Upcoming Events

Enjoy a warm and inviting space where you and your child can play and socialize with others in the community. Please note: This is a social event for both caregiver and child, as opposed to a traditionally structured program.

Bring your preschooler to explore different artistic styles. This month we will be learning about cave paintings before making some of our own. Please wear clothes you don't mind getting messy! Ages 3-5 with caregiver.

Save the date! Celebrate the rainbow with your family, friends and allies. Experience fun hands-on activities and meet local community partners. Support for this program is provided by the Virginia Beach Library Foundation. Family.

Master Gardeners will be available to answer questions about seeds for your home garden and how to get the best results with the seeds you receive from our seed library. Visit with the Master Gardeners anytime during their drop-in hours. 

Master Gardeners will be available to answer questions about your home garden and how to get the best results with the seeds you receive from our seed library.

Visit with the master gardeners anytime during their drop-in hours.

Master Gardeners will be available to answer questions about your home garden and how to get the best results with the seeds you receive from our seed library. Visit with the master gardeners anytime during their drop-in hours. 

Learn how to embroider a canvas with beginner friendly stitches like the running stitch and the backstitch. You will use a piercing tool to punch the stitch holes into the canvas.

Learn to enter data and use basic formulas to create simple spreadsheets. Prerequisites: Ability to use Microsoft Word or have taken Microsoft Word for Beginners. We encourage you to bring a USB drive to save your work. Adults.

Have you ever wanted to stay in the library after hours and build a fort?  Well now you can!

Bring your blankets, chairs, snacks, and join us to watch a movie!  

Featured movie is 2023's movie "Migration." Total playtime is 1 hr. 22 min.

Movie will start at 6:00 pm.

Save the date! Celebrate the rainbow with your friends and allies. More details to come. 

Support for this program is provided by Virginia Beach Library Foundation. 

Teens, grades 6-12, registration required. 

Boost independence and develop social skills using writing activities, basic concepts (i.e., colors, shapes, letters, etc.), large muscle movement, and social-emotional learning opportunities focusing on the whole child. Age 2 with a caregiver.

Build early language and large motor skills through rhyme, songs, book sharing and hands-on activities with your child. Ages 6-24 months with caregiver. Registration is required.

Build early language and large motor skills through rhyme, songs, book sharing and hands-on activities with your child. Ages 6-24 months with caregiver. Registration is required.

Join us in a casual social gathering for people with dementia and their care partners. Enjoy conversation, activities, snacks as we get to know others experiencing similar memory changes. Adults. Registration is not required. 

Enjoy a warm and inviting space where you and your child can play and socialize with others in the community. Please note: This is a social event for both caregiver and child, as opposed to a traditionally structured program.

Build early language and large motor skills through rhyme, songs, book sharing and hands-on activities with your child. Ages 6-24 months with caregiver. Registration is required.

Designed for newly independent preschoolers, this storytime features books, rhymes and literacy-based activities that will help prepare your child to enter school ready to read. Ages 4-5 without caregiver in storytime room.

Practice creative problem solving, and language skills while engaging in imaginative play! All materials are provided. Ages 3-5. Registration is not required.

Bayside Library and Westminster Canterbury are providing a brain-fitness program for older adults designed to maximize physical, mental, and social well-being through fun, stimulating activities. 

If you are a non-native English speaker, join us to practice your conversational English in a friendly setting. Each week we discuss a different topic and do fun activities!

Adults. Registration is not required.

Perform, create, and have fun! Join us to explore various art forms. Each class features a new skill, artist, artistic movement, or technique. Grades K-2. Registration is required.

Do you have a special talent? Maybe singing or spoken word or art? Join us for an End of Summer Talent Show! Perfect for homeschoolers!

Grades 6-12. Registration is required. 

Bring your craft, your supplies and your passion! Meet other crafters and creators, share your ideas and get new ones! Adults. Registration is not required.