All Library locations will be closed Monday, May 27, for Memorial Day.
Signature Event
Tuesday, May 21, 2024
6:00pm
Online
In Person
The Kansas Historical Society’s Donna Rae Pearson talks about the 12 Black women who were plaintiffs in the landmark – and now 70-year-old – Brown vs....
Signature Event
Tuesday, May 14, 2024
6:00pm
Online
In Person
French Emperor and military commander Napoleon Bonaparte continues to fascinate, even centuries after his death. Jonathan Abel, associate professor of...
Signature Event
Thursday, May 9, 2024
6:00pm
In Person
Four contemporary artists who incorporate miniature art in narrative videos, paintings, and photographs discuss their work on view in Transformations:...
Signature Event
Thursday, April 11, 2024
6:00pm
Online
In Person
Maya Angelou Book Award winner Taylor Byas’ latest poetry collection, I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times, discovers parallels between her journey and...
Signature Event
Tuesday, March 26, 2024
6:00pm
Online
In Person
Timothy Westcott, Damon Grosvenor, and Martin Roberson of Park University’s George S. Robb Centre for the Study of the Great War discuss their researc...
Signature Event
Tuesday, March 19, 2024
6:00pm
In Person
In a special and timely town hall session, the Library, Kansas City PBS, and American Public Square examine an issue that has generated considerable l...
Signature Event
Wednesday, March 13, 2024
6:00pm
In Person
The Kansas City Repertory Theatre brings its adaptation of Nina Simone: Four Women to the Kansas City Public Library’s...
Signature Event
Tuesday, March 12, 2024
6:00pm
In Person
The Southeast Asian country of the Philippines became an American colony in 1898. Today it is a key ally in the Indo-Pacific. Geoff Babb, military his...
Signature Event
Sunday, March 10, 2024
2:00pm
In Person
Following a two-week celebration of the Chinese New Year, lyric soprano Eva Peng and pianist Anthony Olson offer a unique lecture-recital highlighting...
Signature Event
Sunday, March 3, 2024
1:30pm
In Person
The 2024 Searching the Psyche Through Cinema film series, which looks to the arts (and this year, to science fiction) to illuminate our understanding...