The North-East branch will be closed Monday, September 23, for staff training.
Signature Event
Thursday, August 11, 2022
6:00pm
Online
In Person
In a discussion of her book Reclaiming Your Community: You Don’t Have to Move out of Your Neighborhood to Live in a Better One, New York urban revital...
Signature Event
Online
What is Kansas City’s master plan for the next 20 years? The city’s three principal planning officers, Jeffrey Williams, Diane Binckley, and Kyle Elli...
Signature Event
Tuesday, March 3, 2020
6:30pm
In Person
Kansas City has an infrastructure problem. Simply put, it can’t afford what it needs. Dennis Strait of the Kansas City studio of Gould Evans, an archi...
Signature Event
Sunday, February 23, 2020
1:30pm
In Person
The Library wraps up this year’s Searching the Psyche Through Cinema series with a final screening and discussion of a film adapted f...
Signature Event
Sunday, February 9, 2020
1:30pm
In Person
The Library continues this year’s Searching the Psyche Through Cinema series – featuring films adapted from books – with the 2017 dra...
Signature Event
Sunday, January 26, 2020
1:30pm
In Person
The month’s second Searching the Psyche Through Cinema installment features Francis Ford Coppola’s classic look at life on the...
Signature Event
Sunday, January 12, 2020
1:30pm
In Person
Sigmund Freud, the celebrated father of psychoanalysis, often referenced literature and theater in his analytic theory. The annual Searc...
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, October 29, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
Which areas offer Kansas City the greatest potential for smart long-term growth? Urban planner Joe Minicozzi and Chuck Marohn, founder of the nonprofi...
Signature Event
Tuesday, September 24, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
Kansas City-based urban planner, designer, and architect Kevin Klinkenberg examines why and how cities being reinvented today, who the winners and los...