All Events & Activities: anytime, any location, all ages

Looking for the perfect card to complete your deck? Stop by the plaza library and trade then stay to put your best deck to the test!

Trying to get your child more excited about reading? Friday Night Family Fun might be able to help.

Curtis Hed uses humor, magic, juggling, and audience participation to share the importance of reading and the ways libraries have played an important part in his life.

Appropriate for all ages.

Part of the 2013 Off-the-Wall Film Series featuring comedies starring Kansas City native Paul Rudd. Rudd is the bearded, laid-back title character of this comedy about a good-natured slacker who survives mostly through the charity of his doting/exasperated sisters (Elizabeth Banks, Emily Mortimer, Zooey Deschanel). This title is recommended for adult audiences only.

Navigate the Internet with Internet Explorer, learn how to do online searches and more in this free class which lasts approximately one hour. Registration is required. Call 701-3488 to register.

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

Watch movies, play games, talk about books, manga video games and help plan library events while having lots of fun.

An aging British barrister (Charles Laughton) defends a playboy (Tyrone Power) from a murder charge, and gets unexpected help from the prosecution’s prize witness (Marlene Dietrich). Billy Wilder directs and adapts Agatha Christie’s hit stage play. Not Rated. 116 minutes

In honor of its new event series on the Supreme Court and former Justice Sandra Day O’Connor's appearance, the Kansas City Public Library is offering Order in the Court!, a series of courtroom movies. The films screen on Saturdays at 1:30 p.m. throughout June 2013.

Music from India. American gospel. The traditional Chinese Lion Dance. These are some of the ways in which different faiths and cultures manifest their deepest-held beliefs and customs through the arts.

Midsummer’s Light offers an afternoon of music, dance, and storytelling designed to build an awareness of various faith traditions and their commonalities, and to provide a colorful, dynamic, and moving experience.

Movie Series: Based on the Book by the Same Name
The Fantastic Mr. Fox

Games, games and more games! Grab some friends and challenge them to some after-school gaming fun on our XBOX 360 and Wii Systems. We provide some games, but feel free to bring yours to get a battle going with your friends.