One City, One Book
09. May, 2013 
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One City, One Book: Walnut Creek Reads is a “citywide book club” that encourages the community to read the selection and participate in a series of events that celebrate the book. The annual choice is typically announced in May-June and the community events are planned in the fall giving the community the summer months to read and enjoy the book.
Now in its seventh year, One City, One Book:Walnut Creek Reads is presented by the Walnut Creek Library Foundation and Contra Costa County Library. Please sign up for our e news below to receive program information.
2013 One City One Book: Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury’s classic dystopian novel about censorship and the burning of books, will be this year’s selection. Published in 1953 this novel is timely in 2013 as communities continue to debate the value of literacy and freedom of thought.
The One City One Book programs will begin the week of September 23 which is also “Banned Books Week!” Join us for discussions about Fahrenheit 451 and check back soon for the calendar of related programs at the Walnut Creek libraries.
Copies of the book will be available for checkout at both Walnut Creek and Ygnacio Valley libraries, Rossmoor Library, or local bookstores starting mid-June.
Author Kevin Smokler: Reading – Why Bother?
Monday, September 23
7:00 pm, Oak View Room, Walnut Creek Library
Ray Bradbury wrote Fahrenheit 451 in 1953 at the UCLA Library in the typewriter room. Smokler will look at what to take from the book 60 years later and will be advocating that what Bradbury’s seminal book teaches us is not how to run away from technology, but how to live with the uncertainty it creates and use it intelligently.
Smokler is author of Practical Classics: 50 Reasons to Reread 50 Books You Haven’t Touched Since High School, and the editor of the anthology, Bookmark Now: Writing in Unreaderly Times (Basic Books, June 2005), which was a San Francisco Chronicle notable book of 2005.
Reserve your seat for this free event beginning August 5.
A Metaphor of Book Burning
Wednesday, October 2
7:00 pm, Oak View Room, Walnut Creek Library
Talk and book discussion with Dr. Robert Gorsch, Bradbury scholar and Professor of English at St. Mary’s College of California.
Create a Graphic Novel
Thursday, October 10
6:30 – 8:30 pm, Oak View Room, Walnut Creek Library
Critically-acclaimed writer and artist Oliver Chin will present this hands-on workshop. Chin graduated magna cum laude from Harvard in 1991, he is a media professional and public speaker. Age 18 and up.
“fREADom ~Celebrate the Freedom to Read”
Teen Photography Contest
Dates to be announced: age 13 to 18
Registration required for all programs. You can reserve online beginning August 5.
Click HERE to learn about One City One Book programs at other Contra Costa County libraries.
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Thank you to our 2013 sponsors.
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