All Library locations will be close early Wednesday, November 27, at 5 p.m. & will be closed Thursday, November 28, for Thanksgiving.
Signature Event
Wednesday, April 27, 2022
6:00pm
Online
Poet Threa Almontaser won the 2021 Maya Angelou Book Award for her collection The Wild Fo...
Signature Event
Sunday, April 24, 2022
2:00pm
Online
In Person
The infamous Missouri Executive Order 44 – known as the Extermination Order – was issued by Gov. Lilburn W. Boggs on October 27, 1838, forcing thou...
Signature Event
Saturday, April 23, 2022
1:30pm
In Person
An elderly Native American couple make their last journey together – to Wewoka, capital of the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma. Frankie is dying and in...
Signature Event
Thursday, April 21, 2022
6:00pm
Online
In Person
It was described at the time as “a massacre that changes the meaning of ma...
Signature Event
Saturday, April 16, 2022
1:30pm
In Person
Written and directed by Mi’gmaq filmmaker Jeff Barnaby, Rhymes for Young Ghouls offers an unflinching fictional account o...
Signature Event
Thursday, April 14, 2022
6:30pm
Online
In Person
U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo, whose acclaimed An American Sunrise is the focus of the Library’s Big...
Signature Event
Tuesday, April 12, 2022
6:00pm
Online
In Person
Alexandra Brodsky is a civil rights lawyer, author, and founder of Know Your IX, a youth-led organization working to fight gender violence in schools....
Signature Event
Saturday, April 9, 2022
1:30pm
In Person
The Library continues a month-long series of film screenings in conjunction with Big Read 2022 with the thought-provoking...
Signature Event
Friday, April 8, 2022
2:00pm
In Person
The Kansas City Repertory Theatre brings its adaptation of the award-winning stage drama The Royale to t...
Signature Event
Thursday, April 7, 2022
6:00pm
In Person
In conjunction with an evening reception celebrating the Library exhibition...