All Library locations will be closed Thursday, July 4, for Independence Day.
Signature Event
Wednesday, May 18, 2016
6:30pm
While Shakespeare wasn’t a composer, he made his love of music apparent. “How sweet sour music is,” he wrote for instance in Richard II, “(w)hen time...
Signature Event
Tuesday, May 17, 2016
6:30pm
More than 400 years have passed since William Shakespeare penned his last play. And yet his prose, plots, and characters are as alive today as they we...
Signature Event
Saturday, May 14, 2016
11:30am
In Person
In conjunction with Planet Comicon, Kansas City’s largest pop culture and comic book convention, scheduled for May 20-22 at Bartle Hall, the Library s...
Signature Event
Thursday, May 12, 2016
6:30pm
In Person
They’re artifacts, nearly 400 years old, and only 233 are known to have survived to today. But what else has driven collectors to pay as much as $6 mi...
Signature Event
Tuesday, May 10, 2016
6:30pm
The Santa Fe Trail was best known as a commercial trade route from Independence, Missouri, to Santa Fe, New Mexico. But while Americans called it “the...
Signature Event
Saturday, May 7, 2016
1:30pm
In conjunction with Planet Comicon, Kansas City’s largest pop culture and comic book convention, scheduled for May 20-22 at Bartle Hall, the Library s...
Signature Event
Thursday, May 5, 2016
6:30pm
The PBS documentary series Latino Americans: The 500 Year Legacy That Reshaped a Nation chronicles the rich history and expe...
Signature Event
Tuesday, May 3, 2016
6:30pm
In Person
From modest attendance of 120 at its first service held in 1990 in the chapel of a local funeral home – the Rev. Adam Hamilton has nu...
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...