All Library locations will be close early Wednesday, November 27, at 5 p.m. & will be closed Thursday, November 28, for Thanksgiving.
Signature Event
Friday, June 17, 2022
8:45pm
In Person
We left it to you to choose between two memorable Cage roles and, by vote, you picked the passionate pursuer of an Academy Award-winning Cher in...
Signature Event
Thursday, June 16, 2022
6:00pm
Online
In Person
Ari Rabin-Havt, the deputy campaign manager for Bernie Sanders’ 2020 presidential run, joins KC Tenants Director Tara Raghuveer in a discussion of...
Signature Event
Monday, June 13, 2022
6:00pm
In Person
Military historian Harry S. Laver of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College separates fact from Hollywood fiction in one of the most acclaime...
Signature Event
Saturday, June 11, 2022
1:00pm
In Person
This half-day workshop in honor of World Doll Day kicks off with a keynote presentation by Lenexa author Elizabeth Bunce, who just released her thi...
Signature Event
Thursday, June 9, 2022
6:00pm
Online
In Person
In an extraordinary community forum, local leaders and national experts examine the troubling patterns of violent discriminatory policing and how, col...
Signature Event
Sunday, June 5, 2022
2:00pm
In Person
In a discussion of his book Mount Washington Cemetery: In Search of Lost Time, local historian Bruce Mathews spotlights the...
Signature Event
Wednesday, June 1, 2022
6:00pm
Online
In Person
Irish comedian and writer Maeve Higgins, a regular panelist on NPR’s Wait Wait … Don’t Tell Me!, discusses her new book Tell Ev...
Signature Event
Wednesday, May 25, 2022
6:00pm
Online
In Person
Indigenous artists featured in the Library exhibition The Heart Is a Fist talk about their inspirations and techniques in a panel discussion modera...
Signature Event
Monday, May 23, 2022
6:00pm
In Person
Nearly 60 years after its release, Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb...
Signature Event
Sunday, May 22, 2022
2:00pm
Online
In Person
Sitting at the nation’s crossroads, Kansas City has satisfied the appetites of hungry travelers since the days when it was a western outpost on the...