All Library locations will be closed Sunday, March 31, for the Easter holiday.
Signature Event
August 6, 2023
2:00pm
In Person
In a discussion of his new book The Girl with the Agate Eyes: The Untold Story of Mattie Howard, Kansas City’s Queen of the Underworld
Signature Event
August 2, 2023
6:00pm
Online
In a discussion of the newly released Just Action: How to Challenge Segregation Enacted Under the Color of Law, co-authored...
Signature Event
July 27, 2023
5:00pm
In Person
Starlight Theatre President and CEO Lindsey Rood-Clifford moderates a discussion about the importance of broadening...
Signature Event
July 18, 2023
6:00pm
Online
In the latest installment of the Library’s Turning Points series in partnership with the U.S. Army Command and General Staff...
Signature Event
July 14, 2023
8:45pm
In Person
The Library continues this summer’s Off the Wall series of rooftop film screenings, featuring cats in non-starring but invariably scene-chewing roles,...
Signature Event
July 6, 2023
6:00pm
Nearing the start of the 19th annual KC Fringe Festival – a two-week performing and visual arts extravaganza spread across multiple K...
Signature Event
July 2, 2023
2:00pm
Online
Tapping new resources and research tools, local historian Michael Sweeney has produced the first new historical assessment in 20 year...
Signature Event
June 22, 2023
6:00pm
Online
Not far from 18th and Vine streets, some of the most notable chapters in Kansas City’s Black history sprang from a single city block on Montgall Avenu...
Signature Event
June 21, 2023
6:00pm
In Person
As the 2023 Art in the Loop Project begins its nearly six-month run in downtown Kansas City, meet its lineup of artists and performer...
Signature Event
June 18, 2023
2:00pm
In Person
The Library and Kansas City PBS offer a screening and discussion of the 30-minute film AIDS in KC: Facing the Challenge 1...