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Arts & Culture
Signature Event
Thursday, April 7, 2022
6:00pm
In Person
In conjunction with an evening reception celebrating the Library exhibition...
Signature Event
Wednesday, April 6, 2022
6:30pm
In Person
The Kansas City Indian Center and Haskell Indian Nations University join in launching the Library’s community-wide...
Signature Event
Tuesday, April 5, 2022
6:00pm
In Person
The Kansas City Repertory Theatre brings its adaptation of the award-winning stage drama The Royale to t...
Signature Event
Sunday, April 3, 2022
2:00pm
In Person
The Kansas City Repertory Theatre brings its adaptation of the award-winning stage drama The Royale to t...
Signature Event
Tuesday, March 22, 2022
6:00pm
Online
In Person
When Michael Mardikes began visiting Thomas Hart Benton at his home studio in Kansas City in 1956, his challenge was to capture an artist renowned...
Signature Event
Tuesday, December 14, 2021
6:30pm
Online
In a discussion of his exhibit Dissident Formalisms, Kansas City artist Armin Mühsam examines the use of...
Signature Event
Sunday, November 21, 2021
3:00pm
Online
Mark Twain said there are “bad actresses, fair actresses, good actresses, great actresses – and then there is Sarah Bernhardt.”
The legendary F...
Signature Event
Thursday, November 4, 2021
6:30pm
Online
Author Mallory O’Meara joins the Library’s Kaite Stover in a discussion of O’Meara’s new book Girly Drin...
Signature Event
Thursday, October 7, 2021
6:30pm
Online
Sheri Rosenblum of the San Francisco-based Jewish Partisan Educational Foundation recounts the courage and invaluable contributions o...
Signature Event
Sunday, September 19, 2021
4:00pm
In Person
The Kansas City Symphony offers a free outdoor chamber concert at the Library, with a woodwind quintet – flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, and horn – pe...