The North-East branch will be closed Monday, September 23, for staff training.
Signature Event
Thursday, February 9, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
The vitality of Kansas City’s arts community today traces back, in part, to David Hughes’ founding of the Charlotte Street Foundat...
Signature Event
Thursday, July 14, 2016
6:30pm
In Person
One of Kansas City’s greatest entrepreneurial success stories traces back to a picnic table in Loose Park in the late 1970s, when Cliff Illig...
Signature Event
Tuesday, May 3, 2016
6:30pm
In Person
From modest attendance of 120 at its first service held in 1990 in the chapel of a local funeral home – the Rev. Adam Hamilton has...
Signature Event
Wednesday, March 16, 2016
6:30pm
In Person
Educators and researchers have long recognized the importance of mastering reading by the end of third grade. Students falling short often falter in l...
Signature Event
Wednesday, December 2, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
The Library, in partnership with American Public Square, launches a series of discussions of polarizing local issues – minus the i...
Signature Event
Wednesday, February 4, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
Bill Zahner made a tough call shortly after taking charge of the family business in the late 1970s, shifting the focus of the A. Z...
Signature Event
Wednesday, April 9, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
Remember Barack Obama’s subtle 2008 putdown of Hillary Clinton, when he called her “likable enough?” Maybe the joke is on him....
Signature Event
Thursday, December 5, 2013
6:30pm
In Person
Time magazine’s David Von Drehle and Pulitzer Prize-winning fashion critic Robin Givhan discuss When Fashion...
Signature Event
Thursday, November 14, 2013
6:30pm
In Person
Few journalists have studied the issue of global warming with the thoroughness of The New York Times’ Justin Gillis, who...
Signature Event
Wednesday, October 16, 2013
6:30pm
In Person
Time magazine editor-at-large David Von Drehle holds a public conversation with Washington Post reporter...