The North-East branch will be closed Monday, August 26 for staff training.
Signature Event
Sunday, October 22, 2017
2:00pm
Preservationist Bradley Wolf, KC’s historic preservation officer for more than 17 years, discusses a recently released second edition...
Signature Event
Friday, October 20, 2017
6:30pm
Noted explorer, anthropologist, and best-selling author Wade Davis illuminates the dangers inherent in challenging the Mount Everest...
Signature Event
Thursday, October 19, 2017
6:30pm
For many U.S. soldiers in Vietnam, music was the connection between battlefront and homefront and helped them cope with the complexities of the war...
Signature Event
Wednesday, October 18, 2017
6:30pm
In a discussion of his new book, Mark Bowden (author of the best-seller Black Hawk Down) details one of...
Signature Event
Tuesday, October 17, 2017
6:30pm
Writer-director PJ Moynihan explores what is commonly viewed as severe mental illness, or psychosis, chronicling three individual cases over a ne...
Signature Event
Thursday, October 12, 2017
6:30pm
The Vietnam War still has the power to divide Americans between those for and against it—and just as surely, between those who remember the era fir...
Signature Event
Thursday, October 12, 2017
6:30pm
Jean Ponzi, green resources manager for the Missouri Botanical Garden’s EarthWays Center, leads a workshop on environmentally respons...
Signature Event
Tuesday, October 10, 2017
6:30pm
Annie Presley, co-author of the award-winning book Read This… When I’m Dead, joins us at the Plaza Library...
Signature Event
Monday, October 9, 2017
6:30pm
Brad Birzer examines the meaning of imagination as understood by Russell Kirk, an acknowledged founder of the modern conservative mov...
Signature Event
Sunday, October 8, 2017
2:00pm
Coterie Theatre artists resume their monthly interactive story times for children and their parents, reading from The Cow...