THE KANSAS CITY PUBLIC LIBRARY
EVENTS THIS WEEK
Monday, April 20 - Sunday, April 26, 2015
SIGNATURE EVENTS


Tuesday, April 21 - 6:30 p.m.
Plaza Branch, 4801 Main St.

Jam on the Vine - LaShonda Katrice Barnett
Kansas City-born LaShonda Katrice Barnett joins journalist Eric Wesson of The Call for a discussion of Barnett's much-praised debut novel - about a female journalist escaping the Jim Crow South of the early 1900s and fighting injustice in Kansas City through her African American newspaper.



Wednesday, April 22 - 6:30 p.m.
Plaza Branch, 4801 Main St.

Beyond the Gowns: Edith Kermit Roosevelt - Lewis L. Gould
Historian Lewis L. Gould discusses the subject of his book Edith Kermit Roosevelt: Creating the Modern First Lady. She ran Theodore Roosevelt's White House with a sure, sophisticated hand but left a legacy complicated by virulent racism, among other things.

FILMS


April Fools Film Series

Celebrate April Fools Day throughout the entire month of April with this selection of films featuring one or more notable fools ... from Steve Martin's Navin R. Johnson in The Jerk to Nicolas Cage's Herbert I. McDunnough in Raising Arizona. You'd be a fool to miss it.

 

Saturday, April 25 - 1:30 p.m.
Central Library, 14 W. 10th St.
Raising Arizona (1987)
Rated PG-13 (94 min.)

 

EXHIBITS


On display through September 27, 2015
Central Library, 14 W. 10th St.

Gabriella Polony Mountain:
A Life in Art
The Library's new Rocky and Gabriella Mountain Gallery was made possible by the generosity of one of Kansas City's most talented and diverse artists, Gabriella Polony Mountain. It opens with an exhibit of her sculptures, mosaics, stained glass, repouss�, and weavings.



On display through May 31, 2015
Central Library, 14 W. 10th St.

Eminent Domain
Through photographs and other materials in this new installation, Missouri artist Matt Rahner chronicles the dismantling - via eminent domain - of a four-block section of Kansas City's Wendell Phillips neighborhood to make room for a new police station and crime lab.



On display through May 31, 2015
Central Library, 14 W. 10th St.

Justice Postponed Is Justice Denied: Lucile Bluford and the Campaign for Educational Equality
Lucile Bluford - for whom the Library's L.H. Bluford Branch is named - played a key role in the eventual elimination of the country's "separate but equal" doctrine in education. This exhibit chronicles that legal struggle and a life in which she also distinguished herself as a journalist.

 NEXT WEEK
  April 27 - May 3, 2015

Tuesday, April 28 � 6:30 p.m.
Plaza Branch, 4801 Main St.
The Postwar Dream Home: The Ranch House - Mary van Balgooy
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Wednesday, April 29 � 6:30 p.m.
Central Library, 14 W. 10th St.
Powers of Two - Joshua Wolf Shenk, Robert Day
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Thursday, April 30 � 6:30 p.m.
Central Library, 14 W. 10th St.
The Economic Value of Teacher Quality - Eric Hanushek
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Saturday, May 2 � 1:30 p.m.
Central Library, 14 W. 10th St.
Film: Citizen Kane (1941; Not Rated)
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Sunday, May 3 � 2:00 p.m.
Plaza Branch, 4801 Main St.
Coterie Theatre: Dramatic Story Time - Take Me to Your BBQ
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