Signature Event Mr. SOUL! Friday, February 19, 2021 5:00pm 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 Coded Bias Thursday, March 18, 2021 6:00pm While conducting research on facial recognition technology at the MIT Media Lab, Ghanaian-born Joy Buolamwini was startled to disc... Read More
Signature Event Philly D.A Thursday, April 22, 2021 8:00pm The city of Philadelphia reduced the size of the local jail population by nearly half from 2015 to 2020, reflecting efforts by District Attorney&nb... Read More
Signature Event The Donut King Wednesday, May 19, 2021 6:00pm Walk into one of the hundreds of donut shops in Southern California – the land of glitz also happens to be the country’s donut capital – and odds a... Read More
Signature Event Jonathan Scott’s Power Trip Tuesday, November 10, 2020 6:00pm 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 The Heart Is a Fist: Artists Roundtable Discussion Wednesday, May 25, 2022 6:00pm Central Library Online In Person Indigenous artists featured in the Library exhibition The Heart Is a Fist talk about their inspirations and techniques in a panel discussion modera... Read More
Signature Event Indigenous Cinema Now: Native American and First Nations Filmmaking in the 21st Century Thursday, April 28, 2022 6:00pm Central Library Online In Person Using clips of movies from 1998’s seminal Smoke Signals to present-day releases, film and media history scholar Joanna Hearne... Read More
Signature Event Expression in Verse: A Poetry Workshop Sunday, May 1, 2022 1:00pm Southeast Branch In Person Amid the Library’s Big Read 2022, a two-month celebration of reading and poetry, Kansas City poet Glenn North conduc... 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 Wrestle Saturday, May 4, 2019 2:00pm Plaza Branch In Person For 15 weeks, from the start of their season through the 2016 Alabama state tournament, the wrestlers at Huntsville’s J.O. Johnson High School endured... Read More