All Library locations will be close early Wednesday, November 27, at 5 p.m. & will be closed Thursday, November 28, for Thanksgiving.
Signature Event
Sunday, October 31, 2021
3:00pm
Online
The lower Missouri River was a veritable steamboat graveyard in the 19th century as more than 300 vessels ended up at the bottom of the Big Muddy....
Signature Event
Wednesday, October 27, 2021
6:30pm
Online
What none of us want to so much as think about, Ivan Maisel and his family endured six years ago. Not long after his 21st birthday...
Signature Event
Wednesday, October 27, 2021
11:00am
Online
While accounts of Jewish resistance during World War II tend to focus on armed uprisings in ghettos and guerilla warfare and sabotage in the forest...
Signature Event
Wednesday, October 20, 2021
6:00pm
Online
Writers for Readers, annually one of Kansas City’s premier literary events, returns vitrually with a special lineup featuring celebrated author P...
Signature Event
Tuesday, October 19, 2021
6:30pm
Online
Drawing from her bestselling book The Sum of Us, strategist and political commentator Heather McGhee examin...
Signature Event
Monday, October 11, 2021
6:30pm
Online
Rep. Sharice Davis, in her second precedent-setting term in the U.S. House from Kansas’ 3rd District, discusses her new picture-book...
Signature Event
Thursday, October 7, 2021
6:30pm
Online
Sheri Rosenblum of the San Francisco-based Jewish Partisan Educational Foundation recounts the courage and invaluable contributions o...
Signature Event
Friday, September 24, 2021
8:45pm
In Person
Mel Brooks delivers a classic comedy about the infamous scientist’s American grandson (Gene Wilder), who in seeking to redeem his family’s name – and...
Signature Event
Sunday, September 19, 2021
4:00pm
In Person
The Kansas City Symphony offers a free outdoor chamber concert at the Library, with a woodwind quintet – flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, and horn – pe...
Signature Event
Monday, September 13, 2021
6:30pm
Online
“Everything can’t be the most important thing.” Using her own stories, KSHB-TV evening anchor Dia Wall imparts this and many other...