The Plaza Branch will be closed until Monday, June 3, due to a water main break.
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
Sunday, September 19, 2021
4:00pm
The Kansas City Symphony offers a free outdoor chamber concert at the Library, with a woodwind quintet – flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, and horn – pe...
Signature Event
Saturday, July 14, 2018
10:30am
The Library and The Kansas City Star focus the latest installment of their Java with Journalist series on the Troost Avenue...
Signature Event
Sunday, May 20, 2018
2:00pm
Thomas Fox Averill discusses his most recent novel – Found Documents from the Life of Nell Johnson Doerr –t...
Signature Event
Saturday, April 28, 2018
10:30am
The Library kicks off a new series with The Kansas City Star to discuss the news and issues that matter to Kansas Citians. I...
Signature Event
Thursday, September 14, 2017
3:30pm
Harvard University’s Danielle Allen visits the L.H. Bluford Branch for a special afternoon discussion of her new book, CU...
Signature Event
Signature Event
Saturday, July 1, 2017
11:00am
It’s Lucile Bluford’s day. Officially. Bluford, for whom the Library's L.H. Bluford Branch...
Signature Event
Wednesday, January 11, 2017
6:30pm
The most eventful year of Danny Clinkscale’s life took the veteran Kansas City sportscaster along on an exhilarating ride, highlighte...
Signature Event
Saturday, March 12, 2016
2:00pm
The Westport Historical Society Speaker Series seeks to promote and foster public interest in and preserve the significance of local history. Join us...