The North-East branch will be closed Monday, August 26 for staff training.
Signature Event
Saturday, June 10, 2017
2:00pm
The documentary Real Boy tells the story of transgender teen Bennett Wallace, the struggle by his mother to accept his tr...
Signature Event
Friday, June 9, 2017
8:00pm
Doors open: 8 pm • Program: 8:45 pm...
Signature Event
Thursday, June 8, 2017
7:00pm
The four-day HEAR Now Festival, the audio equivalent of a film festival, returns to Kansas City to celebrate storytelling in all f...
Signature Event
Wednesday, June 7, 2017
6:30pm
A tragic chapter in America’s westward expansion turned sensationalistic when some members of the stranded and starving Donner-Reed party of 1846 b...
Signature Event
Tuesday, June 6, 2017
6:30pm
Veteran British director and master acting teacher Ian Wooldridge has helmed more than 100 stage productions, including The Tempest a...
Signature Event
Sunday, June 4, 2017
2:00pm
Moral corruption, revenge, madness, murder. Shakespeare’s Hamlet runs the gamut of dysfunction. Set in the castle of Elsinore just after the...
Signature Event
Saturday, June 3, 2017
6:30pm
Sidney Blumenthal, a senior advisor to President Bill Clinton and later an advisor to Hillary Clinton, continues to offer a fresh...
Signature Event
Wednesday, May 24, 2017
6:30pm
For all of its diplomatic and military efforts, the U.S. has been unable to end unrest and extremism in the Middle East and other troubled regions of...
Signature Event
Monday, May 22, 2017
6:30pm
Education reform comes fraught with questions. How do we distinguish between exciting, new ideas and costly, ineffective fads? Where can policymakers...
Signature Event
Monday, May 22, 2017
6:30pm
In the contemporary elegance of the Central Library’s fifth-floor Helzberg Auditorium, saxophonist Vince Gnojek and pianist...