All Library locations will be close early Wednesday, November 27, at 5 p.m. & will be closed Thursday, November 28, for Thanksgiving.
Wednesday, April 6, 2022
6:30pm
In Person
The Kansas City Indian Center and Haskell Indian Nations University join in launching the Library’s community-wide...
Tuesday, April 5, 2022
6:00pm
In Person
The Kansas City Repertory Theatre brings its adaptation of the award-winning stage drama The Royale to t...
Sunday, April 3, 2022
2:00pm
In Person
The Kansas City Repertory Theatre brings its adaptation of the award-winning stage drama The Royale to t...
Saturday, April 2, 2022
1:30pm
In Person
The Library opens a month-long series of film screenings in conjunction with Big Read 2022 with Smoke Signals...
Monday, March 28, 2022
6:00pm
In Person
The Memphis Belle and the men who flew the famed B-17 Flying Fortress became symbols of the heavy bomber crews and support personnel who helped def...
Tuesday, March 22, 2022
6:00pm
Online
In Person
When Michael Mardikes began visiting Thomas Hart Benton at his home studio in Kansas City in 1956, his challenge was to capture an artist renowned...
Tuesday, March 15, 2022
6:00pm
Online
In Person
In rescuing some 70 enslaved people from Maryland’s Eastern Shore in the 1850s, shepherding them north along the Underground Railroad, Harriet Tubm...
Monday, March 14, 2022
6:00pm
In Person
You want big-screen shock and awe? Russian director Sergei Bondarchuk and producer Dino De Laurentiis delivered it in Waterloo...
Thursday, March 10, 2022
6:00pm
Online
Patricia Smith’s roots in poetry trace to a blues club in Chicago, where she took the stage “hoping that I had something to say that...
Tuesday, March 8, 2022
6:00pm
In Person
As the latest wave of infections wanes, how...