All Library locations will be close early Wednesday, November 27, at 5 p.m. & will be closed Thursday, November 28, for Thanksgiving.
Signature Event
Tuesday, December 14, 2021
6:30pm
Online
In a discussion of his exhibit Dissident Formalisms, Kansas City artist Armin Mühsam examines the use of...
Signature Event
Tuesday, December 7, 2021
6:30pm
Online
Daniel Handler, aka Lemony Snicket, discusses his new stand-alone, all ages book, Poison for Breakfast....
Signature Event
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...
Signature Event
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...
Signature Event
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...
Signature Event
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...
Signature Event
Saturday, November 13, 2021
10:00am
In Person
Which Kansas City school is best for your child? At the annual City School Fair, families can learn about more about 50 public, priva...
Signature Event
Thursday, November 11, 2021
6:30pm
Online
Pulitzer-Prize winning author Joseph J. Ellis and the Library’s Steve Woolfolk discuss his newest book, The Cause...
Signature Event
Tuesday, November 9, 2021
6:30pm
Online
Have we been too hard on George W. Bush?
Drawing in part from a raft of newly available archival records, noted historian...
Signature Event
Thursday, November 4, 2021
6:30pm
Online
Author Mallory O’Meara joins the Library’s Kaite Stover in a discussion of O’Meara’s new book Girly Drin...