Southeast branch is opening late at noon on Saturday, September 28, due to staffing issues.
Signature Event
Friday, December 7, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
Best-selling author and two-time Newbery Medal winner Kate DiCamillo discusses her new juvenile novel Louisiana’s Way Home....
Signature Event
Friday, November 30, 2018
6:00pm
In Person
Start the holiday season with a festival at the Library, overlooking the beautiful Plaza lights. Listen to live music by the trio Tiny Esca...
Signature Event
Monday, November 12, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
Commemorating Veterans Day, members of Kansas City’s Equity Actors' Readers' Theatre (EARTh) deliver a script-in-hand performance of...
Signature Event
Wednesday, November 7, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
The best political speeches transcend oratory. In such stirring addresses as John F. Kennedy’s “ask not what your country can do for you” and Winst...
Signature Event
Saturday, November 3, 2018
2:00pm
In Person
The marginalization of Native Americans wasn’t simply a crime of our country’s distant, unenlightened past. The documentary Dawnland c...
Signature Event
Thursday, November 1, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
You’ve got gardening and landscaping questions. We’ve got answers from a panel of experts on everything from the best fruit and flowering trees for...
Signature Event
Tuesday, October 30, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
Laura Kasischke, a renowned literary multi-talent who has won the National Book Critics Circle Award for her poetry and seen three of...
Signature Event
Monday, October 29, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
John Kaag of the University of Massachusetts, Lowell, discusses his new book Hiking with Nietzsche: Becoming Who You Are...
Signature Event
Sunday, October 21, 2018
2:00pm
In Person
The latest installment of the Library’s special, intergenerational movie series for individuals with dementia, their friends, and families features...
Signature Event
Thursday, October 18, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
In a discussion of her new book These Truths: A History of the United States, an ambitious look of the origins and evolution...