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, August 18, 2019
2:00pm
In Person
In a discussion of her book Pioneer Mother Monuments: Constructing Cultural Identity, University of North Dakota historia...
Signature Event
Friday, August 16, 2019
8:00pm
In Person
Neighbors from the Red Planet arrive under a pretense of peace, but it soon becomes clear their real intent is to colonize and conquer. Maybe vaporizi...
Signature Event
Wednesday, August 14, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
Writer and director Doug Roland joins in a screening and discussion of his groundbreaking short film Feeling Through...
Signature Event
Friday, August 9, 2019
9:30pm
In Person
Bring your energy. Bust out some moves. Young attendees don special headphones and choose from several different musical, DJ-hosted channels to which...
Signature Event
Wednesday, August 7, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
Less than one week after taking office, new Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas joins veteran KMBC television news reporter Mi...
Signature Event
Tuesday, August 6, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
Military historian Harry S. Laver of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College looks back at Paris’ deliverance in 1944 from mo...
Signature Event
Wednesday, July 31, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
What does film tell us about our fascination with and perception of the moon? University of Missouri-Kansas City film studies professor Mitch...
Signature Event
Thursday, July 25, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
He has been the face of Kansas City for eight years. Now, as Sly James completes his second and mandatory final term as mayor, he loo...
Signature Event
Wednesday, July 24, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
The legend of George S. Patton is one of triumph touched by controversy. He delivered both in the Mediterranean theater of World War II, setting the s...
Signature Event
Tuesday, July 23, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
The son of a World War II veteran and himself a decorated former Marine who fought a year in Vietnam, Karl Marlantes based his fir...