The North-East branch will be closed Monday, August 26 for staff training.
Signature Event
Tuesday, February 7, 2017
6:30pm
Nearly 4½ decades after arriving at the Kansas City Art Institute from his native South Wales, Warren Rosser stands as one of the city’s creative mast...
Signature Event
Sunday, February 5, 2017
2:00pm
Coterie Theatre artists read from Samantha Berger’s story of an ordinary boy who transforms into a grumbling Crankenstein on what he...
Signature Event
Thursday, February 2, 2017
6:30pm
Matt Gallagher has emerged in the past decade as one of literature’s most distinctive and perceptive voices on the Iraq War. As an Ar...
Signature Event
Wednesday, February 1, 2017
6:30pm
Not far from where Michael Brown was fatally shot by a Ferguson, Missouri, police officer in 2014 is the headquarters of Emerson Electric, a Fortune 5...
Signature Event
Tuesday, January 31, 2017
6:30pm
What led the New York Stock Exchange to suspend trading without warning one day in July 2015? Why did certain Toyota vehicles accelerate uncontroll...
Signature Event
Sunday, January 29, 2017
1:30pm
This event, in the lower-level Truman Forum Auditorium, will be held despite the temporary closure of the Plaza Branch t...
Signature Event
Sunday, January 22, 2017
2:00pm
As the 2016 election season unfolded, it often seemed that moderates were difficult to find. In fact, today’s bitter partisanship encourages us to...
Signature Event
Thursday, January 19, 2017
6:30pm
The Islamic State, or ISIS, refers to its enemies as Roman crusaders, and the notion of the Western world imposing its will on the Middle East is o...
Signature Event
Sunday, January 15, 2017
2:00pm
Decades before women in the U.S. could vote, hold public positions, or choose from a full range of occupations, young women and girls in the Kansas...
Signature Event
Saturday, January 14, 2017
2:00pm
The all-female Ovarian Psycos bicycle brigade has been riding through Eastside Los Angeles since 2011, cruising barrios and boulevards where women...