On December 13th, playwright Lauren Gunderson was joined in conversation with Mary Ellen Hunt for this FAL-hosted event. Lauren Gunderson has been one of the most produced playwrights in America since 2015, topping the list twice including 2019/20. Her newest … Read More
On November 17th, the Friends of the Alameda Free Library was joined by New York Times bestselling author Carol Edgarian who discussed her new novel Vera, a grand adventure set in 1906 San Francisco — a city leveled by quake … Read More
On November 10th, the Friends were joined by art docent Avril Angevine for a presentation on the work of American artists such as Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Joan Mitchell, Franz Kline, Helen Frankenthaler, Sam Gilliam, and many more who … Read More
On November 8, 2018, the people of Paradise, California awoke to a mottled gray sky and gusty winds. Soon the Camp Fire was upon them, gobbling up an acre a second. Less than two hours after the fire ignited, the … Read More
Our September 13th art docent event featuring Judy Chicago and presented by Joyce Thorn was very fun and informative. After the event Ms. Thorn provided some links to additional information about the artist, including a recording of Judy Chicago speaking … Read More
Our August 16th art docent event featuring Wangechi Mutu and presented by Sharon Walton of the Art Docent Council was a great success. As many of you know, we cannot record most of our art docent events, including this one. … Read More
On July 20th, the Friends of the Alameda Free Library was joined by Alia Volz, a San Francisco native and author of the memoir Home Baked: My Mom, Marijuana, and the Stoning of San Francisco (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020), winner … Read More
On June 14th, the Friends were joined by art docent Avril Angevine for a presentation on the work of Dorothea Lange, who produced an astonishing body of photographic work in a career that lasted from the 1920s, when she ran … Read More
On June 9th, George Takei – a social justice activist, social media superstar, Grammy-nominated recording artist, New York Times bestselling author, and pioneering actor whose career has spanned six decades – joined the Friends of the Alameda Free Library to … Read More
On May 26, 2021, the Friends of the Alameda Free Library was joined by Francesca Lia Block, MFA, who has authored more than twenty-five books of fiction, non-fiction, short stories, and poetry and has written screenplay adaptations of her work. … Read More