Programs

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Recent Programs Blog Posts

Songs of the Seasons

Songs of the Season

Starting December 1, enjoy the sounds of school choirs, instrumental groups and local talent filling the library’s rotunda. Stop by during your lunch hour for a musical treat as the holiday season approaches. Go to www.tscpl.org for the most up-to-date complete schedule.

East Toward Home by Helen Alley-Taylor

Sunday Afternoon with Kansas Author Helen Alley-Taylor

Join Kansas Author Helen Alley-Taylor as she talks about her fictional memoir East Toward Home on Sunday, November 13, 2011, 2:00-3:00pm in the Topeka Room (204). This fictional account of the lives of Eddy & Jessie who lived in Melvern, KS looks back over their relationship beginning during the great depression and lasting for almost [...]

Veterans Day at the library November 9

Library’s Salute to our Veterans through Music and Art

Take a journey back to the days of World War II through music from that era during Honoring Our Veterans through Song, a 1940s radio-style show on Nov. 9 at 3:30pm in The Edge. Live music will be interspersed between oral history reports including one on the Pearl Harbor bombing, which happened 70 years ago. [...]

Come to Silents in the Cathedral, a night of Silent Film, October 28

Silents in the Cathedral, a Scary Fun Night of Silent Film

Come to the Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library’s 14th annual Silents in the Cathedral Friday, Oct. 28 at 7pm. This year we feature The Magician, a screenplay adapted from a novel by W. Somerset Maugham. Funny and thrilling, The Magician follows a beautiful female spellbound by a magician seeking artificial life and the doctor who [...]

Nancy Pearl to visit library November 3

Librarian of the Year Nancy Pearl To Give Talk Nov. 3

The only librarian with her own action figure, Nancy Pearl will dazzle the audience with her insight about literature and her love of books and libraries. Bibliophiles will not want to miss Nancy Pearl Nov. 3.

Kansas in Film with Tom Averil

Kansas & Kansans in Film

Sunday, October 30 – 2:00-4:00 pm, Marvin Auditorium 101BC
Join Tom Averill, author and Kansas scholar to learn about Kansas in film.

Islam in the Heartland

Sunday Afternoon with Kansas Author Imam Omar Hazim

Islam in the Heartland of America by Imam Omar Hazim offers readers curious about the world’s fastest growing religion a close-up look at how Islam is taught and experienced in a mosque in Topeka, Kansas, America’s heartland. He will speak as part of the library’s Sunday Afternoon with Kansas Authors Series on Sunday, October 23 [...]

Steven Elisha performs Oct. 9 at 3pm at the library

Cellist Steven Elisha’s Solo Performance Slated for Oct.9

Cello Virtuoso Steven Elisha will delight audience members this Sunday with the sounds of Sabastian Bach and Zoltan Kodaly – and an Elisha original composed for the Kansas Sesquicentennial. Hear Elisha’s beautiful cello music starting at 3pm.

Beth Cooper talks about Ghosts of Kansas Oct. 12

Ghosts of Kansas with Beth Cooper

Find out about the Ghosts of Kansas in Beth Cooper’s book and this talk about ghosts and paranormal events in Kansas.  Do you think your house is haunted?  Learn about ways to research and document your experiences.  The book tells the stories of Ghosts in Atchison, Holton, Kansas City, Lawrence, Leavenworth, Manhattan, Shawnee, and Topeka. [...]

Ad for podcamp topeka a social media conference on oct. 22 at the library

Sign up for Podcamp Topeka, a Techie Unconference, Oct. 22

On October 22, social media movers and shakers, bloggers, podcasters, marketers and others will convene on the Topeka and Shawnee County Public Library for a day of networking and information sharing – and some fun and food too. Sign up at podcamptopeka.org. The conference is a value at just $10, and that covers breakfast and [...]