All Library locations will be closed Monday, May 27, for Memorial Day.
Signature Event
Thursday, October 5, 2023
6:00pm
Writers for Readers, one of Kansas City's premier literary events, returns with an exciting lineup featuring celebrated author Lan Samantha Chang in c...
Signature Event
Wednesday, November 16, 2022
6:00pm
In Person
Writers for Readers returns with a special lineup featuring celebrated author Alexander Chee and the announcement of...
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
Saturday, April 28, 2018
10:30am
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
This time nearly a century ago, Kansas City was approaching what local historian Joelouis Mattox calls the "Gloomy Years" – a nearly...
Signature Event
Thursday, May 26, 2016
4:00pm
Learn and then apply the art of wooden-sword dueling in two interactive sessions offered by the Heart of America Shakespeare Festival. Participants fi...
Signature Event
Tuesday, May 24, 2016
5:00pm
Learn and then apply the art of wooden-sword dueling in two interactive sessions offered by the Heart of America Shakespeare Festival. Participants fi...
Signature Event
Saturday, December 19, 2015
2:00pm
The Pitch Perfect Project features Van Horn High School choir members as they bring caroling to a new level by performing your favorite holiday songs...
Signature Event
Sunday, September 27, 2015
2:00pm
Revamped, revised, reworked, and reimagined fairy tale characters and stories have seen an explosion in contemporary media from graphic novels to tele...
Signature Event
Wednesday, July 29, 2015
6:30pm
Best-selling author and screenwriter Chris Enss—born and raised in Norborne, Missouri—specializes in stories of the men a...