Activity Thanksgiving Eve Wednesday, November 27, 2024 5:00pm All locations close at 5 p.m. for Thanksgiving Eve.... 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
Activity Westport Branch Closed Wednesday, August 7, 2024 12:00am Westport Branch The Westport Branch is closed all day for staff training.... Read More
Activity Bluford Branch Closed Wednesday, August 7, 2024 12:00am Lucile H. Bluford Branch The Bluford Branch is closed all day for staff training.... 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 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