The North-East branch will be closed Monday, September 23, for staff training.
Signature Event
Sunday, September 22, 2024
2:00pm
In Person
Drawing from her thesis A Kansas City Founder “Proud of His Position:” Race, Exploitation, and the Rise of William Gilliss, local historian and educa...
Signature Event
Wednesday, September 11, 2024
6:00pm
In Person
Suppressed and Sabotaged: The Fight to Vote is a film for every American concerned about voter suppression and election subversion ahead of the 2024 p...
Signature Event
Thursday, September 5, 2024
6:00pm
Online
In Person
Blending tradition and history with commentary and aesthetics, the exhibition Going Home is at turns political, personal, satirical, and poignant. Art...
Signature Event
Wednesday, August 21, 2024
6:00pm
Online
In Person
Young Feminist Party Deputy Executive Director Claudia Nachega discusses the state of feminism in America and in the world, and her organization’s eff...
Signature Event
Saturday, August 3, 2024
1:00pm
In Person
In her Fictions series, Brooklyn-based artist Andrea Burgay creates sculptural collages out of deconstructed paperbacks – and these reimagined objects...
Signature Event
Saturday, July 13, 2024
2:00pm
In Person
Before he was known as "Wild Bill,” famed frontiersman and gunfighter James Butler Hickok spent three formative years as a young man in the Kansas Cit...
Signature Event
Thursday, July 11, 2024
6:00pm
In Person
Do you Fringe? The KC Fringe Festival has provided a non-curated platform for performance, visual, and film artists for 20 years. The two-week extrava...
Signature Event
Wednesday, June 12, 2024
5:30pm
In Person
The 2024 Art in the Loop Project, inspired by a Library talk by urbanist Tommi Laitio, invited artists to share how they practice or observe convivenc...
Signature Event
Tuesday, June 11, 2024
6:00pm
Online
In Person
Military historian Sean Kalic of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College looks back on the 1957 space shot heard ’round the world: the Soviet...
Signature Event
Sunday, June 9, 2024
2:00pm
In Person
Local attorney Gary Jenkins, a filmmaker, author and former Kansas City police detective, investigated mafia bombings and murders in the 1970s in the...