All Library locations will be closed Monday, May 27, for Memorial Day.
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...
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
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....