The North-East branch will close early at 4 p.m. Tuesday, July 16, due to staff shortages.
Signature Event
Sunday, February 11, 2018
2:00pm
Just before the 2018 Oscars are presented, the Library screens three uplifting, Academy Award-winning or nominated shorts in the latest installment of...
Signature Event
Saturday, February 10, 2018
2:00pm
As part of the Indie Lens Pop-Up film series, the Library and KCPT–Kansas City PBS screen the documentary Tell Them We Are Rising...
Signature Event
Thursday, February 8, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
In conjunction with Black History Month, Gary Kremer, director of the State Historical Society of Missouri, examines the journey of Missouri’s...
Signature Event
Sunday, February 4, 2018
1:30pm
In Person
Searching the Psyche Through Cinema, the annual screening-and-discussion series, continues this year’s psychological studies of films directed by the...
Signature Event
Sunday, January 21, 2018
1:30pm
In Person
Searching the Psyche Through Cinema, the annual and incisive screening-and-discussion series, returns with psychological studies of films directed by...
Signature Event
Wednesday, December 13, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
James Shipley, one of fewer than 200 surviving members of the famed, all-black World War II unit known as the Tuskegee Airmen, joins author Jeremy...
Signature Event
Thursday, December 7, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
In a discussion of his new book President McKinley: Architect of the American Century, acclaimed historian Robert Merry gives 2...
Signature Event
Tuesday, November 28, 2017
6:30pm
Visionaries including Dan Cohen, founder of the nonprofit Music & Memory, buck a broken healthcare system to demonstrate music’s ability to combat...
Signature Event
Wednesday, November 15, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
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Signature Event
Tuesday, November 14, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
Columbia University professor and writer Helen Benedict and the University of Missouri-Kansas City’s Whitney Terrell...