Signature Events Archive | Kansas City Public Library

Serengeti Steve

Wednesday, June 3, 2015 4:00pm

North-East Branch

Serengeti Steve performs over 600 shows a year throughout the country and has been featured as a Las Vegas finalist on NBC's hit show "America's Got T...

An Afternoon of “Woemance”

Sunday, February 22, 2015 2:00pm

Waldo Branch

Join Bernard Norcott-Mahany and friends in an afternoon of stories and songs about “love gone wrong,” part of the Library’s A...

Joanna Brady Returns - J.A. Jance

Sunday, August 10, 2014 2:00pm

Waldo Branch

Best-selling mystery and horror author J.A. Jance introduced Joanna Brady to readers in Desert Heat in 1993. Her fictional A...

A Cultural Celebration of Liberia

Saturday, June 14, 2014 2:00pm

North-East Branch

Join Michelle Pond, Judith Towse Roberts, and Rhiannon Ross, Kansas City artists, writers and membe...

Quintiles Summer Community Fair

Tuesday, June 10, 2014 3:00pm

North-East Branch

Quintiles and Truman Medical Center are again sponsoring a community fair to bring helpful and innovative information on medical issues, clinical tria...

A Cultural Celebration of India

Saturday, April 12, 2014 2:00pm

North-East Branch

Join University of Kansas instructor and choreographer Anjali Tata-Hudson and members of the Asian-Indian community for an afternoon...

The Real Walter Mitty and Other Thurber Fantasies

Sunday, February 23, 2014 2:00pm

Waldo Branch

In Person

Join Bernard Norcott-Mahany as he recounts “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” (the movie Mitty is not the real Mit...

A Cultural Celebration of Bhutan

Sunday, September 15, 2013 2:00pm

North-East Branch

A recent global survey rated residents of the Eastern Himalayan country of Bhutan as the happiest in Asia. Experience the smells, tastes, and sounds o...

Watermelon Hill

Sunday, July 14, 2013 2:00pm

Southeast Branch

In Person

In the 1950s and ‘60s, Kansas City was a heavily segregated town. African-Americans were limited even in which city facilities they could use. For ins...

Environmental Testing Hardesty Federal Complex-Public Information Session

Thursday, June 20, 2013 4:00pm

North-East Branch

Residents are invited to participate in a public information session about current and future environmental testing related to the former Hardesty Fed...

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