Signature Event Hollywood vs. History: 'The Man Who Would Be King' Monday, January 24, 2022 6:00pm Online The format of this event has been changed to virtual only. Watch online at yout... Read More
Signature Event An Evening With U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo Thursday, April 14, 2022 6:30pm Plaza Branch Online 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 Big Read Kickoff: A Community Celebration Wednesday, April 6, 2022 6:30pm Central Library In Person The Kansas City Indian Center and Haskell Indian Nations University join in launching the Library’s community-wide... Read More
Signature Event Hollywood vs. History: 'Waterloo' Monday, March 14, 2022 6:00pm Plaza Branch In Person You want big-screen shock and awe? Russian director Sergei Bondarchuk and producer Dino De Laurentiis delivered it in Waterloo... Read More
Signature Event Hollywood vs. History: 'Memphis Belle' Monday, March 28, 2022 6:00pm Plaza Branch In Person The Memphis Belle and the men who flew the famed B-17 Flying Fortress became symbols of the heavy bomber crews and support personnel who helped def... Read More
Signature Event The Beaded Image Thursday, August 17, 2017 6:30pm Central Library In Person Kansas City-area artist Jessica Kincaid, who works from a palette of colorful beads rather than paint, discusses her work in an illus... Read More
Signature Event Writers at War: Literature and the Wartime Experience Wednesday, September 27, 2017 6:30pm Central Library In Person As part of the multi-library Big Read initiative revolving around The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien’s seminal book about the Vietnam War,... Read More
Signature Event The Things They Carried Thursday, October 12, 2017 6:30pm Plaza Branch In Person The Vietnam War still has the power to divide Americans between those for and against it—and just as surely, between those who remember the era fir... Read More
Signature Event Hue 1968: A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam Wednesday, October 18, 2017 6:30pm Plaza Branch In Person In a discussion of his new book, Mark Bowden (author of the best-seller Black Hawk Down) details one of... Read More
Signature Event We Gotta Get Out of This Place: The Soundtrack of the Vietnam War Thursday, October 19, 2017 6:30pm Central Library In Person For many U.S. soldiers in Vietnam, music was the connection between battlefront and homefront and helped them cope with the complexities of the war... Read More