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Format: 2013-05-20
Format: 2013-05-20
  • Taking Control: A Financial Planning Starter Kit
    Wednesday, April 17, 2013
    Lucile H. Bluford Branch

    Presented by the Financial Planners Association

    The Kansas City Public Library is hosting Money Smart Month adult programs across all Library locations during April 2013. Topics range from budgeting to investing to effective couponing.

    The Library will waive up to $30 in overdue fines and fees for any Kansas City Public Library cardholder who attends one or more of the events.

  • Broadway historian William Everett joins UMKC musicologist Andrew Granade for a discussion of the contributions of the Broadway stage to American popular music. Features excerpts from the documentary Broadway: The American Musical: Syncopated City (1919-1933).
    Broadway and Tin Pan Alley
    Tuesday, April 16, 2013
    Plaza Branch

    The six-week America’s Music program is a film and discussion series that looks at popular music from blues to bluegrass, Broadway to rock ‘n’ roll. Each event features films followed by a discussion (and frequently performances) led by UMKC musicologist Andrew Granade.

    The Broadway and Tin Pan Alley evening features the documentary Broadway: The American Musical: Syncopated City (1919-1933) (2004) and a discussion with Broadway historian William Everett.

  • Real World Retirement
    Monday, April 15, 2013
    Plaza Branch

    Presented by the Financial Planners Association

    The Kansas City Public Library is hosting Money Smart Month adult programs across all Library locations during April 2013. Topics range from budgeting to investing to effective couponing.

    The Library will waive up to $30 in overdue fines and fees for any Kansas City Public Library cardholder who attends one or more of the events.

  • The annual Searching the Psyche Through Cinema film screening and discussion series returns for an examination of Kansas City’s own home-grown cinema auteur, Robert Altman.
    Kansas City (1996)
    Sunday, April 14, 2013
    Plaza Branch

    This annual film series returns for an examination of Kansas City’s own home-grown cinema auteur, Robert Altman.

  • Estate Planning
    Sunday, April 14, 2013
    Southeast Branch

    Presented by the Financial Planners Association

    The Kansas City Public Library is hosting Money Smart Month adult programs across all Library locations during April 2013. Topics range from budgeting to investing to effective couponing.

    The Library will waive up to $30 in overdue fines and fees for any Kansas City Public Library cardholder who attends one or more of the events.

  • Local historian and postcard collector Michael Bushnell presents a series of postcard tours of Kansas City neighborhoods. Greetings from Eastside Kansas City
    Greetings from Eastside Kansas City - Michael Bushnell
    Sunday, April 14, 2013
    Lucile H. Bluford Branch

    The lake in Troost Park was once an encampment used by Mormons migrating to Independence. Linked together by Linwood Boulevard and The Paseo, Kansas City’s East side is an area rich in history, as evidenced in vintage postcard views.

    Local historian and postcard collector Michael Bushnell presents a series of postcard tours of Kansas City neighborhoods. Bushnell is publisher of The Northeast News, a weekly community newspaper that serves the Historic Northeast area of Kansas City. He is also the author of Historic Postcards of Old Kansas City.

  • Coterie Theatre artists read from their favorite children’s books while the audience enjoys an opportunity to “jump into the story” on stage. This program is appropriate for all ages.
    Coterie Theatre - Dramatic Story Time
    Sunday, April 14, 2013
    Plaza Branch

    Children and parents are invited to be part of monthly interactive story times presented by the Coterie Theatre. Coterie Theatre artists read from favorite children's books while audience members enjoy an opportunity to "jump into the story" and then participate in an improvised story of their own making.

  • Ultimate Couponing
    Saturday, April 13, 2013
    Trails West Branch

    Presented by Michelle Brown

    The Kansas City Public Library is hosting Money Smart Month adult programs across all Library locations during April 2013. Topics range from budgeting to investing to effective couponing.

    The Library will waive up to $30 in overdue fines and fees for any Kansas City Public Library cardholder who attends one or more of the events.

  • U.S. Rep. Emanuel Cleaver II and his wife Dianne Cleaver recognize high school artists at a town hall gathering and name the top five submissions in this annual celebration of artistic discovery. Entries will be on display with many on view through April 18.
    Fifth District Congressional Student Art Exhibit
    Saturday, April 13, 2013
    Central Library

    Please note: The start time for this event has changed. The program will now begin at 1:30 p.m.

    U.S. Rep. Emanuel Cleaver II and his wife, Dianne Cleaver, honor the area’s young artists in A Voyage of Artistic Discover, the annual Missouri 5th District Congressional Student Art Exhibit on Saturday, April 13, 2013, at 1:30 p.m. at the Central Library, 14 W. 10th St.

  • In Behind the Kitchen Door, Saru Jayaraman explores how restaurant workers live on some of the lowest wages in America and how poor working conditions - discriminatory labor practices, exploitation, and unsanitary kitchens - affect the meals that arrive at our restaurant tables.
    Behind the Kitchen Door
    Thursday, April 11, 2013
    Central Library

    How do restaurant workers live on some of the lowest wages in America? And how do poor working conditions — discriminatory labor practices, exploitation, and unsanitary kitchens — affect the meals that arrive at our restaurant tables?

    In Behind the Kitchen Door Saru Jayaraman, co-founder of a national restaurant workers organization, provides a groundbreaking exploration of the political, economic, and moral implications of eating out.