Bluford branch will be closed all day Sunday, October 13.
Signature Event
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
6:30pm
In Person
Biographer James Grant discusses his new portrait of late nineteenth-century Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives...
Signature Event
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
6:30pm
In Person
In his New York Times best-selling book, Frank Schaeffer uses his life as a lens through which to view a larger narrative...
Signature Event
Sunday, September 25, 2011
2:00pm
In Person
On the evening of May 20, 1957, an F-5 tornado tore into the communities of Ottawa and Spring Hill, Kansas, and Martin City, Grandview, Hickman Mil...
Signature Event
Thursday, September 22, 2011
6:30pm
In Person
Columnist and political commentator John Avlon discusses his new book Deadline Artists: America’s Greatest Newspaper Colu...
Signature Event
Thursday, September 22, 2011
6:30pm
In Person
The third annual Power of Reading celebration features Kansas City authors and new adult readers sharing inspired stories about th...
Signature Event
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
6:30pm
In Person
Public art and its accompanying community participation contribute significantly to the identity of a city. In addition to inspiring dialogue and pro...
Signature Event
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
6:30pm
In Person
Mark Twain wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer in such a fashion that his first novel simultaneously addressed two divergent audiences: the yo...
Signature Event
Sunday, September 18, 2011
2:00pm
In Person
Already an established artist of worldwide fame, Missouri artist Thomas Hart Benton was a natural choice for the Limited Editions Club’s illustrate...
Signature Event
Thursday, September 15, 2011
6:30pm
In Person
Esther Schor discusses her book about the life of Emma Lazarus, the iconoclastic 19th century poet and activist whos...
Signature Event
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
6:30pm
In Person
The 2011 Corinthian Hall lecture addresses minority heritage and a museum’s mission, capacity, and duty in this arena....