The Plaza branch will close early at 5 p.m. Monday, July 1, due to water line repairs.
Signature Event
Wednesday, June 29, 2022
6:00pm
Online
In Person
Sociologist, criminologist, and social worker Reuben Jonathan Miller assesses the causes and ramifications of mass incarcerat...
Signature Event
Wednesday, June 22, 2022
6:00pm
In Person
In a preview of Kansas City’s 2022 Art in the Loop Project, meet the artists involved in the creation of a series of visual outdoo...
Signature Event
Sunday, June 19, 2022
2:30pm
In Person
This event is being rescheduled for a future date; check back for updates....
Signature Event
Friday, June 17, 2022
8:45pm
In Person
We left it to you to choose between two memorable Cage roles and, by vote, you picked the passionate pursuer of an Academy Award-winning Cher in...
Signature Event
Sunday, June 5, 2022
2:00pm
In Person
In a discussion of his book Mount Washington Cemetery: In Search of Lost Time, local historian Bruce Mathews spotlights the...
Signature Event
Wednesday, May 25, 2022
6:00pm
Online
In Person
Indigenous artists featured in the Library exhibition The Heart Is a Fist talk about their inspirations and techniques in a panel discussion modera...
Signature Event
Sunday, May 22, 2022
2:00pm
Online
In Person
Sitting at the nation’s crossroads, Kansas C...
Signature Event
Thursday, May 19, 2022
6:00pm
Online
In Person
Michael Stein, a primary care physician for more than 30 years and a professor of health law, policy, and management at Boston Univer...
Signature Event
Sunday, May 15, 2022
2:00pm
In Person
Poets and writers are often the most dangerous of resistors. In the 1930s, Joseph Stalin put Ukrainian-born poet Anna Akhmatova on his watch list for...
Signature Event
Thursday, April 28, 2022
6:00pm
Online
In Person
Using clips of movies from 1998’s seminal Smoke Signals to present-day releases, film and media history scholar Joanna Hearne...