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Signature Event
Wednesday, March 13, 2024
6:00pm
In Person
The Kansas City Repertory Theatre brings its adaptation of Nina Simone: Four Women to the Kansas City Public Library’s...
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, July 14, 2018
10:30am
The Library and The Kansas City Star focus the latest installment of their Java with Journalist series on the Troost Avenue...
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
Thursday, September 14, 2017
3:30pm
Harvard University’s Danielle Allen visits the L.H. Bluford Branch for a special afternoon discussion of her new book, CU...
Signature Event
Saturday, July 1, 2017
11:00am
It’s Lucile Bluford’s day. Officially. Bluford, for whom the Library's L.H. Bluford Branch...
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...