Learn all about Mark Twain, our library's beloved founder and Redding's most famous resident this Monday at the Mark Twain Library! Michael Patrick, an RES [...]

Registration Required Below The Mark Twain Library's Writers' Group meets via Zoom on the second and fourth Monday of the month. In addition to reading [...]

Registration Required Below Have fun and make friends while cultivating your creativity in our weekly group discussions about art, creativity and so much more! Our [...]

You’re writing a book (or thinking about it), but what happens next? Join us for an inside look into working with an agent and the [...]

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 [...]

Registration Required Below Co-sponsored with Redding's Heritage Center Join us for an informative session tailored to pickleball enthusiasts, featuring Sports Podiatrist Dr. Allan Rosenthal, affectionately [...]

Our youngest patrons and their caregivers will play and get to know other caregivers with same-age children. Together we will enjoy music and stories through [...]

During our 2s Story Time, children 24-36 months and their caregivers will learn and play together. Each week we will explore music and stories through [...]

Registration Required Below  Looking for a way to stay grounded and rejuvenated this winter? Join us for this popular and inspiring 6-week virtual series with [...]

This is an energetic and interactive 40-minute program for independent 3-and-4 year-olds since they will attend story time without their caregiver.  We will share books, [...]

National Puzzle Day is on January 29th. Come enjoy a relaxing night of puzzle building and hanging with friends to celebrate! Registration is required. (5th [...]

REGISTRATION REQUIRED BELOW Co-sponsored with New Pond Farm Education Center Microplastics are ubiquitous in the environment and can be found in marine and freshwater ecosystems, [...]

UNO is back! Join us for another group game of uno and snacks.  This will be a once a month game night so bring your [...]

SAVE THE DATE: The Mark Twain Library will be celebrating 2025's Take Your Child to the Library Day on the morning of Saturday, February 1st.  [...]

A Take Your Child to the Library Day Event We'll start Take Your Child to the Library Day with bagels, donuts, coffee, books, toys, and [...]

“Rockin’ and Reading with Pete the Cat!” is a highly interactive musical performance that promotes the joy of reading and empowers kids to discover their [...]

Book Browsing & Mini Krispie Treats is a Take Your Child to the Library Day Event Browse for your next great read and enjoy a [...]

Kindergartners, we'll gather together for a relaxing afternoon of books, stories, songs and snacks! The Kindergarteners will attend this program without an adult. Children who [...]

Have you ever used yarn to make a piece of art? It’s not knitting or crocheting! You’ll get to design your own picture using only [...]

Join our popular Great Decisions series, an international relations discussion group that meets in person at the Library. This 8-session course, designed by the Foreign [...]

Registration Required Below Have fun and make friends while cultivating your creativity in our weekly group discussions about art, creativity and so much more! Our [...]

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 [...]

Join us for this enlightening presentation with Smithsonian curator Sabrina Sholts as she talks about how the very fact of being human increases our pandemic [...]

4th, 5th, and 6th graders are invited to attend our monthly book discussion group for younger readers on February 4th, to browse through new books, [...]

Come chit chat over snacks one Tuesday a month at Chat & Chew. Specifically for grades 7 and up, you’ll have a designated place to [...]

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 [...]

CANCELLED FOR INCLEMENT WEATHER Our youngest patrons and their caregivers will play and get to know other caregivers with same-age children. Together we will enjoy [...]

CANCELLED FOR INCLEMENT WEATHER During our 2s Story Time, children 24-36 months and their caregivers will learn and play together. Each week we will explore [...]

Registration Required Below  Looking for a way to stay grounded and rejuvenated this winter? Join us for this popular and inspiring 6-week virtual series with [...]

CANCELLED FOR INCLEMENT WEATHER This is an energetic and interactive 40-minute program for independent 3-and-4 year-olds since they will attend story time without their caregiver.  [...]

CANCELLED DUE TO INCLEMENT WEATHER ~ Rescheduled for Thursday, May 8 at 6:30 pm MTL's History Close to Home Series Watch history come to life [...]

Pick a number, or two, or three….Ready? Set? Roll! Our Friday Game is Tenzi, a fast paced dice game with the potential for a challenge. [...]

*Registration will close for this hike on Thursday, February 6 at 4:00 pm The Redding Community Hiking Club, a collaboration between the Redding Land Trust, [...]

Registration Required Below Join us in a judgment-free environment where participants, often strangers, can openly engage in discussion on the topic of death and dying. [...]

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 [...]

Registration Required Below The Mark Twain Library's Writers' Group meets via Zoom on the second and fourth Monday of the month. In addition to reading [...]

Registration Required Below Have fun and make friends while cultivating your creativity in our weekly group discussions about art, creativity and so much more! Our [...]

Registration Required Below Release your inner thespian and join the Redding script reading group. Our group is a whole new way to experience a play [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Bestselling author Waubgeshig Rice chats about his newest book Moon of the Turning Leaves, the hotly anticipated sequel to his bestselling novel Moon of the [...]

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 [...]

Let's celebrate Valentine's Day together with pizza and Valentine's Day crafts. Miss Lisa will bring cheese pizza and we have a water fountain/ water bottle [...]

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 [...]

Are you a third grader who loves to read? Then we invite you to join the BOOKSTERS! This is the Mark Twain Library's NEW book [...]

As spring approaches, our bodies start to recover from common winter ailments. Explore how plants can help support this revitalization.  Join Community Herbalist Brenna E. [...]

Our youngest patrons and their caregivers will play and get to know other caregivers with same-age children. Together we will enjoy music and stories through [...]

During our 2s Story Time, children 24-36 months and their caregivers will learn and play together. Each week we will explore music and stories through [...]

This is an energetic and interactive 40-minute program for independent 3-and-4 year-olds since they will attend story time without their caregiver.  We will share books, [...]

Celebrate Valentine’s Day by decorating your own heart shaped cookies - toppings will be provided. There will be cocoa and treats, too! Come share the [...]

Love and friendship are in the air at the Mark Twain Library.  At the "Be Mine, Valentine" Story Time, we'll start with free-play, then we'll [...]

Race the clock and your peers to quickly come up with unique answers in specific categories, then earn points if your answer isn’t named by [...]

Faces, patterns, foods, or words. Let’s get creative - come paint something fun on rocks of all shapes and sizes! (Grades 5+) Registration is required.

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 [...]

Registration for this series is full. Watch for our next world affairs discussion group in the fall of 2025.  Join our popular Great Decisions series, [...]

Registration Required Below Have fun and make friends while cultivating your creativity in our weekly group discussions about art, creativity and so much more! Our [...]

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 [...]

We welcome you to our conversation with journalist and author Lee Hawkins as he talks to us about examining his family’s legacy of post-enslavement trauma [...]

Do you want time to chit chat with your friends and catch up on life? Tuesday Talks is the place to be! 5th and 6th [...]

Registration Required Below This is the first session of a three-part series celebrating the cozy ingredients of winter and vibrant flavors of early spring! Part [...]

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 [...]

Registration Required Below  Looking for a way to stay grounded and rejuvenated this winter? Join us for this popular and inspiring 6-week virtual series with [...]

Registration Suggested Below It Takes a Village Meetings are held on the third Friday of the month from 10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. This program [...]

Join us at the Mark Twain Library for Build-It! We'll be building and free playing with our amazing toys such as Legos, Marble runs, Tinker [...]

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 [...]

Registration Required Below The Mark Twain Library's Writers' Group meets via Zoom on the second and fourth Monday of the month. In addition to reading [...]

Registration Required Below Have fun and make friends while cultivating your creativity in our weekly group discussions about art, creativity and so much more! Our [...]

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 [...]

Registration Required Below We all know that proteins are an essential part of a post-workout routine, but  they also play a crucial role in overall [...]

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 [...]

Registration Required Below The Museum Of Bad Art is a curated collection of interesting art found in thrift stores, yard sales, piles of roadside trash, [...]

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 [...]

UNO is back! Join us for another group game of uno and snacks. This will be a once a month game night so bring your friends [...]