The North-East branch will be closed Monday, September 23, for staff training.
Signature Event
Thursday, February 9, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
The vitality of Kansas City’s arts community today traces back, in part, to David Hughes’ founding of the Charlotte Street Foundat...
Signature Event
Thursday, February 2, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
Matt Gallagher has emerged in the past decade as one of literature’s most distinctive and perceptive voices on the Iraq War. As an Ar...
Signature Event
Tuesday, September 13, 2016
6:30pm
In Person
This year’s election stakes are high, as always. But perhaps no presidential vote in U.S. history was more consequential than that of 1860....
Signature Event
Thursday, July 14, 2016
6:30pm
In Person
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
Tuesday, May 3, 2016
6:30pm
In Person
From modest attendance of 120 at its first service held in 1990 in the chapel of a local funeral home – the Rev. Adam Hamilton has...
Signature Event
Thursday, April 21, 2016
6:30pm
In Person
When The Washington Post asked 162 political science scholars earlier this year which American president should be added to Mount Rushmore...
Signature Event
Wednesday, April 20, 2016
6:30pm
In Person
Award-winning writer, critic, and editor John Freeman launched the year’s most anticipated literary magazine, the biannual Freeman’s, in S...
Signature Event
Wednesday, March 23, 2016
6:30pm
In Person
Among the things Osama bin Laden and his lieutenants left behind when they fled Kandahar after the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 was a cache...
Signature Event
Thursday, March 3, 2016
6:30pm
In Person
At 83, SuEllen Fried’s social conscience has scarcely ebbed. The Prairie Village native – one of former President George H.W. Bush...
Signature Event
Wednesday, July 15, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
Lyndon Johnson had the misfortune of following the handsome, martyred John F. Kennedy into the White House and then miring his country in Vietnam....