The North-East branch will be closed Monday, August 26 for staff training.
Signature Event
Tuesday, March 7, 2017
6:30pm
When introduced in January with the rest of The Kansas City Star’s revamped editorial board, new editorial page Editor Colleen McCain Nelson...
Signature Event
Sunday, March 5, 2017
4:15pm
The odds of a new opera lasting beyond a single production are long. Jake Heggie defied them with his first full composition, an adap...
Signature Event
Sunday, March 5, 2017
2:00pm
In 1894, when women’s lives and choices were restricted and their influence was limited, a group of Kansas Citians answered a call to “stand shoulder...
Signature Event
Sunday, March 5, 2017
2:00pm
Coterie Theatre artists read from Mac Barnett’s and Jon Klassen’s witty, award-winning story of two young boys looking – and digging...
Signature Event
Thursday, March 2, 2017
6:30pm
Irish immigrants were the first large ethnic group to settle in Kansas City and literally helped carve out its skyline, cutting roads into the limesto...
Signature Event
Tuesday, February 28, 2017
6:30pm
Glenn North, the inaugural poet laureate of Kansas City’s 18th & Vine Jazz District, discusses his work as an accompli...
Signature Event
Monday, February 27, 2017
6:30pm
Kunio Watanabe and William R. Farrell –leaders in the fields of international business and U.S.-Japan relations – discuss the economic...
Signature Event
Sunday, February 26, 2017
1:30pm
This annual series returns in January and February with psychological studies of films directed by Joel and Ethan Coen, whose visi...
Signature Event
Saturday, February 25, 2017
9:00am
The word is: E-X-A-C-T-I-N-G.
Many of the Kansas City area’s top young spellers – heck, top spellers of any age – face off in the annu...
Signature Event
Thursday, February 23, 2017
6:30pm
The attention to so-called “black rage” during the 2014 rioting in Ferguson, Missouri, clouded what one historian says was the actual root of the unre...