Signature Events Archive | Kansas City Public Library

Thomas Hart Benton and Grant Wood

Tuesday, March 1, 2016 6:30pm

Central Library

In Person

The latest installment of Meet the Past with Crosby Kemper III spotlights two of the Midwest’s greatest artists, Kansas City’s Thomas...

2016 Shakespeare Competition

Sunday, February 28, 2016 1:00pm

Plaza Branch

In Person

Area high school students bring Shakespeare to life, lending their own interpretations of his monologues and sonnets as they compete for a berth in...

Desegregating the Swope Park Swimming Pool

Thursday, February 25, 2016 6:30pm

Plaza Branch

In Person

Nearly three years before the Supreme Court’s ruling against school segregation in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka – the commonly ac...

Eternity's Sunrise: The Imaginative World of William Blake

Wednesday, February 24, 2016 6:30pm

Plaza Branch

In Person

William Blake gets his due today as not only a great poet but also an extraordinary, 18th-century English engraver, artist, and visionary. A boldly...

Mesopotamia on Fire: Changing the Conversation on ISIS

Tuesday, February 23, 2016 6:30pm

Central Library

In Person

The Islamic State, also known as ISIS, is more than a place or a terrorist group. It is a set of ideas rooted in centuries-old beliefs and wrapped...

Latina Religious Leadership in the Catholic Church in Kansas City

Sunday, February 21, 2016 2:00pm

Central Library

In Person

As part of a yearlong, statewide Missouri Latinos initiative, the Kansas City Public Library is offering an array of special programming. T...

American Burke: The Uncommon Liberalism of Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Tuesday, February 16, 2016 6:30pm

Central Library

In Person

Author Greg Weiner maintains that today’s politically polarized America badly misses Daniel Patrick Moynihan, the former president...

Ciné Shakespeare: Shakespeare in Love

Sunday, February 14, 2016 2:00pm

Plaza Branch

In Person

Hollywood has adapted, sampled, and stolen from William Shakespeare for more than a century – seeing his works as a source of prestige as soon as the...

Winston Churchill at War on the Nile - James W. Muller

Sunday, February 14, 2016 1:00pm

Central Library

In Person

Islamism – or political Islam, the movement to infuse Islam in all areas of life – is hardly a 21st century phenomenon. Winston S. Churchill was a...

What Shakespeare's Sonnets Say About Love

Saturday, February 13, 2016 2:00pm

Westport Branch

In Person

In conjunction with this year's Adult Winter Reading Program theme of Shakespeare (a Winter's Tale Spin), the Westport Branch Library presents an afte...

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