The Ruiz Branch is closed Saturday, September 28, due to a malfunctioning fire alarm.
Signature Event
Monday, May 21, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
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Signature Event
Friday, May 18, 2018
8:00pm
In Person
Doors open: 8 pm • Program: 8:45 pm
Dewey (Jack Black) is between Rock & Roll and a hard p...
Signature Event
Friday, May 11, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
U.S. Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith discusses her life and poetry and reads from her works on the heels of the release of her latest book, Wa...
Signature Event
Tuesday, May 8, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
Retired Canadian Army Lt. Gen. Roméo Dallaire discusses his attempt to end the coerced recruitment and use of children as soldiers, a...
Signature Event
Sunday, May 6, 2018
2:00pm
In Person
In a discussion of his new book Prohibition in Kansas City, Missouri: Highballs, Spooners & Crooked Dice, local historian and blog...
Signature Event
Tuesday, May 1, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
As Kansas City’s 2018 Art in the Loop Project: KC Plays! prepares to open, a number of the participating artists, dancers, musicians,...
Signature Event
Sunday, April 29, 2018
2:00pm
In Person
Historian Bill Worley discusses the arrival and settlement of French traders in what’s now Kansas City’s West Bottoms area – but then was India...
Signature Event
Thursday, April 19, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
In the keynote address for the Quindaro Symposium, held April 19-21 in Kansas City, Kansas, historian Quintard Taylor exp...
Signature Event
Saturday, April 14, 2018
2:00pm
In Person
U.S. Rep. Emanuel Cleaver II and his wife, Dianne Cleaver, recognize local high school artists amid an exhibit of their works at the Cen...
Signature Event
Thursday, April 12, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
Jonathan Abel of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College sets the record straight on one of the more inspiring – but somewhat mythicized – cha...