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MTL Youth Chess Club (Recommended for Grades 4-8) IN PERSON Program
April 29    
5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Registration recommended; drop-ins welcome. We invite young chess players and chess enthusiasts to participate in our newly launched Youth Chess Club. No prior chess knowledge is [...]
Adult Chess Club (In-person)
April 29    
6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Registration Recommended, See Below We invite all adult chess players and chess enthusiasts to participate in our newly launched, weekly Adult Chess Club. No prior [...]
MTL Writers' Group (Virtual)
April 29    
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Registration Required Below The Mark Twain Library's Writers' Group meets via Zoom on the second and fourth Monday of the month. In this session the [...]
TOPSTONE Family Story Time Co-Sponsored by the Redding Department of Parks & Rec (ages birth-5)
MTL Story Times @ Topstone Pond: Co-sponsored by the Redding Department of Parks & Recreation Let's enjoy the outdoors together! We'll gather at Topstone beach [...]
Creative Collective Discussion Group: "The Creative Act" (Virtual)
April 30    
10:30 am - 12:00 pm
Registration is closed for this session.  Please join us for our next session in June.  Have fun and make friends while cultivating your creativity in [...]
Weekly Drop-In Knitting Circle (In-Person)
April 30    
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Meets Tuesdays, 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm Our popular weekly drop-in knitting circle continues to meets every Tuesday in the Library's Mark Twain Room.  Share [...]
Paths To Autistic Empowerment: Open Communication and Self-Advocacy
Registration Required Below April is Autism Acceptance Month, a time for sharing stories and providing opportunities to increase understanding and acceptance of people with autism. [...]
Family Story Time (birth-5)
May 1    
10:30 am - 11:10 am
$0.00
Registration Required It's time for Family Story Time! We'll sing, dance, and read together.  This event is designed for children birth - 5 but interested [...]
MTL Cookbook Club: "The Woks of Life" (In-person)
May 1    
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
$0.00
Registration Require Below Join us for the MTL Cookbook Club – part book club, part culinary tasting!  Each meeting will focus on a particular cookbook [...]
Bearing Witness: Yom HaShoah — Holocaust Remembrance Day (In-Person)
May 2    
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
$0.00
Registration Required Below As a descendant of two Holocaust survivors, Redding's Renee Bronner Pessin will mark this Holocaust Remembrance Day (May 5—6) by telling the story [...]
Make Beaded Friendship Bracelets with MTL Teen Craft Club (Recommended for Grades 5-8)
May 3    
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
$0.00
Please register below. The MTL Craft club is a fun space for teens to relax, have snacks, and craft! During each meeting, we’ll make a [...]
Frog Frolic Family Festival
Click here to learn all about the Frog Frolic Family Festival! A Day of Fun for Everyone! SATURDAY, MAY 4TH, 2024 - 10AM-4PM @ Redding [...]
MTL Open Mic: A Literary Event for Teens and Adults (Registration for READERS/PARTICIPANTS)
May 5    
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
$0.00
Please register below. Mark Twain Library invites local writers and lovers of literature to join us for an open mic event! Read your own work [...]
MTL Open Mic: A Literary Event for Teens and Adults (Registration for AUDIENCE MEMBERS)
May 5    
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
$0.00
Please register below. Mark Twain Library invites local writers and lovers of literature to join us for an open mic event! Read your own work [...]
Kindergarten May Story Time
Kindergartners, we'll gather together for a relaxing afternoon of books, stories and songs. The Kindergarteners will attend this program without an adult. Photos and videos [...]
MTL Youth Chess Club (Recommended for Grades 4-8) IN PERSON Program
May 6    
5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
$0.00
Registration recommended; drop-ins welcome. We invite young chess players and chess enthusiasts to participate in our newly launched Youth Chess Club. No prior chess knowledge is [...]
Adult Chess Club (In-person)
May 6    
6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
$0.00
Registration Recommended, See Below We invite all adult chess players and chess enthusiasts to participate in our newly launched, weekly Adult Chess Club. No prior [...]
Great Decisions (In-Person)
May 6    
7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Registration for this program is closed.  Look for our next session in the Fall of 2024 Join our popular Great Decisions series, an international relations [...]
Creative Collective Discussion Group: "The Creative Act" (Virtual)
May 7    
10:30 am - 12:00 pm
Registration is closed for this session.  Please join us for our next session in June.  Have fun and make friends while cultivating your creativity in [...]
Weekly Drop-In Knitting Circle (In-Person)
May 7    
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Meets Tuesdays, 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm Our popular weekly drop-in knitting circle continues to meets every Tuesday in the Library's Mark Twain Room.  Share [...]
K.R.A.B.S (Kids Raving About Books) for 4th, 5th and 6th Graders
May 7    
4:00 pm - 4:45 pm
$0.00
4th, 5th, and 6th graders are invited to attend our monthly book discussion group for younger readers on May 6th, to browse through new books, [...]
Regenerative Farming — Eat Better, Save the Planet (Virtual)
May 7    
6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
$0.00
Registration Required Below This program is co-sponsored by Little Meadow Farm of Redding and Redding Land Trust  What did our planet look like before industrial [...]
Regenerative Farming — Eat Better, Save the Planet (In-Person)
May 7    
6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
$0.00
Registration Required Below This program is co-sponsored by Little Meadow Farm of Redding and Redding Land Trust  What did our planet look like before industrial [...]
Family Story Time (birth-5)
May 8    
10:30 am - 11:10 am
$0.00
Registration Required It's time for Family Story Time! We'll sing, dance, and read together.  This event is designed for children birth - 5 but interested [...]
Nature Book Club — 'Better Living Through Birding' (Off-Site)
May 8    
11:30 am - 12:30 pm
$0.00
LOCATION: New Pond Farm Education Center Co-Sponsored by New Pond Farm Education Center and Redding Land Trust Delve more deeply into nature, ecology and wildlife [...]
Women and Money Roundtable: How to Make Sense of Today’s Financial Markets (Virtual)
May 8    
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
$0.00
Registration Required Below  The Women and Money Roundtable is a monthly financial program created to empower and educate women on financial matters that impact their families [...]
Fine Wine or Sour Grapes? Let's Talk About Aging (In-person)
May 9    
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
$0.00
Registration Required Below Co-sponsored by Redding's Commission on Aging "Aging is an extraordinary process whereby you become the person you always should have been," David [...]
The Collective @ MTL — Community Pop-Up Market (In-Person)
May 9    
2:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Looking for unique Mother's Day gifts, or thinking about treating yourself to something special this spring? Visit The Collective @ MTL: Community Pop-Up Market where [...]
MTL Youth Chess Club (Recommended for Grades 4-8) IN PERSON Program
May 13    
5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
$0.00
Registration recommended; drop-ins welcome. We invite young chess players and chess enthusiasts to participate in our newly launched Youth Chess Club. No prior chess knowledge is [...]
Adult Chess Club (In-person)
May 13    
6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
$0.00
Registration Recommended, See Below We invite all adult chess players and chess enthusiasts to participate in our newly launched, weekly Adult Chess Club. No prior [...]
Confronting Antisemitism in Redding: A Panel Discussion
May 13    
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
$0.00
Registration Required Below Join our panelists for an evening where we address the presence of antisemitism in our community and how we can work together [...]
MTL Writers' Group (Virtual)
May 13    
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
$0.00
Registration Required Below The Mark Twain Library's Writers' Group meets via Zoom on the second and fourth Monday of the month. In this session the [...]
TOPSTONE Family Story Time Co-Sponsored by the Redding Department of Parks & Rec (ages birth-5)
May 14    
10:30 am - 11:00 am
$0.00
MTL Story Times @ Topstone Pond: Co-sponsored by the Redding Department of Parks & Recreation Let's enjoy the outdoors together! We'll gather at Topstone beach [...]
Creative Collective Discussion Group: "The Creative Act" (Virtual)
May 14    
10:30 am - 12:00 pm
Registration is closed for this session.  Please join us for our next session in June.  Have fun and make friends while cultivating your creativity in [...]
Redding Reads Scripts (In-Person)
May 14    
11:00 am - 12:30 pm
$0.00
Registration Required Below Release your inner thespian and join the new MTL Script Reading Group. Our group is a whole new way to experience a [...]
Midday Recharge: A Meditation Series (Virtual)
May 14    
12:00 pm - 12:30 pm
$0.00
Registration Required Below A changing season is a time for renewal and considering different points of view. Join popular meditation instructor Alexa Owen virtually for [...]
Weekly Drop-In Knitting Circle (In-Person)
May 14    
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Meets Tuesdays, 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm Our popular weekly drop-in knitting circle continues to meets every Tuesday in the Library's Mark Twain Room.  Share [...]
Family Story Time (birth-5)
May 15    
10:30 am - 11:10 am
$0.00
Registration Required It's time for Family Story Time! We'll sing, dance, and read together.  This event is designed for children birth - 5 but interested [...]
Great Composers Part III: Beethoven's Musical Language (Virtual)
May 15    
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
$0.00
Registration Required Below Born Ludwig “Van” (not “Von” — a distinction of significance) Beethoven, this German of humble birth would become arguably the most celebrated [...]
Great Composers Part III: Beethoven's Musical Language (In-Person)
May 15    
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
$0.00
Registration Required Below Born Ludwig “Van” (not “Von” — a distinction of significance) Beethoven, this German of humble birth would become arguably the most celebrated [...]
History Book Club — 'Code Talker' (In-Person)
May 15    
7:30 pm - 8:30 pm
$0.00
Registration Required Below Interested in history? This book club is for you! Led by members of the Library's Programming Committee, this book club selects engaging [...]
Sit to Be Fit: A Chair Yoga Series with Viki (Virtual)
May 16    
12:30 pm - 1:15 pm
$0.00
Please note the new start time of 12:30 pm. Registration Required Below Want to free yourself from tension and stress? Lose weight? Build strength and [...]
Department Stores — A Feminine Oasis: A Tour of Her Own (Virtual)
May 16    
6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
$0.00
Registration Required Below At one time, department stores were places that women could find a modicum of freedom from a male-dominated world. This nexus of [...]
The Allen and Helen Hermes Arts Series presents — Improv at the Library with Troupe Du Jour (In-Person)
May 19    
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
$0.00
Registration Required Below The Allen and Helen Hermes Arts Series is pleased to host Improv at the Library, where all the world's a stage and [...]
MTL Youth Chess Club (Recommended for Grades 4-8) IN PERSON Program
May 20    
5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
$0.00
Registration recommended; drop-ins welcome. We invite young chess players and chess enthusiasts to participate in our newly launched Youth Chess Club. No prior chess knowledge is [...]
Adult Chess Club (In-person)
May 20    
6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
$0.00
Registration Recommended, See Below We invite all adult chess players and chess enthusiasts to participate in our newly launched, weekly Adult Chess Club. No prior [...]
Great Decisions (In-Person)
May 20    
7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
$0.00
Registration is Required Below Join our popular Great Decisions series, an international relations discussion group that meets in person at the Library. This 8-session course, [...]
Great Decisions (In-Person)
May 20    
7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Registration for this program is closed.  Look for our next session in the Fall of 2024 Join our popular Great Decisions series, an international relations [...]
Creative Collective Discussion Group: "The Creative Act" (Virtual)
May 21    
10:30 am - 12:00 pm
Registration is closed for this session.  Please join us for our next session in June.  Have fun and make friends while cultivating your creativity in [...]
Weekly Drop-In Knitting Circle (In-Person)
May 21    
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Meets Tuesdays, 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm Our popular weekly drop-in knitting circle continues to meets every Tuesday in the Library's Mark Twain Room.  Share [...]
Z.E.B.R.A. (Zealous Excellent Book Readers Association) for 7th and 8th Graders
May 21    
4:00 pm - 4:45 pm
$0.00
Avid readers in 7th and 8th grades are invited to attend our monthly book discussion group for older readers. There will be books for browsing [...]
College Application Timeline Workshop (Recommended for Rising Seniors and their Families) Zoom program
Please register below to receive a Zoom link the day of the program. Calling all rising seniors! You have a lot coming up in the next [...]
Family Story Time (birth-5)
May 22    
10:30 am - 11:10 am
$0.00
Registration Required It's time for Family Story Time! We'll sing, dance, and read together.  This event is designed for children birth - 5 but interested [...]
Navigating the Challenge of Dementia — Luncheon, Lecture & New Resources (In-person)
May 22    
12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
$0.00
Registration Required Below LUNCHEON, LECTURE & PRESENTATION OF NEW RESOURCES AT MTL Caring for someone suffering from memory loss? Interested in learning more about the [...]
Fine Wine or Sour Grapes? Let's Talk About Aging (In-person)
May 23    
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
$0.00
Registration Required Below Co-sponsored by Redding's Commission on Aging "Aging is an extraordinary process whereby you become the person you always should have been," David [...]
Build Your Own U.S. History Book! (Grades 5-8) OFFSITE PROGRAM AT JOHN READ MIDDLE SCHOOL
May 24    
8:00 am - 8:50 am
$0.00
Please register below. This program will be held before school at John Read Middle School. Come enjoy snacks and test your knowledge of U.S. History [...]
Classics Book Club: 'Winesburg, Ohio' (In-Person)
May 24    
11:00 am - 12:30 pm
$0.00
Registration Required Below This group is led by MTL's bibliophile extraordinaire,  Catherine Riordan. Catherine taught literature at the college level for many years, and shares [...]
MTL Youth Chess Club (Recommended for Grades 4-8) IN PERSON Program
May 27    
5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
$0.00
Registration recommended; drop-ins welcome. We invite young chess players and chess enthusiasts to participate in our newly launched Youth Chess Club. No prior chess knowledge is [...]
TOPSTONE Family Story Time Co-Sponsored by the Redding Department of Parks & Rec (ages birth-5)
May 28    
10:30 am - 11:00 am
$0.00
MTL Story Times @ Topstone Pond: Co-sponsored by the Redding Department of Parks & Recreation Let's enjoy the outdoors together! We'll gather at Topstone beach [...]
Creative Collective Discussion Group: "The Creative Act" (Virtual)
May 28    
10:30 am - 12:00 pm
Registration is closed for this session.  Please join us for our next session in June.  Have fun and make friends while cultivating your creativity in [...]
Jazz Journeys with David Morgan (In-Person)
May 28    
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
$0.00
Registration Required Below Embark on a soulful journey of enchanting melodies and smooth rhythms with David Morgan, a Redding resident and accomplished jazz pianist. During [...]
Midday Recharge: A Meditation Series (Virtual)
May 28    
12:00 pm - 12:30 pm
$0.00
Registration Required Below A changing season is a time for renewal and considering different points of view. Join popular meditation instructor Alexa Owen virtually for [...]
Weekly Drop-In Knitting Circle (In-Person)
May 28    
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Meets Tuesdays, 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm Our popular weekly drop-in knitting circle continues to meets every Tuesday in the Library's Mark Twain Room.  Share [...]
Family Story Time (birth-5)
May 29    
10:30 am - 11:10 am
$0.00
Registration Required It's time for Family Story Time! We'll sing, dance, and read together.  This event is designed for children birth - 5 but interested [...]
Sit to Be Fit: A Chair Yoga Series with Viki (Virtual)
May 30    
12:30 pm - 1:15 pm
$0.00
Please note the new start time of 12:30 pm. Registration Required Below Want to free yourself from tension and stress? Lose weight? Build strength and [...]
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