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Signature Event
Wednesday, March 13, 2024
6:00pm
In Person
The Kansas City Repertory Theatre brings its adaptation of Nina Simone: Four Women to the Kansas City Public Library’s...
Signature Event
Sunday, September 19, 2021
4:00pm
The Kansas City Symphony offers a free outdoor chamber concert at the Library, with a woodwind quintet – flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, and horn – pe...
Signature Event
Saturday, July 14, 2018
10:30am
The Library and The Kansas City Star focus the latest installment of their Java with Journalist series on the Troost Avenue...
Signature Event
Sunday, May 20, 2018
2:00pm
Thomas Fox Averill discusses his most recent novel – Found Documents from the Life of Nell Johnson Doerr –t...
Signature Event
Thursday, September 14, 2017
3:30pm
Harvard University’s Danielle Allen visits the L.H. Bluford Branch for a special afternoon discussion of her new book, CU...
Signature Event
Signature Event
Saturday, July 1, 2017
11:00am
It’s Lucile Bluford’s day. Officially. Bluford, for whom the Library's L.H. Bluford Branch...
Signature Event
Sunday, February 7, 2016
2:00pm
Join Bernard Norcott-Mahany and friends for an afternoon of stories and songs featuring William Shakespeare and his plays. Recognized...
Signature Event
Sunday, October 11, 2015
2:00pm
Kansas City’s Green Duck Tavern, at 26th Street and Prospect Avenue, was once an unassuming seat of power, owned by politician and civil rights activi...
Signature Event
Sunday, September 27, 2015
2:00pm
The Westport Center for the Arts and Jacqueline L. Gafford present a one-woman play about the life and times of Barbara Jordan, the first southern bla...