The North-East branch will be closed Monday, August 26 for staff training.
Signature Event
Tuesday, February 21, 2017
6:30pm
The country continues to struggle with the issue of capital punishment and questions ranging from how fairly sentences are imposed and carried out to...
Signature Event
Sunday, February 19, 2017
2:30pm
Area high school students bring Shakespeare to life, lending their own interpretations of his monologues and sonnets as they compete for a berth in th...
Signature Event
Thursday, February 16, 2017
6:30pm
Marvel Comics’ headline-grabbing move to a female Thor a little more...
Signature Event
Thursday, February 16, 2017
6:30pm
America in the 1950s was undergoing what the University of Missouri’s Steven Watts calls a “crisis of manhood,” denigrating Eisenh...
Signature Event
Wednesday, February 15, 2017
6:30pm
Even before her acclaimed debut novel, Brit Bennett had drawn attention for her forceful essays about racial injustice, police violen...
Signature Event
Sunday, February 12, 2017
2:00pm
African-Americans have served proudly in every great American war, including the Civil War, where their verve and valor led to the establishment of...
Signature Event
Sunday, February 12, 2017
1:30pm
This annual series returns in January and February with psychological studies of films directed by Joel and Ethan Coen, whose visiona...
Signature Event
Saturday, February 11, 2017
2:00pm
The Library screens a series of romantic shorts and clips as it resumes a special new, intergenerational movie series welcoming individuals with de...
Signature Event
Thursday, February 9, 2017
6:30pm
The vitality of Kansas City’s arts community today traces back, in part, to David Hughes’ founding of the Charlotte Street Foundation...
Signature Event
Wednesday, February 8, 2017
6:30pm
They were unlikely heroes at a time – amid the nation’s Great Depression and added regional scourges of the Dust Bowl – when hope and inspiration was...