Featured Events in Valencia in April 2025 (August Updated)

Celebrate the incredible life and wide-ranging talent of musician, songwriter, and producer Andy Paley at The A.N.D.Y. Show (And Not Done Yet), a one-night-only event filled with music, comedy, and heartfelt tributes. Featuring performances by friends and collaborators including Tom Kenny (voice of SpongeBob) & The Hi-Seas, Bob Goldthwait, Toby Huss (King of the Hill, Bookie), David Koechner (Anchorman, The Office), Billy West (The Ren & Stimpy Show, Futurama), Mandy Barnett, Elliot Easton (The Cars), Al Anderson, Jonathan Richman (The Modern Lovers), Lenny Kaye and many more, this special evening honors Andy’s remarkable career and creative spirit. Proceeds will support the 529 continuing education fund for Andy’s twin sons, Charlie and Jackson. Information Source: The Paley Brothers Education Fund | eventbrite

Come join us at The International Library of Youth Writing for a special event featuring authors Lemony Snicket and Lisa Brown! Get your books signed and enjoy a reading of Goldfish Ghost. This event is family friendly and open to the public! Books will be available for purchase. See you there! Daniel Handler is the author of seven novels, including Why We Broke Up, We Are Pirates, All The Dirty Parts and Bottle Grove. His new book on writing And Then? And Then? What Else? is forthcoming from Liverlight/W.W. Norton in 2024. As Lemony Snicket, he is responsible for numerous books for children, including the thirteen-volume A Series of Unfortunate Events, the four-volume All the Wrong Questions, and The Dark, which won the Charlotte Zolotow Award. His books have sold more than 70 million copies and have been translated into 40 languages, and have been adapted for film, stage and television, including the recent adaptation of A Series of Unfortunate Events for which he was awarded both the Peabody and the Writers Guild of America awards. Lisa Brown is a New York Times bestselling illustrator, author and cartoonist. Her award-winning picture books include: The Airport Book, How to Be, Mummy Cat by Marcus Ewert, Emily’s Blue Period by Cathleen Daly, and The Two Mutch Sisters by Carol Brendler. She has collaborated on three books with author Lemony Snicket: The Latke Who Couldn’t Stop Screaming, 29 Myths on the Swinster Pharmacy, and Goldfish Ghost, and is the creator of the “Baby Be of Use” series of board books for McSweeney’s, (including the absolutely essential Baby Mix Me a Drink). Her first graphic novel, The Phantom Twin, and Long Story Short, her first collection of comics, both came out in 2020, right before the world locked down. Therefore, her latest book for young children is The Hospital Book, published in March, 2023. Information Source: The International Library of Youth Writing | eventbrite