art in the Loop Project: Make/Believe great. The curated outdoor exhibition, staged in partnership...
Signature Event
Thursday, October 17, 2019
6:30pm
Photographer B.A. Van Sise, whose work is featured in the Library exhibit One Second, discusses the convergence o...
Signature Event
Wednesday, August 21, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
There was much more to celebrated gonzo writer Hunter S. Thompson than the drug- and booze-addled caricature he fostered in Fear and Loathing i...
Signature Event
Saturday, July 20, 2019
12:00pm
For Benjamin Todd Wills, art is born of curiosity as well as creativity.
The Kansas City artist launched the first of...
Signature Event
Wednesday, July 17, 2019
6:30pm
Anita O’Brien, an original co-curator of the Library’s special traveling exhibit, Ralph Steadman: A Retrospective, d...