Signature Events

Sustaining KC's Parks and Boulevards

Susan Rademacher, a leader in the nationwide parks conservancy movement for three decades, examines the challenge of keeping Kansas City’s signature system of parks and boulevards relevant and sustainable in the latest entry in the Making a Great City series.
 
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Susan Rademacher, a leader in the nationwide parks conservancy movement for three decades, examines the challenge of keeping Kansas City’s signature system of parks and boulevards relevant and sustainable.
Tuesday, May 28, 2019
Reception: 
6 pm
Program: 
6:30 pm
Plaza Branch
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Boys: A Sex Trafficking Documentary

The number of human trafficking victims is staggering, reaching into the hundreds of thousands in the United States and tens of millions worldwide. While awareness is growing, it tends to focus on the young women and girls who are sexually exploited. Male victims are often overlooked.

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Wednesday, May 29, 2019
Program: 
6:30 pm to 8:00 pm
Plaza Branch
Event Canceled

Summer Reading Kickoff Party: Dare to Discover

Help kick off the Library’s annual Summer Reading Program, Dare to Discover, a celebration of reading about space, science, exploration, and discovery in places near and far. Enjoy games, crafts, music, and a special presentation by Mad Science of Greater Kansas City about the first manned moon landing—50 years ago this summer.

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Help kick off the Library’s annual Summer Reading Program, Dare to Discover, a celebration of reading about space, science, exploration, and discovery in places near and far. Enjoy games, crafts, music, and a special presentation by Mad Science of Greater Kansas City about the first manned moon landing 50 years ago this summer.
Friday, May 31, 2019
Program: 
6:00 pm to 8:00 pm
Plaza Branch
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Kickoff: 2019 Art in the Loop Project

As the 2019 Art in the Loop Project: Make/Believe begins its nearly five-month run in and around downtown Kansas City, meet its lineup of artists and performers and get a peek at their featured works.

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As the 2019 Art in the Loop Project: Make/Believe begins its nearly five-month run in and around downtown Kansas City, meet its lineup of artists and performers and get a peek at their featured works.
Wednesday, June 5, 2019
Reception: 
6 pm
Program: 
6:30 pm
Central Library
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D-Day: The Innovation, Problem-Solving, and Physics Behind the 'Great Crusade'

Seventy-five years later, the world still marvels at the audacity and epic scope of D-Day. Some 160,000 Allied troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of heavily fortified French coastline, surprising and ultimately overrunning Nazi troops on the beaches of Normandy.

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On the 75th anniversary of D-Day, military historian Christopher Johnson of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College looks at the massive logistics – the carefully planned buildup and transport of supplies, vehicles, and hundreds of thousands of troops – behind Dwight Eisenhower’s “great crusade.”
Thursday, June 6, 2019
Reception: 
6 pm
Program: 
6:30 pm
Central Library
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HEAR Now: The Audio Fiction and Arts Festival

The four-day HEAR Now Festival returns to Kansas City to celebrate storytelling in all forms. Leading off Thursday evening: a discussion of Perception and Storytelling by renowned neuroscientist Beau Lotto, who specializes in the biology and psychology of perception.

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The four-day HEAR Now Festival returns to Kansas City to celebrate storytelling in all forms. Leading off Thursday evening: a discussion of Perception and Storytelling by renowned neuroscientist Beau Lotto, who specializes in the biology and psychology of perception.
Thursday, June 6, 2019
Program: 
7:00 pm
Plaza Branch
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Drum Safari

Friday Night Family Fun

Blast off to the stars (and beyond)! Young attendees can drum and dance their way through the solar system and find out what makes gravity so groovy—part of the array of experiences offered through the Library’s 2019 Summer Reading Program, Dare to Discover.

Appropriate for ages 12 and under.
 

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Blast off to the stars (and beyond)! Young attendees can drum and dance their way through the solar system and find out what makes gravity so groovy – part of the array of experiences offered through the Library’s 2019 Summer Reading Program, Dare to Discover. For ages 12 and under.
Friday, June 7, 2019
Program: 
6:30 pm
Plaza Branch
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HEAR Now: The Audio Fiction and Arts Festival

The four-day HEAR Now Festival turns to the LitRPG/GameLit genre – gamer fiction – late Saturday morning, when a group of writers and narrators present their favorite tales in The Stories They Tell.
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The four-day HEAR Now Festival turns to the LitRPG/GameLit genre – gamer fiction – late Saturday morning, when a group of writers and narrators present their favorite tales in The Stories They Tell. Among the participants: Kansas City native Jeff Hays, one of the genre’s most prolific narrators and founder of YouTube’s Soundbooth Theater Live! channel, and pioneering GameLit author Charles Dean.
Saturday, June 8, 2019
Program: 
11:00 am
Plaza Branch
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