Events & activities

To find Events and Activities at the Kansas City Public Library:

  • Use the main menu under Events & Activities (above)
  • Select a date on the calendar (left)
  • Select your preferences in the "Check out Library events" dropdown menus (left).
  • Scroll down to see Special Events below.

Special Events

  • Friday, March 19, 2010
    Adam Miller performs his singing through history program of traditional and contemporary folk songs.
  • Sunday, March 21, 2010
    A free monthly series of probing films, followed by discussions featuring cinema and psychoanalysis experts for an examination of how celluloid gets under our skin – and into our psyche.
  • Sunday, March 21, 2010
    Through archival photographs and memorabilia, Joe and Michele Boeckholt trace the many fashions of Harzfeld’s, an early ready-to-wear clothier located on historic Petticoat Lane.
  • Tuesday, March 23, 2010
    Author Roy Morris explains how the frontier exploits of a young Samuel Clemens led to his eventual emergence as Mark Twain.
  • Wednesday, March 24, 2010
    Fiction writer and UMKC Cockefair Chair Writer-in-Residence Margot Livesey discusses her work in a conversation with Angela Elam of KCUR 89.3 FM’s New Letters on the Air.
  • Thursday, March 25, 2010
    Cartoonist Leigh Rubin discusses his new book The Wild and Twisted World of Rubes, a collection of his best cartoons.
  • Friday, March 26, 2010
    Gary Negbaur returns with Max’s Family Band to perform his unique brand of children’s music.
  • Sunday, March 28, 2010
    DEBATE Kansas City convenes a debate among candidates, judged by students.
  • Monday, March 29, 2010
    Longtime New Yorker contributor, John McPhee, discusses his new essay collection, Silk Parachute as well as his career as author, editor, and writing instructor.
  • Tuesday, March 30, 2010
    Bill Braniff, an instructor at the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point, discusses the environment in which terrorist organizations operate.

Exhibits at the Library

Bound for Glory: America in Color

Garry Noland with Cory Imig: Pitty Patt(rn)

Shooting Stars: The Celebrity Photography of Orval Hixon

Keys to the City: The Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps of Kansas City, Missouri, 1895-1957

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