The Ruiz Branch is closed Saturday, September 28, due to a malfunctioning fire alarm.
Signature Event
Tuesday, September 15, 2020
6:30pm
In Person
The Kansas City Symphony brings its series of free outdoor chamber concerts to the Library.Various ensembles perform for 45 minutes to an ho...
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In Person
The Library joins public broadcasting network PBS in a special online presentation – a conversation with acclaimed writer Kali Fajardo-Anst...
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Where are you on the complicated legacy of Kansas City developer J.C. Nichols? Should his name be removed from the parkway running to and alongside...
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The West Coast celebrates Bigfoot and the East Coast has Champy, the purported lake monster claimed by both New York and Vermont. But Wisconsi...
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Can the U.S. and other coronavirus-ravaged countries take a cue from individuals in crisis and follow their own 12-step path to recovery?...
Signature Event
Thursday, March 12, 2020
6:30pm
In Person
Perhaps no one took more meaning from the advent of the automobile—and its promise of freedom and adventure, power and self-expression—than African...
Signature Event
Tuesday, March 10, 2020
6:30pm
In Person
Beverly Daniel Tatum, president emerita of Spelman College and an authority on racial issues in the U.S., looks anew at the challe...
Signature Event
Wednesday, March 4, 2020
6:30pm
In Person
In their current solo exhibitions Sanctuaries and kaleidoscope, Kansas City artists Amy and Misha Klig...
Signature Event
Tuesday, March 3, 2020
6:30pm
In Person
Kansas City has an infrastructure problem. Simply put, it can’t afford what it needs. Dennis Strait of the Kansas City studio of Gould Evans, an archi...
Signature Event
Tuesday, February 25, 2020
6:30pm
In Person
As the first of 70,000 U.S. Marines swept onto Iwo Jima on February 19, 1945, victory was all but certain. The Americans had an overwhelming numeri...