Signature Event A Reader’s Guide to Survival in Auschwitz with Shelly Cline and Kaite Stover Thursday, January 27, 2022 12:00pm Online Shelly Cline, historian and director of education at the Midwest Center for Holocaust Education, discusses... Read More
Signature Event Hollywood vs. History: The Man Who Would Be King Monday, January 24, 2022 6:00pm Plaza Branch Online The format of this event has been changed to virtual only. Watch online at yout... Read More
Signature Event Work in the (Post) COVID-19 Era Wednesday, January 19, 2022 6:30pm Plaza Branch Online The format of this event has been changed to virtual only. Watch online at yout... Read More
Signature Event Work in the (Post) COVID-19 Era Wednesday, January 19, 2022 6:30pm Online The format of this event has been changed to virtual only. Watch online at yout... Read More
Signature Event Dissident Formalisms Tuesday, December 14, 2021 6:30pm Online In a discussion of his exhibit Dissident Formalisms, Kansas City artist Armin Mühsam examines the use of co... Read More
Signature Event Poison for Breakfast Tuesday, December 7, 2021 6:30pm Online Daniel Handler, aka Lemony Snicket, discusses his new stand-alone, all ages book, Poison for Breakfast. Unl... Read More
Signature Event The Last Liberal Republican Monday, December 6, 2021 6:30pm Online Richard Nixon lamented that he would be remembered only for Watergate and warming relations with China. He wasn’t wrong – about the wreckage of Wat... Read More
Signature Event Literary Alchemist: The Writing Life of Evan S. Connell Wednesday, December 1, 2021 6:30pm Online Even outside of his native Kansas City, Evan S. Connell is regarded as a modern master in literary circles. However, until now no one has written e... Read More
Signature Event The Shock and Awe of Sarah Bernhardt in Kansas City Sunday, November 21, 2021 3:00pm Online Mark Twain said there are “bad actresses, fair actresses, good actresses, great actresses – and then there is Sarah Bernhardt.” The legendary F... Read More
Signature Event Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World Wednesday, November 17, 2021 6:30pm Online By most accounts, modern history is rooted in Spain and Columbus and and the discovery of the New World to the west more than five centuries a... Read More