The North-East branch will be closed Monday, September 23, for staff training.
Signature Event
Sunday, April 21, 2024
3:00pm
In Person
The Kansas City Baroque Consortium, one of the city’s cultural jewels since 2009, specializes in the performance of early music on period instruments....
Signature Event
Friday, April 19, 2024
5:30pm
In Person
To celebrate two decades at 14 W. 10th Street, the public is invited to an all-ages drop-in happy hour on April 19, 2024, that includes refreshments,...
Signature Event
Sunday, April 14, 2024
2:00pm
In Person
Janssen Place, the first private street built in Kansas City in the 1890s, is still considered one of the city’s most beautiful developments. Kansas C...
Signature Event
Tuesday, April 9, 2024
6:00pm
In Person
Just northeast of Australia is Guadalcanal, the largest of the Solomon Islands. From August 1942 through February 1943, it was the staging ground for...
Signature Event
Monday, April 1, 2024
6:00pm
Online
In Person
Fox4 reporter Matt Stewart and former Kansas City Royals second baseman, Frank White, discuss forgotten and lesser-known stories of the Royals from St...
Signature Event
Sunday, March 24, 2024
2:00pm
In Person
Carmaletta Williams, CEO of the Black Archives of Mid-America, discusses the research of the Greater Kansas City Black Suffragist Committee, formed ne...
Signature Event
Thursday, March 14, 2024
6:00pm
Online
In Person
Carrie Westlake Whitney was a remarkable exception to the patriarchal times in which she lived, a 27-year-old woman who became the first full-time dir...
Signature Event
Saturday, March 9, 2024
6:00pm
In Person
The Kansas City Repertory Theatre brings its adaptation of Nina Simone: Four Women to the Central Library. The show is an exploration of how the icon...
Signature Event
Friday, March 8, 2024
7:00pm
Online
In Person
As part of the Library’s sesquicentennial celebration, decorated author Jacqueline Woodson joins in a public conversation about her life and career, t...
Signature Event
Saturday, February 10, 2024
1:00pm
In Person
Drawing from their respective books, KelLee Parr and Stephen Rowley share their personal connections to The Willows, the most prominent of Kansas City...