Clubs & Activities
Tech Time
Do you have something on your computer or phone that you can't figure out? The Sugar Creek branch offers tech help every Saturday from 2-3 pm. Bring your laptops, smart phones, or anything you want to learn more about, and our associates can help you.
Teen Tabletop Games
Stop by the Bluford Library every Saturday for a variety of board games, card games, and strategy and adventure games. Look through our board game collection, and suggest new games for us to get! Staff will be on hand to help you learn the rules and organize matches.
The Life and Times of Barbara Jordan
Barbara Jordan stirred a nation with her forceful, articulate denunciation of Richard Nixon’s Watergate abuses during televised impeachment hearings in 1974. “I am not going to sit here,” the Texas representative intoned, “and be an idle spectator to the diminution, the subversion, the destruction of the Constitution."
Commemorating Black History Month, Kansas City theatre veteran Jacqee Gafford portrays the African American women’s political pioneer in a staged reading performance of The Life and Times of Barbara Jordan. Another local theatre fixture, Frances Farah, directs.
Born into poverty in Houston on February 21, 1936, Jordan rose to be become the first African American woman to serve in the Texas state senate and then the first from the South to be elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. She was renowned for her oratorical eloquence, with her speech at the 1976 Democratic National Convention in New York considered one of the best keynote addresses in modern history.
Jordan served three terms in the House before retiring in 1979 to teach political ethics at the University of Texas. She was accorded the highest honor for a U.S. civilian, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, in 1993, and died three years later at age 59.
Gafford is artistic director of Kansas City’s InPlay Theatre Company, for which she has worked as an actor, director, playwright, and administrator. Farah is the founder of the New Directions Theatre company.
KC BizCare Office Hours
Meet with staff of the City of Kansas City’s Business Customer Service Center to
• Learn about the process of starting a business in Kansas City
• Get answers to your questions about doing business in the Prospect Corridor
No appointment needed! For more information call KC BizCare at 816-513-2492.
TeenCafe
TeenCafe provides free, nutritious meals for any child ages 1 to 18 at after-school at the Southeast Kansas City Public Library.
TeenCafe
Enjoy a free healthy snack at the library. Snacks are reserved for youth ages 18 and under.
TeenGaming
Teens! Join us every Monday afternoon for video games on the Xbox One with , Madden, NBA 2K, available to play and the Xbox 360 for some old school games.
Kids Cafe
Enjoy a free healthy snack at the library. Snacks are reserved for youth ages 18 and under.
Kids Cafe
Stop in at the North-East Public Library for a healthy after-school snack and fun activity, craft, or game. In partnership with Harvesters, Kids Cafe will be every Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday 4:00-5:00.
You must be ages 4-18 to receive a meal and the meal must be eaten in the kids cafe room.
Selfies with Sacajawea: The Corps of Re-Discovery on the Lewis and Clark Trail
More than 200 years after explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark led their historic 29-month expedition across the untamed American West, Nebraska videographer Nelson Petersen and a couple of friends decided to trace their footsteps – in 14 days, roughing it in a high-mileage Pontiac Vibe with questionable brakes.
Petersen, an inveterate history geek, recounts their experiences in a humor-laced discussion of his book Selfies With Sacajawea: The Corps of Re-Discovery on the Lewis and Clark Trail. These modern-day adventurers were hardly rugged. Their journey from St. Louis to the Pacific Ocean was occasionally clumsy. But they were able to take stock along the way of what has and hasn’t changed over the past couple of centuries, and they emerged with a greater understanding of the overwhelming accomplishments of Lewis and Clark’s more challenging trek from 1804-1806.
