The Plaza branch will close early at 5 p.m. Monday, July 1, due to water line repairs.
Signature Event
Wednesday, June 29, 2022
6:00pm
Online
In Person
Sociologist, criminologist, and social worker Reuben Jonathan Miller assesses the causes and ramifications of mass incarcerat...
Signature Event
Wednesday, June 22, 2022
6:00pm
In Person
In a preview of Kansas City’s 2022 Art in the Loop Project, meet the artists involved in the creation of a series of visual outdoo...
Signature Event
Sunday, June 19, 2022
2:30pm
In Person
This event is being rescheduled for a future date; check back for updates....
Signature Event
Friday, June 17, 2022
8:45pm
In Person
We left it to you to choose between two memorable Cage roles and, by vote, you picked the passionate pursuer of an Academy Award-winning Cher in...
Signature Event
Wednesday, May 25, 2022
6:00pm
Online
In Person
Indigenous artists featured in the Library exhibition The Heart Is a Fist talk about their inspirations and techniques in a panel discussion modera...
Signature Event
Sunday, May 22, 2022
2:00pm
Online
In Person
Sitting at the nation’s crossroads, Kansas C...
Signature Event
Thursday, May 19, 2022
6:00pm
Online
In Person
Michael Stein, a primary care physician for more than 30 years and a professor of health law, policy, and management at Boston Univer...
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
Friday, September 24, 2021
8:45pm
Mel Brooks delivers a classic comedy about the infamous scientist’s American grandson (Gene Wilder), who in seeking to redeem his family’s name – and...
Signature Event
Friday, August 27, 2021
8:45pm
George Henderson (John Lithgow) and family accidentally hit a Sasquatch with their car on a trip through the forest, then opt...