Central Library will close early Thursday, November 6 at 1:00 p.m. & all other locations will close at 2:30 p.m. for an all staff event.
Big Read
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              Thursday, May 1, 2025 
                                             6:30pm
                          
                                
                  
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          Writer and director David Wayne Reed revives Shelf Life, his popular show-and-tell storytelling series, for Big Read 2025. The event – focusing on som...
        
      
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              Tuesday, April 15, 2025 
                                             7:00pm
                          
                                
                  
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          Rebekah Taussig discusses her book Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary, Resilient, Disabled Body. The author, who lost the use of her legs as a...
        
      
      Exhibition
    
        
    
              
              April 15, 2025 
                               - July 6, 2025
                                        
                                
                  
          John Buice, known as Johnny B, was a beloved, long-term resident artist at Imagine That!, an arts-based day program for individuals with developmental...
        
      
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              Friday, April 4, 2025 
                                             5:30pm
                          
                                
                  
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          Kansas Citian Rebekah Taussig reads her new children’s book, We Are the Scrappy Ones, an ode to those who navigate a world that isn’t designed with th...
        
      
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              Wednesday, May 25, 2022 
                                             6:00pm
                          
                                
                  
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          Indigenous artists featured in the Library exhibition The Heart Is a Fist talk about their inspirations and techniques in a panel discussion modera...
        
      
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              Thursday, May 5, 2022 
                                             6:00pm
                          
                                
                  
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          Participants from Glenn North’s May 1 poetry workshop take the stage to share their work. The readings draw heavily from U.S. Poet...
        
      
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              Sunday, May 1, 2022 
                                             1:00pm
                          
                                
                  
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          Amid the Library’s Big Read 2022, a two-month celebration of reading and poetry, Kansas City poet Glenn North conduc...
        
      
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              Thursday, April 28, 2022 
                                             6:00pm
                          
                                
                  
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          Using clips of movies from 1998’s seminal Smoke Signals to present-day releases, film and media history scholar Joanna Hearne...
        
      
      Signature Event
    
        
    
              
              Saturday, April 23, 2022 
                                             1:30pm
                          
                                
                  
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          An elderly Native American couple make their last journey together – to Wewoka, capital of the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma. Frankie is dying and in...
        
      
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              Saturday, April 16, 2022 
                                             1:30pm
                          
                            
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          Written and directed by Mi’gmaq filmmaker Jeff Barnaby, Rhymes for Young Ghouls offers an unflinching fictional account o...
        
      