The printer at the Ruiz branch will be out of service Tuesday, August 27 due to repairs.
Signature Event
Tuesday, May 24, 2016
5:00pm
Learn and then apply the art of wooden-sword dueling in two interactive sessions offered by the Heart of America Shakespeare Festival. Participants fi...
Signature Event
Sunday, May 22, 2016
2:00pm
Hollywood has adapted, sampled, and stolen from William Shakespeare for more than a century – seeing his works as a source of prestige as soon as the...
Signature Event
Sunday, May 22, 2016
2:00pm
In the fall of 1918, more than a million U.S. soldiers faced a better trained and more experienced German army on the Western Front of World War I. Th...
Signature Event
Saturday, May 21, 2016
1:30pm
In conjunction with Planet Comicon, Kansas City’s largest pop culture and comic book convention, scheduled for May 20-22 at Bartle Hall, the Library s...
Signature Event
Friday, May 20, 2016
8:00pm
Doors open: 8 p.m. • Program: 8:45 p.m. The Library’s 2016 Off-the-Wall film series kicks...
Signature Event
Thursday, May 19, 2016
6:30pm
Amid humanitarian crises in Syria and Iraq and debate in the U.S. about how to address them, a panel of Kansas City-area faith leaders discuss religio...
Signature Event
Wednesday, May 18, 2016
6:30pm
While Shakespeare wasn’t a composer, he made his love of music apparent. “How sweet sour music is,” he wrote for instance in Richard II, “(w)hen time...
Signature Event
Tuesday, May 17, 2016
6:30pm
More than 400 years have passed since William Shakespeare penned his last play. And yet his prose, plots, and characters are as alive today as they...
Signature Event
Saturday, May 14, 2016
2:00pm
Learn to duel – safely, of course. The Heart of America Shakespeare Festival offers an interactive presentation of stage combat techn...
Signature Event
Saturday, May 14, 2016
11:30am
In conjunction with Planet Comicon, Kansas City’s largest pop culture and comic book convention, scheduled for May 20-22 at Bartle Hall, the Library s...