The North-East Branch will be closed Sunday, June 16, due to staff shortages.
Signature Event
Sunday, October 11, 2015
2:00pm
Kansas City’s Green Duck Tavern, at 26th Street and Prospect Avenue, was once an unassuming seat of power, owned by politician and civil rights activi...
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
Sunday, September 27, 2015
2:00pm
The Westport Center for the Arts and Jacqueline L. Gafford present a one-woman play about the life and times of Barbara Jordan, the first southern bla...
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...
Signature Event
Saturday, April 11, 2015
2:00pm
Car repairs are no fun for anyone. Learn maintenance tips that will help you to keep those hard earned dollars in your pocket.
Andy Mitchell, Lead...
Signature Event
Friday, August 15, 2014
6:00pm
The Kansas City Public Library and The KC Kingpen Coalition present drug-kingpin - turned philanthropist and author - Freeway Rick Ross. He will disc...
Signature Event
Sunday, August 10, 2014
2:00pm
Several Kansas Citians including neighborhood residents Alvin Brooks, Karen Slaughter, Telester Powell, Joe Louis Mattox recently created digital stor...
Signature Event
Sunday, June 29, 2014
2:00pm
In partnership with the Westport Center for the Arts we will present a reading of The 3 Ms. This new play features the widows of Martin Luther King,...
Signature Event
Saturday, June 14, 2014
2:00pm
During decades of official segregation in public schools, all-black Lincoln High was a source of community inspiration, pride, and hope matched only b...
Signature Event
Saturday, September 14, 2013
2:00pm
Meet local Independence author Marilyn Shank. She'll discuss how she got started writing and the books that she's written....