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.

 

View our calendar of Live! From the Library programs here!

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Our 2025 – 2026 Live! From the Library season has begun! Here’s a sneak peek of what’s to come…

 

• Author Elise Hooper – September 2025

 

• Climate & Sustainability Panel – October 2025

 

• The Kids are Alright – November 2025

 

• Kyle Athayde’s Dance Party – December 2025

 

• Author Kevin Smokler – February 2026

 

• Eugene O’Neill Foundation – March 2026

 

Check back here for more updates!

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NOTE – Masks for ages 2 and older are encouraged. Thank you for helping us protect each other and our community!

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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.

Program sponsors:

 

 

 

Past Events

 

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Walnut Creek Mayors Forum – June 10, 2025

 

Telling The Story of Kasturba Gandhi – March 11, 2025

 

 

Henry II and the Invasion of Ireland – February 11, 2025

 

 

 

The Kneeling Man – January 14, 2025

 

 

 

 

Charged Particles – December 10, 2024

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Brightest Star with Gail Tsukiyama – November 19, 2024

 

 

 

Songs With Rhythm…in the Title! – October 8, 2024

 

 

 

 

50 Years of Walnut Creek Open Space with Ted Dobbs – August 6, 2024

 

 

 

Meredith Jaeger Presents The Incorrigibles – June 11, 2024

 

 

 

Michael Barrington Presents: The French Resistance 1941-45 – March 12, 2024

 

 

 

Levi’s ® & Social Movements for Change – February 27, 2024

 

 

 

Accountable

 

 

 

Charged Particles

 

 

 

 

An Evening With Cafe Ohlone

 

 

 

Sound Bath Meditation with Nicole Reyes

 

 

 

Shakespeare: 1623 and the First Folio – And the Women We May Have Lost

 

 

 

 

Artwear: Fashion and Anti-Fashion with Melissa Leventon

 

 

 

Listen, World! with Julia Scheeres and Martha Ross

 

 

Unraveling with Peggy Orenstein

 

 

Chinese in Napa Valley: The Forgotten Community That Built Wine Country with John McCormick

 

 

 

One Singular Sensation: The Power and Passions of American Musical Theatre with Beth Wynstra

 

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2022 Events 

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Who Could Ask for Anything More? with Dulais Rhys

Tuesday, December 13

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Frida in America: The Impact of Place with Celia Stahr

Tuesday, November 1

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Technically Food with Larissa Zimberoff

Tuesday, October 11

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The Climate Crisis and Our Parks and Open Spaces

Tuesday, April 12

 

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An Evening with Author Elise Hooper

Tuesday, March 8

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Rachel Howzell Hall: A Woman of Mysteries

Tuesday, February 8

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2021 Past Events 

The Bounty

Wednesday, November 10 

 

 

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