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Format: 2013-05-19
Format: 2013-05-19
  • Join your fellow citizens in viewing the debates between vice-presidential candidates Joseph Biden and Paul Ryan. The evening's topic: Foreign and domestic policy. Following the debates, a panel led by UMKC professors Max Joseph Skidmore, Sr. and Max Joseph Skidmore, Jr. will discuss the evening's events.
    Vice-Presidential Debate: Domestic & Foreign Policy
    Thursday, October 11, 2012
    Plaza Branch

    Join us for a public viewing of the 2012 Presidential and Vice Presidential Debates.

    A panel discussion follows each debate.

    Co-sponsored by A&S Continuing Education at the University of Missouri - Kansas City.

  • Scholar Dennis Domer examines architect Frank Lloyd Wright’s revolutionary and wholly integrated approach to interior design.
    Dennis Domer - Frank Lloyd Wright’s Search for Organic Simplicity
    Thursday, October 11, 2012
    Central Library

    Dennis Domer looks at the evolution of architect Frank Lloyd Wright’s interior designs in which every element is intended to be not only individually interesting but to contribute to a unified whole.

    Domer is director of graduate studies for the KU Department of American Studies.

  • The sustainability movement is alive and well in Kansas City. A discussion by a panel of experts in energy use and generation, water use and recycling provides a clear understanding of the many efforts underway to achieve energy and resource sustainability.
    The Future of Energy & Creating a Sustainable Community
    Wednesday, October 10, 2012
    Plaza Branch

    The sustainability movement is healthy and active in Kansas City.

    A panel of energy and recycling experts moderated by Kate Corwin, CEO of GreenWorks Kansas City, discuss The Future of Energy and Creating a Sustainable Community. Participants include Kristin Riott of Bridging the Gap, Bob Housh of the Metropolitan Energy Center, Lara Isch of the KCMO Water Department, Stacia Stelk of Ripple Glass and Chuck Caisley of Kansas City Power & Light.

  • Author Tanner Colby engages in a public conversation about his new book — an incisive and candid look at how America got lost on the way to Dr. King’s Promised Land — with Kansas City writer Whitney Terrell as part of the Writers at Work series.
    Tanner Colby - Some of My Best Friends Are Black: The Strange Story of Integration in America
    Wednesday, October 10, 2012
    Central Library

    Tanner Colby engages in a public conversation about his new book, Some of My Best Friends Are Black, with Kansas City writer Whitney Terrell. Colby’s book about race is anchored by four interrelated stories, one of which involves a Kansas City neighborhood.

    A child of a white-flight Southern suburb, Colby is former head writer of the National Lampoon Radio Hour and co-author of Belushi: A Biography.

    Co-sponsored by the Writers at Work Roundtable & the UMKC English Department.

  • Photojournalist Paola Gianturco illustrates how today’s grandmothers are embracing activism to create a better world for grandchildren everywhere.
    Paola Gianturco - Grandmother Power
    Tuesday, October 9, 2012
    Central Library

    The grandmothers of today are younger, healthier, better educated, and better off than grandmothers have ever been. And, as photojournalist Paola Gianturco shows in her book Grandmother Power: A Global Phenomenon, these women have embraced activism to fight poverty, disease, illiteracy, environmental degradation, and human rights abuses.

  • Jay Angoff of the Department of Health and Human Services joins a panel of health experts to discuss the implementation and effects of the Affordable Care Act.
    Jay Angoff - The Affordable Care Act
    Monday, October 8, 2012
    Plaza Branch

    What will the Affordable Care Act mean to the lives, health, and finances of you and your family? How will it be implemented?

    Jay Angoff, Region VII director of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and a panel of health experts discuss the new law.

    Angoff was Missouri’s insurance commissioner from 1993-1998. He was the first director of the Health and Human Services Office of Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight.

    Co-sponsored by the Missouri Nurses Association.

  • The Metropolitan Ensemble Theatre presents Donna Ziegenhorn’s new play about people struggling to get by on Kansas City’s streets.
    Bingo on the Boulevard
    Sunday, October 7, 2012
    Plaza Branch

    Staged by the Metropolitan Ensemble Theatre, this work, along with The Hindu and the Cowboy on Oct. 1st, is based on stories of real Kansas Citians collected by playwright Donna Ziegenhorn. Bingo on the Boulevard features a homeless schizophrenic, a feisty grandmother, and a drug dealer.

    Both plays give voice to everyday people. The performances are part of this year’s Festival of Faiths Kansas City.

  • Join us on the first Saturday of every month (May - October)
    City Market Summer Book Sale Series
    Saturday, October 6, 2012

    Location: City Market, 400 Grand St.

    Join fellow book lovers on the first Saturday of every month (May – October) from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. as the Friends of the Kansas City Public Library present the fifth annual City Market Summer Book Sale Series.

  • Vaclav Havel went from dissident playwright to leader of the Czech Republic. Celebrate his life with Czech food and drink and a performance of his one-act comedy Audience by the Metropolitan Ensemble Theatre.
    Dissident to Statesman: A Celebration of Vaclav Havel
    Friday, October 5, 2012
    Central Library

    Dissident playwright Vaclav Havel (1936-2011) went from satirizing Czechoslovakia’s Communist leaders to become the first president of the free Czech Republic. Kansas City’s Czech and Slavic community celebrates Havel’s life with ethnic food and drink and a performance by the Metropolitan Ensemble Theatre of Audience, Havel’s one-act comedy. Audience skewers daily life (in this case a meeting between a brewery worker and his boss) in a totalitarian society.

  • Join your fellow citizens in viewing the debates between Mitt Romney and Barack Obama. The evening's topic: Domestic policy. Following the debates, a panel led by UMKC professors Max Joseph Skidmore, Sr. and Max Joseph Skidmore, Jr. will discuss the evening's events.
    Presidential Debate: Domestic Policy
    Wednesday, October 3, 2012
    Plaza Branch

    Join us for a public viewing of the 2012 Presidential and Vice Presidential Debates.

    A panel discussion follows each debate.

    Co-sponsored by A&S Continuing Education at the University of Missouri - Kansas City.