North-East Library opens late at noon on Friday, June 28.
Signature Event
Tuesday, March 5, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
Keith Culbertson, the chairman and CEO of Design Workshop and a George Kessler historian, launches a three-part study of Kansas City’s distinctive sys...
Signature Event
Tuesday, September 11, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
Nationally renowned urban thinker Chuck Marohn, who kicked off the Library’s Making a Great City series in January 2018, returns to assess the crucial...
Signature Event
Wednesday, May 2, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
Urban designer Jim Kumon looks at the resurgence of small-scale urban neighborhoods in Los Angeles, Denver, and Minneapolis, among other cities, and h...
Signature Event
Thursday, March 8, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
Urban planner Joe Minicozzi looks at the “math” of effective city building, i.e., the financial implications of land use decisions in municipalities l...
Signature Event
Tuesday, January 30, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
Chuck Marohn, founder of the nonprofit Strong Towns, launches the Making a Great City series with a critical look at how we build our cities and towns...
Signature Event
Monday, November 2, 2015
6:30pm
SPECIAL ENCORE PERFORMANCE
Kansas City jazz legend Angela Hagenbach leads a diverse ensemble cast in an original...
Signature Event
Wednesday, October 14, 2015
6:30pm
Internationally recognized Kansas City artist Peregrine Honig fixes her creative gaze on Lewis Carroll’s classic work of children’s l...
Signature Event
Sunday, September 27, 2015
2:00pm
Revamped, revised, reworked, and reimagined fairy tale characters and stories have seen an explosion in contemporary media from graphic novels to tele...
Signature Event
Wednesday, September 23, 2015
6:30pm
Beginning with a silent short released in 1903, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland has intrigued both filmmakers and viewers. Lewis Carroll’s 1...
Signature Event
Wednesday, September 16, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
Few literary works are more quoted, translated, and adapted than Lewis Carroll’s Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. This year marks the sesqui...