The North-East branch will be closed Monday, September 23, for staff training.
Signature Event
Thursday, June 13, 2024
7:00pm
Online
In Person
In a special presentation as part of the Library’s yearlong sesquicentennial celebration, NPR’s Ari Shapiro – host of the award-winning news magazine...
Signature Event
Thursday, March 14, 2024
6:00pm
Online
In Person
Carrie Westlake Whitney was a remarkable exception to the patriarchal times in which she lived, a 27-year-old woman who became the first full-time dir...
Signature Event
Friday, March 8, 2024
7:00pm
Online
In Person
As part of the Library’s sesquicentennial celebration, decorated author Jacqueline Woodson joins in a public conversation about her life and career, t...
Signature Event
Tuesday, December 5, 2023
7:00pm
Online
In Person
**Join us starting at 6 p.m. for a reception hour with food by Dutzel's Catering, music by The Phantastics, and two special drinks.
The Kansas City...
Signature Event
Tuesday, August 2, 2016
6:30pm
In Person
Less than 100 days before Americans go to the polls, the latest installment of Dateline: Washington examines what has been one of the...
Signature Event
Tuesday, March 29, 2016
6:30pm
In Person
In the wake of the Super Tuesday primaries, the Library and the Truman Library Institute launch a new season of Dateline:...
Signature Event
Wednesday, October 28, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
Kansas City jazz legend Angela Hagenbach leads a diverse ensemble cast in an original and unique retelling of the Lewis Carroll cl...
Signature Event
Wednesday, October 14, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
Internationally recognized Kansas City artist Peregrine Honig fixes her creative gaze on Lewis Carroll’s classic work of children’s l...
Signature Event
Tuesday, October 13, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
2015 commemorates not only the 125th anniversary of the birth of President Dwight D. Eisenhower, but also the U.S. Census Bureau’s declaration that...
Signature Event
Sunday, September 27, 2015
2:00pm
In Person
Revamped, revised, reworked, and reimagined fairy tale characters and stories have seen an explosion in contemporary media from graphic novels to t...