The Ruiz Branch is closed Saturday, September 28, due to a malfunctioning fire alarm.
Signature Event
Monday, June 13, 2022
6:00pm
In Person
Military historian Harry S. Laver of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College separates fact from Hollywood fiction in one of the most acclaime...
Signature Event
Saturday, June 11, 2022
1:00pm
In Person
This half-day workshop in honor of World Doll Day kicks off with a keynote presentation by Lenexa author Elizabeth Bunce, who just released her thi...
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. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb...
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 connection to the great French playwright, who may rank second only to Sha...
Signature Event
Saturday, April 30, 2022
1:30pm
Efforts to marginalize Native Americans and their culture could not dimini...