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Arts & Culture
Signature Event
Sunday, December 8, 2019
2:00pm
In Person
Recorded by Dylan Thomas in 1952 and published in book form two years later, A Child’s Christmas in Wales endures as one of the...
Signature Event
Thursday, November 21, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
Adrienne Walker Hoard began her long relationship with South Africa’s Ndzundza Ndebele people in 1996. The country was settling in...
Signature Event
Monday, November 11, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
Kansas City’s Equity Actors' Readers' Theatre (EARTh) commemorates Veterans Day with a script-in-hand reading of Aaron Sorkin’s sizzl...
Signature Event
Wednesday, November 6, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
Celebrate what made the 2019 Art in the Loop Project: Make/Believe great. The curated outdoor exhibition, staged in partnership...
Signature Event
Wednesday, October 23, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
First performed in Turin, Italy, in 1896, La bohème became one of the world’s most eternally popular operas and a signature work of com...
Signature Event
Thursday, October 17, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
Photographer B.A. Van Sise, whose work is featured in the Library exhibit One Second, discusses the convergence o...
Signature Event
Thursday, October 3, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
Born and raised in Topeka (which appears in some fashion in all of his works), novelist, essayist, and poet Ben Lerner is one of t...
Signature Event
Tuesday, September 24, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
Kansas City-based urban planner, designer, and architect Kevin Klinkenberg examines why and how cities being reinvented today, who the winners and los...
Signature Event
Monday, September 9, 2019
6:30pm
In Person
When first staged in New York City in 1935, Waiting for Lefty made a sensation of its playwright, Clifford Odets...
Signature Event
Saturday, September 7, 2019
1:30pm
In Person
From the Carter Family to Bill Monroe, from Hank Williams, Patsy Cline, and Johnny Cash to Garth Brooks, a succession of 20th-century performers—st...