North-East Library opens late at Noon on Friday, June 28.
Signature Event
Sunday, March 5, 2017
2:00pm
In Person
Coterie Theatre artists read from Mac Barnett’s and Jon Klassen’s witty, award-winning story of two young boys looking – and digging...
Signature Event
Tuesday, February 28, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
Glenn North, the inaugural poet laureate of Kansas City’s 18th & Vine Jazz District, discusses his work as an accompli...
Signature Event
Tuesday, February 7, 2017
6:30pm
Nearly 4½ decades after arriving at the Kansas City Art Institute from his native South Wales, Warren Rosser stands as one of the city’s creative mast...
Signature Event
Sunday, February 5, 2017
2:00pm
In Person
Coterie Theatre artists read from Samantha Berger’s story of an ordinary boy who transforms into a grumbling Crankenstein on what he...
Signature Event
Sunday, January 8, 2017
2:00pm
Coterie Theatre artists read from comedian Michael Ian Black’s Naked!, the hilarious book about a boy who r...
Signature Event
Sunday, December 4, 2016
2:00pm
In Person
Coterie Theatre artists read from the book by award-winning author and illustrator John Rocco about the wonder of a winter storm – in...
Signature Event
Tuesday, November 10, 2015
6:30pm
Lady Bird Johnson was no mere White House photo prop.
The former Claudia Taylor once was described by husband Lyndon Johnson as “the brains and mon...
Signature Event
Tuesday, October 13, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
2015 commemorates not only the 125th anniversary of the birth of President Dwight D. Eisenhower, but also the U.S. Census Bureau’s declaration that th...
Signature Event
Thursday, September 17, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
The Soviet Union’s 1957 launch of Sputnik, the world’s first satellite, was a critical Cold War moment for Dwight D. Eisenhower. What he called “a...
Signature Event
Tuesday, August 4, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
Presidential races are the stuff of myth, sometimes literally. Like the 1952 contest between Dwight Eisenhower and Adlai Stevenson, both purportedly r...