The Plaza branch will close early at 5 p.m. Monday, July 1, due to water line repairs.
Signature Event
Tuesday, March 5, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
Keith Culbertson, the chairman and CEO of Design Workshop and a George Kessler historian, launches a three-part study of Kansas City’s distinctive sys...
Signature Event
Tuesday, September 11, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
Nationally renowned urban thinker Chuck Marohn, who kicked off the Library’s Making a Great City series in January 2018, returns to assess the crucial...
Signature Event
Wednesday, May 2, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
Urban designer Jim Kumon looks at the resurgence of small-scale urban neighborhoods in Los Angeles, Denver, and Minneapolis, among other cities, and h...
Signature Event
Thursday, March 8, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
Urban planner Joe Minicozzi looks at the “math” of effective city building, i.e., the financial implications of land use decisions in municipalities l...
Signature Event
Tuesday, January 30, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
Chuck Marohn, founder of the nonprofit Strong Towns, launches the Making a Great City series with a critical look at how we build our cities and towns...
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
Monday, November 2, 2015
6:30pm
SPECIAL ENCORE PERFORMANCE
Kansas City jazz legend Angela Hagenbach leads a diverse ensemble cast in an original...
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, 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...