Week Calendar

Build early language and large motor skills through rhyme, songs, baby sign, and hands-on activities. Ages 6-24 months with caregiver. Registration is required. Please dress comfortably for the weather.

We emphasize alphabet and letter recognition and activities that support independence and confidence building. This storytime includes books, rhymes and literacy activities to help children enter school ready to learn to read.

Join us for stories and songs about fun outdoor family activity... a picnic! We emphasize alphabet and letter recognition and activities that support independence and confidence building.

Enjoy a casual chat about popular books. Talk about titles you like and hear what others enjoy. Swap favorites old and new or spread the word about your favorite reads. 

Learn how to make a cat charm in Tinkercad. The pictured cat is hanging off a laptop. Tinkercad is a free, browser-based 3-D modeling program.

Build early language and large motor skills through rhyme, songs, baby sign, and hands-on activities. Ages 6-24 months with caregiver. Registration is required. Please dress comfortably for the weather. Event is weather permitting.

Drop in for a fun new craft in our Children’s Room!  Family.  No registration required.

Bond with your infant in a face-to-face rhyme time and build early language skills through rhymes, repetition, music and baby sign. Children are introduced to quality board books and one-on-one book sharing. Ages 3-12 months with caregiver.

Let's learn about Birds at the Kempsville Library! We emphasize alphabet and letter recognition and activities that support independence and confidence building.

We emphasize alphabet and letter recognition and activities that support independence and confidence building. This storytime includes books, rhymes and literacy activities to help children enter school ready to learn to read.

Enjoy a warm and inviting space where you and your child can play and socialize with others in the community. Please note: This program is for both caregiver and child, and is not a structured program. Ages 6 to 24 months with caregiver.

Virginia Beach Public Library partners with YMCA of South Hampton Roads for Family Fitness.

Join us for a storytime featuring stories, songs, and rhymes about spectacular superheroes. 

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It’s never too soon to introduce your baby to art! Join us at the library for a sensory art experience that improves your baby’s fine motor skills and stimulates their curiosity. Wear clothes you don’t mind getting messy. All materials provided.

Enjoy stories, rhymes, songs, concepts (i.e. colors, shapes, etc.) and early literacy tips with your curious toddler, as we develop independence as well as pre-literacy and social skills. Age 2 with caregiver. Registration is required.

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. 

Find peace and relaxation through color and water on canvas.  All artistic levels are welcome as we kick off summer with sunflower watercolor painting!  Adults 18+.  Registration required.

Have you ever wanted to make your own cool movie trailer? Join us for a fun-filled production session where you will star and direct your own movie trailer using iMovie! Save your video and share it with family and friends.

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.

Bring your craft, your supplies and your passion! Meet other crafters and creators, share your ideas and get new ones! Adults 18+. Registration is not required.

Get fit with Pokémon Go. Walk around the TCC Virginia Beach campus and play Pokémon Go with other adults. We’ll first meet inside the meeting room in the TCC/City Joint-Use Library and then head out from there.

Try out the library’s newest coding toy! Cubetto is a cube-shaped robot. Your child will learn to guide Cubetto over a fun map to help tell a story. Learn computer coding basics and STEAM skills. Grades K-2.

Come unwind, play with kittens, learn about the adoption process, and meet other animal loving teens.  Participants will need to complete a waiver to engage with the animals.

Grades 6-12.  Registration is required.

Come join us as we learn and play some games with us!

Is your child interested in learning Chess, or are they looking for a safe place to play against someone? Look no further than Elementary Chess.

Rotating competition is organized by the club coordinator.  Knowledge of chess rules is required; limited instruction may be provided for beginners.  Chess equipment has been generously donated by Virginia Chess Federation, private donor

Express yourself in this engaging program designed to help identify emotions through art, music and words. Grades 3-5. Registration is required.

Join us Tuesday nights for teen-only activities. Enjoy movies, games, crafts, and more, with different selections each week.

Grades 6-12. Registration is not required, drop in any time!

Weekly Themes:

Meet KIBO, one of the library's robotic toys. Hoist your flag on the proud ship KIBO and code it to avoid the rocks and sea monsters on the high seas. Discover how fun coding can be!  Grades K-2. Registration required.

Do you remember the game show?  Here is your chance to try random and wacky games, and see if you can win it in 60 seconds or less!

Grades 6-12.  Registration required.

We emphasize alphabet and letter recognition and activities that support independence and confidence building. This storytime includes books, rhymes and literacy activities to help children enter school ready to learn to read.

Join us to watch anime and hang out with other fans! Showings change monthly and may be rated up to TV-14. Grades 6-12. This month’s showing:  Hunter x Hunter.

No registration required.  Just drop in!

Learn how to convert a raster image into an SVG with Photopea, a free browser-based photo editing software. A raster image, or bitmap, includes file types like JPEG, PNG, and TIFF. They are made up of thousands of pixels in a grid.

Teen artists and their guests are invited to join us to celebrate the artwork created during the month of May for the Tiny Art Show project.  Walk the gallery, talk to the artists, tour the teen space and learn about our summer programming.

Learn about 3-D printers and the basics of computer-aided design (CAD) as you create customer cookie cutters using Tinkercad.com. Adults. Registration required.

Iva Nash's photographs are not limited to one subject or one technique. The images are captured in her own neighborhood in Virginia Beach and during her travels in America as well as abroad.

Celebrate Juneteenth with us as we learn about and paint the Emancipation Oak at Hampton University. 

Test your knowledge and compete to become the virtual trivia master! Answer a variety of trivia questions to earn points and get your mind fired up! Grades 3 - 5. Registration is required.

It's PRIDE NIGHT! Come celebrate everything Pride and hang out with other teens in the LGBTQ+ community. 

Grades 6-12, Registration is required.

Bring your blankets, snacks, and watch a movie inside the library!

Meet us at Tapped Crafthouse in Red Mill Commons to discuss this month’s selected title: The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner. Book club copies are available for check-out at the Princess Anne information desk.

Welcome adventurers! During this series we will be playing through a pre-made adventure using Roll20’s online virtual tabletop system and WebEx meetings.  

Requires internet access and free Roll20 account.