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The Lafayette Library and Learning Center is the

literary, cultural and educational heart of our community!

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Thanks to individual donors and community partners, the Lafayette Library and Learning Center Foundation sustains the Lafayette Library as a community resource that offers enriching

experiences for all ages.

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The Lafayette Library and Learning Center is a welcoming space for your next gathering! From corporate events to private functions, we offer multiple venues and an outstanding staff to meet a wide array of needs.

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  • Tell Me More: Musings and Music with Kelly Corrigan and Matt Nathanson
    Mar 23, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
    Lafayette Library - Don Tatzin CH, 3491 Mount Diablo Blvd, Lafayette, CA 94549, USA
    LIVE SPECIAL EVENT! SOLD OUT!
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  • Distinguished Speaker Series Presents Kim Bancroft:  In Writing Themselves  into History
    Mar 29, 2:00 PM – Mar 30, 3:00 PM
    Lafayette Library- Don Tatzin CH, 3491 Mount Diablo Blvd, Lafayette, CA 94549, USA
    Kim Bancroft presents these women’s perceptive reflections on life in the still early days of California, paying special attention to their complex and nuanced portraits of gender, race, and class in the nineteenth-century West.
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  • WOW Presents  Ansel Adams in Our Time  at the de Young Museum
    Wed, Apr 12
    Lafayette Library - Don Tatzin CH
    Apr 12, 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM
    Lafayette Library - Don Tatzin CH, 3491 Mount Diablo Blvd, Lafayette, CA 94549, USA
    A self-described “California photographer,” Ansel Adams, had his first museum exhibition at the de Young Museum in 1932. In a San Francisco homecoming, more than 100 of his most iconic images of Yosemite, San Francisco, and the American Southwest will be on view in 'Ansel Adams In Our Time.'
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  • Distinguished Speaker Series: Alka Joshi
    Wed, Apr 12
    Lafayette Library - Don Tatzin CH
    Apr 12, 7:00 PM
    Lafayette Library - Don Tatzin CH, 3491 Mount Diablo Blvd, Lafayette, CA 94549, USA
    Alka Joshi, the New York Times best-selling author of The Henna Artist, discusses the final chapter of her Jaipur Trilogy, The Perfumist of Paris. Set in1970’s Paris where Radha’s budding career as a perfumer must compete with the demands of her family and the secrets of her past in India.
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  • Sweet Thursday presents    Vanessa Hua author of Forbidden City
    Thu, Apr 27
    Lafayette Library - Don Tatzin CH
    Apr 27, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
    Lafayette Library - Don Tatzin CH, 3491 Mount Diablo Blvd, Lafayette, CA 94549, USA
    Join Vanessa Hua in a discussion of her latest novel, Forbidden City, which follows impoverished sixteen year old village girl, Mei who wants to be a model revolutionary and is drawn into service for the Chinese Cultural Revolution.
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