Events

The Missouri Valley Special Collections Department of the Kansas City Public Library presents the new, original exhibit Keys to the City: The Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps of Kansas City, Missouri, 1895-1957, opening Friday, September 4, at the Central Library, 14 W. 10th St.

Nosotras: Portraits of Latinas, a collection of 50 photographs documenting the lives and culture of Latina immigrants in the United States, is on display.

Nosotras, Spanish for the feminine "us" or "we," was organized by Virginia Dodier, a photography historian and a Mexican-American born on the border and raised in the American West. She, like many other Hispanic women and girls, has experienced the feeling of living in two worlds.

The Searching the Psyche through Cinema series returns with Billy Elliot, a film about the son of a British coal miner who is intent on studying ballet and eventually pursues a prestigious scholarship – despite class resistance and general antagonism.

UMKC film professor Tom Poe and psychoanalyst Marilyn N. Metzel will lead a post-film discussion and Q&A with Jeffrey Bentley, executive director of the Kansas City Ballet. Co-sponsored by the Greater Kansas City and Topeka Psychoanalytic Center and UMKC.

Join us for our weekly family movie on Sunday afternoon.