Week Calendar

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.  

Do you enjoy light exercise? If so, this is perfect for you. Chair yoga is great for seniors and those with minimal mobility.  Please bring your own mat. 

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.

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

Are you a computer beginner? Or do you need a refresher course? Join the Frayser Branch Library's Computer Basics class for a simple step-by-step course on computers, their parts, and how to navigate them.

The Computer Basics class is for the very beginner who has very little computer experience. We start with the basics and help you build knowledge in operating a computer.

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. 

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.  

Join Memphis Public Libraries and Friends of the Library at the Inger Upchurch Infant and Early Childhood Conference.  There will be two workshops, as well as resources for caregivers and childcare professionals, giveaways, food and more!

The highlight of this meeting is an update on the new Frayser Library and upcoming programs.

Need to renew, update, or join the Friends? No problem!! 
 

This is a small, project based sewing class, aimed at beginners and people just learning to sew, although more experienced sewers will have fun too!

Learn about AI art with this free program! No computer skills are needed to participate! Just bring yourself. We'll have live demos with AI tools and lots of opportunity for audience participation. 

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

Join us for "Harriet Tubman: One Woman's Journey," a powerful 90-minute performance by Jackie Murray that brings the incredible life of Harriet Tubman to the stage. In this original one-woman show, Ms.

Join our new craft program, Tangled in Crafts, as both patrons and staff tackle crafts with little to no experience! 

October: Painting

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!

Join us on November 2, 11am-12pm at the Orange Mound Branch for Vinyasa Yoga with Marcella Simien!

This workshop takes place during the Inger Upchurch Infant and Early Childhood Conference.

Literacy Mid-South is teaching an English Language Learning Class (ELL) for those seeking to improve their English language skills. The class meets Monday and Saturday from 11:00 to 12:30. 

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!

Meet Jalen and James Hines. Authors of over 17 children's books. Hear how the two brothers from the Raleigh community began their journey of becoming published authors. 

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

Relax with friends during an afternoon of fun and games.

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.

Members of the Memphis Police Department as well the nonprofit Love Doesn't Hurt, will provide statistics and solutions to the plague of domestic violence that is rampart in the United States of America.

Calling all superheroes! Ready to create your very own cape and unleash your superpowers? Join us for a fun-filled crafternoon cape-making class! We’ll help you cut out and decorate your cape with all kinds of fun and colorful materials.

Come join us to watch the fantastic movie/musical the COLOR PURPLE starting Fantasia and Taraji P Henson. You will laugh cry and enjoy the gathering.

This is a small, project based sewing class, aimed at beginners and people just learning to sew, although more experienced sewers will have fun too!

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!

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.

Want to find others that are into anime just like you? Maybe you want to introduce someone you know to the culture. Maybe you've binged all of these great movies and just want a chill space to watch them again.

Curious about the mysteries of the cosmos? Join us at the Orange Mound Library for a captivating talk on UFOs presented by Dr. Michael Hughes.

This Halloween, dive into thrills and chills at our annual Halloween celebration! Get ready for an evening filled with ghostly games, spine-tingling treats, and eerie entertainment.

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. 

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

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.

Robyn Jones is a classical clarinetist and Associate Professor of Clarinet in the Rudi E. Scheidt School of Music at the University of Memphis. 

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.

Looking for a fun and safe event for the kiddos on Halloween night? If so, check out this family friendly event! There will be plenty of games, activities and scary stories to go around.

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.

For October, our "page-to-screen" book club, I Read That Movie @ the Library, is getting into the Halloween spirit with the classic sci-fi horror novel The Invisible Man, by the great H.G. Wells.

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.