The Ruiz Branch is closed Saturday, September 28, due to a malfunctioning fire alarm.
Signature Event
Tuesday, April 24, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
The University of Notre Dame’s Peter Holland, one of the world’s foremost authorities on Shakespeare, examines the great playwright’s...
Signature Event
Saturday, April 21, 2018
1:00pm
In Person
Writer and filmmaker Karen Kelleher Bacon explores the enduring global obsession with author Jane Austen, a product of her literary genius, man...
Signature Event
Thursday, April 19, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
Joaquin Zihuatanejo, one of our country’s most entertaining and compelling poets, discusses and reads from his newest collection of works, Arsonis...
Signature Event
Tuesday, April 17, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
Author Laila Lalami discusses her acclaimed novel The Moor’s Account, a finalist for the 2015 Pulitzer Priz...
Signature Event
Sunday, April 8, 2018
2:00pm
In Person
Coterie Theatre artists resume their monthly interactive story times for children and their parents, reading from Michael Rosen’s award-winning classi...
Signature Event
Sunday, April 8, 2018
2:00pm
In Person
Humor, personified by the blundering but likable Mr. Bean, is the focus of the latest installment of the special, intergenerational movie series fo...
Signature Event
Saturday, April 7, 2018
2:00pm
In Person
The Library and KCPT–Kansas City PBS screen the acclaimed 2016 documentary spotlighting the famed essayist, novelist, poet, and champion of agr...
Signature Event
Thursday, April 5, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
Cornell University historian Ed Baptist traces much of what has happened with race relations in the U.S. in the past 150 years to efforts to co...
Signature Event
Monday, March 26, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
Frustrated with the slow pace of civil rights reforms and outraged at the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., protesters in Kansas City took to t...
Signature Event
Sunday, March 18, 2018
2:00pm
In Person
In the latest installment of the Library’s popular Script-in-Hand series, the Heart of America Shakespeare Festival offers a unique performance of The...