The North-East branch will be closed Monday, July 22 for staff training.
Signature Event
Saturday, June 8, 2019
11:00am
The four-day HEAR Now Festival turns to the LitRPG/GameLit genre – gamer fiction – late Saturday morning, when a group of writers and narrators...
Signature Event
Thursday, June 6, 2019
6:30pm
Seventy-five years later, the world still marvels at the audacity and epic scope of D-Day. Some 160,000 Allied troops landed along a 50-mile stretch o...
Signature Event
Wednesday, June 5, 2019
6:30pm
As the 2019 Art in the Loop Project: Make/Believe begins its nearly five-month run in and around downtown Kansas City, meet its lineu...
Signature Event
Friday, May 31, 2019
6:00pm
Help kick off the Library’s annual Summer Reading Program, Dare to Discover, a celebration of reading about space, science, explorati...
Signature Event
Wednesday, May 29, 2019
6:30pm
The number of human trafficking victims is staggering, reaching into the hundreds of thousands in the United States and tens of millions worldwide. Wh...
Signature Event
Tuesday, May 28, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
Susan Rademacher, a leader in the nationwide parks conservancy movement for three decades, examines the challenge of keeping Kansas City’s signature s...
Signature Event
Wednesday, May 22, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
Tim Rives, supervisory archivist and deputy director of the Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum, and Curator William S...
Signature Event
Tuesday, May 21, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
The U.S. spends far more than other developed nations on health care—a projected $3.8 trillion this year—yet lags in performance and customer satisfac...
Signature Event
Sunday, May 19, 2019
2:00pm
Mexican immigrants who settled in Kansas City’s westside community in the early 1900s faced discrimination, poverty, and a lack of social services. In...
Signature Event
Friday, May 17, 2019
8:00pm
The fate of the galaxy is at stake in Mel Brooks’ classic Star Wars parody. Reluctant hero Lone Starr (Bill Pullman) teams up with trusty sid...