The Plaza branch will close early at 5 p.m. Thursday, June 27, due to water line repairs.
Signature Event
Sunday, June 18, 2023
2:00pm
In Person
The Library and Kansas City PBS offer a screening and discussion of the 30-minute film AIDS in KC: Facing the Challenge 1...
Signature Event
Sunday, February 26, 2023
1:30pm
In Person
This year’s Searching the Psyche Through Cinema series wraps up with a screening and discussion of The Apartment (1960, NR,...
Signature Event
Sunday, February 12, 2023
1:30pm
In Person
This year’s Searching the Psyche Through Cinema series continues with a screening and discussion of Heartburn (1986, R, 108...
Signature Event
Sunday, January 29, 2023
1:30pm
In Person
This year’s Searching the Psyche Through Cinema series continues with a screening and discussion of...
Signature Event
Sunday, January 22, 2023
2:00pm
In Person
Four acclaimed Kansas City-area performers join a special musical celebration of Venice, Italy, and all who’ve fallen into its incurable thrall ove...
Signature Event
Sunday, January 15, 2023
1:30pm
In Person
The annual Searching the Psyche Through Cinema series, which looks to the arts to illuminate our understanding of ourselves, returns in part...
Signature Event
Saturday, November 12, 2022
7:00pm
In Person
In a special Library event, Kansas City’s Bach Aria Soloists and performers with the Heart of America Shakespeare Festival...
Signature Event
Wednesday, October 12, 2022
6:00pm
In Person
Memphis, a sprawling, river-flanked, music- and barbecue-imbued city some 7½ hours to the south, offers some important lessons in development for Kans...
Signature Event
Monday, August 8, 2022
6:00pm
Online
In Person
Military historian Geoff Babb assesses the historical accuracy of the 1963 film 55 Days at Peking, which delivers an epic retelling of a c...
Signature Event
Monday, July 11, 2022
6:00pm
In Person
David Mills and Kayla Westra, co-authors of Great Wartime Escapes and Rescues, assess the historical accuracy of the classic 1963 film...