All Library locations will open late Tuesday, July 9 at 10:30 a.m. due to staff training.
Signature Event
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
6:30pm
David Israel Litan made his living in the oil business, but art was his passion and his gift. His lithographs portraying scenes of Ka...
Signature Event
Sunday, January 29, 2012
2:00pm
Edward T. Matheny, Jr., a civic leader who graduated from Southwest High School in 1940, takes a fond look back at the proud past of...
Signature Event
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
6:30pm
Richard B. Frank examines the new international scholarship on the first five years of China’s “War of Resistance” against Japan from...
Signature Event
Sunday, January 22, 2012
2:00pm
The Metropolitan Ensemble Theatre returns for the sixth season of Script-in-Hand performances. The 2012 series,...
Signature Event
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
6:30pm
The artistic team from the Kansas City Repertory Theatre’s The Adventures of Tom Sawyer discusses their new and imaginative...
Signature Event
Sunday, January 15, 2012
2:00pm
Filmmaker Terence O’Malley discusses his new book Black Hand Strawman: The History of Organized Crime in Kansas City...
Signature Event
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
Wendell Potter, a former VP of CIGNA, argues that health insurers make promises they have no intention of keeping, flout regulations...
Signature Event
Thursday, January 5, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
Library Director Crosby Kemper III conducts a public conversation with former Missouri Governor Bob Holden, explo...
Signature Event
Sunday, December 11, 2011
2:00pm
Welsh-born actor Guy Masterson reads A Child’s Christmas in Wales, one of the most popular works by Welsh w...
Signature Event
Sunday, December 11, 2011
2:00pm
Kathy Kelly, co-coordinator of Voices for Creative Nonviolence, discusses her four trips to Afghanistan since 2010 and explains what...