The North-East branch will be closed Monday, September 23, for staff training.
Signature Event
Sunday, May 1, 2022
1:00pm
In Person
Amid the Library’s Big Read 2022, a two-month celebration of reading and poetry, Kansas City poet Glenn North conduc...
Signature Event
Tuesday, October 13, 2020
6:30pm
In Person
The Kansas City Symphony continues its series of free outdoor chamber concerts at the Library, with a string quintet – violins, viola, cello, and b...
Signature Event
Saturday, April 28, 2018
10:30am
In Person
Join the Library at its recently renovated Southeast Branch for a day of community celebration. Visit our space and check out refreshed collect...
Signature Event
Sunday, July 17, 2016
2:00pm
In Person
This time nearly a century ago, Kansas City was approaching what local historian Joelouis Mattox calls the "Gloomy Years" – a nearly...
Signature Event
Saturday, May 9, 2015
10:30am
In Person
As a six-year-old child, local artist and gardener Dean Bracy observed what seemed like hundreds of monarch butterflies feeding on a butterfly bush an...
Signature Event
Sunday, July 14, 2013
2:00pm
In Person
In the 1950s and ‘60s, Kansas City was a heavily segregated town. African-Americans were limited even in which city facilities they could use. For ins...
Signature Event
Thursday, May 31, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
You’re never too old to begin a literary career. At the age of 75 retired pastor Cy Robinson began writing his first novel. Not just...
Signature Event
Friday, September 30, 2011
6:00pm
In Person
One of the staples of Kansas City’s Westside community, the Irene H. Ruiz Branch of the Kansas City Public Library c...
Signature Event
Monday, December 13, 2010
6:30pm
In Person
The Kansas City Public Library continues its centennial commemoration of the 1910 Mexican Revolution with a special presentatio...
Signature Event
Sunday, November 21, 2010
2:00pm
In Person
Local historian Joelouis Mattox discusses ways in which white men such as John Brown, Thomas Hart Benton, and Kansas City radio legend Walt Bodine wor...