Signature Event Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal Wednesday, June 30, 2021 6:30pm ***PROGRAM CANCELED*** ... Read More
Signature Event Arne Duncan: The State of Education in America Tuesday, June 29, 2021 6:30pm As America’s education system approaches a pivotal new school year, former U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan sits down with Lib... Read More
Signature Event On Juneteenth Monday, June 28, 2021 6:30pm In an online KC Library program, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Annette Gordon-Reed discusses her new book On Juneteent... Read More
Signature Event Space Jam (1996) Friday, June 25, 2021 8:45pm Central Library Before LeBron James, Michael Jordan was king of the cosmic cartoon court, taking on the malicious Monstars with his Tune Squad of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Du... Read More
Signature Event Flora and Fauxna Thursday, June 24, 2021 6:30pm Nearly half a century’s work in photography and art has brought Patty Carroll to the Central Library’s first-floor Genevieve Guldner Gallery.... Read More
Signature Event Reading Kansas City: A Literary Checklist Tuesday, June 22, 2021 6:30pm Former Kansas City Star writer and editor Steve Paul joins Kaite Stover, the Library’s director of readers’... Read More
Signature Event Why KC Should Want to Be More Walkable – and How It Can Be Tuesday, June 22, 2021 12:00pm Cities are made to be walked – or should be, given the economic, environmental, and medical benefits. How far is Kansas City from... Read More
Signature Event Pandemics of the Future and Today Thursday, June 17, 2021 6:30pm If, indeed, the COVID-19 pandemic is waning in the United States, the questions and concerns around it have not. Where do dangerous new viruses lik... Read More
Signature Event Climate Courage Wednesday, June 16, 2021 6:30pm There is a way to address climate change -- we have the needed technology and financing -- but is there enough collective will? Can a society... Read More
Signature Event April Ryan: The Presidency and the Press Tuesday, June 15, 2021 6:30pm Pressing then-President Donald Trump on the issue of voter suppression a little more than 2½ years ago, veteran White House correspondent A... Read More