Week Calendar

Join us for this fun family lapsit program featuring the Molly Mouse puppet, music, movement, and books.

For children ages 5 months to 3 years.

No switching, please attend the class you signed up for.

Join teachers from the Adult Learning Center for this English as a Second Language series. 

This beginner/intermediate class meets every Wednesday and Thursday mornings from 9-12pm. 

Dance your way to fitness with instructor Barbara Prince in this high energy exercise class. 

Registration required.

Join teachers from the Adult Learning Center for this English as a Second Language series. 

This beginner/intermediate class meets every Wednesday and Thursday mornings from 9-12pm. 

Get ready for the day with Miss Sarah & Miss Eileen at Rise and Shine Storytime!

This popular Chair Yoga class focuses on a full-body practice and will help strengthen your nervous system and reduce stress and stiffness. Kathleen Regan has been teaching yoga since 1993, and she has been practicing for even longe

Your baby has A LOT to say! Toddlers too! 

With just a few easy-to-learn American Sign Language signs, you can start communicating with your preverbal baby or toddler today! 

This Hatha yoga class is designed to strengthen and lengthen your muscles and free your mind. Instructor Stephanie Durso will guide you into each pose and provide alignment cues for holding the pose and breathing deeply.

Build strength and flexibility along with a calmer mind in this gentle yoga class featuring certified RYT instructor Beverlee Bertinetti.

Join us for this fun family lapsit program featuring the Molly Mouse puppet, music, movement, and books.

Your 2 to 5 year old will have lots of fun in this music & movement program using puppets, instruments, finger play and dancing to encourage socialization and healthy expelling of energy.

“According to Emile Bernard, Cézanne habitually used no less than nineteen colors: Cobalt Blue, Ultramarine, Prussian Blue – Emerald Green Viridian, Terre Verte – Vermilion, Red Ochre, Burnt Siena, Rose Madder, Carmine Lake, Burnt Lake – Brilliant

Stories, games, and other activities help kids develop their fine and gross motor skills. They also learn social skills and preschool readiness skills including sharing, listening, focusing, and participating.

Join us for this fun family lapsit program featuring the Molly Mouse puppet, music, movement, and books.

Lori is live in the Auditorium!

Come hang out while squishing, smooshing, rolling and flattening homemade play dough! When a child uses play dough, they build strength in their hands and increase fine motor skills.

Do you play Canasta and want to meet other community members who play? Join us on Wednesdays at 11:00am in the Library Auditorium! Practice your skills and have fun while you do it.

Do you play Mah Jongg and want to meet other community members who play? Join us on Wednesdays at 11:00am in the Library Auditorium! Practice your skills and have fun while you do it.

Welcome the Fall Equinox through yoga and meditation. The Fall Equinox is a solar festival, celebrated when the length of the day and night are equal. Fall represents harvest as the cooler weather approaches and there is less daylight.

Join with other artists to network, share ideas and inspiration, and learn from one another. Led by instructor Carolyn De Soucey. Each artist participating is asked to bring one piece of art to present and discuss. Please register to attend.

Looking for a job and need some help with your resume? Book a 30-minute appointment with Lenora, a LBPL reference librarian with training on job search help and resume assistance.

Join Miss Tanya for Messy Art for Tots!

We will be using toothbrushes, paint and paper to create unique pieces of art. Remember to dress for a mess!

Looking for a job and need some help with your resume? Book a 30-minute appointment with Lenora, a LBPL reference librarian with training on job search help and resume assistance.

Director Wes Ball breathes new life into the global, epic franchise set several generations in the future following Caesar’s reign, in which apes are the dominant species living harmoniously and humans have been reduced to living in the shadows.

Are you ready to witness a spectacular live trick show like never before? Get ready to be amazed as Diana Frohman and her famous golden retrievers take the stage. 

The Great Books Discussion Group is an in-person program taking place on the 2nd floor of Long Beach Public Library. Below is the list of upcoming meeting dates as well as the titles up for discussion.

Adam sets out on a cross country adventure to track down a series of men who could be his estranged father, each one with a different life that could become his own.

Drama, 2024, NR, 1hr 43min

Do you have questions about your computer or laptop? Want to learn more about Zoom, streaming movies, or downloading ebooks to your device?

Meditation session with Lisa Wisel, MS, BC-DMT, LCAT

Meditation will:
- EASE your mind
- SOOTHE your emotions HEAL your body

Do you love true crime?

Join Tanya and Eddie to discuss a specific case each month. We will focus on a different true crime case with theories, suspects and coverage being discussed.

Join us at the West End Branch of the Long Beach Library for this beginner-friendly Chair Yoga class. With gentle instruction by Librarian Nicole, together we will build strength, flexibility and mental well-being.

Join librarian Ron Carroll for an overview of Consumer Reports.

Mrs. Harris, an English domestic servant who falls in love with a couture Dior dress, decides she must buy one of her own. After she raises the funds to buy the dress, Mrs.

Need a stylish new cup, but don't have Stanley cup money? Come by the library to decorate your own glass tumbler cup!

Please be advised this program is for teens ages 12+.

Looking for a space to chill out, make some fun (free!) drinks, meet fellow teens, and do some crafting? Swing by the Teen Space every Thursday from 4pm-5pm for Teen Retreat!

Calling all kid Pokémon card collectors and card enthusiasts! Meet other collectors and trade Pokémon cards.

 Trading rules

Create your own mini scrapbooks. Mini scrapbooks, stickers, and scrapbook materials will be supplied. Feel free to bring any stickers and photos! Snacks provided!

For Children in Grades 1 thru 7

Come and build your amazing creations with a group of like-minded children and tweens.

Get inspired using Lego pieces from our extensive collection.

Increase strength, flexibility, and balance through an engaging Pilates class taught by Pat Cappeto.

Join the Library Director and other library staff for our Beach Reads Book Club at scenic Lafayette Boulevard Beach. Bring your book, blanket, and beverage for a discussion of lighthearted and easy to read summer books.

One Piece: Red

Monday, September 23rd 6:30pm

Protect Our Coast is a grassroots A-Political environmental conservation 100% resident volunteer Barrier Island and Island Park group that would like to conserve our coastal community and prevent industrialization of our ocean, beach

Disclaimer(s)

Outside organization event

This is a meeting or program held by an outside organization and in no way constitutes Library endorsement.

Feel good and address the aches and pains in your body by following a healing gentle yoga sequence (seating and standing poses) and targeted Shiatsu massage.

Join us as we kick off our community oral history series with a panel discussion honoring notable figures in the unsung, yet vibrant Hispanic community of Long Beach!

Join staff member Jake for a book discussion of the birth of modern fantasy, The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien.

This September, join us for a discussion of Liz Moore's NYT bestselling release, The God of the Woods.

What better way to celebrate the Autumnal Equinox than with Robert Egger's New England nightmare, The Witch (2015, R, 1h 32m).

Katie Mitchell Band and Friends Present “Ladies Sing the Blues and Jazz” featuring vocals by: Jenny Arrigo, Brittany Devarso, Cat Parr and Katie Mitchell

Katie Mitchell

Jerron Paxton plays black folk music from nearly all the idioms that entails. From the Jazz
of stride piano and banjo from New Orleans to New York to the deepest of the blues played on