All Library locations will be closed Monday, May 27, for Memorial Day.
Signature Event
Thursday, October 5, 2023
6:00pm
Writers for Readers, one of Kansas City's premier literary events, returns with an exciting lineup featuring celebrated author Lan Samantha Chang in c...
Signature Event
Wednesday, November 16, 2022
6:00pm
In Person
Writers for Readers returns with a special lineup featuring celebrated author Alexander Chee and the announcement of...
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
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
Signature Event
Sunday, February 7, 2016
2:00pm
Join Bernard Norcott-Mahany and friends for an afternoon of stories and songs featuring William Shakespeare and his plays. Recognized...
Signature Event
Saturday, May 9, 2015
10:30am
As a six-year-old child, local artist and gardener Dean Bracy observed what seemed like hundreds of monarch butterflies feeding on a butterfly bush an...
Signature Event
Sunday, February 22, 2015
2:00pm
Join Bernard Norcott-Mahany and friends in an afternoon of stories and songs about “love gone wrong,” part of the Library’s A...
Signature Event
Sunday, August 10, 2014
2:00pm
Best-selling mystery and horror author J.A. Jance introduced Joanna Brady to readers in Desert Heat in 1993. Her fictional A...
Signature Event
Sunday, February 23, 2014
2:00pm
Join Bernard Norcott-Mahany as he recounts “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” (the movie Mitty is not the real Mitty)...