The Ruiz Branch is closed Saturday, September 28, due to a malfunctioning fire alarm.
Signature Event
Tuesday, December 3, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
Thirty years ago, a peaceful demonstration by university students in the Czechoslovakian capital of Prague set off a chain of events that effect...
Signature Event
Wednesday, November 20, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
Nearly two years after the Library and KCPT-Kansas City PBS launched an examination of affordable housing in the city, what has...
Signature Event
Sunday, November 17, 2019
1:30pm
In Person
The Library continues its film series showcasing the diverse roles of girls as cinematic storytellers with the Sundance Film Festival-winning drama...
Signature Event
Thursday, November 14, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
Some 38 million people, nearly one in eight, live in poverty in today’s America as liberals and conservatives spar over solutions. Researcher and w...
Signature Event
Monday, November 11, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
Kansas City’s Equity Actors' Readers' Theatre (EARTh) commemorates Veterans Day with a script-in-hand reading of Aaron Sorkin’s sizzl...
Signature Event
Saturday, November 9, 2019
2:00pm
In Person
For 10 years in the 1970s, the South Bronx area of New York City literally smoldered. An arson epidemic, compounded by government negligence, ra...
Signature Event
Thursday, November 7, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
Amid today’s tensions over a proper understanding of separation of church and state, University of Missouri law professor Carl Esbeck...
Signature Event
Monday, November 4, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
We want to make our children readers. The question is: How? Which books are best to read to babies? How do we judge our kids’ reading progress? Are te...
Signature Event
Tuesday, October 29, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
Which areas offer Kansas City the greatest potential for smart long-term growth? Urban planner Joe Minicozzi and Chuck Marohn, founder of the nonprofi...
Signature Event
Wednesday, October 23, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
First performed in Turin, Italy, in 1896, La bohème became one of the world’s most eternally popular operas and a signature work of com...