The North-East branch will be closed Monday, September 23, for staff training.
Signature Event
Wednesday, February 19, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
Veteran re-enactor Charles Everett Pace brings his one man show to Kansas City to portray prominent abolitionist and social reform...
Signature Event
Tuesday, November 12, 2013
6:30pm
In Person
Patrick Rosal’s poetry, writes one critic, “skillfully navigates between despair and love, between violence and music, between los...
Signature Event
Tuesday, October 22, 2013
6:30pm
In Person
Martin Espada, widely recognized as “the Latino poet of his generation,” joins Angela Elam from New Letters on t...
Signature Event
Thursday, October 17, 2013
6:30pm
In Person
Competition between Kansas and Missouri goes back to the years before the Civil War, when Jayhawkers and “border ruffians” battled over the issue of s...
Signature Event
Thursday, October 10, 2013
6:30pm
In Person
Meet the Past with Crosby Kemper III returns for a conversation with Tom Bass, portrayed by veteran actor Wa...
Signature Event
Wednesday, August 21, 2013
6:30pm
In Person
On the 150th anniversary of William Clarke Quantrill’s raid on Lawrence, Tony R. Mullis of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff...
Signature Event
Sunday, August 18, 2013
2:00pm
In Person
William Quantrill’s August 21, 1863 Confederate raid on Lawrence, Kansas, left nearly 200 men and boys dead and the city in flames. Film expert...
Signature Event
Thursday, July 11, 2013
6:30pm
In Person
When it opened 40 years ago, Kansas City International Airport and its three-terminal design was hailed as the most convenient airport in the count...
Signature Event
Thursday, January 17, 2013
6:30pm
In Person
Steve Kraske of KCUR’s Up to Date moderates a panel discussion about Kansas City’s financial planning. Feat...
Signature Event
Thursday, September 20, 2012
6:30pm
Meet the Past with Crosby Kemper III returns for a conversation with Thomas Jefferson, as portrayed by Patri...