Signature Event Jonathan Scott’s Power Trip Tuesday, November 10, 2020 6:00pm Online When Jonathan Scott, the eco-conscious co-star of HGTV’s popular Property Brothers, added solar panels to his Las Vegas h... Read More
Signature Event 9to5: The Story of a Movement Wednesday, January 27, 2021 6:00pm Online There’s a story – important and real-life – behind 9 to 5, both the iconic workplace-revenge movie and the catchy Dolly Parton song.&... Read More
Signature Event Mr. SOUL! Friday, February 19, 2021 5:00pm Online For five years in the late 1960s and early ’70s, Ellis Haizlip presided over one of the most culturally significant television shows in U.S. histor... Read More
Signature Event Indie Lens Pop-Up film: Eating Up Easter Tuesday, May 26, 2020 7:00pm Online Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island, is more than just a picture postcard of iconic stone statues. It’s a microcosm of a planet in flux. Native R... Read More
Signature Event Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project Tuesday, June 16, 2020 6:30pm Online For well more than 30 years, starting with the Iranian Hostage Crisis in 1979 and ending with the Sandy Hook school massacre late in 2012, Marion S... Read More
Signature Event Tell Them We Are Rising Saturday, February 10, 2018 2:00pm Plaza Branch In Person As part of the Indie Lens Pop-Up film series, the Library and KCPT–Kansas City PBS screen the documentary Tell Them We Are Rising... Read More
Signature Event Dolores Saturday, March 10, 2018 2:00pm Plaza Branch In Person The latest installment of the Indie Lens Pop-Up film series spotlights Dolores Huerta, co-founder of the first farmworkers union with Cesar Cha... Read More
Signature Event Newtown Saturday, March 11, 2017 2:00pm Plaza Branch In Person The tragedy of December 14, 2012 – 20 schoolchildren and six adult staff members dying at the hands of a 20-year-old gunman in Newtown, Connecticut... Read More
Signature Event National Bird Saturday, April 8, 2017 2:00pm Plaza Branch In Person This is where technology has taken us: U.S. service members plotting and executing drone strikes half a world away, killing not only a faceless ene... Read More
Signature Event Farmer/Veteran Saturday, May 13, 2017 2:00pm Plaza Branch In Person Alex Sutton, a veteran of three combat tours in Iraq, has been done with war for nearly a decade. But his fight is far from over. Dealing with ... Read More