The Plaza branch will close early at 5 p.m. Monday, July 1, due to water line repairs.
Signature Event
Sunday, January 6, 2019
2:00pm
Authors Carol Grove and Cydney Millstein sit down with former Kansas City council member Jan Marcason...
Signature Event
Wednesday, December 19, 2018
6:30pm
Jenny Mendez, director of cultural arts of the Mattie Rhodes Center, joins Kansas City-based artist and facilitator Olivia Cl...
Signature Event
Sunday, December 16, 2018
2:00pm
Retired Kansas City attorney Michael Cronan discusses his book on the colorful life and career of James A. Reed, a Pendergast-backed...
Signature Event
Thursday, December 13, 2018
6:30pm
Victory distant but in view, the U.S. and its World War II allies gathered in Egypt and Iran late in 1943 to map out strategy for the coming year and...
Signature Event
Sunday, December 9, 2018
2:00pm
Step into the holiday season with an afternoon of creative art, music, performance, and refreshments at the downtown Central Library. Featured: an Arb...
Signature Event
Sunday, December 9, 2018
2:00pm
A little more than two weeks before Christmas, members of Kansas City’s Equity Actors' Readers' Theatre (EARTh) delivers two script-i...
Signature Event
Saturday, December 8, 2018
6:30pm
Some of Kansas City’s favorite classically trained actors join the Bach Aria Soloists in creating a special wintertime story. Perform...
Signature Event
Thursday, December 6, 2018
6:30pm
Baron Wolman, Rolling Stone magazine’s first chief photographer, brought America up close and personal with Mick Jagger, Jimi Hendrix, and ot...
Signature Event
Wednesday, December 5, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
In a discussion of the new book All Because of a Mormon Cow: Historical Accounts of the Grattan Massacre, 1855-1856, histori...
Signature Event
Sunday, November 18, 2018
2:00pm
Historian Eric Anderson discusses the tumultuous, yet formative, beginnings of Haskell Indian Nations University in Lawrence, Kansas....