The Plaza branch will close early at 5 p.m. Monday, July 1, due to water line repairs.
Signature Event
Saturday, July 20, 2019
12:00pm
For Benjamin Todd Wills, art is born of curiosity as well as creativity.
The Kansas City artist launched the first of...
Signature Event
Friday, July 19, 2019
8:00pm
Hollywood actors from a Star Trek-like TV show (Tim Allen, Sigourney Weaver, Alan Rickman, Tony Shalhoub, and Sam Rockwell) get mistaken for...
Signature Event
Wednesday, July 17, 2019
6:30pm
Anita O’Brien, an original co-curator of the Library’s special traveling exhibit, Ralph Steadman: A Retrospective, d...
Signature Event
Monday, July 8, 2019
6:30pm
Writer Claire L. Evans, a contributor to Vice, The Guardian, and Wired and former editor of the multiplatf...
Signature Event
Wednesday, June 26, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
As chief of staff to former President George H.W. Bush for 25 years, Jean Becker oversaw everything from the opening of his president...
Signature Event
Friday, June 21, 2019
8:00pm
One of Saturday Night Live’s signature comedy sketches gets the big-screen treatment, following Dan Aykroyd and Jane Curtin as stranded cone-...
Signature Event
Monday, June 10, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
The Library punctuates a months-long study of immigration in America with a look into the personal journeys of immigrants who have settled in the Lawr...
Signature Event
Sunday, June 9, 2019
2:00pm
In Person
Founded as a port at the confluence of two great rivers, Kansas City has the waters of the Missouri running through its bloodstream—threading expressw...
Signature Event
Thursday, June 6, 2019
6:30pm
Seventy-five years later, the world still marvels at the audacity and epic scope of D-Day. Some 160,000 Allied troops landed along a 50-mile stretch o...
Signature Event
Wednesday, June 5, 2019
6:30pm
As the 2019 Art in the Loop Project: Make/Believe begins its nearly five-month run in and around downtown Kansas City, meet its lineu...