The Plaza branch will close early at 5 p.m. Monday, July 1, due to water line repairs.
Signature Event
Wednesday, April 24, 2024
6:00pm
Online
In Person
What does it mean to be a “great city”? Since 2018, the Library has hosted public presentations by urban planners and round-table conversations with c...
Signature Event
Thursday, February 9, 2017
6:30pm
The vitality of Kansas City’s arts community today traces back, in part, to David Hughes’ founding of the Charlotte Street Foundation...
Signature Event
Thursday, July 14, 2016
6:30pm
One of Kansas City’s greatest entrepreneurial success stories traces back to a picnic table in Loose Park in the late 1970s, when Cliff Illig...
Signature Event
Wednesday, February 4, 2015
6:30pm
Bill Zahner made a tough call shortly after taking charge of the family business in the late 1970s, shifting the focus of the A. Zahn...
Signature Event
Wednesday, March 5, 2014
6:30pm
Angela Elam of New Letters on the Air, aired locally on KCUR 89.3 FM, holds a public conversation with author and Independen...
Signature Event
Tuesday, November 12, 2013
6:30pm
Patrick Rosal’s poetry, writes one critic, “skillfully navigates between despair and love, between violence and music, between loss a...
Signature Event
Tuesday, October 22, 2013
6:30pm
Martin Espada, widely recognized as “the Latino poet of his generation,” joins Angela Elam from New Letters on t...
Signature Event
Wednesday, May 15, 2013
6:30pm
Library Director Crosby Kemper III conducts a public conversation with Roshann Parris, president and CEO of the award-winning public...
Signature Event
Friday, November 18, 2011
12:00pm
Global Entrepreneurship Week closes as Library Director Crosby Kemper III conducts a public conversation with...
Signature Event
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
6:30pm
For more than 60 years, the name Ollie Gates has been synonymous with Kansas City-style barbeque, sauces, and their trademark greetin...