The North-East branch will close early at 4 p.m. Tuesday, July 16, due to staff shortages.
Signature Event
Thursday, June 9, 2022
6:00pm
Online
In Person
In an extraordinary community forum, local leaders and national experts examine the troubling patterns of violent discriminatory policing and how, col...
Signature Event
Wednesday, June 1, 2022
6:00pm
Online
In Person
Irish comedian and writer Maeve Higgins, a regular panelist on NPR’s Wait Wait … Don’t Tell Me!, discusses her new book Tell Ev...
Signature Event
Monday, May 23, 2022
6:00pm
In Person
Nearly 60 years after its release, Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Stran...
Signature Event
Tuesday, May 10, 2022
6:00pm
Online
In Person
Kansas City-area journalist Christopher Leonard returns to the Library to discuss his new book The Lords of Easy Money...
Signature Event
Monday, May 9, 2022
6:00pm
Online
In Person
Director Ridley Scott takes a sweeping look back to the Crusades and the brutal fighting between Christians and Muslims over the First Kingdom of J...
Signature Event
Thursday, May 5, 2022
6:00pm
In Person
Participants from Glenn North’s May 1 poetry workshop take the stage to share their work. The readings draw heavily from U.S. Poet...
Signature Event
Tuesday, May 3, 2022
6:00pm
Online
In Person
Maybe you know Molière. If not … well, Kansas City’s French roots lend a c...
Signature Event
Saturday, April 30, 2022
1:30pm
In Person
Efforts to marginalize Native Americans and their culture could not dimini...
Signature Event
Saturday, April 30, 2022
1:30pm
Efforts to marginalize Native Americans and their culture could not dimini...
Signature Event
Saturday, April 23, 2022
1:30pm
In Person
An elderly Native American couple make their last journey together – to We...