All Library locations will open late Tuesday, July 9 at 10:30 a.m. due to staff training.
Signature Event
Sunday, January 22, 2012
2:00pm
The Metropolitan Ensemble Theatre returns for the sixth season of Script-in-Hand performances. The 2012 series,...
Signature Event
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
6:30pm
The artistic team from the Kansas City Repertory Theatre’s The Adventures of Tom Sawyer discusses their new and imaginative...
Signature Event
Sunday, January 15, 2012
2:00pm
Filmmaker Terence O’Malley discusses his new book Black Hand Strawman: The History of Organized Crime in Kansas City...
Signature Event
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
Wendell Potter, a former VP of CIGNA, argues that health insurers make promises they have no intention of keeping, flout regulations...
Signature Event
Thursday, January 5, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
Library Director Crosby Kemper III conducts a public conversation with former Missouri Governor Bob Holden, explo...
Signature Event
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
6:30pm
Former Kansas City School District teacher James P. Wilcox discusses Sex, Lies, and the Classroom – a novel...
Signature Event
Sunday, December 11, 2011
2:00pm
Welsh-born actor Guy Masterson reads A Child’s Christmas in Wales, one of the most popular works by Welsh w...
Signature Event
Sunday, December 11, 2011
2:00pm
Kathy Kelly, co-coordinator of Voices for Creative Nonviolence, discusses her four trips to Afghanistan since 2010 and explains what...
Signature Event
Monday, December 5, 2011
6:30pm
Isaac Getz – a professor at the highly touted ESCP Europe international business school – discusses his new book Freedom,...
Signature Event
Sunday, December 4, 2011
2:00pm
In Person
The images of the military destruction suffered on December 7, 1941, and the words that followed by President Franklin Roosevelt have been seared i...