The North-East branch will be closed Monday, September 23, for staff training.
Signature Event
Sunday, September 16, 2018
2:00pm
In Person
Public historians Diane Eickhoff and Aaron Barnhart recall how hundreds of women defied cultural norms of the time t...
Signature Event
Monday, September 10, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
In a script-in-hand performance commemorating Labor Day, members of Kansas City’s Equity Actors' Readers' Theatre (EARTh) read select...
Signature Event
Thursday, April 19, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
In the keynote address for the Quindaro Symposium, held April 19-21 in Kansas City, Kansas, historian Quintard Taylor exp...
Signature Event
Saturday, April 7, 2018
2:00pm
In Person
The Library and KCPT–Kansas City PBS screen the acclaimed 2016 documentary spotlighting the famed essayist, novelist, poet, and champion of agr...
Signature Event
Sunday, March 18, 2018
2:00pm
In Person
In the latest installment of the Library’s popular Script-in-Hand series, the Heart of America Shakespeare Festival offers a unique performance of The...
Signature Event
Saturday, March 10, 2018
2:00pm
In Person
The latest installment of the Indie Lens Pop-Up film series spotlights Dolores Huerta, co-founder of the first farmworkers union with Cesar Cha...
Signature Event
Saturday, February 10, 2018
2:00pm
In Person
As part of the Indie Lens Pop-Up film series, the Library and KCPT–Kansas City PBS screen the documentary Tell Them We Are Rising...
Signature Event
Wednesday, September 13, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
Was Abraham Lincoln the transcendent champion of African-American freedom that history books depict? Author Fred Kaplan tempers that...
Signature Event
Saturday, July 15, 2017
2:00pm
In Person
Eugene Ionesco's The Bald Sopranois one of the seminal works of the Theatre of the Absurd. He got the idea for the play from the...
Signature Event
Saturday, June 10, 2017
2:00pm
In Person
The documentary Real Boy tells the story of transgender teen Bennett Wallace, the struggle by his mother to accept his tr...