Walnut Creek Library Foundation

Live! from the Library is the Foundation’s free speaker series featuring leading local and national personalities from the media and the political, economic, literary and artistic arenas. KQED Host Michael Krasny is the inaugural  Live! from the Library speaker at the new Walnut Creek Library. Krasny’s second  book, “Spiritual Envy, An Agnostic’s Quest,” that will be [...]

2010 Student Poetry Contest – The Foundation received over 380 poems from 22 schools for our second annual Student Poetry Contest! The first, second and third pace winners read their poems at the celebration for students at the Lindsay Museum. We were thrilled with this year’s entries and you can enjoy them in this year’s program that you can [...]

Candor and Pearls: An Evening of Social Satire from the Comic Pages Fans of the comics pages were entertained by Stephan Pastis, “Pearls Before Swine,” and Darrin Bell, “Candorville,” nationally syndicated cartoonists who discussed their work and inspiration with Lisa Wrenn, Features Editor for the Contra Costa Times, at the Shadelands Art Center in Walnut [...]