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Arts & Culture
Tuesday, March 8, 2016
6:30pm
In Person
Biographer Arnold Rampersad discusses Harlem Renaissance luminary Langston Hughes and his relationship with a number of photograph...
Sunday, March 6, 2016
2:00pm
In Person
The Library continues its 10th season of Script-in-Hand performances and more than six months of special programming surrounding o...
Tuesday, March 1, 2016
6:30pm
In Person
The latest installment of Meet the Past with Crosby Kemper III spotlights two of the Midwest’s greatest artists, Kansas City’s Thomas...
Sunday, February 28, 2016
1:00pm
In Person
Area high school students bring Shakespeare to life, lending their own interpretations of his monologues and sonnets as they compete for a berth in...
Wednesday, February 24, 2016
6:30pm
In Person
William Blake gets his due today as not only a great poet but also an extraordinary, 18th-century English engraver, artist, and visionary. A boldly...
Tuesday, February 9, 2016
6:30pm
Kansas City’s Barkley advertising agency hatched the enormously successful “Two Guys” campaign for Sonic Drive-In a little more than 12 years ago, let...
Wednesday, January 20, 2016
6:30pm
In Person
The Library, in partnership with American Public Square, launches a series of discussions of polarizing local issues – minus the i...
Sunday, January 17, 2016
2:00pm
In Person
The Library kicks off its 10th season of Script-in-Hand performances and launches more than six months of special programming surr...
Thursday, December 10, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
Everyone has a reader in their life, even if that reader is you.
In a first-of-its-kind event the Kansas City Public Library’s Director of Re...