The North-East branch will be closed Monday, September 23, for staff training.
Signature Event
Wednesday, March 13, 2024
6:00pm
In Person
The Kansas City Repertory Theatre brings its adaptation of Nina Simone: Four Women to the Kansas City Public Library’s...
Signature Event
Friday, April 8, 2022
2:00pm
In Person
The Kansas City Repertory Theatre brings its adaptation of the award-winning stage drama The Royale to t...
Signature Event
Sunday, April 3, 2022
2:00pm
In Person
The Kansas City Repertory Theatre brings its adaptation of the award-winning stage drama The Royale to t...
Signature Event
Tuesday, September 29, 2020
6:30pm
In Person
The Kansas City Symphony continues its series of free outdoor chamber concerts at the Library, with a woodwind quintet – flute, oboe, clarinet, bas...
Signature Event
Saturday, July 14, 2018
10:30am
In Person
The Library and The Kansas City Star focus the latest installment of their Java with Journalist series on the Troost Avenue...
Signature Event
Thursday, September 14, 2017
3:30pm
In Person
Harvard University’s Danielle Allen visits the L.H. Bluford Branch for a special afternoon discussion of her new book,...
Signature Event
Saturday, July 1, 2017
11:00am
In Person
It’s Lucile Bluford’s day. Officially. Bluford, for whom the Library's L.H. Bluford Branch...
Signature Event
Sunday, October 11, 2015
2:00pm
In Person
Kansas City’s Green Duck Tavern, at 26th Street and Prospect Avenue, was once an unassuming seat of power, owned by politician and civil rights act...
Signature Event
Sunday, September 27, 2015
2:00pm
In Person
Revamped, revised, reworked, and reimagined fairy tale characters and stories have seen an explosion in contemporary media from graphic novels to t...
Signature Event
Sunday, September 27, 2015
2:00pm
In Person
The Westport Center for the Arts and Jacqueline L. Gafford present a one-woman play about the life and times of Barbara Jordan, the first southern bla...