The North-East branch will be closed Monday, September 23, for staff training.
Signature Event
Saturday, October 1, 2022
2:00pm
In Person
Join KCUR Community Engagement Reporter Laura Ziegler in an informal discussion with voters’ advocates, including representatives...
Signature Event
Thursday, September 8, 2022
6:00pm
Online
The Library and KCUR 89.3 kick off Securing Democracy, a three-part series inviting the community and its leaders to discuss securing democr...
Signature Event
Online
How close are we to ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment? The question hangs anew over Congress. And the courts. Erica Bens...
Signature Event
Online
At 23, while serving as the youngest school principal in the state, Alice Chenoweth was excoriated in Ohio’s newspapers in 1876 for having an affai...
Signature Event
Online
One hundred years ago this month, women won their fight for the right to vote – though not all of them. Black women, who had pleaded as passionatel...
Signature Event
Tuesday, November 10, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
Lady Bird Johnson was no mere White House photo prop.
The former Claudia Taylor once was described by husband Lyndon Johnson as “the brains a...
Signature Event
Wednesday, October 28, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
Kansas City jazz legend Angela Hagenbach leads a diverse ensemble cast in an original and unique retelling of the Lewis Carroll cl...
Signature Event
Wednesday, October 14, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
Internationally recognized Kansas City artist Peregrine Honig fixes her creative gaze on Lewis Carroll’s classic work of children’s l...
Signature Event
Sunday, September 27, 2015
2:00pm
In Person
Revamped, revised, reworked, and reimagined fairy tale characters and stories have seen an explosion in contemporary media from graphic novels to t...
Signature Event
Wednesday, September 23, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
Beginning with a silent short released in 1903, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland has intrigued both filmmakers and viewers. Lewis Carroll’...