Signature Events Archive | Kansas City Public Library

The Fine Art of Dan White

Wednesday, April 14, 2010 8:30pm

Central Library

In Person

Watch and listen as Kansas City jazz greats come to life. Chuck Haddix discusses the musicians portrayed in...

The Eternal City Goes Under

Tuesday, April 13, 2010 8:30pm

Plaza Branch

In Person

Professor Gregory Aldrete explains how the largest city in the ancient world dealt with the perpetual threat of flooding and what...

Westminster Lecture Series

Sunday, April 11, 2010 4:30pm

Plaza Branch

In Person

The English Speaking Union is hosting the Fulbright-Robertson Visiting Professor from Westminster College, Fulton, MO. Dr. Robert Tyler wa...

From Ellis Island to the Great War

Thursday, April 8, 2010 8:30pm

Plaza Branch

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...

An Evening with Abdul Alkalimat

Thursday, April 8, 2010 8:30pm

Lucile H. Bluford Branch

In Person

Professor Abdul Alkalimat, the leading African American scholar on the digital divide, will discuss Malcolm X, African Americans & the Cyberspace Revo...

Improving Independence Avenue: An interactive discussion with UMKC Urban Planning + Design Studio

Thursday, April 8, 2010 7:00pm

North-East Branch

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...

An Evening With Lewis Lapham

Wednesday, April 7, 2010 8:30pm

Central Library

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...

Housekeeping Tips from Michael Dirda

Tuesday, April 6, 2010 8:30pm

Central Library

In Person

Pulitzer Prize-winning book critic Michael Dirda introduces Kansas City’s 2010 Big Read selection—Marilynne Robinson...

Popes and Bankers

Thursday, April 1, 2010 8:30pm

Central Library

In Person

Kansas City-based independent writer and producer Jack Cashill marks the one-year anniversary of the $787 billion American Recov...

Understanding the Roots of the Terrorist Threat to the United States

Tuesday, March 30, 2010 8:30pm

Central Library

In Person

Bill Braniff discusses the terrorist threat faced by the United States and explains how close examination of the environments in...

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