The North-East branch will close early at 4 p.m. Tuesday, July 16, due to staff shortages.
Signature Event
Thursday, July 26, 2018
6:30pm
Historian Joel Rhodes, who led research for the Library exhibit It Finally Happened Here: The Kansas City Riot, April 9-12, 1968...
Signature Event
Sunday, June 24, 2018
2:00pm
In Person
Strike up the band!
The latest installment of the Library’s special, intergenerational movie series for individuals with dementia, thei...
Signature Event
Signature Event
Sunday, April 8, 2018
2:00pm
Humor, personified by the blundering but likable Mr. Bean, is the focus of the latest installment of the special, intergenerational movie series for i...
Signature Event
Saturday, April 7, 2018
2:00pm
The Library and KCPT–Kansas City PBS screen the acclaimed 2016 documentary spotlighting the famed essayist, novelist, poet, and champion of agr...
Signature Event
Thursday, April 5, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
Cornell University historian Ed Baptist traces much of what has happened with race relations in the U.S. in the past 150 years to efforts to co...
Signature Event
Monday, March 26, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
Frustrated with the slow pace of civil rights reforms and outraged at the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., protesters in Kansas City took to t...
Signature Event
Saturday, March 10, 2018
2:00pm
The latest installment of the Indie Lens Pop-Up film series spotlights Dolores Huerta, co-founder of the first farmworkers union with Cesar Cha...
Signature Event
Sunday, March 4, 2018
1:30pm
The 2017 Searching the Psyche Through Cinema series, spotlighting the works of stylish, idiosyncratic director David Lynch, wraps up...
Signature Event