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Developing Power

Thursday, August 25, 2016 6:30pm

Central Library

In Person

Irene Tinker helped compile and edit Developing Power: How Women Transformed International Development,...

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Sign of the Times

August 27, 2016 - October 2, 2016

Central Library

Sign of the Times: The Great American Political Poster, 1844-2012 showcases a sampling of rare, beautiful political posters from the...

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City of Tomorrow: Kansas City’s Postwar Urban Renewal

September 6, 2017 - September 1, 2018

Central Library

Efforts in Kansas City to combat blight and “renew” the city through redevelopment took off after World War II. But visionary ideas came at the expens...

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Cuba Bound: Photographs by Jesse A. Fernández

September 15, 2016 - December 31, 2016

Central Library

Cuban-born Jesse A. Fernández (1925–1986) lived intermittently in the U.S., Europe, and Latin America. With an extraordinary ability...

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For Further Discussion: Confronting Extremist Violence, the Refugee Crisis, and Fear

Tuesday, August 30, 2016 6:30pm

Central Library

In Person

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 sat down in...

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City of Tomorrow

Sunday, September 18, 2016 2:00pm

Central Library

In Person

President Truman’s American Housing Act of 1949 empowered cities to replace blighted structures with safe public housing, and soon was altered to a...

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Celebrating Ewing Marion Kauffman

Wednesday, September 21, 2016 6:30pm

Central Library

In Person

When The Kansas City Star profiled the 10 greatest departed heroes in the city’s history earlier this year, it started – naturally – with Ewi...

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Hemingway’s Boat

Thursday, September 22, 2016 6:30pm

Central Library

In Person

Ernest Hemingway had one constant in the last 27 years of his life: his fishing boat Pilar. The 38-foot vessel became the writer’s sanctuary after...

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An Evening With Tyehimba Jess

Wednesday, February 6, 2019 6:30pm

Central Library

In Person

Pulitzer Prize recipient Tyehimba Jess “is inventive, prophetic, wondrous,” says fellow award-winning poet Nikky Finney. Jess highlig...

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Ralph Steadman: A Retrospective

June 1, 2019 - September 8, 2019

Central Library

Ralph Steadman was the artistic yin to Hunter S. Thompson’s literary yang. (Or maybe it was vice versa.) They were collaborators and friends for 30 ye...

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