Plaza branch will open late at 1 p.m. Saturday, May 4.
Signature Event
February 16, 2017
6:30pm
America in the 1950s was undergoing what the University of Missouri’s Steven Watts calls a “crisis of manhood,” denigrating Eisenhowe...
Signature Event
February 16, 2017
6:30pm
Marvel Comics’ headline-grabbing move to a female Thor a little more th...
Signature Event
February 15, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
Even before her acclaimed debut novel, Brit Bennett had drawn attention for her forceful essays about racial injustice, police violen...
Signature Event
February 12, 2017
2:00pm
African-Americans have served proudly in every great American war, including the Civil War, where their verve and valor led to the establishment of al...
Signature Event
February 12, 2017
1:30pm
This annual series returns in January and February with psychological studies of films directed by Joel and Ethan Coen, whose visiona...
Signature Event
February 11, 2017
2:00pm
The Library screens a series of romantic shorts and clips as it resumes a special new, intergenerational movie series welcoming individuals with...
Signature Event
February 9, 2017
6:30pm
The vitality of Kansas City’s arts community today traces back, in part, to David Hughes’ founding of the Charlotte Street Foundation...
Signature Event
February 8, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
They were unlikely heroes at a time – amid the nation’s Great Depression and added regional scourges of the Dust Bowl – when hope and inspiration was...
Signature Event
February 7, 2017
6:30pm
Nearly 4½ decades after arriving at the Kansas City Art Institute from his native South Wales, Warren Rosser stands as one of the city’s creative mast...
Signature Event
February 5, 2017
2:00pm
Coterie Theatre artists read from Samantha Berger’s story of an ordinary boy who transforms into a grumbling Crankenstein on what he...