All Library locations will be closed Tuesday, December 24 & Wednesday, December 25, for the Christmas holiday.
Class or Discussion
Signature Event
Thursday, July 29, 2021
6:30pm
Online
See a movie scene dominated by skyscrapers and speeding taxis, and you know in an instant that you’re in New York. For Los Angeles, it’s freeways a...
Signature Event
Tuesday, June 29, 2021
6:30pm
Online
As America’s education system approaches a pivotal new school year, former U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan sits down with Lib...
Signature Event
Tuesday, June 15, 2021
6:30pm
Online
Pressing then-President Donald Trump on the issue of voter suppression a little more than 2½ years ago, veteran White House correspondent A...
Signature Event
Tuesday, May 25, 2021
7:00pm
Online
The murder of George Floyd on May 25, 2020, moved the world and Kansas City in ways that are still coming into focus.
KS...
Signature Event
Thursday, May 20, 2021
6:30pm
Online
Kansas City’s long-troubled public schools system has shown promising improvement. Student performance in math and English is rising. Full accredit...
Signature Event
Saturday, November 14, 2020
10:00am
Online
Which Kansas City school is best for your child? What are the offerings? The differences?
This year’s City School Fair g...
Signature Event
Wednesday, June 24, 2020
2:00pm
In Person
Where are you on the complicated legacy of Kansas City developer J.C. Nichols? Should his name be removed from the parkway running to and alongside...
Signature Event
Tuesday, June 16, 2020
6:30pm
Online
As America’s major spectator sports plot a return from their COVID-19-induced hiatus, reactions range from elation to apprehension to … wh...
Signature Event
Thursday, May 14, 2020
6:30pm
Online
The Library begins a series of programs exploring issues related to COVID-19 with an examination of the immediate and long-term effects that the pa...
Signature Event
Sunday, February 23, 2020
1:30pm
In Person
The Library wraps up this year’s Searching the Psyche Through Cinema series with a final screening and discussion of a film adapted f...