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Let's Get Moving with Yoga

Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 5:30pm - 6:30pm
Meeting Room (COR) at Cordova Library
Program Type:
Health & Wellness
Age Group:
Adults, Adults-Seniors
Event Details:

Participate in a yoga experience to stretch the body and soothe the mind.

Library Branch: Cordova Library
Room: Meeting Room (COR)
Age Group: Adults, Adults-Seniors
Program Type: Health & Wellness
Event Details:

Participate in a yoga experience to stretch the body and soothe the mind.

Special Notes

Friends of the Library

This event made possible by the Friends of the Library.

Memphis Library Foundation

This event made possible by the Memphis Library Foundation.

Photograph Notice

This event may be recorded or photographed for use by the Memphis Public Libraries or the City of Memphis for media, social media, broadcast, and/or print purposes.

chess board

Long Live the King!-Chess Club

Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 6:00pm - 7:30pm
Lobby at Benjamin L. Hooks Central Library
Program Type:
Games
Age Group:
Children (Age 0-5), Children (Age 6-8), Tweens (Age 8-12), Teens, Adults, Adults-Seniors
Event Details:

Free chess tutorials for all ages. Beginners are invited to learn to play, and veterans are welcome to challenge each other to a friendly match of strategy and tactics. For this ev...

Library Branch: Benjamin L. Hooks Central Library
Room: Lobby
Age Group: Children (Age 0-5), Children (Age 6-8), Tweens (Age 8-12), Teens, Adults, Adults-Seniors
Program Type: Games
Event Details:

Free chess tutorials for all ages. Beginners are invited to learn to play, and veterans are welcome to challenge each other to a friendly match of strategy and tactics. For this event we will meet in our main lobby behind the escalators.

Special Notes

Memphis Library Foundation

This event made possible by the Memphis Library Foundation.

Photograph Notice

This event may be recorded or photographed for use by the Memphis Public Libraries or the City of Memphis for media, social media, broadcast, and/or print purposes.

JobLINC

JobLINC Digital Learn: Email Basics and Resume (Virtual)

Wednesday, April 16, 2025 at 10:00am - 12:00pm
JobLINC
Program Type:
Community Information, Job and Career
Age Group:
Adults, Adults-Seniors
Event Details:

Join JobLINC and DigitalLearn.org to build essential career skills! Our FREE courses will help you:Email Basics – Learn how to create, send, and manage emails like a pro.Resume Bas...

Open
Required
Offsite Event
Library Branch: JobLINC
Age Group: Adults, Adults-Seniors
Program Type: Community Information, Job and Career
Required
Seats Remaining: 15
Event Details:

Join JobLINC and DigitalLearn.org to build essential career skills! Our FREE courses will help you:

Email Basics

Wednesday, April 16, 2025 at 10:15am - 11:30am
Main Floor at Frayser Library
Program Type:
Computers and Technology, Job and Career
Age Group:
Adults, Adults-Seniors
Event Details:

Join the Frayser Branch Library for our Email Basics class! Learn to create accounts, send and receive messages, attach documents, manage spam, and more. Whether you're a beginner ...

Open
Required
Library Branch: Frayser Library
Room: Main Floor
Age Group: Adults, Adults-Seniors
Program Type: Computers and Technology, Job and Career
Required
Seats Remaining: 4
Event Details:

Join the Frayser Branch Library for our Email Basics class! Learn to create accounts, send and receive messages, attach documents, manage spam, and more.

Exercise

Body Weight Fitness 4-Part Series: Continuing Education & Lifelong Learning

Wednesday, April 16, 2025 at 12:30pm - 1:30pm
Meeting Room (RAN) at Randolph Library
Program Type:
Health & Wellness
Age Group:
Teens, Adults, Adults-Seniors
Event Details:

Circuit training all parts of the body particularly arms, legs and abdominals. No weights needed. Bring your own mat, towel and water.Instructor: Felicia Crayton-Lloyd is NFPT, CPT...

Closed
Required
Library Branch: Randolph Library
Room: Meeting Room (RAN)
Age Group: Teens, Adults, Adults-Seniors
Program Type: Health & Wellness
Required
Seats Remaining: 21
Event Details:

Circuit training all parts of the body particularly arms, legs and abdominals. No weights needed. Bring your own mat, towel and water.

Special Notes

Memphis Library Foundation

This event made possible by the Memphis Library Foundation.

Healthy choice for people with Arthritis.

Chair Yoga

Wednesday, April 16, 2025 at 1:30pm - 2:30pm
Meeting Room (SOU) at South Library
Program Type:
Health & Wellness
Age Group:
Teens, Adults, Adults-Seniors
Event Details:

Come join us for Chair Yoga! It offers a range of benefits including improved flexibility, increase strength, better balancing, stress reduction and meditation to relax your mind.

Library Branch: South Library
Room: Meeting Room (SOU)
Age Group: Teens, Adults, Adults-Seniors
Program Type: Health & Wellness
Event Details:

Come join us for Chair Yoga! It offers a range of benefits including improved flexibility, increase strength, better balancing, stress reduction and meditation to relax your mind.

Special Notes

Friends of the Library

This event made possible by the Friends of the Library.

Free Tech Support at the Library (available in four languages)

Wednesday, April 16, 2025 at 2:00pm - 3:30pm
Cordova Library
Program Type:
Computers and Technology
Age Group:
Adults, Adults-Seniors
Event Details:

Need help with your phone, laptop, tablet, email, photos, videos, etc.? Come to the library for free one on-one tech support! Our staff member Gretchen speaks English, Spanish, Fre...

Library Branch: Cordova Library
Age Group: Adults, Adults-Seniors
Program Type: Computers and Technology
Event Details:

Need help with your phone, laptop, tablet, email, photos, videos, etc.? Come to the library for free one on-one tech support!

Special Notes

Friends of the Library

This event made possible by the Friends of the Library.

Night Café

Wednesday, April 16, 2025 at 4:30pm - 5:30pm
Meeting Room (RAN) at Randolph Library
Program Type:
Cooking and Food, Neighborhood Events
Age Group:
Adults, Adults-Seniors
Event Details:

Welcome to the Night Cafe! Whether you want to steal a moment to read the next chapter of a good book or chat with other parents while your kids do homework and play, take some tim...

Library Branch: Randolph Library
Room: Meeting Room (RAN)
Age Group: Adults, Adults-Seniors
Program Type: Cooking and Food, Neighborhood Events
Event Details:

Welcome to the Night Cafe!

Special Notes

Friends of the Library

This event made possible by the Friends of the Library.

Image of passports on top of a map.

Passports by Shelby County Probate Court Clerk's Office

Thursday, April 17, 2025 at 10:00am - 3:15pm
Humphrey's Room at Benjamin L. Hooks Central Library
Program Type:
Passport Services
Age Group:
Adults, Adults-Seniors
Event Details:

The Probate Court Clerk's Office will offer Passport services at Benjamin L. Hooks Central Library on the 3rd Thursday of each month (except June 2025).By Appointment Only: Call th...

Library Branch: Benjamin L. Hooks Central Library
Room: Humphrey's Room
Age Group: Adults, Adults-Seniors
Program Type: Passport Services
Event Details:

The Probate Court Clerk's Office will offer Passport services at Benjamin L. Hooks Central Library on the 3rd Thursday of each month (except June 2025).

money

Raymond James and Associates “Ask Me Anything” financial session and Q&A

Thursday, April 17, 2025 at 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Cossitt Library
Program Type:
Legal Assistance, Personal Finance
Age Group:
Adults, Adults-Seniors
Event Details:

Join Lawson and Mary as they lead an interactive Q&A presentation that guides you through a timeline of financial planning topics as you prepare for and navigate through a reti...

Open
Required
Library Branch: Cossitt Library
Age Group: Adults, Adults-Seniors
Program Type: Legal Assistance, Personal Finance
Required
Seats Remaining: Unlimited
Event Details:

Join Lawson and Mary as they lead an interactive Q&A presentation that guides you through a timeline of financial planning topics as you prepare for and navigate through a retirement or any other stage you may be in now.

Creative Aging: Pallet Knife Painting

Thursday, April 17, 2025 at 1:00pm - 2:30pm
Meeting Room (RAN) at Randolph Library
Program Type:
Arts & Crafts
Age Group:
Adults-Seniors
Event Details:

Participants receive an introduction to painting with a pallet knife, learning to embrace an abstract eye and let go of the tightness that can be found using a paintbrush. Particip...

Library Branch: Randolph Library
Room: Meeting Room (RAN)
Age Group: Adults-Seniors
Program Type: Arts & Crafts
Event Details:

Participants receive an introduction to painting with a pallet knife, learning to embrace an abstract eye and let go of the tightness that can be found using a paintbrush.

Special Notes

Photograph Notice

This event may be recorded or photographed for use by the Memphis Public Libraries or the City of Memphis for media, social media, broadcast, and/or print purposes.

Patrice Shaw-Brunson

Introduction to Fashion Design 4-Part Series: Continuing Education & Lifelong Learning

Thursday, April 17, 2025 at 3:00pm - 4:00pm
Meeting Room (WHI) at Whitehaven Library
Age Group:
Teens, Adults, Adults-Seniors
Event Details:

Learn how to sketch fashion by using the proper measurements and format manually on paper. The course will include coloring and shading with no. 2 pencils, colored pencils, and col...

Open
Required
Library Branch: Whitehaven Library
Room: Meeting Room (WHI)
Age Group: Teens, Adults, Adults-Seniors
Required
Seats Remaining: 22
Event Details:

Learn how to sketch fashion by using the proper measurements and format manually on paper. The course will include coloring and shading with no. 2 pencils, colored pencils, and color markers.

Special Notes

Memphis Library Foundation

This event made possible by the Memphis Library Foundation.

Sit-N-Stitch Crochet and Knitting Club

Thursday, April 17, 2025 at 3:00pm - 5:00pm
East Shelby Library
Program Type:
Arts & Crafts, Sewing, Needlework, etc.
Age Group:
Teens, Adults, Adults-Seniors
Event Details:

Fiber arts creators come together and work on your current project! Make friend and connections with other artists in the area in a relaxing environment with people who might be ab...

Library Branch: East Shelby Library
Age Group: Teens, Adults, Adults-Seniors
Program Type: Arts & Crafts, Sewing, Needlework, etc.
Event Details:

Fiber arts creators come together and work on your current project!

Craft

Craft Making with Vinyl & Sublimation 2-Part Series: Continuing Education & Lifelong Learning

Thursday, April 17, 2025 at 5:30pm - 7:30pm
L-56 Training Room at Benjamin L. Hooks Central Library
Program Type:
STEAM arts
Age Group:
Teens, Adults, Adults-Seniors
Event Details:

Class will show how to make products through use of sublimation printing, epoxy tumbling, silhouette cameo and much more. Instructor: Marlena Oliver-Coleman is the founder and...

Open
Required
Library Branch: Benjamin L. Hooks Central Library
Room: L-56 Training Room
Age Group: Teens, Adults, Adults-Seniors
Program Type: STEAM arts
Required
Seats Remaining: 22
Event Details:

Class will show how to make products through use of sublimation printing, epoxy tumbling, silhouette cameo and much more. 

Special Notes

Memphis Library Foundation

This event made possible by the Memphis Library Foundation.

Happy woman in gray shirt holds up her finished sewing project.

Cherokee Sewing Club

Saturday, April 19, 2025 at 10:30am - 12:30pm
Meeting Room (CHE) at Cherokee Library
Program Type:
Sewing, Needlework, etc.
Age Group:
Teens, Adults, Adults-Seniors
Event Details:

The Cherokee Sewing Club meets once per month.This is a project based sewing group, aimed at beginners and people just learning to sew, although more experienced sewers will have f...

Waitlist
Required
Library Branch: Cherokee Library
Room: Meeting Room (CHE)
Age Group: Teens, Adults, Adults-Seniors
Program Type: Sewing, Needlework, etc.
Required
Seats Remaining: 0
Event Details:

The Cherokee Sewing Club meets once per month.

Special Notes

Photograph Notice

This event may be recorded or photographed for use by the Memphis Public Libraries or the City of Memphis for media, social media, broadcast, and/or print purposes.

Cuppa and a chat book club

Saturday, April 19, 2025 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Whitehaven Library
Program Type:
Book Clubs
Age Group:
Adults, Adults-Seniors
Event Details:

Join Library Staff on the third Saturday of each month for a good cuppa, a good book and a good chat.This month's book will be announced soon.

Library Branch: Whitehaven Library
Age Group: Adults, Adults-Seniors
Program Type: Book Clubs
Event Details:

Join Library Staff on the third Saturday of each month for a good cuppa, a good book and a good chat.

This month's book will be announced soon.

Special Notes

Friends of the Library

This event made possible by the Friends of the Library.

Financial Literacy

Rewrite Your Financial Story 4-Part Series: Continuing Education & Lifelong Learning

Saturday, April 19, 2025 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Meeting Room (HOL) at Hollywood Library
Program Type:
Personal Finance
Age Group:
Teens, Adults, Adults-Seniors
Event Details:

Four session financial literacy program empowering low- and high-income earning individuals to take control of their finances, rewrite their financial stories and build a sustainab...

Open
Required
Library Branch: Hollywood Library
Room: Meeting Room (HOL)
Age Group: Teens, Adults, Adults-Seniors
Program Type: Personal Finance
Required
Seats Remaining: 19
Event Details:

Four session financial literacy program empowering low- and high-income earning individuals to take control of their finances, rewrite their financial stories and build a sustainable foundation for financial success.

Special Notes

Memphis Library Foundation

This event made possible by the Memphis Library Foundation.

Going To Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project

Saturday, April 19, 2025 at 12:30pm - 2:30pm
Meeting Room A (OM) at Orange Mound Library
Program Type:
Cultural Awareness, Movies
Age Group:
Adults, Adults-Seniors
Event Details:

In celebration of Poetry month, we will be going to Mars with Nikki Giovanni. Let's explore the life, legacy, and mind of the literary genius in her own words as we watch Going To ...

Library Branch: Orange Mound Library
Room: Meeting Room A (OM)
Age Group: Adults, Adults-Seniors
Program Type: Cultural Awareness, Movies
Event Details:

In celebration of Poetry month, we will be going to Mars with Nikki Giovanni. Let's explore the life, legacy, and mind of the literary genius in her own words as we watch Going To Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project.

Special Notes

Friends of the Library

This event made possible by the Friends of the Library.

Photograph Notice

This event may be recorded or photographed for use by the Memphis Public Libraries or the City of Memphis for media, social media, broadcast, and/or print purposes.

Lady Justice

Do It Yourself Small Claim Court Filing 4-Part Virtual Series: Continuing Education & Lifelong Learning

Saturday, April 19, 2025 at 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Virtual at Benjamin L. Hooks Central Library
Program Type:
Legal Assistance
Age Group:
Teens, Adults, Adults-Seniors
Event Details:

Class will share with individuals the process of filing a small claim in Shelby County General Sessions Court on their own behalf (pro se). It will cover the court’s rules, decorum...

Open
Required
Virtual Event
Library Branch: Benjamin L. Hooks Central Library
Room: Virtual
Age Group: Teens, Adults, Adults-Seniors
Program Type: Legal Assistance
Required
Seats Remaining: 34
Event Details:

Class will share with individuals the process of filing a small claim in Shelby County General Sessions Court on their own behalf (pro se).

Special Notes

Memphis Library Foundation

This event made possible by the Memphis Library Foundation.

Movie Day @ Levi

Saturday, April 19, 2025 at 1:00pm - 4:00pm
Meeting Room (LEV) at Levi Library
Program Type:
Movies
Age Group:
Children (Age 0-5), Children (Age 6-8), Tweens (Age 8-12), Teens, Adults, Adults-Seniors
Event Details:

Every third Saturday, customers of all ages will get to watch a movie and enjoy popcorn and beverages. Please join us if you are interested, and make sure to spread the word!

Library Branch: Levi Library
Room: Meeting Room (LEV)
Age Group: Children (Age 0-5), Children (Age 6-8), Tweens (Age 8-12), Teens, Adults, Adults-Seniors
Program Type: Movies
Event Details:

Every third Saturday, customers of all ages will get to watch a movie and enjoy popcorn and beverages. Please join us if you are interested, and make sure to spread the word!

Special Notes

Friends of the Library

This event made possible by the Friends of the Library.

Photograph Notice

This event may be recorded or photographed for use by the Memphis Public Libraries or the City of Memphis for media, social media, broadcast, and/or print purposes.

Happy woman in gray shirt holds up her finished sewing project.

Cherokee Sewing Club

Saturday, April 19, 2025 at 1:30pm - 3:30pm
Meeting Room (CHE) at Cherokee Library
Program Type:
Arts & Crafts, Sewing, Needlework, etc.
Age Group:
Teens, Adults, Adults-Seniors
Event Details:

The Cherokee Sewing Club meets once per month.This is a project based sewing group, aimed at beginners and people just learning to sew, although more experienced sewers will have f...

Waitlist
Required
Library Branch: Cherokee Library
Room: Meeting Room (CHE)
Age Group: Teens, Adults, Adults-Seniors
Program Type: Arts & Crafts, Sewing, Needlework, etc.
Required
Seats Remaining: 0
Event Details:

The Cherokee Sewing Club meets once per month.

Special Notes

Photograph Notice

This event may be recorded or photographed for use by the Memphis Public Libraries or the City of Memphis for media, social media, broadcast, and/or print purposes.

Free Tech Support at the Library (available in four languages)

Saturday, April 19, 2025 at 2:00pm - 3:30pm
Meeting Room (COR) at Cordova Library
Program Type:
Computers and Technology
Age Group:
Adults, Adults-Seniors
Event Details:

Need help with your phone, laptop, tablet, email, photos, videos, etc.? Come to the library for free one on-one tech support! Our staff member Gretchen speaks English, Spanish, Fre...

Library Branch: Cordova Library
Room: Meeting Room (COR)
Age Group: Adults, Adults-Seniors
Program Type: Computers and Technology
Event Details:

Need help with your phone, laptop, tablet, email, photos, videos, etc.? Come to the library for free one on-one tech support!

Special Notes

Friends of the Library

This event made possible by the Friends of the Library.

East Shelby Library : Movie Day

Saturday, April 19, 2025 at 3:00pm - 5:00pm
Meeting Room A (ESB) at East Shelby Library
Program Type:
Movies
Age Group:
Children (Age 0-5), Children (Age 6-8), Tweens (Age 8-12), Teens, Adults, Adults-Seniors
Library Branch: East Shelby Library
Room: Meeting Room A (ESB)
Age Group: Children (Age 0-5), Children (Age 6-8), Tweens (Age 8-12), Teens, Adults, Adults-Seniors
Program Type: Movies

Special Notes

Friends of the Library

This event made possible by the Friends of the Library.

Mental Health

Prioritizing Mental Health (Vibes & Boundaries) 4-Part Series: Continuing Education & Lifelong Learning

Saturday, April 19, 2025 at 4:00pm - 5:00pm
Meeting Room (LEV) at Levi Library
Program Type:
Health & Wellness
Age Group:
Teens, Adults, Adults-Seniors
Event Details:

This course empowers individuals with the knowledge and tools to prioritize their mental health, build resilience and navigate life’s challenges. Through interactive discussions it...

Open
Required
Library Branch: Levi Library
Room: Meeting Room (LEV)
Age Group: Teens, Adults, Adults-Seniors
Program Type: Health & Wellness
Required
Seats Remaining: 20
Event Details:

This course empowers individuals with the knowledge and tools to prioritize their mental health, build resilience and navigate life’s challenges.

Special Notes

Memphis Library Foundation

This event made possible by the Memphis Library Foundation.