Previous Special Events

The Kansas City Public Library welcomes author Keith Gandal for a discussion of his new book The Gun and the Pen: Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner and the Fiction of Mobilization on Wednesday, December 10, at 6:30 p.m. at the Central Library, 14 W. 10th St.

Award-winning editorial cartoonist Lee Judge reflects on his 27 years at The Kansas City Star and shares some of his favorite unpublished cartoons – including many from the 2008 election – on Tuesday, December 9, at 6:30 p.m. at the Central Library, 14 W. 10th St.

The Kansas City Brass – a six-member ensemble comprised of Kansas City Symphony performers – offers a selection of holiday favorites from the sacred to the secular on Monday, December 8, at 7 p.m. in the Truman Forum at the Plaza Branch, 4801 Main St.

In the third season of the Script-in-Hand series of stage performances, the Kansas City Public Library and Metropolitan Ensemble Theatre present Law & Literature, a collection of the most memorable legal dramas ever written.

The drama Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee is scheduled for Sunday, December 7, at 2 p.m. at the Plaza Branch, 4801 Main St.

Renowned musician Alex Shum leads his group, the Brookside String Quartet, in a performance of classic holiday songs on Saturday, December 6, at 2 p.m. at the Central Library, 14 W. 10th St.

The Friends of the Library will hold their November Book Sale on Saturday, December 6 , from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. at the Plaza Branch.

Over 9,000 items will be available for sale, including books, DVDs, audiobooks, CDs and records. Most items are priced between $.50 and $3.00.

The Kansas City Public Library hosts a day-long bioethics symposium called Controversial Bodies: How to View Plastinated Corpses on Friday, December 5, starting at 9 a.m. at the Central Library, 14 W. 10th St.

Michael Knight and Allen Wier join moderator Steve Paul of The Kansas City Star for the December talk in the Library’s Writers at Work series on Thursday, December 4, at 7 p.m. at the Central Library, 14 W. 10th St.

Vicki Myron discusses her best-selling book, Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World, on Wednesday, December 3, at 6:30 p.m. at the Plaza Branch, 4801 Main St.

The Kansas City Guitar Society presents Beau Bledsoe and Victoria Botero as part of its regular Casual Concert Series on Sunday, November 23, at 2 p.m. at the Central Library, 14 W. 10th St.