Week Calendar

Every Thursday from 4:15-5pm come and sharpen your reading skills. This group is for Pre-k to 5th grade.

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.  

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.

Toddlers and their caregivers are invited to Randolph Library for stories, songs, rhymes and a craft!

Join us for a fun-filled story time, for ages 0-2.

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.

Gather around and enjoy a good story followed by a crafting activity. 

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!

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

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

Join us for a fun-filled story time, for ages 3-5. 

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

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. 

Bring the family to storytime to explore stories and facts, shake your sillies out, sing and rhyme together, and more! 

This storytime occurs on Mondays at 11:00 a.m.

Join us for some not-so-scary stories on silly pumpkins, quiet scarecrows and creepy carrots on Tuesday this October!

We will read a story and enjoy some simple coloring sheets and crafts. 

Come to the Cordova Branch Library for Baby Storytime.  Share stories, songs and bubbles.

This week's theme is Clothes & Hats.

No registration is needed.

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. 

Come to the Cordova Branch Library for Storytime.  Share stories, songs and crafts.

This week's theme is Clothes & Hats.

No registration is needed.

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!

Come to the Cordova Branch Library for Storytime.  Share stories, songs and crafts.

This week's theme is Clothes & Hats.

No registration is needed.

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.  

Sensory Storytime is a welcoming interactive environment deigned for sensory seeking children with autism or other sensory integration challenges. 

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

Come to the Cordova Branch Library to learn about Dancing and Cooking in India.  See performances of Indian folk dance.  Learn about cooking Indian food.

For all ages and no registration is needed.

Join us for a special visit from the Collage Dance Firebird! Come see a ballet dancer in her Firebird costume as she reads stories and shares her magical feathers. Children of all ages are welcome to attend. 

Get ready for a day full of fun, laughter, and awesome adventures at Whitehaven Library's 4th Annual Harvest Festival!

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

NovelSpeak is a different kind of book club. Rather than everybody reading the same title, we all can share what they have been reading as individuals. It's exciting because participants can discuss what they want.

Love gardening? So do we!

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

Grab a mat and join us at Hollywood as we discover a fun way to de-stress and stay active! We'll explore yoga poses, breathing exercises, and mindfulness techniques as we find balance!

In this class, participants will follow instructions to create basic magical creatures. After that is completed, they can unleash their creativity by adding their own artistic style and flair.

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!

Come out and enjoy lectures by Mr. Joseph Olive, of Bluff City Electronics, surrounding electrical repair and circuit execution. 

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

Are you interested in gardening? If so, this club is for you. We will discuss our gardens and tend to the community garden. 

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!

Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month with us by joining us for the showing of Encanto. The movie Encanto was inspired by many parts of Colombian culture including its people, architecture, food, and dance.

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

Join us for our monthly Lego Club. Try completing one of our Lego challenges, try your hand at one of the Lego sets in our collection, or create your own masterpiece! 

Join us this Wednesday for our weekly Fiber Arts Club @ CLOUD901! Whether you want to work on an existing project, start a new project, or learn a new skill, come hang out with other fiber arts fans from 3:00-5:30 pm.

Join us for an hour of building, creating, and making new friends! 

Join us at the Whitehaven Library for a fun exploration of Japanese anime and comics. We'll dive into monthly screenings of popular anime and engage in discussions and activities on manga trends and Japanese culture. 

Welcome to the Whitehaven Booked Club! 

Come join us at the East Shelby Library Branch to work on your current knitting or crochet project with fellow artists in the Memphis area! Make connections with and learn new tricks and tips from other local artists. 

Halloween is around the corner! Have you picked out your costume yet? Make your costume shine with hand-made accessories!

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!

Kids can come to their Randolph Branch Library after school on Mondays and utilize their creativity with craft making!

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! 

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.

Welcome to Movie Mondays at CLOUD901! In the month of October, we will be featuring a different scary movie each Monday.

Let's craft a paper jack-o-lantern! 

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

Music is an important part of life. People use music to learn their ABCs, exercise, work, and enjoy the world. The Star Center's board-certified Music Therapists use these qualities of music to help people meet their individual goals.

 Do you want find your voice in your  writing ? Are you  worrying about  the writing section of the A.C.T.

Learn to speak English in this intermediate class.

Come lean a new skill and have fun here at Cordova in the Teen Innovation center

• crafts
• cooking
• movies
• games
• and more

Dive into the world of podcasting at CLOUD901’s Teen Learning Lab! In this hands-on workshop, teens will learn how to set up professional podcasting equipment, record high-quality audio and video, and create their own podcast episodes.

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!

Join us for a Spooktacular Halloween Movie Night at the library! Get ready for a ghoulish good time as we enjoy kid-friendly Halloween movies. 

Chill Club at Orange Mound Library is the perfect way to chill out after a long day at school.  Enjoy a snack and choose how you'd like to spend your time.

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.