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Recreation Newsletter
June 2026
Monthly News & Updates |
June 2026 |
Celebrate Pride month with Arts + Rec
June is Pride Month! This June, show off your Pride throughout Walnut Creek with fun events honoring the LGBTQIA+ community and allies. 🏳️🌈 Some events include Pride Flag Raising, Pride Public Art Walking Tour, Drag Queen Bingo, and Pride Mixer. As well as events, all through June Arts + Rec is introducing a Community Pride Chain, an interactive installation celebrating the voices, stories, and Pride of our community.
Last call to sign up for Drag Queen Bingo!
On May 29, from 10:30 AM–12:00 PM come celebrate the excitement with Arts + Rec as we play bingo, win amazing prizes, and enjoy some delicious snacks. Learn more and register online. Age: 18+.
Summer Camps Start in June!
Join Arts + Rec for an exciting summer of swimming, arts, sports, recreation, and tons of fun! Our camp options include Adaptive Camps, Camp Community Arts, Classic Day Camps, Preschool-Age Camps, Sports Camps, Theater Camps, and more.
Summer camps run 6/3–8/7!
Adult Classes |
For more adult ceramics, cooking, music, and art classes, be sure to check online!
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Tahitian Beginner -Teens & WomenMondays, 6/15–8/3 This class offers various Tahitian dance styles from the otea, aparima, to mehura and drumming/music technique. |
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NEW! Pilates MatTuesdays, 6/16–7/7 Build core strength, improve posture, and enhance flexibility and mobility through controlled, low impact movements. |
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Youth Classes |
For more youth ceramics, sports, music, and art classes, be sure to check online!
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Babysitting for BeginnersSaturday, 6/13 Learn the skills needed to be a trusted and responsible babysitter! Students will receive a Babysitter Certification. |
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Women's Self Defense & Personal Safety: Mother/DaughterTuesday, 6/30 Empower yourself and your daughter in this engaging, confidence-boosting introductory class designed specifically for teens and their parents! |
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More Youth Camps |
Teen Arts Studio is running two week long half day camps for ages 11–14 from 6/8 through 7/31!
Camp offerings include drawing & painting, ceramics, computer arts & animation, and photography. Learn more about each camp offering.
New Sports Camps! Register for both online.
Basketball Training Academy
Mon–Thu, 6/15–7/30
2:00 PM–4:00 PM
This clinic-style program is built around individual skill development, fundamentals, and court awareness.
Volleyball Training Academy
Mon–Thu, 6/22–7/24
5:00 PM–7:00 PM
Offers a structured, fun environment with Developmental and Competitive divisions running side by side.
Specialized Recreation |
These events are designed for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
Dinner Club
Crescent Bistro, Wednesday, 6/3, 5:30 PM–8:00 PM >> Register Here
Adaptive Group Swim Lessons
Make a splash this season with our supportive, confidence-building swim program designed for swimmers with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Register for classes online.
Penguin (Ages 5–10): Perfect for beginners—focus on water comfort, safety, and foundational skills through fun, guided activities.
Sea Lion (Ages 6–12): For swimmers ready to build mobility and endurance while working toward more independent movement in the water.
Upcoming Art Classes & Events |
Community Arts is offering Teen Intensive Classes this summer in creative writing, dance, drawing, and printmaking:
Write Your Novel: Teen Summer Intensive
6/8–6/18, 1:00 PM–4:00 PM
Unstoppable Teens: Dance Intensive
7/14–7/16, 1:00 PM–4:00 PM
Kicking off the Lesher Center’s annual Fiesta Cultural Festival on June 12 is the global phenomenon, Grammy® Award-winning Latin Big Band Pacific Mambo Orchestra
Presented by Lesher Center Presents and the Diablo Regional Arts Association, you won’t want to miss this incredible concert featuring PMO’s genre-bending original hits and celebrated covers as diverse as Stevie Wonder’s ‘Overjoyed’, Dizzy Gillespie’s ‘Night in Tunisia’, and Sergei Rachmaninoff’s 2nd Piano Concerto into the easily recognizable PMO sound! Performing for one night only, buy tickets online.
Fiesta Cultural
6/12–6/13, 2026
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Fiesta Cultural is a series of vibrant events and performances at Walnut Creek's Lesher Center for the Arts. Activities will include a world-class Headliners performance on Friday evening and a free street fair surrounding the Lesher Center for the Arts in downtown Walnut Creek on Saturday with music and dance.
Aztec Stories in Modern Mexico: An Inocencio Jiménez Chino Retrospective Now through June 28
Jiménez Chino’s first-ever retrospective, this exhibition traces the artist’s evolution from early works on board to protest line drawings from the 1990s and newly completed narrative amate paintings that capture, with remarkable intimacy and detail, daily life in the Balsas River basin of Guerrero, Mexico.