Storytimes near BEAUCHAMP BRANCH LIBRARY

Community Room - Betts, Betts Branch Library

For pre-walkers and crawlers, join Miss Margaret for music, rhymes, fingerplays, movement, and a short book, followed by free-play time with toys. Older siblings welcome.

Children's Area - Betts Branch, Betts Branch Library

Register your beginning or emerging reader for 30-minute 1-on-1 personalized literacy sessions with a trained Book Buddy. Call 315-435-1940 or visit Betts in-person to sign up your child for once or twice-a-week slots.

Community Room - Betts, Betts Branch Library

A relaxed, beginner-friendly space to learn and practice basic sewing skills. We have one machine available for instruction, and you're more than welcome to bring your own as well.

Children's Area - Betts Branch, Betts Branch Library

Drop by the Betts Library kids section for some prehistoric play with an oversized foam dinosaur bone play set. Children can unleash their creativity, building life‑sized dinosaur skeletons, futuristic creatures, and original designs!

Betts Branch Library

Small Meeting Room, Betts Branch Library

Relaxed drop-in group for experienced knitters.

Community Room - Betts, Betts Branch Library

Yoga with Helen at Betts Branch Library features Iyengar-style classes designed to promote strength, balance, and healing for all skill levels. These sessions focus on accessibility, aiming to break the myth that yoga is only for the highly flexible. Participants are encouraged to bring their own mats.

Betts Branch Library

Betts Branch Library

Register your beginning or emerging reader for 30-minute 1-on-1 personalized literacy sessions with a trained Book Buddy. Call 315-435-1940 or visit Betts in-person to sign up your child for once or twice-a-week slots.

Community Room - Betts, Betts Branch Library

Travel back eons to a time when prehistoric insects were trapped and preserved in an amber suspension! Stop by the library to create your own paleolithic-themed slime, then maybe grab a few dino books while you’re at it. Pre-registration is appreciated! Supported by funds from the M&T Charitable Foundation.

Community Room - Betts, Betts Branch Library

Kids 0-5 with caregivers join Ms Margaret for this music and movement-based extravaganza!

Community Room - Betts, Betts Branch Library

Renee-Noelle Felice, historical interpreter and feminist, examines the pre-1776 history of women–Indian, European and African–whose tales are interwoven with those most of us learned in school. In celebration of the 250th year of the United States, she will introduce us to some of our female forebears, whose courage, initiative and endurance contributed to the founding of our nation.

Small Meeting Room, Betts Branch Library

Fun social evening knitting class for beginners--come laugh and learn! Bring #10 knitting needles.

Community Room - Betts, Betts Branch Library

For pre-walkers and crawlers, join Miss Margaret for music, rhymes, fingerplays, movement, and a short book, followed by free-play time with toys. Older siblings welcome.

Betts Branch Library

Register your beginning or emerging reader for 30-minute 1-on-1 personalized literacy sessions with a trained Book Buddy. Call 315-435-1940 or visit Betts in-person to sign up your child for once or twice-a-week slots.

Community Room - Betts, Betts Branch Library

A relaxed, beginner-friendly space to learn and practice basic sewing skills. We have one machine available for instruction, and you're more than welcome to bring your own as well.

Small Meeting Room, Betts Branch Library

Relaxed drop-in group for experienced knitters.

Community Room - Betts, Betts Branch Library

Yoga with Helen at Betts Branch Library features Iyengar-style classes designed to promote strength, balance, and healing for all skill levels. These sessions focus on accessibility, aiming to break the myth that yoga is only for the highly flexible. Participants are encouraged to bring their own mats.

Betts Branch Library

Join us for a creative night inspired by Hamilton! We’ll be listening to music from the show while working on a themed craft—no experience needed. Come hang out, get creative, and connect with others while exploring stories of history, identity, and expression. Whether you’re a longtime fan or just enjoy music and crafting, you’re welcome to join. All materials will be provided.

Betts Branch Library

Children's Area - Betts Branch, Betts Branch Library

Register your beginning or emerging reader for 30-minute 1-on-1 personalized literacy sessions with a trained Book Buddy. Call 315-435-1940 or visit Betts in-person to sign up your child for once or twice-a-week slots.

Community Room - Betts, Betts Branch Library

Discussing How to Start by Jodi Kantor (released April 2026)

Community Room - Betts, Betts Branch Library

In this captivating, interactive program ideal for PreK-2nd grade children, renowned Onondaga Nation (Turtle Clan) educator and master storyteller, Perry Ground, shares traditional legends that have been told for hundreds of years by various tribes. Following the storytelling, children will make a craft inspired by a Native American animal legend. Supported by funds from the TNT Special Project Fund.

Community Room - Betts, Betts Branch Library

Kids 0-5 with caregivers join Ms Margaret for this music and movement-based extravaganza!

Small Meeting Room, Betts Branch Library

Fun social evening knitting class for beginners--come laugh and learn! Bring #10 knitting needles.

Community Room - Betts, Betts Branch Library

For pre-walkers and crawlers, join Miss Margaret for music, rhymes, fingerplays, movement, and a short book, followed by free-play time with toys. Older siblings welcome.

Children's Area - Betts Branch, Betts Branch Library

Register your beginning or emerging reader for 30-minute 1-on-1 personalized literacy sessions with a trained Book Buddy. Call 315-435-1940 or visit Betts in-person to sign up your child for once or twice-a-week slots.

Community Room - Betts, Betts Branch Library

Witness to Injustice is a unique three-hour interactive group teaching tool. It uses participatory education to share the disturbing history of what Indigenous Peoples have experienced through colonization. The program seeks to foster truth, understanding, and respect between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples in the part of the world now known as the United States; especially in the territory stewarded by people of the Onondaga Nation and other Haudenosaunee peoples. It was created in collaboration with KAIROS Canada. WTI programs are facilitated by a team of Haudenosaunee educators and non-Native allies. SOFSA [Syracuse-Onondaga Food Systems Alliance]: Established in 2019, the Syracuse-Onondaga Food Systems Alliance (SOFSA) is a network of community-rooted changemakers working to transform the food system in Syracuse, Onondaga County, and the sovereign territory of the Onondaga Nation. ​We believe food has the power to bring people together, build equity, and restore balance. That’s why we’re committed to dismantling barriers and creating a just, sustainable, and interconnected local food ecosystem.

Small Meeting Room, Betts Branch Library

Relaxed drop-in group for experienced knitters.

Community Room - Betts, Betts Branch Library

E.S.P. is a high energy, contemporary jazz group featuring original music that is part jazz, part funk and part world music.