Events

The Kansas City Public Library began distributing new, redesigned Library cards modeled after the welcome sign outside the Library’s Plaza Branch on Thursday, January 12, 2012.

The previous design had been in use since 2004, and Kansas City Public Library Director of Branch and Outreach Services Joel Jones said it was time to give them a new look for both practical and aesthetic reasons.

A new exhibit based on the Kansas City Star Magazine series and book by Steve Paul. It features 22-by-28-inch reproductions of pages from the book, which celebrates Kansas City’s architectural scene one letter at a time.

This exhibit is on display in the Fifth Floor Exhibit Space.

The newest exhibition of the Orval Hixon Gallery, New Compositions: The Dance Portraiture of Orval Hixon, is on display June 11, 2011 – Winter 2012 at the Central Library, 14 W. 10th St. The exhibit features a rich selection of Hixon’s portraits, including images of some of the best-known dancers of his time.

To most local landscape architects, Hare & Hare is a household name. The firm has left an indelible mark on some of the most iconic and often-visited areas of Kansas City—the Country Club Plaza, the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Loose Park, Ward Parkway, and Mission Hills among them.

Come and play Wii video games,PlayStation 2,board games and now Xbox 360 is part of the fun. Bring your own games and share the joy of playing with all your friends.

Join us for our monthly book club meeting and bring any book that you have read recently! We have free snacks, and copies of the current month’s book are available at the desk.

Prepare for the GED test. This class requires registration, please call (816)418-7150

Angela Elam, host of the New Letters on the Air radio program, conducts a public conversation with novelist and short story writer Jim Shepard as part of the 2012 Writers at Work series.

Shepard has written six novels and four collections of stories including Like You’d Understand, Anyway, which won the Story Prize and was nominated for a National Book Award. He teaches at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts.

Everyone is familiar with Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. But of course he wrote numerous masterpieces, many of which have become feature films. To celebrate the 200th anniversary of the writer’s birth, the Kansas City Public Library in February is offering four of these celluloid adaptations.