Non Profit & Fund Raisers

Wayside Waifs Strutt with your Mutt

    Strutt With Your Mutt Sunday, September 18, 2016 Strutt With Your Mutt is Kansas City's largest pet friendly 3K walk and 5K run, and Wayside's signature fall fundraiser.  Woofs and purrs to those who participated in the the… more

KC White & Black Party – Fundraiser for Bags of Fun

6th annual KC White Party to benefit Bags of Fun Kansas City- Fundraiser to help underwrite cost of bags given to children with life threatening illness during hospital stays. Friday September 23, 2016 Don't miss this exciting evening filled with… more

Developing Power – Irene Tinker

Irene Tinker helped compile and edit Developing Power: How Women Transformed International Development, a collection of stories of 27 women from a dozen countries who have contributed to the global women’s movement. But she might have merited her own chapter in the… more

Author Presentation: Julee Jonez

Join us at the Westport Branch Library for a presentation from local author and radio personality Julee Jonez. Along with Purpose Publishing's Michelle Gines, Jonez will share her experiences and processes with the self-publishing industry. Journeying from self-editing classes and… more

For Further, Discussion: Confronting Extremist Violence, the Refugee Crisis, and Fear

Amid humanitarian crises in Syria and Iraq and debate in the U.S. about how to address them, a panel of Kansas City-area faith leaders sat down in May to discuss religious teachings and traditions and whether they could – or… more

The Apache Wars: Paul Andrew Hutton

America’s longest war began with an Apache raid and kidnapping of an Arizona rancher’s 12-year-old stepson in 1861. It would last more than a quarter of a century, the government waging a campaign to confine the various Apache bands to… more

An Evening with Artist Siah Armajani

Iranian-born Siah Armajani is a leading figure in conceptualizing the role and function of public art, including its incorporation in bridges. His mixed-media work Kansas City No. 1 was donated to Kansas City’s Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art two years ago, and is the… more

Off-the-Wall Film Series: West

Shakespearean drama dances across the streets and rooftops of New York in West Side Story (NR, 152 min., 1961). This classic musical reimagining of Romeo & Juliet substitutes a gangland feud between the Jets and Sharks gangs for the royal rumble Montagues and Capulets.… more

Friends of the Kansas City Public Library City Market Summer Book Sale

Looking for some good reads, new music, or a movie or two to enjoy this summer and fall? On the first Saturday of the month from August through October, in the atrium north of Steamboat Arabia at the City Market, the Friends of the… more

Kansas City: A Food Biography – Andrea Broomfield

While some cities owe their existence to lumber, oil, or steel, Kansas City is arguably – or perhaps not so arguably – built on food. From its earliest days as a provisioner for pioneers and traders headed west, KC evolved… more