Signature Event Dissident Formalisms Tuesday, December 14, 2021 6:30pm Online In a discussion of his exhibit Dissident Formalisms, Kansas City artist Armin Mühsam examines the use of co... Read More
Signature Event The Last Liberal Republican Monday, December 6, 2021 6:30pm Online Richard Nixon lamented that he would be remembered only for Watergate and warming relations with China. He wasn’t wrong – about the wreckage of Wat... Read More
Signature Event The Shock and Awe of Sarah Bernhardt in Kansas City Sunday, November 21, 2021 3:00pm Online Mark Twain said there are “bad actresses, fair actresses, good actresses, great actresses – and then there is Sarah Bernhardt.” The legendary F... Read More
Signature Event Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World Wednesday, November 17, 2021 6:30pm Online By most accounts, modern history is rooted in Spain and Columbus and and the discovery of the New World to the west more than five centuries a... Read More
Signature Event The Presidency of George W. Bush Tuesday, November 9, 2021 6:30pm Online Have we been too hard on George W. Bush? Drawing in part from a raft of newly available archival records, noted historian... Read More
Signature Event Girly Drinks Thursday, November 4, 2021 6:30pm Online Author Mallory O’Meara joins the Library’s Kaite Stover in a discussion of O’Meara’s new book Girly Drin... Read More
Signature Event Sharice’s Big Voice Monday, October 11, 2021 6:30pm Online Rep. Sharice Davis, in her second precedent-setting term in the U.S. House from Kansas’ 3rd District, discusses her new picture-book... Read More
Signature Event Women of the Jewish Resistance Thursday, October 7, 2021 6:30pm Online Sheri Rosenblum of the San Francisco-based Jewish Partisan Educational Foundation recounts the courage and invaluable contributions o... Read More
Signature Event Afternoon Serenade: The Kansas City Symphony Sunday, September 19, 2021 4:00pm Waldo Branch The Kansas City Symphony offers a free outdoor chamber concert at the Library, with a woodwind quintet – flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, and horn – pe... Read More
Signature Event Why KC Should Want to Be More Walkable – and How It Can Be Tuesday, June 22, 2021 12:00pm Online Cities are made to be walked – or should be, given the economic, environmental, and medical benefits. How far is Kansas City from... Read More