The North-East branch will close early at 4 p.m. Tuesday, July 16, due to staff shortages.
Signature Event
Friday, September 20, 2019
8:00pm
This animated arachnopalooza spins a web of multidimensional adventure. Young Miles Morales (voiced by Shameik Moore) gets the radioactive spider bite...
Signature Event
Wednesday, September 18, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
America’s involvement in the Middle East has revolved around oil as well as religion and Zionist pursuits, Cold War tensions, and the specter of te...
Signature Event
Wednesday, September 4, 2019
6:30pm
One of a very few completely handwritten and illuminated Bibles produced since the invention of the printing press, The Saint John’s Bible...
Signature Event
Wednesday, August 21, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
There was much more to celebrated gonzo writer Hunter S. Thompson than the drug- and booze-addled caricature he fostered in Fear and Loathing i...
Signature Event
Sunday, August 18, 2019
2:00pm
In Person
In a discussion of her book Pioneer Mother Monuments: Constructing Cultural Identity, University of North Dakota historia...
Signature Event
Friday, August 16, 2019
8:00pm
Neighbors from the Red Planet arrive under a pretense of peace, but it soon becomes clear their real intent is to colonize and conquer. Maybe vaporizi...
Signature Event
Tuesday, August 6, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
Military historian Harry S. Laver of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College looks back at Paris’ deliverance in 1944 from mo...
Signature Event
Wednesday, July 24, 2019
6:30pm
The legend of George S. Patton is one of triumph touched by controversy. He delivered both in the Mediterranean theater of World War II, setting the s...
Signature Event
Sunday, July 21, 2019
2:00pm
In Person
No artist captured the people and landscape of early 20th-century Missouri more than native son Thomas Hart Benton. As a child growing up in southwest...
Signature Event
Saturday, July 20, 2019
12:00pm
For Benjamin Todd Wills, art is born of curiosity as well as creativity.
The Kansas City artist launched the first of...