The Plaza branch will close early at 5 p.m. Monday, July 1, due to water line repairs.
Signature Event
Wednesday, April 12, 2023
6:00pm
Online
Buki Papillon’s acclaimed debut novel An Ordinary Wonder revolves around an intersex Nigerian teenager whose gender...
Signature Event
Tuesday, April 11, 2023
6:00pm
Online
In Person
Harry S. Laver of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College recounts a critical juncture in the Civil War: the...
Signature Event
Thursday, March 30, 2023
6:00pm
Online
In a discussion of his book The Black Tax: The Cost of Being Black in America, author and personal finance consultant...
Signature Event
Thursday, March 23, 2023
6:00pm
In Person
UMKC professor and author Clancy Martin joins Angela Elam, formerly of public radio’s New Letters on the Air...
Signature Event
Thursday, March 16, 2023
6:00pm
Online
Poet Brian Daldorph, novelist Barbara Stuber, and Journey House Manager Samantha Pettus join the Library’s Anne Knig...
Signature Event
Sunday, February 26, 2023
1:30pm
In Person
This year’s Searching the Psyche Through Cinema series wraps up with a screening and discussion of The Apartment (1960, NR,...
Signature Event
Thursday, February 16, 2023
6:00pm
Online
Robert Alter, the foremost modern translator of the Hebrew Bible into English, discusses that work, the significant implications from even t...
Signature Event
Sunday, February 12, 2023
1:30pm
In Person
This year’s Searching the Psyche Through Cinema series continues with a screening and discussion of Heartburn (1986, R, 108...
Signature Event
Sunday, January 29, 2023
1:30pm
In Person
This year’s Searching the Psyche Through Cinema series continues with a screening and discussion of...
Signature Event
Thursday, January 26, 2023
6:00pm
In Person
Four former Kansas City mayors gather for the first time in an extraordinary forum co-presented by the Citizens Association of Kansas City...