Activity Labor Day Monday, September 2, 2024 12:00am All locations closed for Labor Day.... Read More
Activity Thanksgiving Thursday, November 28, 2024 12:00am All locations closed for the Thanksgiving holiday.... Read More
Activity Christmas Eve Tuesday, December 24, 2024 12:00am All locations closed for Christmas Eve.... Read More
Activity Christmas Wednesday, December 25, 2024 12:00am All locations closed for Christmas.... Read More
Activity Thanksgiving Eve Wednesday, November 27, 2024 5:00pm All locations close at 5 p.m. for Thanksgiving Eve.... 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 Voices of the Big Read: Open-Mic Poetry Thursday, May 5, 2022 6:00pm Plaza Branch In Person Participants from Glenn North’s May 1 poetry workshop take the stage to share their work. The readings draw heavily from U.S. Poet... 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
Activity New Year's Eve Tuesday, December 31, 2024 5:00pm All locations close early at 5 p.m. for the New Year's Eve holiday.... Read More