Week Calendar

The North Branch Library is excited to invite you to participate in our upcoming Community Health Fair.

Enjoy stories, songs, and fun as children ages 3-5 are introduced to the joy-filled world of children’s books. Groups must pre-register.

Join us for a fun aerobic class with Ms. Linda Epps. Aerobics is a great way to have fun exercising while allowing you to stretch, improve flexibility, muscular strength, and cardiovascular fitness. 

A beginning Spanish class designed for students that have no familiarity with the language. Registration not necessary and we can start you with our beginners group and work you up to our advanced group.

This program is meant for writers who need motivation and community encouragement to get writing. Every Tuesday, writers will gather at Crosstown Concourse, 7th floor at the big table, to enjoy the company of other writers and get some work done!

ESL participants can learn basic intermediate English through reading and writing.

This program is meant for writers who need motivation and community encouragement to get writing. Every Tuesday, writers will gather at Crosstown Concourse, 7th floor at the big table, to enjoy the company of other writers and get some work done!

Join us for stories, songs, fingerplays, and fun with the toddler in your life. Appropriate for children ages 18-36 months. No groups.

Join us for a lap-sit story time for toddlers ages 1-3! We'll share books, songs, and play time each week! No registration necessary.

Learners 65+ are invited to register for this Creative Aging Studio Course at Cossitt Library! Participants work with artist Debbie Lovett to learn basic clay skills to create original jewelry with simple and found materials.

Come out, enjoy, and have fun learning some of the hottest line dancing steps of different genres for beginners at Raleigh. 

Join us for a fun aerobic class with Ms. Linda Epps. Aerobics is a great way to have fun exercising while allowing you to stretch, improve flexibility, muscular strength, and cardiovascular fitness. 

Join us at OGR Library at the corner of Poplar and White Station for stories, songs, movement, and more! 

Join us for a fun-filled story time.

Drop in at your convenience between 10:30 am and 2:00 pm for a free health screening event presented by Tristate Community Health Center at the Bartlett Library in the Meeting Room.

Are you new to computers or looking to freshen up on your skills? Please join us for our computer basics class! Come learn about accessing essential tools on the desktop and on the web. We can't wait for you to join us! 

Are you interested in crocheting or knitting? If so, this program is for you. Memphis Yarnworks is hosting a Sit & Stitch session. Please bring your own supplies.  

Connect Crew attended Power Center Academy's Block Party for library card sign ups, to hand out free books and more giveaways, as well as share information about our programs at MPL!

Come to the Cordova Branch Library for Baby Storytime.  Share stories and songs and bubbles.  This week's theme: Moo Cows!

No registration is needed.

Adult participants come out and enjoy various provided games; interacting with peers and establishing relationships with others. 

Use those logical thinking skills and make a marshmallow catapult to fling a marshmallow across the room! Join Mr. Tim Roberts from the Tennessee Ag Extension office to put your STEM skills to work!

Teaching artist Cindi Ledger welcomes all levels of participants in this hands-on collage making course. This five-week course is a perfect class for those new to creating art. Make a collage to keep and reflect your inspiration for life.

Come to the Cordova Branch Library for Storytime.  Share stories and songs and crafts.  This week's theme: Moo Cows

No registration is needed.

Join us for a preschool story time for children ages 2-5! We'll share books, songs, a craft, and more each week! No registration necessary.

We encourage our seniors to come to the Levi Library and test their skills in our Bingo Wednesday! Our special guest will be Dale Street!

If you have any questions, please call us at 901-415-2773!

Come to the Cordova Branch Library for Storytime.  Share stories and songs and crafts.  This week's theme: Moo Cows

No registration is needed.

Creative Aging Studio Course: Faces and Spaces Painting Course

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

Come to the Cordova Branch Library for a kickoff to this summer's fun!  All kinds of activities including water balloons, glitter frisbees, all you can eat popsicles and watergun t-shirt painting.

Come out and experience the 5th annual Comunity Heath, Wellness, and Safety Resource Fair. 20+ Vendors, Music, Entertainment, Free Food, Etc.

Chicago Stepping is coming to the Levi Library.

Looking for a way to set healthy goals or start an exercise routine? Join us at Levi as we move and groove with modern, easy to use equipment. Your choice, Your Pace!

Looking for a way to set healthy goals or start an exercise routine? Join us at Levi as we move and groove with modern, easy to use equipment. Your choice, Your Pace!

Looking for a way to set healthy goals or start an exercise routine? Join us at Levi as we move and groove with modern, easy to use equipment. Your choice, Your Pace!

Come join us for a quick class on the use of AI! We will be covering ChatGPT and Meta AI, discussing the advantages and disadvantages, how to effectively utilize AI, as well as when and where to use it while ensuring safety.

Looking for a way to set healthy goals or start an exercise routine? Join us at Levi as we move and groove with modern, easy to use equipment. Your choice, Your Pace!

Through language-enhanced parent education, we hope to enhance the knowledge you already have of child development, particularly in language and social-emotional development through LENA Research coupled with Nurturing Parenting and Adverse Childh

Join the Frayser Book Club for a lively book discussion! Listen and discuss plot points, writing style, and hidden messages in the novel.

Please join us Saturday afternoons for children's craft time at Cossitt Library. We will have a guided craft, but also will provide supplies for artistic free play. Come get crafty with us!

If you want to learn tips and techniques to create beautiful quilts, this is your class! Join us on Saturdays

(May 25, June 1st & 8th) for a fun, creative and relaxing experience!

Join us at Levi for a fun take on the Biggest Loser  Challenge. This 8-week program will be geared toward adults looking to achieve maintainable weight loss and healthy goals.

Are you in debt? Come to this seminar to learn how to get back on track!

You're invited to the Parkway Village Library Tea Party!

Come to taste and learn about the origins of delicious teas from around the world! Play tea-related games and enjoy complementary treats along with your tea. 

This 4-part class will share with individuals the process of filing a small claim in Shelby County General Sessions Court on their own behalf (pro se).

Tweens, join us in a page turning of new and exciting books just for you!

Do you love Memphis? We do! Join us in celebrating our city AND the start of Summer Reading!  Enjoy free food, live music from local bands, and story time and crafts.

Join us for our weekly Storytime for Preschoolers! We will read and sing and make a small craft. 

Join the Dixon's own Shawna White for an hour of learning inspired by the ever changing seasons and collections at the Gallery. No experience needed to create your own works of art from a wide variety of techniques!

Join the Dixon Gardens and Gallery's Shawna White to learn about connections between our local flora and the arts while making your own art.

Participants will discuss concepts and sketch ideas with teaching artist Sarah Nowlin for an original sculpture creation. The sculptures are created with cardboard, foil, wire, masking tape, paper, and various other materials.

Join us for the 25th annual Frayser Fun Fest! Enjoy vendors, games, and more as we say goodbye to the old Frayser Branch building.

Adults 18 and older are invited to join us on Friday, May 31 from 2:00-5:00 for a VOLUNTEER FAIR.

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

Join us every Saturday from 2pm to 4pm to practice reading/speaking English and building new vocabulary in a casual friendly environment. Each attendee is welcome to read a page from the suggested book aloud.

Part of the Creative Sharing Series, this workshop will immerse nature with art. Ms. Liz Hill, professional artist and educator, will instruct a painting class that will provide a creative and unique experience.

Tween Zone is a chance for tweens ages 10-12 to chill out after school. Need to give your mind a break? Stop by the children's department to create art, play games, and chill. 

Learn tips and tricks on personal hygiene, presentation, networking, resumes, and more to get you ready for interviews and career fairs.

Using the art of puppetry, Les Passees's mission is to educate children about social concerns and differences, giving them the skills to stay safe and healthy.

Join us at the East Shelby Library for a movie day every other Saturday from 3-5 PM. What adventures will you experience that day? You'll have to come see the movie to find out!

"Threading Legacies" presents a profound narrative woven into the very fabric of Memphis's history, paying homage to the Black women quilters whose craftsmanship has been a cornerstone of cultural heritage and storytelling.

Are you interested in learning how to code? We have just the class for you! Calling all tweens and teens between ages 12-16 let's learn how to code with CodeCrafters.

Learn to speak English in this intermediate class.

Children will enjoy an interactive and engaging storytime that is sure to keep them wanting more!

Are you a Cat Kid's Comic Club fan? Come to the library and make your own one-page comic! 

Please join us on Wednesdays for fun and fresh programs. Programs will change weekly. 

• cooking
• movies
• board games
• video games
• quiet space
• cricut and more

Are you interested in learning how to code? We have just the class for you! Calling all tweens and teens between ages 12-16 let's learn how to code with CodeCrafters.

South's STEM Club will look at different STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) topics each month, from bridges to solar power.

Build English skills in a relaxed, friendly environment, meet other English learners, and practice speaking and listening skills in small groups.

Teens Turn Up Fridays is time for our teens to express themselves through music, arts, and crafts.

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

Participants can learn about the United States and prepare for the Citizenship exam.

A beginning Spanish class designed for students that have no familiarity with the language. Registration not necessary and we can start you with our beginners group and work you up to our advanced group.

Need assistance with your phone, computer or tablet? Come to Whitehaven on 2nd and 4th Tuesdays from 6pm to 7pm for tech help with:

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 each Tuesday evening in May for 'open play' pickleball on our three courts here at the Benjamin L. Hooks Central Library parking lot! We have balls and paddles for folks to use, or feel free to bring your own. No registration required!

Join this editing crash course with Marius Harrell, Gabrielle Duffie, and Jarvis Hughes!

Living Poets Society

April 25-May 30

Thursdays 6-8pm

With due respect to Mr.