All Library locations will be closed Thursday, July 4, for Independence Day.
Signature Event
Sunday, January 28, 2018
2:00pm
In a discussion of his book For All Children Everywhere, a comprehensive history of Kansas City’s renowned Children’s Mercy...
Signature Event
Tuesday, January 23, 2018
6:30pm
In a discussion of his new book, former Kansas City Star columnist and editorial board member Lewis Diuguid pays tribute to...
Signature Event
Thursday, January 18, 2018
6:30pm
Gates Brown of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College discusses the eventful 10-day meeting during World War II in which Franklin Roosevelt a...
Signature Event
Tuesday, December 12, 2017
6:30pm
Author David Collins discusses his book Accidental Activists: Mark Phariss, Vic Holmes, and Their Fight for Marriage Equality in Texas...
Signature Event
Wednesday, December 6, 2017
6:30pm
Military historian Louis DiMarco of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College discusses Operation Torch, the bold U.S.-British invasion o...
Signature Event
Sunday, December 3, 2017
2:00pm
Retired FBI agent William Ouseley joins Jonathan Bender, an editor for KCPT - Kansas City PBS, in discussing Kansas City’s gangland past...
Signature Event
Tuesday, November 28, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
Award-winning writer, critic, and editor John Freeman joins Writers at Work series organizer Whitney Terrell in a public conversation about Freeman’s...
Signature Event
Sunday, November 12, 2017
2:00pm
Artist and filmmaker Brian Hawkins examines our state’s mostly east-side French Creole community – specifically its rich collection of folktale...
Signature Event
Thursday, November 9, 2017
6:30pm
Artist Rodolfo Marron III discusses his exciting work and its inspirations – the home altars, low riders, Catholic imagery, slang and other ele...
Signature Event
Saturday, November 4, 2017
7:30pm
When Johann Sebastian Bach’s choral compositions turn to love, it’s in a theological sense. Love of God. Love for one’s neighbor. But the sentiment is...