The Plaza branch will close early at 5 p.m. Monday, July 1, due to water line repairs.
Signature Event
Sunday, February 9, 2020
1:30pm
The Library continues this year’s Searching the Psyche Through Cinema series – featuring films adapted from books – with the 2017 dra...
Signature Event
Sunday, January 26, 2020
1:30pm
The month’s second Searching the Psyche Through Cinema installment features Francis Ford Coppola’s classic look at life on the...
Signature Event
Saturday, January 25, 2020
2:00pm
Fifty years ago, Chicago’s Black Panther Party formed an unlikely alliance in one of the most segregated cities in America. Intent on addressing po...
Signature Event
Wednesday, January 22, 2020
6:30pm
Facing overwhelming obstacles, Jews and others in occupied Europe resisted Nazi rule in a variety of ways during World War II. Some instigated u...
Signature Event
Sunday, January 12, 2020
1:30pm
Sigmund Freud, the celebrated father of psychoanalysis, often referenced literature and theater in his analytic theory. The annual Searc...
Signature Event
Tuesday, December 3, 2019
6:30pm
Thirty years ago, a peaceful demonstration by university students in the Czechoslovakian capital of Prague set off a chain of events that effect...
Signature Event
Sunday, November 17, 2019
1:30pm
The Library continues its film series showcasing the diverse roles of girls as cinematic storytellers with the Sundance Film Festival-winning dr...
Signature Event
Saturday, November 9, 2019
2:00pm
For 10 years in the 1970s, the South Bronx area of New York City literally smoldered. An arson epidemic, compounded by government negligence, ra...
Signature Event
Sunday, October 20, 2019
1:30pm
The Library continues its film series showcasing the diverse roles of girls as cinematic storytellers with the acclaimed 1997 emotional drama...
Signature Event
Thursday, September 26, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
Gwendolyn Grant, president and CEO of the Urban League of Greater Kansas City, leads a discussion of its 2...