The North-East branch will be closed Monday, September 23, for staff training.
Signature Event
Sunday, January 22, 2023
2:00pm
In Person
Four acclaimed Kansas City-area performers join a special musical celebration of Venice, Italy, and all who’ve fallen into its incurable thrall ove...
Signature Event
Saturday, November 12, 2022
7:00pm
In Person
In a special Library event, Kansas City’s Bach Aria Soloists and performers with the Heart of America Shakespeare Festival...
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
Thursday, June 9, 2022
6:00pm
Online
In Person
In an extraordinary community forum, local leaders and national experts examine the troubling patterns of violent discriminatory policing and how, col...
Signature Event
Monday, May 23, 2022
6:00pm
In Person
Nearly 60 years after its release, Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb...
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 connection to the great French playwright, who may rank second only to Sha...