The Bluford Branch will close at 7 p.m. Thursday, April 18 due to staffing issues.
Signature Event
July 2, 2023
2:00pm
Online
Tapping new resources and research tools, local historian Michael Sweeney has produced the first new historical assessment in 20 year...
Signature Event
June 22, 2023
6:00pm
Online
Not far from 18th and Vine streets, some of the most notable chapters in Kansas City’s Black history sprang from a single city block on Montgall Avenu...
Signature Event
June 21, 2023
6:00pm
In Person
As the 2023 Art in the Loop Project begins its nearly six-month run in downtown Kansas City, meet its lineup of artists and performer...
Signature Event
June 18, 2023
2:00pm
In Person
The Library and Kansas City PBS offer a screening and discussion of the 30-minute film AIDS in KC: Facing the Challenge 1...
Signature Event
June 11, 2023
2:00pm
In Person
There remains an aura around the Kansas City Monarchs, one of the most famous and successful teams in baseball’s Negro Leagues. Drawing from his book...
Signature Event
June 9, 2023
8:45pm
In Person
Welcome to a cat-tastic start to this summer’s Off the Wall series of rooftop film screenings, featuring cats in non-starring but invariably scene-che...
Signature Event
June 8, 2023
6:00pm
Online
Valerie Lemmie, director of exploratory research for the Kettering Foundation in Dayton, Ohio, discusses today’s national and local t...
Signature Event
June 6, 2023
6:00pm
Online
Military historian and Civil War authority Angela M. Riotto looks back on the pivotal Union victory at Vicksburg in 1863 – finally ac...
Signature Event
June 3, 2023
6:00pm
In Person
Philadelphia artist Amy Cousins and Kansas City educator and printmaker Ruben Castillo talk to the Library's...
Signature Event
May 23, 2023
6:00pm
In Person
Barbara Brackman – quilter, quilting historian, and author – examines quilt making in Missouri with a Kentucky connection and 19th-ce...