Upcoming Events

Connect Crew will offer storytime to children while they wait to get their haircut. We will have several exciting stories to share! This program is in partnership with B.L.O.C. Squad Memphis Better Lives Opportunity Community.

Let's head to Asia and visit the Philippines! At the Hollywood Library, we'll spend the summer traveling the globe...from the comfort of our very own library!

Come learn about the importance of recycling through:

• fun books of the Michael Recycle series
• creating a magazine butterfly

Join us for MPL's Japanese Culture Club! This monthly meeting will be dedicated to the appreciation of Japanese culture.

Come to the Cordova Branch Library for Mr. Bond's Science Guys.  Play science games and create fun experiments.  For all ages and no registration is needed.

Rainbow Family Story Time is an inclusive space for all families and will feature stories, songs, crafts, and more!

Come and view the award-winning eight-part docu-series "High on the Hog: How African American Cuisine Transformed America." We will then sample cuisines mentioned in the film. Every Monday in June and July.

Stop by the South Branch on the 2nd Monday of each month to try out different ways to paint - from salt painting to finger painting, using puffy paints and more! 

Children get a chance to explore origami, a traditional Japanese art form.  With various folds, brightly-colored squares of paper can be transformed into objects, including animals, flowers, boxes, and more.

Connect Crew will be hosting a family storytime event at the Memphis Zoo! The storytime and animal meet & greet program will be held at the Wild Encounter location. The storytime event will occur during the zoo's Free TN Tuesday hours.

Come to the Cordova Branch Library for Paws for Reading with Job, the therapy dog.  Read to Job, he's a good listener.  Do crafts and snacks, too.

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.

 Join us at Levi for KidKuisine-Adventures in the Kitchen. Adventures in the Kitchen is a series of four hands-on cooking lessons created by the University of Tennessee Extension.

Bring the whole family to the South Branch for a movie adventure! 

Let's head to Asia and visit the Philippines! At the Hollywood Library, we'll spend the summer traveling the globe...from the comfort of our very own library!

Come join us as your child get creative and expressive in colors through painting. 

Are you a tween that loves to write? Join us for creative writing at the Orange Mound Library. Bring a story you’re working on or use one of our prompts for inspiration to start a new story.

Join us for Movies in the Haven as we take a look at book to film adaption with episode 1 and 2 of the new Percy Jackson series.

Children are introduced to the art of sewing by making their own stuffed "Wombat."  This fun and easy project is designed for first time sewers, helping them to learn basic hand stiches while expressing their creativity.

Join us for an intro to hand embroidery with our Tween librarian, Marty. Ages 8-17 only. Supplies limited. 

Ever wanted to wrestle with your friends on top of a moving semi truck or on a sinking ship being covered by sharks?  These are just some of the crazy situations that you get into playing "gang beasts".

Sensory storytime is a welcoming, interactive environment designed for special sensory seeking children with autism or other sensory integration challenges.