The Plaza branch will close early at 5 p.m. Thursday, June 27, due to water line repairs.
Signature Event
Wednesday, October 14, 2015
6:30pm
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
Revamped, revised, reworked, and reimagined fairy tale characters and stories have seen an explosion in contemporary media from graphic novels to tele...
Signature Event
Wednesday, September 23, 2015
6:30pm
Beginning with a silent short released in 1903, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland has intrigued both filmmakers and viewers. Lewis Carroll’s 1...
Signature Event
Wednesday, September 16, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
Few literary works are more quoted, translated, and adapted than Lewis Carroll’s Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. This year marks the sesqui...
Signature Event
Wednesday, April 22, 2015
6:30pm
Aristocratic and sophisticated, Edith Kermit Roosevelt, the wife of Theodore Roosevelt, ran the White House with a sure hand and figured prominently i...
Signature Event
Wednesday, June 5, 2013
6:30pm
As the oldest and favorite daughter of Thomas Jefferson, Martha “Patsy” Jefferson Randolph was well educated, known on two continents...
Signature Event
Saturday, April 14, 2012
1:00pm
In Person
Author Wade Sisson discusses the Titanic’s sister ship, the R.M.S. Olympic, which steamed 300 miles in a desperate...
Signature Event
Friday, April 13, 2012
6:30pm
A Titanic weekend kicks off with an outdoor*, Rooftop Terrace concert by veteran folk-rockers Howard Iceberg & the Titanics. Mainstay...