Signature Event Rhymes for Young Ghouls Saturday, April 16, 2022 1:30pm In Person Written and directed by Mi’gmaq filmmaker Jeff Barnaby, Rhymes for Young Ghouls offers an unflinching fictional account o... Read More
Signature Event An Evening With U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo Thursday, April 14, 2022 6:30pm Plaza Branch Online In Person U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo, whose acclaimed An American Sunrise is the focus of the Library’s Big... Read More
Signature Event Night Raiders Saturday, April 9, 2022 1:30pm Plaza Branch In Person The Library continues a month-long series of film screenings in conjunction with Big Read 2022 with the thought-provoking... Read More
Signature Event Big Read Kickoff: A Community Celebration Wednesday, April 6, 2022 6:30pm Central Library In Person The Kansas City Indian Center and Haskell Indian Nations University join in launching the Library’s community-wide... Read More
Signature Event Smoke Signals Saturday, April 2, 2022 1:30pm Plaza Branch In Person The Library opens a month-long series of film screenings in conjunction with Big Read 2022 with Smoke Signals... Read More
Signature Event From Page to Screen: Boy Erased Sunday, February 23, 2020 1:30pm Plaza Branch In Person The Library wraps up this year’s Searching the Psyche Through Cinema series with a final screening and discussion of a film adapted f... Read More
Signature Event From Page to Screen: Disobedience Sunday, February 9, 2020 1:30pm Plaza Branch In Person The Library continues this year’s Searching the Psyche Through Cinema series – featuring films adapted from books – with the 2017 dra... Read More
Signature Event From Page to Screen: The Outsiders Sunday, January 26, 2020 1:30pm Plaza Branch In Person The month’s second Searching the Psyche Through Cinema installment features Francis Ford Coppola’s classic look at life on the... Read More
Signature Event From Page to Screen: Wild Sunday, January 12, 2020 1:30pm Plaza Branch In Person Sigmund Freud, the celebrated father of psychoanalysis, often referenced literature and theater in his analytic theory. The annual Searc... Read More
Signature Event Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World Thursday, January 10, 2019 6:30pm Plaza Branch In Person Efforts to marginalize Native Americans and their culture could not diminish their transformational impact on popular music, from the Delta blues a... Read More