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Signature Event
Thursday, September 26, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
Gwendolyn Grant, president and CEO of the Urban League of Greater Kansas City, leads a discussion of its 2...
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Tuesday, January 31, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
What led the New York Stock Exchange to suspend trading without warning one day in July 2015? Why did certain Toyota vehicles accelerate uncontroll...
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Sunday, January 15, 2017
2:00pm
In Person
Decades before women in the U.S. could vote, hold public positions, or choose from a full range of occupations, young women and girls in the Kansas...
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Thursday, August 27, 2009
8:30pm
In Person
The Kansas City Public Library welcomes architecture critic Ulf Meyer to discuss Cities of the Pacific Century...
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Even among the iconic frontiersmen of the American West, Jim Bridger stands out as larger than life.
Born in 1804 and orphaned at 1...
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Thursday, November 3, 2011
2:30pm
In Person
Jackson County Executive Mike Sanders delivers his annual State of the County Address in the Truman Forum of the Kansas City Publi...
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Monday, March 4, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
Renowned cognitive neuroscientist Maryanne Wolf discusses the challenges – and dangers – of reading increasingly on screens. It’s not...
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Monday, February 10, 2020
6:30pm
In Person
Premiering in 1971, winner of the New York Drama Critics’ Circle and off-Broadway Obie awards for best American play, The House of Blue Le...
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Thursday, September 14, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
Harvard University’s Danielle Allen discusses her searing family memoir, which details her younger cousin’s tragic arc from aspiring...
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Tuesday, February 5, 2013
6:30pm
In Person
Photojournalist Gil Cohen-Magen has spent a decade in Israel covering not only political and military conflict but also the coming to...