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Downtowners Book Group

Wednesday, May 21, 2025 12:00pm

Central Library

In Person

A lively mix of fiction, nonfiction, classics, and genres. Supported in part by The National Endowment for the Arts Big Read, th...

'Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution' Film Screening and Discussion

Wednesday, May 14, 2025 1:00pm

Southeast Branch

In Person

Join us for a film screening and discussion for the documentary Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution. Crip Camp is a 2020 Netflix d...

Movie: 'Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution'

Friday, May 2, 2025 2:00pm

Central Library

In Person

Join us for a film screening of Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution. This documentary tells the story of disabled teens who became advocate...

Shelf Life: A Big Read Storytelling Event

Thursday, May 1, 2025 6:30pm

Plaza Branch

Online

In Person

Writer and director David Wayne Reed revives Shelf Life, his popular show-and-tell storytelling series, for Big Read 2025. The event – focusing on som...

Ruiz Readers Book Group

Thursday, May 1, 2025 6:00pm

Irene H. Ruiz Branch

In Person

Ruiz Readers Book Group discusses Sitting Pretty by Rebekah Taussig. Join the Ruiz Readers in a casual setting to discuss this "pull-no-pu...

'Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution' Film Screening and Discussion

Tuesday, April 29, 2025 5:30pm

North-East Branch

In Person

Join us for a film screening and discussion for the documentary Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution. Crip Camp is a 2020 Netflix d...

Gracie Caggiano in Concert

Sunday, April 27, 2025 2:00pm

Central Library

In Person

Gracie Caggiano is an eclectic poet-composer, performer, and producer based in Kansas City, MO. Empathetic and fatefully existential, Gracie muses...

'Sitting Pretty': A Big Read Conversation

Tuesday, April 15, 2025 7:00pm

Central Library

Online

In Person

Rebekah Taussig discusses her book Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary, Resilient, Disabled Body. The author, who lost the use of her legs as a...

Johnny B: I’m Built Different

April 15, 2025 - June 28, 2025

Central Library

John Buice, known as Johnny B, was a beloved, long-term resident artist at Imagine That!, an arts-based day program for individuals with developmental...

Big Read Storytime with Rebekah Taussig

Friday, April 4, 2025 5:30pm

Plaza Branch

In Person

Kansas Citian Rebekah Taussig reads her new children’s book, We Are the Scrappy Ones, an ode to those who navigate a world that isn’t designed with th...

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