All Library locations will be closed Thursday, July 4, for Independence Day.
Signature Event
Sunday, December 4, 2016
2:00pm
In Person
Coterie Theatre artists read from the book by award-winning author and illustrator John Rocco about the wonder of a winter storm – in...
Signature Event
Thursday, November 10, 2016
6:30pm
In Person
Photographer Yunghi Kim has trained her lens on some of the world’s most notable events of the past three decades, including the raci...
Signature Event
Wednesday, November 2, 2016
6:30pm
In Person
It was the plight of women in Afghanistan, where the oversight of morality extends to the imprisonment of rape victims for extramarital sex, that m...
Signature Event
Monday, October 3, 2016
6:30pm
In Person
Carlos Eire gave the world a moving and definitive look into life as an exile in his first memoir Waiting for Snow in Havana: Con...
Signature Event
Wednesday, September 28, 2016
6:30pm
In Person
Religious zealotry plagues the world today, extremists avowing that they have all the truth, all the wisdom, all the divine favor.
Actual...
Signature Event
Monday, September 26, 2016
6:30pm
In Person
The Salem Witch Trials remain one of the more astonishing chapters in American history. The Massachusetts village was gripped in hysteria in the la...
Signature Event
Thursday, September 22, 2016
6:30pm
In Person
Literacy KC and The Writers Place have worked for decades to make Kansas City a more literate community. Literacy...
Signature Event
Wednesday, September 21, 2016
6:30pm
In Person
When The Kansas City Star profiled the 10 greatest departed heroes in the city’s history earlier this year, it started – naturally – with Ewi...
Signature Event
Friday, September 16, 2016
8:00pm
In Person
Doors open: 8 p.m. • Program: 8:45 p.m. Shakespearean drama dances across the streets and rooftops of New York in West Si...
Signature Event
Sunday, August 21, 2016
2:00pm
In Person
Faith healer? Fraud? Or both?
The enigma that was Francis Schlatter emerged in the American West in the late 1800s. In looks, he resemble...