The North-East branch will be closed Monday, September 23, for staff training.
Signature Event
Saturday, July 13, 2024
2:00pm
In Person
Before he was known as "Wild Bill,” famed frontiersman and gunfighter James Butler Hickok spent three formative years as a young man in the Kansas Cit...
Signature Event
Saturday, February 10, 2024
1:00pm
In Person
Drawing from their respective books, KelLee Parr and Stephen Rowley share their personal connections to The Willows, the most prominent of Kansas City...
Signature Event
Saturday, January 27, 2024
2:00pm
In Person
In a special Missouri Valley Saturdays discussion of her new book States of Swing: The History of the Kansas City Jazz Orchestra, 2003-2023, author Li...
Signature Event
Tuesday, November 19, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
There may be no more ardent disciple of literature today than John Freeman, founder of Freeman’s anthology of new writing and the...
Signature Event
Tuesday, April 16, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
With an award-winning novel, best-selling collection of short stories, and a nonfiction best-seller (On Top of the World: Cantor Fitzgerald, Howar...
Signature Event
Wednesday, February 20, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
Two distinctive writers and educators join local novelist Whitney Terrell in a discussion of their craft and our nation’s fraught...
Signature Event
Sunday, May 13, 2018
2:00pm
In Person
Coterie Theatre artists resume their monthly interactive story times for children and their parents, reading from indie rocker Tim Ha...
Signature Event
Sunday, April 8, 2018
2:00pm
In Person
Coterie Theatre artists resume their monthly interactive story times for children and their parents, reading from Michael Rosen’s award-winning classi...
Signature Event
Sunday, March 11, 2018
2:00pm
In Person
Coterie Theatre artists resume their monthly interactive story times for children and their parents, reading from Jon Agee’s engag...
Signature Event
Sunday, February 11, 2018
2:00pm
In Person
Coterie Theatre artists resume their monthly interactive story times for children and their parents, spotlighting Jerry Pinkney’s Cal...