Week Calendar

Happy Halloween Hike! Come and join Memphis Public Libraries and several other vendors on Saturday, October 19 from 9:30 a.m.

Joseph Oliver and a variety of skilled professionals conduct weekly classes with customers participating in hands-on repair and learning exercises. Participants will be exposed to the basics of electricity and electronics theory and repair.

Bring your tablet, laptop, or smart device and receive one-on-one technical assistance in accessing the Library’s digital services.  This is not a formal class and customers receive assistance on a first-come first-served basis.  

Attention Veterans in Memphis: If you’re struggling with homelessness, help is available!

Join us for a fun aerobics exercise with Ms. Linda Epps. It's a great way to enjoy exercising while allowing you to stretch and 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.

First Student is recruiting! They are hiring school bus drivers and monitors to help make a difference in students' lives every day. Learn about competitive pay and benefits, and discover how you can be a vital part of our dedicated team.

How can your creativity and appreciation for the arts support your well-being? What exactly is meditation? How can mindfulness make creativity and relaxation more accessible?

Come to the Orange Mound Library for language-enhanced parenting classes!

For those who attended Landscape Watercolor.

Attention Veterans in Memphis: If you’re struggling with homelessness, help is available!

Join us for a fun aerobics exercise with Ms. Linda Epps. It's a great way to enjoy exercising while allowing you to stretch and improve flexibility, muscular strength, and cardiovascular fitness. 

Please join Memphis Area Legal Services for a free Family Law Legal Clinic for Seniors age 60 and older. 

Pro Se Divorce Workshop

Techy Seniors – Phone Basics

Learn the basic functions of smart phones and tablets. Participants will explore settings, and learn the following basic functions:

Walk a mile and get a free book! We are going to walk from the library entrance, complete the walking path around the Bert Ferguson community center (approx. 1 mile), and return to the library.

The women will be discussing, "The Light We Carry," by Michelle Obama. 

The Officer Geoffrey Redd Library Book Club is off to a running start.

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

Join us at Hollywood for our weekly technology classes. Learn all about how to best use technology to your advantage! The first hour will be a structured class and the last 45 minutes, we will answer questions about devices. See you there!

Covered in clutter? Let an expert guide you through organizing your home. Leah Anne Morse is a professional organizer and is coming to show us how to de-clutter our homes.

Come and join the discussion on understanding your medication and how they may interact with your other drugs and supplements taken, the side effects, the expected health outcomes, the benefits and/or risk associated with them.  

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

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!

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!

Game Day at North Branch will consist of a friendly game called Bid Whist. This game is fun, challenging, and can help seniors improve their memory, concentration, and social skills.  😊

Come and join us for storytime and soccer! Additional fun games will be offered, including the sports equipment that you can check out for free at the Tom Lee Park Welcome Desk (next to the playground).

Come out and enjoy chair yoga with other adults as well as a refreshing smoothie afterwards.

Come, join and see Ms. Amy Hutcheson's fine art works and is eager to meet in this 6-week course every Tuesday starting October 1st until November 5th from 1-3 p.m. Ms.

Chair Yoga is a promising form of exercise for adults to enjoy. We will have a calm atmosphere to relax, meditate and strengthen your muscle.

Speakers will talk about their experience with breast cancer

Love gardening? So do we!

Unleash the power of your mind control while learning dance moves and exercising.

Are you interested in learning about note taking and study skills? If so, this seminar is for you. Executive Director Shervelle Thomas will teach a free seminar focusing on how to be more prepared for tests and papers. 

This October, customers of all ages will get to watch the Bad Boys series and enjoy popcorn and beverages. Please join us if you are interested, and make sure to spread the word!

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

Calling ALL lovers of reading, conversation, short stories, smoothies, and great food! Join us for our short story book club! Do you enjoy reading but face commitment issues when it comes to completing books from start to finish?

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 Eddie will be happy to help you out.

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.

Please join the Renaissance Men's Book Club in an inspirational discussion of the book of month.

Join Allison, our resident jewelry artist, as she shows you how to create beautiful charmed and beaded jewelry pieces. Stuck on a project of your own? No worries, bring it in, she can help!

Memphis Fair Housing Center, a division of Memphis Area Legal Services, will hold a free legal advice clinic addressing housing questions.

Are you a fan of the classics like Astro Boy and Speed Racer? Maybe the Golden Age of the 80s and 90s like Voltron and Dragon Ball Z are more your vibe! Or you may be a part of the new school era of shonen with Naruto and My Hero Academia.

This book discussion group is open to anyone who loves to read and discuss books.  We have three titles from which to choose:

Adults come together and discuss book advised to read

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!

The only objective is to put words on paper! Think of this as a NaNoWriMo "write-in," but for those of us who need longer than a year to write a book! Bring a writing project to work on, or start something new. All skill levels welcome.

Grace H. will be leading a 6 week Crochet class teaching the basics. 

Learn to speak English in this intermediate class.

Grace H. will be leading a 6 week Crochet class teaching the basics. 

Gmail is more than just email—by creating a Google account, you gain access to a whole range of helpful products, completely for free!

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

This is the Python seminar portion of coding club, taught by our brilliant Dr. Karishma Gangwani! 

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.

Join us for our weekly Zumba fitness class! It's an excellent workout that will allow you to burn calories while having fun. It will also strengthen your muscles and improve flexibility.

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.

Ever find yourself stuck when you're trying to write? Or, maybe, you don't even know how to start? Then please join us for 'The Writer's Block,' a writing club geared towards gathering writers together and getting words down on the page.

This SCORE in-person seminar will provide an overview of social media strategies and content marketing.

Join this incredible opportunity for writers of all levels to hone their skills in this writing workshops series with Carnegie Writers!

Literature: Then & Now
with instructor Aaron Brame

Join us for our weekly Zumba fitness class! It's an excellent workout that will allow you to burn calories while having fun. It will also strengthen your muscles and improve flexibility.

Join us for the 2nd annual Cordova Fall Movie Night! 

We will have excited movies, snacks, and movie box giveaways!

Outdoor movie nights will take place next to the book drop and indoor movie nights will be in Room A.