Family Storytime in the Garden

Loose Park Rose Garden Pennsylvania Avenue, Kansas City, MO, United States

Kansas City Rose Society, Lead to Read KC, and KC Parks are hosting Nikiyah Crosdale, one of our Reading For Life authors, at the Garden Center at Loose Park for a reading of her book The Thought Jar.

Marlborough Fall Festival

Center Elementary School Euclid Avenue, Kansas City, MO, United States

The Marlborough Fall Festival + Health & Wellness Fair is September 14, 2024! It is an all-ages celebration.

Peter Pan Pre-Show Engagement

Starlight Theater Starlight Road, Kansas City, Missouri, United States

If you have tickets to see Peter Pan at Starlight, be sure to come early and visit with Lead to Read KC prior to the performance.

Lead to Read KC Trivia Night

Parlor 1707 Locust Street, Kansas City, MO, United States

Tickets are SOLD OUT but sponsorships are available.

$75

CommUNITY Fest Day 2

North Kansas City YMCA Iron Street, North Kansas City, MO, United States

Lead to Read will be at CommUNITY Fest (a reimagined Day of Caring) with literacy games and information on how you can volunteer in our Reading & Mentoring program.

Casual Animal Non-Profit Festival

Casual Animal Brewing Co. McGee Street, Kansas City, MO, United States

Come enjoy Lead to Read KC literacy games at Casual Animal Brewing Company's Local Motive Showcase, their first-annual non-profit festival featuring 20+ local organizations. Local Motive is Casual Animal’s “give-back tap” program where $2 of every pint sold off the Local Motive tap goes directly to a designated non-profits.

Pendleton Heights Orchard Fest

Independence Plaza Park Independence Avenue, Kansas City, Missouri, United States

Orchard Fest springs up in Independence Plaza Park this year. Lead to Read KC will be there with books and literacy games.

Blue Hills Block Party

Blue Hills Park Kansas City, Missouri, United States

Lead to Read KC will be there with free books, resources, and literacy games.

Lit on Grand

Afterword Tavern & Shelves Grand Boulevard, Kansas City, MO, United States

Come see Lead to Read KC at Afterword Tavern & Shelves LIT ON GRAND, a free-to-attend celebration of books, booze and other good things at the corner of 19th and Grand Blvd in KC’s Crossroads neighborhood. The third annual LIT ON GRAND features 35+ Kansas City writers, poets, booksellers, artists, food vendors and fellow small […]