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Plaza Branch: Friday Night Family Fun

Spring! Wacky Weather

Friday, March 1, 2024 5:30pm
Plaza Branch
In Person
We never know if March will come in like a lion and go out like a lamb or the other way around. Amid this unpredictability, learn about how rain cloud...
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Signature Event

Pandemics of the Future and Today

Thursday, June 17, 2021 6:30pm
Online
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...
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Signature Event

Climate Courage

Wednesday, June 16, 2021 6:30pm
Online
There is a way to address climate change -- we have the needed technology and financing -- but is there enough collective will? Can a society...
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Signature Event
stages of a solar eclipse

Shooting the Eclipse

Thursday, August 10, 2017 6:30pm
Central Library
In Person
Kansas City photographer and instructor Reed Hoffmann offers a tutorial on photographing the rare, spectacular total solar eclipse...
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Signature Event
American Eclipse

American Eclipse

Tuesday, June 20, 2017 6:30pm
Central Library
In Person
In Kansas City and across the country, anticipation is building for the total solar eclipse of August 21. It parallels the nation’s fervor in 1878,...
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