The North-East branch will be closed Monday, September 23, for staff training.
Signature Event
Saturday, July 13, 2024
2:00pm
In Person
Before he was known as "Wild Bill,” famed frontiersman and gunfighter James Butler Hickok spent three formative years as a young man in the Kansas Cit...
Signature Event
Sunday, March 3, 2024
1:30pm
In Person
The 2024 Searching the Psyche Through Cinema film series, which looks to the arts (and this year, to science fiction) to illuminate our understanding...
Signature Event
Sunday, February 18, 2024
1:30pm
In Person
The 2024 Searching the Psyche Through Cinema film series, which looks to the arts (and this year, to science fiction) to illuminate our understanding...
Signature Event
Saturday, February 10, 2024
1:00pm
In Person
Drawing from their respective books, KelLee Parr and Stephen Rowley share their personal connections to The Willows, the most prominent of Kansas City...
Signature Event
Sunday, February 4, 2024
1:30pm
In Person
The 2024 Searching the Psyche Through Cinema film series, which looks to the arts (and this year, to science fiction) to illuminate our understanding...
Signature Event
Saturday, January 27, 2024
2:00pm
In Person
In a special Missouri Valley Saturdays discussion of her new book States of Swing: The History of the Kansas City Jazz Orchestra, 2003-2023, author Li...
Signature Event
Sunday, January 21, 2024
1:30pm
In Person
The annual Searching the Psyche Through Cinema series returns, spotlighting a selection of sci-fi films as it looks to illuminate our understanding of...
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
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...