The North-East branch will be closed Monday, September 23, for staff training.
Signature Event
Sunday, January 21, 2024
1:30pm
In Person
The annual Searching the Psyche Through Cinema series returns, spotlighting a selection of sci-fi films as it looks to illuminate our understanding of...
Signature Event
Thursday, April 27, 2023
6:00pm
Online
In Person
University of Virginia transit historian Peter Norton examines the need to revise our concept of city streets. They’re now so car- and speed-centric t...
Signature Event
Wednesday, October 12, 2022
6:00pm
In Person
Memphis, a sprawling, river-flanked, music- and barbecue-imbued city some 7½ hours to the south, offers some important lessons in development for Kans...
Signature Event
Wednesday, September 7, 2022
6:00pm
Online
In Person
Tiffany Elder, co-chair of a Durham, North Carolina-based consortium called The Collective, talks about its work to facilitate equitable city building...
Signature Event
Online
What is Kansas City’s master plan for the next 20 years? The city’s three principal planning officers, Jeffrey Williams, Diane Binckley, and Kyle Elli...
Signature Event
Sunday, February 23, 2020
1:30pm
In Person
The Library wraps up this year’s Searching the Psyche Through Cinema series with a final screening and discussion of a film adapted f...
Signature Event
Sunday, February 9, 2020
1:30pm
In Person
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
In Person
The month’s second Searching the Psyche Through Cinema installment features Francis Ford Coppola’s classic look at life on the...
Signature Event
Sunday, January 12, 2020
1:30pm
In Person
Sigmund Freud, the celebrated father of psychoanalysis, often referenced literature and theater in his analytic theory. The annual Searc...
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...