All Library locations will be closed Thursday, July 4, for Independence Day.
Signature Event
Saturday, April 30, 2016
1:30pm
Baseball is back, launching a new major-league season April 3. That, of course, is big news in Kansas City, where the Royals begin defense of their fi...
Signature Event
Thursday, April 28, 2016
11:00am
Clarina Nichols died more than a quarter-century before Kansas became the eighth state to grant women the right to vote in 1912. But the dedicated ref...
Signature Event
Wednesday, April 27, 2016
6:30pm
Winston Churchill wasn’t overtly religious. But he subscribed to divine destiny, telling a classmate at age 16 that he foresaw a day when “London will...
Signature Event
Tuesday, April 26, 2016
6:30pm
Stephen Locke and Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg find beauty in bad weather – in thunderstorms and tornadoes, wall clouds an...
Signature Event
Monday, April 25, 2016
6:30pm
Everyone is susceptible to implicit bias – unconscious attitudes or stereotypes that affect judgments about others based on their race, ethnicity, app...
Signature Event
Sunday, April 24, 2016
2:00pm
The Library continues its 10th season of Script-in-Hand performances and more than six months of special...
Signature Event
Wednesday, April 20, 2016
6:30pm
Award-winning writer, critic, and editor John Freeman launched the year’s most anticipated literary magazine, the biannual Freeman’s, in Sept...
Signature Event
Saturday, April 16, 2016
2:00pm
What better way to celebrate Shakespeare than by getting into character?
SHAKESperience, a hands-on workshop conducted by the...
Signature Event
Thursday, April 14, 2016
6:30pm
Participating in the conversation are several notable local music personalities: Katy Guillen (of the band Katy Guillen and the Girls...
Signature Event
Tuesday, April 12, 2016
6:30pm
In Person
Guido Ruggiero underscored his position as one of the world’s leading authorities on the Italian Renaissance with his most recent...