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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
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
Saturday, April 30, 2022
1:30pm
Efforts to marginalize Native Americans and their culture could not dimini...
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
Thursday, April 14, 2022
6:30pm
In Person
U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo, whose acclaimed An American Sunrise is the focus of the Library’s Big...
Signature Event
Monday, January 24, 2022
6:00pm
Online
The format of this event has been changed to virtual only. Watch online at yout...
Signature Event
Walk into one of the hundreds of donut shops in Southern California – the land of glitz also happens to be the country’s donut capital – and odds a...
Signature Event
The city of Philadelphia reduced the size of the local jail population by nearly half from 2015 to 2020, reflecting efforts by District Attorney&nb...
Signature Event
While conducting research on facial recognition technology at the MIT Media Lab, Ghanaian-born Joy Buolamwini was startled to disc...