Events

In partnership with Harvesters: The Community Food Network, the Kansas City Public Library announces its annual Food for Fines Week from October 22-28, 2012.

Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) didn’t just design a house. He saw each building as a fully integrated whole and painstakingly designed stained glass windows, furniture, carpeting, and even lighting fixtures to reflect his concept. This exhibit employs high-quality reproductions of Wright’s drawings of interiors, furnishings, and household objects.

Funded by a grant from Richard J. Stern Foundation for the Arts.

Open through the 2012 World Series

Celebrate Kansas City’s All-Star summer with this new exhibit exploring our local baseball heritage.

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.

Navigate the Internet with Internet Explorer, learn how to do online searches and more in this 50-minute class. Registration is required. Call 701-3488 to register.

Learn how to navigate the internet with Internet Explorer. Learn how to do basic searches.

Registration is required. Please call 816-701-3483 to register.

This class on the fundamentals of Microsoft Word focuses on templates as well as the various menu options.

Discover intrigue, misinformation and drama while you act out the characters of an ever changing murder mystery. Randomly draw the werewolf, villager, seer or the hunter and destroy/or save the village.

The Hobbit Book club is here! Spend a little time and talk about the Tolkien universe its characters and the great story behind the upcoming movie.

The Kansas City Public Library, in partnership with Truman Medical Centers, will host two health and wellness fairs over the next two months. All will take place on Saturdays from Noon – 2 p.m.

On October 27, 2012, the Irene H. Ruiz Branch, 2017 W. Pennway, hosts free cholesterol screenings as well as vision screenings courtesy of the Lion’s Club.

This bi-weekly class at Sugar Creek offers many options for all levels of quilters. Bring a project, start a project, or come to learn something new. Class is every other Saturday at the Sugar Creek Branch Library. Call Nancy at 816-252-3344 for more information.

With the 2012 presidential election just around the corner, October is a good time to get in the mood with some movies about politics.