The Ruiz Branch is closed Saturday, September 28, due to a malfunctioning fire alarm.
Signature Event
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
8:30pm
In Person
Watch and listen as Kansas City jazz greats come to life. Chuck Haddix discusses the musicians portrayed in...
Signature Event
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
8:30pm
In Person
Professor Gregory Aldrete explains how the largest city in the ancient world dealt with the perpetual threat of flooding and what...
Signature Event
Sunday, April 11, 2010
4:30pm
In Person
The English Speaking Union is hosting the Fulbright-Robertson Visiting Professor from Westminster College, Fulton, MO.
Dr. Robert Tyler wa...
Signature Event
Thursday, April 8, 2010
8:30pm
In Person
Professor Abdul Alkalimat, the leading African American scholar on the digital divide, will discuss Malcolm X, African Americans & the Cyberspace Revo...
Signature Event
Thursday, April 8, 2010
8:30pm
In Person
David Laskin discusses his new book about 12 European immigrants who came to the U.S. in search of livelihoods, and ended up figh...
Signature Event
Thursday, April 8, 2010
7:00pm
In Person
The UMKC Urban Planning Design Studio has been working on an urban design project looking at a 2 mile stretch of Independence Avenue from Garfield...
Signature Event
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
8:30pm
In Person
Lately, schools and colleges everywhere in the United States have been discarding studies in the humanities as if they were idle luxuries and e...
Signature Event
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
8:30pm
In Person
Pulitzer Prize-winning book critic Michael Dirda introduces Kansas City’s 2010 Big Read selection—Marilynne Robinson...
Signature Event
Thursday, April 1, 2010
8:30pm
In Person
Kansas City-based independent writer and producer Jack Cashill marks the one-year anniversary of the $787 billion American Recov...
Signature Event
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
8:30pm
In Person
Howard Frank Mosher discusses his new book Walking to Gatlinburg: A Novel on Tuesday,...