Signature Event
Signature Event
Thursday, February 15, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
George Saunders discusses his best-selling Lincoln in the Bardo, winner of the 2017 Man Booker Prize for...
Signature Event
Sunday, February 11, 2018
2:00pm
In Person
Coterie Theatre artists resume their monthly interactive story times for children and their parents, spotlighting Jerry Pinkney’s Cal...
Signature Event
Sunday, February 11, 2018
2:00pm
In Person
Just before the 2018 Oscars are presented, the Library screens three uplifting, Academy Award-winning or nominated shorts in the latest installment of...
Signature Event
Saturday, February 10, 2018
2:00pm
In Person
As part of the Indie Lens Pop-Up film series, the Library and KCPT–Kansas City PBS screen the documentary Tell Them We Are Rising...
Signature Event
Thursday, February 8, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
In conjunction with Black History Month, Gary Kremer, director of the State Historical Society of Missouri, examines the journey of Missouri’s...
Signature Event
Wednesday, February 7, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
Former Defense Department cyber security chief Katherine Charlet, now with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, assesses the rising...
Signature Event
Sunday, February 4, 2018
1:30pm
In Person
Searching the Psyche Through Cinema, the annual screening-and-discussion series, continues this year’s psychological studies of films directed by the...
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
Thursday, January 25, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
Before opening Auschwitz and other notorious death camps, Adolf Hitler and his Nazi German adherents carried out a grim and deadly prelude. In an e...