Programs & Events

Chronological List of Programs

Fall Literary Series Benefiting
826 Valencia Scholarship Program

Cultural Studies

On Art & Politics

Social Studies

Special Events

California Academy of
Sciences Series

end of season specials

 Herbst Theatre

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The 29th Annual Literary Events Series Benefiting the 826 Valencia College Scholarship Program presents nine Herbst Theater conversations with celebrated writers. David Byrne will moderate a forum dedicated to bicycle advocacy. Margaret Atwood will host a special evening of music and performance inspired by her new novel, The Year of the Flood. A diverse group of talented writers, Nick Hornby, Joyce Carol Oates, Jonathan Lethem, Zoë Heller and Barbara Kingsolver, bring their latest novels to light and explore their inspiration and process. Michael Chabon will discuss his forthcoming essay collection, Manhood for Amateurs: The Pleasures & Regrets of a Husband, Father & Son, with longtime New Yorker writer Adam Gopnik.

Tuesday September	29	David Byrne hosts "Bike Advocacy and the Urban Environment" With guests David Chiu, Leah Shahum and Mike Teitz Musician . Singer, Songwriter . Artist The Bicycle Diaries . Talking Heads more
Tuesday october	06	Margaret Atwood Music, Performance and Readings inspired by The Year of the Flood The Year of the Flood . The Blind Assassin . The Door: Poems more
Thursday october	08	Nick Hornby In conversation with Dave Eggers Juliet, Naked . Slam . About A Boy . High Fidelity more
monday october	19	Joyce Carol Oates In conversation with Michael Krasny Little Bird of Heaven . What I Lived For . The Gravedigger's Daughter more
monday october	26	A. S. Byatt In conversation with Robert Hass The Children's Book . The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye . Possession more
wednesday october	28	Jonathan Lethem In conversation with Paul Lancour Chronic City . You Don't Love Me Yet . Motherless Brooklyn more
monday november	09	Michael Chabon & Adam Gopnik In conversation Manhood for Amateurs . The Yiddish Policemen's Union more
tuesday november	17	Barbara Kingsolver In conversation with Patricia Holt The Lacuna . The Poisonwood Bible . The Bean Trees more
wednesday december	02	Zoë Heller In conversation with Vendela Vida The Believers . Notes on a Scandal . Everything You Know more