The Ruiz Branch is closed Saturday, September 28, due to a malfunctioning fire alarm.
Signature Event
Wednesday, October 3, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
Drawing from her poignant new memoir – one of 10 nonfiction works on the longlist for a 2018 National Book Award – Sarah Smarsh discu...
Signature Event
Thursday, September 20, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
In a discussion of her new book Babies Made Us Modern: How Infants Brought Americans into the Twentieth Century, Rutgers Uni...
Signature Event
Saturday, September 15, 2018
10:15am
In Person
The Veterans Writing Workshop opens with a public presentation featuring Iraq War veteran, author, and poet Brian Turner...
Signature Event
Thursday, September 13, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
Jamie Bernstein, the eldest daughter of revered composer Leonard Bernstein, and David Charles Abell, who is conducti...
Signature Event
Tuesday, September 11, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
Nationally renowned urban thinker Chuck Marohn, who kicked off the Library’s Making a Great City series in January 2018, returns to assess the crucial...
Signature Event
Monday, September 10, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
In a script-in-hand performance commemorating Labor Day, members of Kansas City’s Equity Actors' Readers' Theatre (EARTh) read select...
Signature Event
Thursday, September 6, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
Crime Magazine publisher J. Patrick O’Connor discusses his book Justice on Fire: The Kansas City Firefighters Case and th...
Signature Event
Wednesday, August 29, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
Rhiannon Ally, the Emmy-winning evening news anchor for Kansas City’s NBC affiliate, 41 Action News, discusses her newly released children’s book, ins...
Signature Event
Tuesday, August 28, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
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Signature Event
Sunday, August 26, 2018
2:00pm
In Person
Sample some of the world’s faraway places in the latest installment of the Library’s special, intergenerational movie series for individuals with deme...