All Library locations will be closed Wednesday, June 19, for Juneteenth.
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
Thursday, April 27, 2023
6:00pm
Online
University of Virginia transit historian Peter Norton examines the need to revise our concept of city streets. They’re now so car- and speed-centric t...
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
Wednesday, September 7, 2022
6:00pm
Online
Tiffany Elder, co-chair of a Durham, North Carolina-based consortium called The Collective, talks about its work to facilitate equitable city building...