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Signature Event
Thursday, March 14, 2024
6:00pm
Online
In Person
Carrie Westlake Whitney was a remarkable exception to the patriarchal times in which she lived, a 27-year-old woman who became the first full-time dir...
Activity
Friday, March 15, 2024
5:30pm
In Person
Join Kansas City children’s book author and illustrator Jill McDonald for a discussion of her books. Children can then create their own art using McD...
Activity
Friday, March 22, 2024
5:30pm
In Person
Use science to explore the colors of the rainbow. Build spectroscopes, make a rainbow grow across paper, and create a rainbow windsock to take home. R...
Activity
Friday, March 29, 2024
5:30pm
In Person
Whether it’s their giant hops or their many babies tucked away in burrows, no animal personifies “spring” like rabbits. Make bunny masks, create bunny...
Signature Event
Wednesday, April 24, 2024
6:00pm
Online
In Person
What does it mean to be a “great city”? Since 2018, the Library has hosted public presentations by urban planners and round-table conversations with c...
Signature Event
Wednesday, October 12, 2022
6:00pm
In Person
Memphis, a sprawling, river-flanked, music- and barbecue-imbued city some 7½ hours to the south, offers some important lessons in development for Kans...
Signature Event
Tuesday, September 24, 2024
7:00pm
In Person
Margaret Atwood is one of the few writers so prolific that her work can be ordered into a 101-item best-of listicle, starting with her 1985 dystopian...
Signature Event
Tuesday, September 11, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
Nationally renowned urban thinker Chuck Marohn, who kicked off the Library’s Making a Great City series in January 2018, returns to assess the crucial...
Signature Event
Tuesday, March 5, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
Keith Culbertson, the chairman and CEO of Design Workshop and a George Kessler historian, launches a three-part study of Kansas City’s distinctive sys...
Signature Event
Tuesday, April 30, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
Leon Younger, one of the nation’s most accomplished parks and recreation consultants, continues a three-part study of Kansas City’s distinctive system...