The Plaza branch will close early at 5 p.m. Monday, July 1, due to water line repairs.
Signature Event
Tuesday, September 24, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
Kansas City-based urban planner, designer, and architect Kevin Klinkenberg examines why and how cities being reinvented today, who the winners and los...
Signature Event
Tuesday, May 28, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
Susan Rademacher, a leader in the nationwide parks conservancy movement for three decades, examines the challenge of keeping Kansas City’s signature s...
Signature Event
Tuesday, April 30, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
Leon Younger, one of the nation’s most accomplished parks and recreation consultants, continues a three-part study of Kansas City’s distinctive system...
Signature Event
Tuesday, March 5, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
Keith Culbertson, the chairman and CEO of Design Workshop and a George Kessler historian, launches a three-part study of Kansas City’s distinctive sys...
Signature Event
Sunday, December 9, 2018
2:00pm
A little more than two weeks before Christmas, members of Kansas City’s Equity Actors' Readers' Theatre (EARTh) delivers two script-i...
Signature Event
Monday, November 12, 2018
6:30pm
Commemorating Veterans Day, members of Kansas City’s Equity Actors' Readers' Theatre (EARTh) deliver a script-in-hand performance of...
Signature Event
Thursday, November 1, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
There remains a haunting stillness over the grounds around Antietam Creek near Sharpsburg, Maryland, where 3,650 Union and Confederate soldiers perish...
Signature Event
Sunday, September 16, 2018
2:00pm
Public historians Diane Eickhoff and Aaron Barnhart recall how hundreds of women defied cultural norms of the time t...
Signature Event
Tuesday, September 11, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
Nationally renowned urban thinker Chuck Marohn, who kicked off the Library’s Making a Great City series in January 2018, returns to assess the crucial...
Signature Event
Monday, September 10, 2018
6:30pm
In a script-in-hand performance commemorating Labor Day, members of Kansas City’s Equity Actors' Readers' Theatre (EARTh) read select...