North-East Library opens late at Noon on Friday, June 28.
Signature Event
Monday, May 23, 2022
6:00pm
In Person
Nearly 60 years after its release, Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Stran...
Signature Event
Tuesday, May 10, 2022
6:00pm
Online
In Person
Kansas City-area journalist Christopher Leonard returns to the Library to discuss his new book The Lords of Easy Money...
Signature Event
Monday, May 9, 2022
6:00pm
Online
In Person
Director Ridley Scott takes a sweeping look back to the Crusades and the brutal fighting between Christians and Muslims over the First Kingdom of J...
Signature Event
Thursday, May 5, 2022
6:00pm
In Person
Participants from Glenn North’s May 1 poetry workshop take the stage to share their work. The readings draw heavily from U.S. Poet...
Signature Event
Tuesday, May 3, 2022
6:00pm
Online
In Person
Maybe you know Molière. If not … well, Kansas City’s French roots lend a c...
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...
Signature Event
Tuesday, September 24, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
Kansas City-based urban planner, designer, and architect Kevin Klinkenberg examines why and how cities being reinvented today, who the winners and los...
Signature Event
Tuesday, September 10, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
Prosperity in Kansas City is, alas, lagging. Here’s your chance to weigh in on how it should move. Attorney John Murphy of Shook,...