Central Library will not have the following services available on Saturday, October 12, due to the Heartland Book Fest: tech services, public computers and printing, and microfilm.
Signature Event
Sunday, March 18, 2012
2:00pm
In Person
Landon Rowland discusses the achievements of 19th century railroad developer Arthur Stilwell, who forever changed the Kansas City...
Signature Event
Tuesday, March 13, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
Offering the keynote address for this year’s series on the American presidency, presidential scholar Robert Dallek examines why some...
Signature Event
Tuesday, March 13, 2012
1:00pm
In Person
Art educator Carol Inge Hockett examines how artists reacted to the values-shattering horrors of World War I with Dadism, an art...
Signature Event
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
Winston Churchill’s 1946 speech at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri, warned that Communism was on the march. Historian Philip White...
Signature Event
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
Historian Shawn Leigh Alexander looks at the forgotten men and women who in the late 19th century took up the cause of civil right...
Signature Event
Saturday, March 3, 2012
7:30pm
In Person
Jewish Community Center
5801 W. 115th St., Overland Park
RSVP: 913.327.8000
Published in 1961, The Phantom Tollbooth w...
Signature Event
Friday, March 2, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
A panel of area composers discusses the enduring beauty and power of choral music. The next day – Saturday, March 3 – their latest works will premiere...
Signature Event
Thursday, March 1, 2012
7:00pm
In Person
Meet the Past with Crosby Kemper III returns for a conversation with Edgar Snow, as portrayed by actor Ro...
Signature Event
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
President Calvin Coolidge gets a bad rap, says author Amity Shlaes, who notes that under his leadership the economy grew at a rate...
Signature Event
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
Rebecca Solnit offers a guided tour of the Bay Area through her latest book, Infinite City, which reinvents...