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.
Signature Event
Tuesday, May 20, 2025
6:00pm
In Person
National Trust for Historic Preservation President Carol Quillen discusses the importance of storytelling – rooted in historic places – to a healthy d...
Signature Event
Monday, May 19, 2025
6:00pm
In Person
Bestselling co-authors Queer Eye’s Jonathan Van Ness and Kansas City’s own Julie Murphy discuss their new book, Let Them Stare, a story about a haunte...
Signature Event
Tuesday, May 13, 2025
6:00pm
In Person
New York Times bestselling author Adam Silvera discusses his latest young adult novel, The Survivor Wants to Die at the End, in conversation with Kans...
Signature Event
Sunday, May 11, 2025
3:00pm
In Person
Composer and musician Johann Sebastian Bach’s circle of friends and family included some of the most influential voices of the German Baroque era. Kan...
Signature Event
Thursday, May 8, 2025
6:00pm
Online
More than 50 years after the death of the Man from Missouri, historian John Robert Greene reevaluates a major – and ultimately sca...
Signature Event
Tuesday, May 6, 2025
6:00pm
Online
In Person
Mandy Chapman Semple was responsible for designing and co-managing the implementation of Houston’s nationally recognized efforts to address homelessne...
Signature Event
Sunday, May 4, 2025
2:00pm
In Person
From its inception, Kansas City has been intricately tied to provisioning, hospitality, and good food. Culinary historian Andrea Broomfield examines h...
Signature Event
Thursday, May 1, 2025
6:30pm
Online
In Person
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...
Signature Event
Sunday, April 27, 2025
2:00pm
In Person
In his new book Ports to Posts: Latter-day Saint Gathering in the Nineteenth Century, historian Fred E. Woods details the Mormon journey to and throu...
Signature Event
Wednesday, April 23, 2025
6:00pm
In Person
A public library’s mission is simple but powerful: to be a place anyone can enter, free of charge, and encounter a universe of ideas and resources. Th...
