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!


 

  • “Songs with Rhythm … in the Title!” with Dulais RhysTuesday, October 8, 2024Get ready to tap your feet as popular musicologist Dulais Rhys returns with an illustrated talk about American songs that have “rhythm” in their titles. Register now!  

 

  • Author Gail TsukiyamaTuesday, November 19, 2024The Brightest Star’s author talks about her bestselling books and the journey that led to their creation.

 

  • Charged Particles Tuesday, December 10, 2024The 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, 2025The 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, 2025Eric 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, 2025The 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

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

 


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.

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