All Library locations will be closed Thursday, July 4, for Independence Day.
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
Wednesday, September 18, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
America’s involvement in the Middle East has revolved around oil as well as religion and Zionist pursuits, Cold War tensions, and the specter of te...
Signature Event
Thursday, September 12, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
Television and Donald Trump grew up together, a synergistic happenstance that carried an attention-hogging, reality TV-imbued, Twitter- and Fox New...
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,...
Signature Event
Thursday, September 5, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
Kansas City is awash in red as the Chiefs approach a new season of super-sized possibilities. But have they cut corners on player character? Whither b...
Signature Event
Thursday, August 29, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
Irish-born comedian David Nihill looks at how stand-up comedy principles can be applied to public speaking, drawing from his book...
Signature Event
Wednesday, August 28, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
We’re all writers now through email, texts, Facebook posts, and countless other avenues. Drawing from her new book Writing to Persuade:...
Signature Event
Tuesday, August 27, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
What do we make – what does their home state of Kansas make – of Charles and David Koch? Business reporter Christopher Leonard exa...
Signature Event
Thursday, August 22, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
Michael Kranish, an investigative political reporter for The Washington Post and co-author of the 2016 best-seller Tr...
Signature Event
Wednesday, August 21, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
There was much more to celebrated gonzo writer Hunter S. Thompson than the drug- and booze-addled caricature he fostered in Fear and Loathing i...