The teen guessing jar will go on! Each month is something new (and perhaps challenging). Be sure to stop into the MTL circulation desk to [...]

Put your creativity to work with our Disguise a Gingerbread Contest! Stop into the library starting December 1st and ask for a gingerbread. Disguise it [...]

Get crafty at home with our winter craft kit! This kit has several fun wintery craft kits for children. These craft kit are in a [...]

Happy New Year! Try your hand at Origami this month, the Japanese art of paper folding. Kits are available for pickup upon request from the [...]

No Registration Required The Redding Community Hiking Club, a collaboration between the Redding Land Trust, the Mark Twain Library and Redding Neighbors & Newcomers returns [...]

Registration Required Below Join our popular international relations discussion group, modeled on the Foreign Policy Association's Great Decisions program. This eight-session series will explore a [...]

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 Welcome to the Golden Age of Hollywood — a period when American movie studios didn’t just shape film culture, they defined it. [...]

Registration Required It's time for Early Family Story Time! We'll sing, dance, and read together.  This event is designed for children birth - 5 but [...]

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 [...]

Join us for the MTL Cookbook Club — part book club, part culinary tasting!  Each meeting will focus on a particular cookbook from the Library's [...]

Empower your New Year with Yoga & Ayurveda!  Join us for a 90-minute session exploring how yoga therapy and Ayurveda can support us in loving [...]

DROP-OFF EVENT Join Miss Lisa and the Boys & Girls Club of Redding-Easton for a night of FUN at the Mark Twain Library!!! Friday, January [...]

We invite Barlow students to come to the Mark Twain Library and enjoy a quiet study area during extended hours for mid-year exams. We will [...]

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

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 MTL's Script Reading Group! Participating in this group will allow you to experience stage shows in a [...]

Join us for a discussion with prominent cultural writer and bestselling author David Brooks on his book, How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing [...]

4th, 5th, and 6th graders are invited to attend our monthly book discussion group for younger readers on January 13th, to browse through new books, [...]

POSTPONED ~Watch our website for new date to be announced soon This winter, we’re kicking off the season with two special in-person mindfulness programs to [...]

Registration Required It's time for Early Family Story Time! We'll sing, dance, and read together.  This event is designed for children birth - 5 but [...]

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 [...]

LOCATION: New Pond Farm Education Center Created in partnership with New Pond Farm Education Center and Redding Land Trust Join us to celebrate the seasons! [...]

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

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, [...]

CANCELED Join us for an evening with author James Lomuscio as he discusses the newly released edition of Village of the Dammed: The Fight for [...]

Registration Suggested Below It Takes a Village is a facilitated monthly gathering to support new parents as they navigate every aspect of parenting—pregnancy, postpartum, and [...]

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 [...]

Jump start your new year with journalist and author Julia Hotz about her book The Connection Cure: The Prescriptive Power of Movement, Nature, Art, Service, [...]

Registration Required It's time for Early Family Story Time! We'll sing, dance, and read together.  This event is designed for children birth - 5 but [...]

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 In Wildness is the Preservation of the World ~ Henry David Thoreau, 1851 This program is presented in partnership with the Norwalk River [...]

Registration Required Below In Wildness is the Preservation of the World ~ Henry David Thoreau, 1851 This program is presented in partnership with the Norwalk River [...]

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 [...]

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 This winter, we’re kicking off the season with two special in-person mindfulness programs to help us begin the New Year grounded, refreshed, [...]

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, [...]

Registration Required Below 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm | Workshop 8:00 pm – 8:30 pm |Optional Networking (In-Person Only) This highly tactical workshop is designed [...]

Registration Required Below 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm | Workshop 8:00 pm – 8:30 pm |Optional Networking (In-Person Only) This highly tactical workshop is designed [...]

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 [...]

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

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED Registration Required Below Sip and savor Grace Farms' new signature premium teas while learning about the organization's mission and latest [...]

Registration Required It's time for Early Family Story Time! We'll sing, dance, and read together.  This event is designed for children birth - 5 but [...]

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 [...]

We are thrilled to welcome Liz Moore to discuss her latest work, The God of the Woods, an instant New York Times bestseller and one [...]

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, [...]

Registration Required Below Artificial intelligence is rapidly reshaping the modern world, bringing both new opportunities and complex challenges for today’s workforce. Dr. Rick Lawrence, a [...]

Registration Required Below Artificial intelligence is rapidly reshaping the modern world, bringing both new opportunities and complex challenges for today’s workforce. Dr. Rick Lawrence, a [...]