The North-East branch will be closed Monday, September 23, for staff training.
Signature Event
Sunday, June 5, 2022
2:00pm
In Person
In a discussion of his book Mount Washington Cemetery: In Search of Lost Time, local historian Bruce Mathews spotlights the...
Signature Event
Wednesday, May 25, 2022
6:00pm
Online
In Person
Indigenous artists featured in the Library exhibition The Heart Is a Fist talk about their inspirations and techniques in a panel discussion modera...
Signature Event
Sunday, May 22, 2022
2:00pm
Online
In Person
Sitting at the nation’s crossroads, Kansas City has satisfied the appetites of hungry travelers since the days when it was a western outpost on the...
Signature Event
Thursday, May 5, 2022
6:00pm
In Person
Participants from Glenn North’s May 1 poetry workshop take the stage to share their work. The readings draw heavily from U.S. Poet...
Signature Event
Sunday, May 1, 2022
2:00pm
Online
In Person
There was no greater boon to Kansas City’s early development than the opening of the Hannibal Bridge in 1869. Designed by civil engineer Octave Cha...
Signature Event
Sunday, May 1, 2022
1:00pm
In Person
Amid the Library’s Big Read 2022, a two-month celebration of reading and poetry, Kansas City poet Glenn North conduc...
Signature Event
Thursday, April 28, 2022
6:00pm
Online
In Person
Using clips of movies from 1998’s seminal Smoke Signals to present-day releases, film and media history scholar Joanna Hearne...
Signature Event
Sunday, April 24, 2022
2:00pm
Online
In Person
The infamous Missouri Executive Order 44 – known as the Extermination Order – was issued by Gov. Lilburn W. Boggs on October 27, 1838, forcing thou...
Signature Event
Saturday, April 23, 2022
1:30pm
In Person
An elderly Native American couple make their last journey together – to Wewoka, capital of the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma. Frankie is dying and in...
Signature Event
In Person
Written and directed by Mi’gmaq filmmaker Jeff Barnaby, Rhymes for Young Ghouls offers an unflinching fictional account o...