Live! From the Library 

February 3, 2009, curtain 7pm

Water:  The Next Oil?

Sunne Wright McPeak and a panel of experts will discuss the global, regional and local water crisis on February 3, 2009, at  Live! From the Library, a free event at the Lesher Center for the Arts at 7 p.m. Other panel members are environmental scientist Booker Holton and Contra Costa Times environmental reporter Mike Taugher.

McPeak is a former Contra Costa County Supervisor and a member of the Delta Vision Blue Ribbon Task Force, whose mission is to identify a strategy for managing the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta as a sustainable ecosystem that would continue to support environmental and economic functions that are critical to the people of California.

Mike Taugher has been with the Contra Costa Times since 2000, and covers environmental topics for the newspaper with an emphasis on water issues. He has won several state and regional for his investigative and explanatory reporting on the Delta.

Dr. Booker Holton is a Principal at TOVA Applied Science & Technology, specializing in environmental planning, applied ecology, and natural resource management. Dr. Holton recently talked before the Commonwealth Club of San Francisco in a Water Forum addressing the threats to clean water supplies in California and around the globe.

The free program is the first 2009 event in the Library Foundation’s Live! From The Library series, which features public lectures and other cultural and literary events. The program will be held at various locations in Walnut Creek until the new library opens in 2010.­

 

Stage 3 Theatre

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October 22, 2008, curtain 7pm

Live! From the Library -Ying Chang Compestine:

A Writer in Two Worlds

October 22 Program sponsored by WC Library Foundation

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Ying Chang Compestine, author of Revolution is Not a Dinner Party, will discuss “A Writer in Two Worlds” on Wednesday, October 22. Live! From the Library is free to the public.

Compestine will share her journey as an author and discuss life growing up in China during the Cultural Revolution. She will show the locations where her award winning novel took place and the people who inspired the characters in the book.

Compestine’s book, Revolution is Not a Dinner Party, has received twenty-five awards, including the California Book Award, ALA Best Books and Notable Books.

The evening is the fall program in the Library Foundation’s Live! From The Library series, which features public lectures and other cultural and literary programs.

The Live! From the Library series features public lectures and other cultural and literary programs. The events will be held at various locations in Walnut Creek until the new library opens in 2010.