2021 Programs
Why We Swim with author Bonnie Tsui
June 9, 2021 | 7:00 – 8:30PM
Join us as we host journalist and author Bonnie Tsui as she shares stories from her recent book, Why We Swim. Her book details the evolution of human swimming from learning for survival to testing our limits, highlights swimmers from around the world. Tsui offers an immersive and unforgettable perspective on swimming—and of human behavior itself.
Bonnie Tsui is a journalist and the author of WHY WE SWIM, a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, a TIME Magazine Must-Read Book of 2020, an NPR Best Book of 2020, and a Los Angeles Times and Boston Globe bestseller. It is currently being translated into six languages. Her first children’s book, SARAH AND THE BIG WAVE, about the first woman to surf Mavericks, will be published in May 2021. She lives, swims, and surfs in the Bay Area.
This program is made possible through the generosity of its sponsors. Presenting Sponsor: Simpson Family. Masterpiece Sponsors: Mary Ann Hruska; Rudney Associates; Mechanics Bank; and Whittier Trust. Classic Sponsors: Lynn and Gregory Nerland; Mt. Diablo Resource Recovery; Rutan & Tucker, LLP; and Safeway Foundation. Bestseller Sponsors: Ronald Cassano; Kristin Hicks and Blair Steintjes; Tineke Jacobsen; Jill and Kevin Wilk; and Carole Wynstra. Contributing Sponsors: Samantha and Matthew Francois. Media and Print Sponsors: Diablo magazine, East Bay Times, and Minuteman Press Lafayette.
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2021 Past Events
Showing Up Boldly: The Political and Organizing History of Black Women
May 12, 2021
Art & Algae: Journey Into The Curious World of Seaweed
April 14, 2021
California: Of Peril and Stewardship
March 17, 2021
SUCCESSFUL AGING: The Power and Potential of Our Lives
NYT Bestselling author Dr. Daniel Levitin in conversation with musician and founding Grateful Dead member Bob Weir
January 13, 2021
2020 Past Events
Classical Guitar Performance, 16th-20th Centuries
December 9, 2020
The Great Escape: Shackleton’s Antarctic Adventure with Mark Jordan
PART ONE: October 21, 2020
PART TWO: October 22, 2020
Summer Fun with Historical Fiction
July 20, 2020
In Conversation with Mary Ladd, Author of The Wig Diaries
June 24, 2020
Race Against Time: A Reporter Reopens the Unsolved Murder Cases of the Civil Rights Era
March 2, 2020
The Life of Robert Noble Burgess
February 12, 2020
Part of Our Lives: A People’s History of the American Public Library
January 15, 2020
Live! From the Library, produced 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, Friends of the Walnut Creek Library, and Minuteman Press, Lafayette. 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.
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