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 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
Signature Event Movies and Memories: Holiday Cheer Sunday, December 9, 2018 2:00pm Plaza Branch In Person The latest installment of the Library’s special, intergenerational movie series for individuals with dementia and their friends and families featur... Read More
Signature Event Movies and Memories: Moana Sunday, October 21, 2018 2:00pm Plaza Branch In Person The latest installment of the Library’s special, intergenerational movie series for individuals with dementia, their friends, and families features... Read More
Signature Event Movies and Memories: The Joys of Laughter Sunday, April 8, 2018 2:00pm Plaza Branch In Person Humor, personified by the blundering but likable Mr. Bean, is the focus of the latest installment of the special, intergenerational movie series fo... Read More
Signature Event Closing Chapter: End of the War in Vietnam Thursday, November 16, 2017 6:30pm Plaza Branch In Person Former ambassador David F. Lambertson, who served in Saigon in the mid-1960s as a member of the American embassy’s political secti... Read More