The Plaza branch will close early at 5 p.m. Monday, July 1, due to water line repairs.
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
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
Sunday, May 13, 2018
2:00pm
Coterie Theatre artists resume their monthly interactive story times for children and their parents, reading from indie rocker Tim Ha...
Signature Event
Sunday, April 8, 2018
2:00pm
In Person
Coterie Theatre artists resume their monthly interactive story times for children and their parents, reading from Michael Rosen’s award-winning classi...
Signature Event
Sunday, March 11, 2018
2:00pm
Coterie Theatre artists resume their monthly interactive story times for children and their parents, reading from Jon Agee’s engaging...
Signature Event
Sunday, February 11, 2018
2:00pm
Coterie Theatre artists resume their monthly interactive story times for children and their parents, spotlighting Jerry Pinkney’s Cal...
Signature Event
Sunday, January 14, 2018
2:00pm
Coterie Theatre artists resume their monthly interactive story times for children and their parents, reading from Tonight Show host Jimmy Fallo...
Signature Event
Sunday, December 10, 2017
2:00pm
Coterie Theatre artists resume their monthly interactive story times for children and their parents, reading from Eric Litwin’s Pete the C...
Signature Event
Thursday, November 16, 2017
6:30pm
Former ambassador David F. Lambertson, who served in Saigon in the mid-1960s as a member of the American embassy’s political secti...