Celebrate the Irish in everyone with a performance by Kansas City’s O’Riada Manning Academy of Irish Dance. Appropriate for all ages.
In conjunction with A Winter’s Tale Spin, the theme of its Shakespeare-themed Adult Winter Reading Program, the Library screens these films spotlighting the Bard’s life and works.
Area high school students lend their own interpretations of Shakespeare’s works as they compete in this annual event sponsored by the Kansas City Branch of the English-Speaking Union. At stake: a berth in the national competition in New York.
In the latest installment of Meet the Past with Crosby Kemper III, the Library director holds a public conversation with iconic Midwest artists Thomas Hart Benton and Grant Wood – as portrayed by actors Robert Gibby Brand and Matt Rapport.
Prairie Village, Kansas, native SuEllen Fried – one of George H.W. Bush’s Points of Light – sits down with Library Director Crosby Kemper III to discuss her prison outreach program and the role of entrepreneurship in the nonprofit sector.
In conjunction with A Winter’s Tale Spin, the theme of its Shakespeare-themed Adult Winter Reading Program, the Library screens four films spotlighting the Bard’s life and works. All feature the great Kenneth Branagh as director, star, or both.
Coterie Theatre artists read from The Little Little Girl with the Big Big Voice, Kristen Balouch’s entertaining book about a young girl whose booming voice complicates her search through the jungle for a playmate.
The Library devotes its 2016 series of Script-in-Hand performances to Shakespeare, leading up to a June exhibit featuring a rare, nearly 400-year- old First Folio – the first printed collection of the Bard’s plays.
During the Money Matters Workshop: Banking Basics you can learn how to select a bank or credit union, balance your checkbook, protect and manage your money, and maximize banking products.
Biographer Arnold Rampersad discusses writer Langston Hughes and his relationship with a number of photographers who celebrated African American life. Among them: Gordon Parks, who based a series of photos on Hughes’ Shakespeare in Harlem.
On the heels of the Kansas City Ballet’s first full production of Swan Lake, the Library screens the intense 2010 film revolving around the iconic ballet. Ballerina Tempe Ostegren and psychoanalyst David Donovan lead a subsequent discussion.
The University of Kansas’ Cote Smith joins novelist and Writers at Work series organizer Whitney Terrell in a public conversation about Smith’s haunting debut novel, set in his hometown of Leavenworth, Kansas.
More than 60 photos – drawn in part from the Library of Congress, Denver Public Library, Nebraska State Historical Society, and the Library’s Missouri Valley Special Collections – shine a light on the controversial Wounded Knee massacre 125 years ago.
This original exhibition features the ambitious sculptural works of three teaching artists, Brian Caponi, Shawn Murrey, and Thomas Schmidt, who employ a range of materials and fabrication processes in exploring philosophies relating to construction, technology, and place.
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  WINTER READING PROGRAMJanuary 19 - March 19, 2016

Perhaps no author is more quoted
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