The Bluford branch will be closed Saturday, August 17 due to staffing issues.
Signature Event
Tuesday, June 7, 2016
6:30pm
When librarians in a township in northern France began wondering late in 2014 whether their centuries-old book of Shakespeare’s works might be a rare...
Signature Event
Monday, June 6, 2016
1:30pm
Mondays in June, the Heart of America Shakespeare Festival’s four-part series of inside-the-play presentations focuses on its summ...
Signature Event
Wednesday, June 1, 2016
6:30pm
His comedies, histories, and tragedies have been performed worldwide for more than 400 years, but William Shakespeare’s personal life remains somethin...
Signature Event
Saturday, May 28, 2016
6:30pm
In conjunction with Planet Comicon, Kansas City’s largest pop culture and comic book convention, scheduled for May 20-22 at Bartle Hall, the Library s...
Signature Event
Friday, May 27, 2016
6:30pm
The son of migrant farm workers in California, Juan Felipe Herrera traces his love of poetry to childhood and singing songs about the...
Signature Event
Thursday, May 26, 2016
6:30pm
Take Shakespeare’s mistaken-identity farce, The Comedy of Errors. Give it a modern, hip-hop flavor. And you get The Bomb-itty of...
Signature Event
Thursday, May 26, 2016
4:00pm
Learn and then apply the art of wooden-sword dueling in two interactive sessions offered by the Heart of America Shakespeare Festival. Participants fi...
Signature Event
Wednesday, May 25, 2016
6:30pm
Author Sean Gorman has spent 20 years navigating wrestling circuits. Evolving from an introverted, small-town kid in New England i...
Signature Event
Tuesday, May 24, 2016
5:00pm
Learn and then apply the art of wooden-sword dueling in two interactive sessions offered by the Heart of America Shakespeare Festival. Participants fi...
Signature Event
Sunday, May 22, 2016
2:00pm
Hollywood has adapted, sampled, and stolen from William Shakespeare for more than a century – seeing his works as a source of prestige as soon as the...