The North-East branch will be closed Monday, September 23, for staff training.
Signature Event
Sunday, December 17, 2023
2:00pm
Online
In Person
In a discussion drawing from his new book The Bars Are Ours: Histories and Cultures of Gay Bars in America, 1960 and After, Lucas Hilderbrand of the U...
Signature Event
Sunday, November 12, 2023
2:00pm
In Person
Art Lujin, a former manager of aircraft engineering during a nearly 26-year career with TWA and now a guide at Kansas City’s TWA Museum, recounts the...
Signature Event
Sunday, February 26, 2023
2:00pm
In Person
Lawrence, Kansas, photographer Ann Dean discusses the impact and inspiration found in three seminal books – The Learning Tree...
Signature Event
Sunday, May 22, 2022
2:00pm
Online
In Person
Sitting at the nation’s crossroads, Kansas City has satisfied the appetites of hungry travelers since the days when it was a western outpost on the...
Signature Event
Online
Mark Twain said there are “bad actresses, fair actresses, good actresses, great actresses – and then there is Sarah Bernhardt.”
The legendary F...
Signature Event
Sunday, February 10, 2019
2:00pm
Powerful imagery of protests and violence helped bring attention to America's civil rights movement. Black photographers of the era broadened the nati...
Signature Event
Sunday, May 13, 2018
2:00pm
In Person
Coterie Theatre artists resume their monthly interactive story times for children and their parents, reading from indie rocker Tim Ha...
Signature Event
Sunday, April 8, 2018
2:00pm
In Person
Coterie Theatre artists resume their monthly interactive story times for children and their parents, reading from Michael Rosen’s award-winning classi...
Signature Event
Wednesday, March 28, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
New York-area pianist/vocalist John Bauers portrays legendary lyricist Johnny Mercer (“One More for My Baby,” “Moon River,” “Days of Wine and Roses”),...
Signature Event
Sunday, March 11, 2018
2:00pm
In Person
Coterie Theatre artists resume their monthly interactive story times for children and their parents, reading from Jon Agee’s engag...