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 A Conversation with John Freeman Tuesday, November 19, 2019 6:30pm Central Library In Person There may be no more ardent disciple of literature today than John Freeman, founder of Freeman’s anthology of new writing and the... Read More
Signature Event A Conversation With Tom Barbash Tuesday, April 16, 2019 6:30pm Central Library In Person With an award-winning novel, best-selling collection of short stories, and a nonfiction best-seller (On Top of the World: Cantor Fitzgerald, Howar... Read More
Signature Event On Writing, on Race Wednesday, February 20, 2019 6:30pm Plaza Branch In Person Two distinctive writers and educators join local novelist Whitney Terrell in a discussion of their craft and our nation’s fraught... 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 A Conversation with John Freeman Tuesday, November 28, 2017 6:30pm Central Library In Person Award-winning writer, critic, and editor John Freeman joins Writers at Work series organizer Whitney Terrell in a public conversation about Freeman’s... Read More