Homecoming 2026

September 13—Ongoing

The Lost Bookcase Gallery, FCCLB Library

Exhibition: Migrating Home

Bird Portraits by Linda and Kathy Wallace-Phelps

Banned Books Week (October 4-10, 2026)

October 2—Friday 6-8:30pm

Booth Chapel

Fahrenheit 451, the 1966 version directed by François Truffaut

With popcorn!

October 6—Tuesday 5-7pm

Billy Jean King Main Library (meet at church at 5:00 and walk 1/2 block to the library)

Guided tour of the BJK Main Library

Supper afterward for those interested at local DTLB restaurant (TBD)

October 11—Sunday 11:30-12:00

Coffee Hour (Koinonia Room or Kilsby Courtyard)

Friends of the Long Beach Public Library tabling event

Learn more about how to support our public library system

October 2-11

TBD

Flat Blanche Collins summer library photo challenge

Display featuring photos taken over the summer with a cutout of former LBPL censorship-fighting librarian Blanche Collins

Book Signing with Board of Cultural Arts (BOCA)

November 8—Sunday 11:30-12:30

Koinonia Room

Forum and book signing with Dr. Leslie Reese, Rancho Los Cerritos: People Who Shaped the Land