NHFPL Partners with Arts and Ideas to Celebrate Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Take a closer look at the powerful themes of this year’s citywide Big Read. Explore the topics of cultural identity, migration, and family with our micro branches and events.
NHFPL Partners with Arts and Ideas and the NEA Big Read to Celebrate The Best We Could Do by Thi Bui
Take a closer look at the powerful themes of this year’s citywide National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Big Read. Explore the topics of cultural identity, migration, and family with our micro branches and events.
NHFPL Partners with Arts and Ideas and the NEA Big Read to Celebrate Sitting Pretty by Rebekah Taussig
Take a closer look at the powerful themes of this year’s citywide NEA Big Read. Explore the topic of disability in its many forms with our micro branches and events. Rebekah Taussig is a Kansas City writer who earned a PhD in Creative Nonfiction and Disability Studies from the University of Kansas. She writes personal … Continued
NHFPL Partners with Arts and Ideas to explore Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower
Take a deeper dive into the timely themes of the the citywide One City. One Read selection. Explore topics such as climate change, poverty, Afrofuturism, and more with our micro branches and events. Today, Parable of the Sower is heralded as one of the first major works of climate fiction. It was the winner of … Continued
Dive deeper into the NEA Big Read and Arts and Ideas this summer
Explore the themes of the NEA Big Read, An American Sunrise by Joy Harjo, and this year’s International Festival of Arts and Ideas with our micro branches! The poems in An American Sunrise were written by Joy Harjo after returning to her family’s lands where in the early 1800s the Mvskoke people were forcibly removed … Continued
NHFPL partners with Arts and Ideas Festival and NEA Big Read to celebrate the first indigenous poet laureate Joy Harjo
Don’t miss the Big Read this May 20! Join us as we celebrate US Poet Laureate Joy Harjo’s An American Sunrise, the Festival’s choice as the 2021 NEA Big Read. Harjo’s poems sing of beauty and survival, illuminating a spirituality that connects her to her ancestors and thrums with the quiet anger of living amid the … Continued