Live! From the Library
2024-2025 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!
- Charged Particles – Tuesday, December 10, 2024 – The Walnut Creek Library transforms into a hot jazz club as the popular South Bay trio treats us to an evening of classic sounds and new music.
And coming in 2025…
- The Kneeling Man with Leta McCollough Seletzky – Tuesday, January 14, 2025 – The author talks about her award-winning biography, The Kneeling Man: My Father’s Life as a Black Spy Who Witnessed the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Henry II and the Invasion of Ireland with Eric Fraisher Hayes and Mark Jordan – Tuesday, February 11, 2025 – Eric Fraisher Hayes of the Eugene O’Neill Foundation joins popular lecturer Mark Jordan in a dramatic presentation about one of England’s most colorful and controversial monarchs.
- Telling the Story of Kasturba Gandhi with Roopa Mohan – Tuesday, March 11, 2025 – The Bay Area storyteller and Chautauqua Scholar recreates scenes from the eventful life of Kasturba Gandhi, wife of Mahatma Gandhi.
Check back here for updates!
NOTE – Masks for ages 2 and older are encouraged. Thank you for helping us protect each other and our community!
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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Past Events
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
2022 Events
Who Could Ask for Anything More? with Dulais Rhys
Tuesday, December 13
Frida in America: The Impact of Place with Celia Stahr
Tuesday, November 1
Technically Food with Larissa Zimberoff
Tuesday, October 11
The Climate Crisis and Our Parks and Open Spaces
Tuesday, April 12
An Evening with Author Elise Hooper
Tuesday, March 8
Rachel Howzell Hall: A Woman of Mysteries
Tuesday, February 8
2021 Past Events
The Bounty
Wednesday, November 10
Broadway’s Golden Age: The Making of an American Art Form, 1927-1964
October 6, 2021
Why We Swim with author Bonnie Tsui
June 9, 2021
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
Dr. Daniel Levitin in conversation with founding Grateful Dead member Bob Weir
January 13, 2021
Visit our video page for past Live! from the Library videos.