All Library locations will open late Tuesday, July 9 at 10:30 a.m. due to staff training.
Signature Event
Sunday, January 20, 2013
2:00pm
Biographer Robert Farnsworth discusses his new eBook about the life, death, and legacy of Leon Jordan, a one-time po...
Signature Event
Thursday, January 17, 2013
6:30pm
In Person
Steve Kraske of KCUR’s Up to Date moderates a panel discussion about Kansas City’s financial planning. Feat...
Signature Event
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
6:30pm
Screenwriter Mitch Brian employs original texts and film clips to illustrate how classic (Chandler, Hammett, Thompson) and modern noi...
Signature Event
Sunday, December 9, 2012
2:00pm
British actor Pip Utton performs his one-man show about Charles Dickens, presenting the writer as a supremely contented man now that...
Signature Event
Thursday, December 6, 2012
4:00pm
Organizers for WikiKC – a collaborative, community-driven effort to share local knowledge about Kansas City – will be on hand at the...
Signature Event
Tuesday, December 4, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
Was he an anti-Semite and a Nazi sympathizer? An appeaser and isolationist?
For all his public activities – financier, film producer, kingmak...
Signature Event
Sunday, December 2, 2012
2:00pm
Architectural historian Keith Eggener looks at the heritage of architect Louis Curtiss (1865-1924), often described...
Signature Event
Thursday, November 29, 2012
6:30pm
In the late 19th century statesman Otto von Bismarck unified Germany while embodying everything brutal and ruthless about Prussian culture. Biographer...
Signature Event
Wednesday, November 28, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
A specialist in the Atomic Age, Michael Scheibach examines how Americans in the 1940s, ‘50s, and ‘60s dealt with the threat of nuclea...
Signature Event
Saturday, November 17, 2012
7:30pm
The plays and poetry of William Shakespeare have inspired some of the world’s most beautiful music.
This performance by members of the Bach...