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.

Join us for a StoryWalk® featuring Kwame Alexander's and Kadir Nelson's The Undefeated.

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.

Kick off the 2022 Summer Reading Challenge with a colorful storytime. The Crayons in the book may have quit, but other crayons are still hard at work every day. Join us as we celebrate them with storytime and a to-go craft!

Try our Cubetto, the library coding toy meant for new coders! Guide Cubetto over a map to help tell the story, The Fairiest Fairy. Learn computer coding basics and STEAM skills. Ages 3-5. Registration required.

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

Join us for a StoryWalk® featuring I Promise by LeBron James. Engage in fun activities while you read the story and explore outdoors! While supplies last, take home a craft that goes along with the story.

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 get those fingers working! Build eye - hand coordination and muscle strength in your child’s hand and fingers. Practice skills like cutting with scissors, writing, aiming, and more with exciting learning activities! Preschool - Grade 2.

Come celebrate the First Day of Summer at the Kempsville Library!  We emphasize alphabet and letter recognition and activities that support independence and confidence building.

Kick off the 2022 Summer Reading Challenge with a colorful storytime. The Crayons in the book may have quit, but other crayons are still hard at work every day. Join us as we celebrate them with storytime and a to-go craft!

Get those fingers moving! Build eye/hand coordination skills and muscles in your child’s hand. Practice skills like cutting with scissors, writing, and drawing with fun festive activities.

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.

Is a snake’s skin slimy or smooth?  Find out in this live reptile show and meet some other critters too! All ages. Registration is required.

Make a tie-dye style item using squirt guns! Dress to get messy. Please bring in t-shirts, tote bags, or whatever else you would like to tie-dye. This program will be presented outside. Meet out front at Bayside Library.

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

Kick off the 2022 Summer Reading Challenge with a colorful storytime. The Crayons in the book may have quit, but other crayons are still hard at work every day. Join us as we celebrate them with storytime and a to-go craft!

Want to be a Scientist? Learn about the different steps of the scientific method as you make your own slime and conduct experiments. Grades K-2. Online registration is required.

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.

Join us for a StoryWalk® featuring The Day the Crayons Quit by Drew Daywalt. Engage in fun activities while you read the story and explore outdoors! 

Kick off the 2022 Summer Reading Challenge with a colorful storytime. The Crayons in the book may have quit, but other crayons are still hard at work every day. Join us as we celebrate them with storytime and a to-go craft!

Add a little magic to your home by creating a sweet mason jar fairy light. Cute fairies are not your style, how about a rotten, ugly dragon jar?! All supplies provided. Grades 6-12.  Registration 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.

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! Meets weekly. Adults. Registration is not required.

Kick off the 2022 Summer Reading Challenge with a colorful storytime. The Crayons in the book may have quit, but other crayons are still hard at work every day. Join us as we celebrate them with storytime and a to-go craft!

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.

Kick off the 2022 Summer Reading Challenge with a colorful storytime. The Crayons in the book may have quit, but other crayons are still hard at work every day. Join us as we celebrate them with storytime and a to-go craft!

Learn to use a hammer to make your own unique string art!

Teens, grades 6-12.  Registration is required.

Kick off the 2022 Summer Reading Challenge with a colorful storytime. The Crayons in the book may have quit, but other crayons are still hard at work every day. Join us as we celebrate them with storytime and a to-go craft!

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.

Let's slide into summer! Dance is exercise and fun!   Join us as we Electric Slide, Cha-Cha-Cha Slide and Cupid Shuffle around the room! Wear comfortable clothing and shoes and get your groove on! No Partner required.

Affordable housing has been an important factor in the lives of many in our community. Join us for an afternoon of conversation as we share our experiences and opinions on the subject. Adults 18+. Registration is required.

School's out, summer's here! You know what that means? It's time for a Super Smash Brothers Ultimate Tournament! Choose your favorite character, strive for victory, and of course, have fun!

Kick off the 2022 Summer Reading Challenge with a colorful storytime. The Crayons in the book may have quit, but other crayons are still hard at work every day. Join us as we celebrate them with storytime and a to-go craft!

It’s a paint party! Create a beautiful painting following step-by-step instructions or free-style your own masterpiece. Grades 4-7.  Registration is required.

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.

Adventure awaits! Join an in-person Dungeons & Dragons campaign with other interested teens under the direction an experienced Library Game Master. No prior experience required. On-going campaign, new players welcome!

Come join us for coffee, cookies and conversation as we explore our relationship to our own aging and the relationship of our communities to our growing aging population.

Adults 18+

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!

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Customize your own mini milkshake or frappé keychain.

Grades 6-12.  Registration is 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.

Come and experience how you can learn to code with robots at your library. Open up the world of computer programming and robotics in a fun and exciting way using a Sphero, your own personal robot. Grades 3-5. Registration required.

Customize your own mini milkshake or frappé keychain.

Grades 6-12.  Registration is required.

Celebrate Pride Month with us as we learn about Pride while painting. 

If you are an arts organization or individual involved in the creative arts and looking for funding to complete a project, mount an exhibition, put on a performance, etc., this class will demonstrate how to identify funders using a library databas

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

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. 

Meet to discuss this month’s selected title: Utopia Avenue by David Mitchell

Book club copies are available for check-out at the GREAT NECK information desk. Adults. Registration is not required.

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