Events

During the Civil War Missouri was a state divided, suffering from a fractured identity and caught up in a struggle of no quarter between its battling factions. That violent period of near-anarchy is examined in the traveling exhibit A State Divided: The Civil War in Missouri, a joint effort of the Missouri Humanities Council and the Missouri History Museum.

This colorful and informative exhibit follows the “bushwhackers” and “Jayhawkers” whose bitter enmity continues to color the relations between Missourians and Kansans.

Fred Geary (1894-1955) attended the Kansas City Art Institute and worked as a commercial artist for the Fred Harvey Company in Union Station. Geary became caught up in the wood engraving movement that became popular in the U.S. in the 1930s and in his spare time produced exquisite depictions of small-town life and Missouri landscapes and landmarks.

Easily and cheaply reproduced, woodcuts put art into the hands of working-class Americans.

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 from June 11, 2011 through 2013 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.

Bring your dancing shoes for two energetic concerts celebrating Dino O’Dell’s third CD release, Outerspace.

Join O'Dell at Central at 10 a.m. and then at the Plaza Branch for another performance during Friday Night Family Fun at 6:30 p.m.

Songs include a country barn-burner about counting pancakes, a frenetic and satiric commercial for “Sugar Breakfast Cereal,” a hip-hop contribution by Dino’s space alien pal Zar, and a reggae song about traveling around the globe.

Preschool age kids (3-5) will enjoy stories, songs, and art in this storytime.

Need to write a letter or a report? Learn the basics of this powerful word processing program. Call 701-3449 to register.

Join your friends for online gaming in this after-hours event. Permission slip must be signed by a parent or guardian prior to the event starting. Reservations necessary due to limited space. Call Julie at 701-3487 for more information.

Bring your Yu-Gi-Oh! and Magic the Gathering decks and challenge our champion deck builders. We play and trade cards every Friday night in the teen area.

Bring your dancing shoes for two energetic concerts celebrating Dino O’Dell’s third CD release, Outerspace.

Join O'Dell at Central at 10 a.m. and then at the Plaza Branch for another performance during Friday Night Family Fun at 6:30 p.m.

Songs include a country barn-burner about counting pancakes, a frenetic and satiric commercial for “Sugar Breakfast Cereal,” a hip-hop contribution by Dino’s space alien pal Zar, and a reggae song about traveling around the globe.

City Market watering hole Harry’s Country Club has joined forces with the Library to bring rock ‘n’ roll movies to the summer Off-the-Wall film series. Entitled Procreation, Pharmaceuticals, and Backbeat-Driven/Blues-Based Music (think about it), this series dishes comedy, a dash of drama, and a whole lot of toe-tapping, head-bobbing (if not head-banging) music.