Signature Event Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project Tuesday, June 16, 2020 6:30pm 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 Decade of Fire Saturday, November 9, 2019 2:00pm Plaza Branch For 10 years in the 1970s, the South Bronx area of New York City literally smoldered. An arson epidemic, compounded by government negligence, ra... Read More
Signature Event The First Rainbow Coalition Saturday, January 25, 2020 2:00pm Plaza Branch Fifty years ago, Chicago’s Black Panther Party formed an unlikely alliance in one of the most segregated cities in America. Intent on addressing po... Read More
Signature Event Always in Season Thursday, February 13, 2020 6:30pm Plaza Branch A 17-year-old African American is found hanging from a swing set in the middle of an all-white trailer park in North Carolina. Police quickly de... Read More
Signature Event An Evening With U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo Thursday, April 14, 2022 6:30pm Plaza Branch In Person U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo, whose acclaimed An American Sunrise is the focus of the Library’s Big... Read More
Signature Event Housekeeping Tips from Michael Dirda Tuesday, April 6, 2010 8:30pm Central Library Related event: A Conversation with Marilynne Robinson... Read More
Signature Event A Conversation with Tobias Wolff Tuesday, May 12, 2009 8:30pm Plaza Branch Recommended: Old School Relat... Read More
Signature Event Coterie Theatre: Lion Lessons Sunday, March 11, 2018 2:00pm Plaza Branch Coterie Theatre artists resume their monthly interactive story times for children and their parents, reading from Jon Agee’s engaging... Read More
Signature Event Look & See: Wendell Berry's Kentucky Saturday, April 7, 2018 2:00pm Plaza Branch The Library and KCPT–Kansas City PBS screen the acclaimed 2016 documentary spotlighting the famed essayist, novelist, poet, and champion of agr... Read More
Signature Event Coterie Theatre: This Little Piggy Sunday, May 13, 2018 2:00pm Plaza Branch Coterie Theatre artists resume their monthly interactive story times for children and their parents, reading from indie rocker Tim Ha... Read More