The North-East branch will be closed Monday, September 23, for staff training.
Signature Event
Tuesday, December 5, 2023
7:00pm
Online
In Person
**Join us starting at 6 p.m. for a reception hour with food by Dutzel's Catering, music by The Phantastics, and two special drinks.
The Kansas City...
Signature Event
Thursday, September 8, 2022
6:00pm
Online
The Library and KCUR 89.3 kick off Securing Democracy, a three-part series inviting the community and its leaders to discuss securing democr...
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
Saturday, April 23, 2022
1:30pm
In Person
An elderly Native American couple make their last journey together – to Wewoka, capital of the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma. Frankie is dying and in...
Signature Event
Thursday, April 14, 2022
6:30pm
Online
In Person
U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo, whose acclaimed An American Sunrise is the focus of the Library’s Big...
Signature Event
Saturday, April 9, 2022
1:30pm
In Person
The Library continues a month-long series of film screenings in conjunction with Big Read 2022 with the thought-provoking...
Signature Event
Saturday, April 2, 2022
1:30pm
In Person
The Library opens a month-long series of film screenings in conjunction with Big Read 2022 with Smoke Signals...
Signature Event
Thursday, January 10, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
Efforts to marginalize Native Americans and their culture could not diminish their transformational impact on popular music, from the Delta blues a...
Signature Event
Thursday, November 16, 2017
6:30pm
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...
Signature Event
Thursday, November 2, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
As the Vietnam War escalated in the 1960s, Hollywood was struggling financially and the longtime studio system was collapsing. Into the vacuum step...