All Library locations will be close early Wednesday, November 27, at 5 p.m. & will be closed Thursday, November 28, for Thanksgiving.
Signature Event
Thursday, April 27, 2023
6:00pm
Online
In Person
University of Virginia transit historian Peter Norton examines the need to revise our concept of city streets. They’re now so car- and speed-centric t...
Signature Event
Wednesday, April 12, 2023
6:00pm
Online
In Person
Buki Papillon’s acclaimed debut novel An Ordinary Wonder revolves around an intersex Nigerian teenager whose gender...
Signature Event
Wednesday, April 12, 2023
6:00pm
In Person
The Kansas City Repertory Theatre offers the second of two free Library performances of the ripple, the wave that carr...
Signature Event
Tuesday, April 11, 2023
6:00pm
Online
In Person
Harry S. Laver of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College recounts a critical juncture in the Civil War: the...
Signature Event
Tuesday, April 11, 2023
6:00pm
In Person
The Kansas City Repertory Theatre offers the second of two free Library performances of the ripple, the wave that carried me...
Signature Event
Sunday, April 2, 2023
2:00pm
In Person
Drawing from her book Unorganized Women: Repetitive Rhetorical Labor of Low-Wage Workers, 1837-1937, the University of Missouri-Kansas City’s Jane...
Signature Event
Thursday, March 30, 2023
6:00pm
Online
In Person
In a discussion of his book The Black Tax: The Cost of Being Black in America, author and personal finance consultant...
Signature Event
Sunday, March 26, 2023
3:00pm
In Person
The Kansas City Baroque Consortium, which specializes in the performance of early music on period instruments, offers a rich selec...
Signature Event
Thursday, March 23, 2023
6:00pm
In Person
UMKC professor and author Clancy Martin joins Angela Elam, formerly of public radio’s New Letters on the Air...
Signature Event
Thursday, March 16, 2023
6:00pm
Online
In Person
Poet Brian Daldorph, novelist Barbara Stuber, and Journey House Manager Samantha Pettus join the Library’s Anne Knig...