All Library locations will be closed Wednesday, June 19, for Juneteenth.
Signature Event
Saturday, February 10, 2024
1:00pm
In Person
Drawing from their respective books, KelLee Parr and Stephen Rowley share their personal connections to The Willows, the most prominent of Kansas City...
Signature Event
Saturday, January 27, 2024
2:00pm
In Person
In a special Missouri Valley Saturdays discussion of her new book States of Swing: The History of the Kansas City Jazz Orchestra, 2003-2023, author Li...
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
Monday, November 11, 2019
6:30pm
Kansas City’s Equity Actors' Readers' Theatre (EARTh) commemorates Veterans Day with a script-in-hand reading of Aaron Sorkin’s sizzl...
Signature Event
Sunday, December 9, 2018
2:00pm
A little more than two weeks before Christmas, members of Kansas City’s Equity Actors' Readers' Theatre (EARTh) delivers two script-i...
Signature Event
Monday, November 12, 2018
6:30pm
Commemorating Veterans Day, members of Kansas City’s Equity Actors' Readers' Theatre (EARTh) deliver a script-in-hand performance of...
Signature Event
Monday, September 10, 2018
6:30pm
In a script-in-hand performance commemorating Labor Day, members of Kansas City’s Equity Actors' Readers' Theatre (EARTh) read select...
Signature Event
Sunday, March 18, 2018
2:00pm
In the latest installment of the Library’s popular Script-in-Hand series, the Heart of America Shakespeare Festival offers a unique performance of The...
Signature Event
Tuesday, February 21, 2017
6:30pm
The country continues to struggle with the issue of capital punishment and questions ranging from how fairly sentences are imposed and carried out to...