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Arts & Culture
Signature Event
Sunday, December 9, 2018
2:00pm
In Person
A little more than two weeks before Christmas, members of Kansas City’s Equity Actors' Readers' Theatre (EARTh) delivers two script-i...
Signature Event
Sunday, December 9, 2018
2:00pm
In Person
Step into the holiday season with an afternoon of creative art, music, performance, and refreshments at the downtown Central Library. Featured: an Arb...
Signature Event
Saturday, December 8, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
Some of Kansas City’s favorite classically trained actors join the Bach Aria Soloists in creating a special wintertime story. Perform...
Signature Event
Friday, December 7, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
Best-selling author and two-time Newbery Medal winner Kate DiCamillo discusses her new juvenile novel Louisiana’s Way Home....
Signature Event
Thursday, December 6, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
Baron Wolman, Rolling Stone magazine’s first chief photographer, brought America up close and personal with Mick Jagger, Jimi Hendrix, and ot...
Signature Event
Friday, November 30, 2018
6:00pm
In Person
Start the holiday season with a festival at the Library, overlooking the beautiful Plaza lights. Listen to live music by the trio Tiny Esca...
Signature Event
Wednesday, November 14, 2018
7:30pm
In Person
Near the end of four months of filming in Kansas City, the Fab Five stars of Netflix’ infectious reality series Queer Eye sit down at the Cen...
Signature Event
Monday, November 12, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
Commemorating Veterans Day, members of Kansas City’s Equity Actors' Readers' Theatre (EARTh) deliver a script-in-hand performance of...
Signature Event
Sunday, November 11, 2018
2:00pm
In Person
Join us this Veterans Day for a powerful and poignant commemoration of World War I that integrates live music, dance, poetry, and prose.
Presen...
Signature Event
Wednesday, November 7, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
The best political speeches transcend oratory. In such stirring addresses as John F. Kennedy’s “ask not what your country can do for you” and Winst...