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Thursday, April 28, 2022
6:00pm
Online
In Person
Using clips of movies from 1998’s seminal Smoke Signals to present-day releases, film and media history scholar Joanna Hearne...
Sunday, May 1, 2022
1:00pm
In Person
Amid the Library’s Big Read 2022, a two-month celebration of reading and poetry, Kansas City poet Glenn North conduc...
Friday, July 19, 2024
5:30pm
In Person
Curious kids ask questions and are encouraged to pursue the answers in Andrea Beaty's series, The Questioneers. We’ll celebrate perseverance, creativi...
Friday, July 26, 2024
6:00pm
In Person
Babaloo brings his unique music and comedy all the way from St. Louis, Missouri. His performance is described as a “riotous and raucous affair, with s...
Wednesday, September 27, 2017
6:30pm
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,...
Thursday, October 19, 2017
6:30pm
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...
Thursday, May 5, 2022
6:00pm
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...
Tuesday, October 31, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
The war experience in Vietnam varied greatly, depending on when and where you served. A panel of military veterans, convened by the U.S. Army Command...
All locations close early at 5 p.m. for the New Year's Eve holiday....
Thursday, October 12, 2017
6:30pm
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...