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Signature Event
Thursday, November 10, 2016
6:30pm
In Person
Photographer Yunghi Kim has trained her lens on some of the world’s most notable events of the past three decades, including the raci...
Signature Event
Signature Event
Wednesday, October 26, 2016
6:30pm
The University of Missouri – roiled in the past year by racial tensions and protests – was central to a key U.S. Supreme Court ruling on desegregation...
Signature Event
Tuesday, October 25, 2016
6:30pm
Hispanics and Latinos make up an increasing share of Kansas City’s population – an estimated 10% in 2015 – mirroring a nationwide trend. A panel of lo...
Signature Event
Monday, October 17, 2016
6:30pm
The Midwest’s Latino population has risen rapidly in the past 20 years, both in urban and rural areas. As elsewhere in the country, the shift in demog...
Signature Event
Sunday, October 16, 2016
2:00pm
In 1966 – three years before New York’s Stonewall riots – Kansas City was the scene of the first national gathering of gay rights groups. From that me...
Signature Event
Monday, October 3, 2016
6:30pm
In Person
Carlos Eire gave the world a moving and definitive look into life as an exile in his first memoir Waiting for Snow in Havana: Con...
Signature Event
Tuesday, September 27, 2016
6:30pm
The works of Nicaragua-born poet, novelist, and literary critic Conny Palacios have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, an...
Signature Event
Saturday, September 24, 2016
1:30pm
Fifty years ago this month, on September 8, 1966, NBC launched a new science-fiction television series that would become one of the most revered franc...
Signature Event
Thursday, September 22, 2016
6:30pm
Ernest Hemingway had one constant in the last 27 years of his life: his fishing boat Pilar. The 38-foot vessel became the writer’s sanctuary after he...