The North-East branch will close early at 4 p.m. Tuesday, July 16, due to staff shortages.
Signature Event
Sunday, December 8, 2019
2:00pm
Recorded by Dylan Thomas in 1952 and published in book form two years later, A Child’s Christmas in Wales endures as one of the...
Signature Event
Thursday, November 21, 2019
6:30pm
Adrienne Walker Hoard began her long relationship with South Africa’s Ndzundza Ndebele people in 1996. The country was settling...
Signature Event
Monday, November 11, 2019
6:30pm
Kansas City’s Equity Actors' Readers' Theatre (EARTh) commemorates Veterans Day with a script-in-hand reading of Aaron Sorkin’s sizzl...
Signature Event
Wednesday, November 6, 2019
6:30pm
Celebrate what made the 2019 Art in the Loop Project: Make/Believe great. The curated outdoor exhibition, staged in partnership...
Signature Event
Tuesday, October 29, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
Which areas offer Kansas City the greatest potential for smart long-term growth? Urban planner Joe Minicozzi and Chuck Marohn, founder of the nonprofi...
Signature Event
Wednesday, October 23, 2019
6:30pm
First performed in Turin, Italy, in 1896, La bohème became one of the world’s most eternally popular operas and a signature work of com...
Signature Event
Thursday, October 17, 2019
6:30pm
Photographer B.A. Van Sise, whose work is featured in the Library exhibit One Second, discusses the convergence o...
Signature Event
Thursday, October 3, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
Born and raised in Topeka (which appears in some fashion in all of his works), novelist, essayist, and poet Ben Lerner is one of t...
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...
Signature Event
Wednesday, September 25, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
Where do we draw the line on free speech? On its tenor? On its subject matter? Have we taken political correctness too far, making individual Ameri...