Live! From the Library

2025-2026 Season

All Live! From the Library programs take place at 7 pm in the Oak View Room at the Walnut Creek Library unless otherwise stated.

Registration opens about a month in advance.

Our 2025 – 2026 Live! From the Library season has begun!

Here’s what’s next:

  • Author Kevin Fagan – January 20, 2026 – NEW DATE! Award-winning journalist Kevin Fagan – episodically homelessness in his youth – spent decades covering homelessness for the San Francisco Chronicle. His book The Lost and the Found, hailed by the New York Times as “riveting, deeply compassionate,” dives deeply into the real lives of people living on the streets, shining a spotlight on the moral side of this American crisis and giving voice to its victims. In conversation with former Contra Costa Times editor Lisa Wrenn, Kevin celebrates the paperback release of his critically acclaimed book and provides a close up view of what it’s really like to be unhoused.

  • Free Screening - February 5, 2026 - Join the Walnut Creek Library Foundation for a free community screening of The Librarians—a powerful documentary exploring the vital role libraries and librarians play in protecting access to information and ideas. Following the film, stay for a special Q&A with a librarian featured in the movie, who is on the front lines of defending First Amendment rights and intellectual freedom. This event is a timely opportunity to learn, engage, and celebrate the importance of libraries in a democratic society.

    Coming Soon

  • The Kids are Alright – November 2025 (POSTPONED due to Election Day)

  • Author Kevin Smokler – February 17, 2026 – NEW DATE!

  • Eugene O’Neill Foundation – March 10, 2026

    Check back here for more updates!

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Live! From the Library, presented by the Walnut Creek Library Foundation, features free public lectures, literary events, and cultural programs at the Walnut Creek and Ygnacio Valley libraries. Program sponsors are the East Bay Times and Friends of the Walnut Creek Library. Programming is also made possible by donations to the Foundation’s Annual Fund. View past programs on our Video page. Contra Costa TV airs past programs Sundays at 8 p.m. Visit their website for channel info.

* Special accommodations require 72 hours advance notice.

The views and opinions expressed in any program are those of the speaker/persons and do not reflect the views of the Walnut Creek Library Foundation.

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