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An Afternoon with Thomas Fox Averill

Sunday, May 20, 2018 2:00pm

Waldo Branch

In Person

Thomas Fox Averill discusses his most recent novel – Found Documents from the Life of Nell Johnson Doerr...

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Joanna Brady Returns

Sunday, August 10, 2014 2:00pm

Waldo Branch

In Person

Best-selling mystery and horror author J.A. Jance introduced Joanna Brady to readers in Desert Heat in 1993. Her fictiona...

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Ruiz Seed Library Workshop - The Beauty of Monarch Butterflies

Saturday, May 9, 2015 10:30am

Irene H. Ruiz Branch

In Person

As a six-year-old child, local artist and gardener Dean Bracy observed what seemed like hundreds of monarch butterflies feeding on a butterfly bush an...

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The Real Walter Mitty and Other Thurber Fantasies

Sunday, February 23, 2014 2:00pm

Waldo Branch

In Person

Join Bernard Norcott-Mahany as he recounts “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” (the movie Mitty is not the real Mit...

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An Afternoon of “Woemance”

Sunday, February 22, 2015 2:00pm

Waldo Branch

In Person

Join Bernard Norcott-Mahany and friends in an afternoon of stories and songs about “love gone wrong,” part of the Library’s...

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Greetings from Brookside and Waldo

Sunday, April 28, 2013 2:00pm

Waldo Branch

In Person

Named for a prominent turn-of-the-century business mogul, the area around Jacob Loose Park is still one of Kansas City’s most beautiful areas large...

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Afternoon Serenade: The Kansas City Symphony

Sunday, September 19, 2021 4:00pm

Waldo Branch

In Person

The Kansas City Symphony offers a free outdoor chamber concert at the Library, with a woodwind quintet – flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, and horn – pe...

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Script-in-Hand Performance: The Bald Soprano

Saturday, July 15, 2017 2:00pm

Waldo Branch

In Person

Eugene Ionesco's The Bald Sopranois one of the seminal works of the Theatre of the Absurd. He got the idea for the play from the...

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Evening Serenade: The Kansas City Symphony

Tuesday, October 13, 2020 6:30pm

Irene H. Ruiz Branch

In Person

The Kansas City Symphony continues its series of free outdoor chamber concerts at the Library, with a string quintet – violins, viola, cello, and b...

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Ruiz Readers

Friday, September 27, 2024 8:37am

Ruiz Readers’ selections include an eclectic mix of fiction, nonfiction, classics, and genres....

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