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 [...]

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 [...]

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 Get a jump start on the growing season and set yourself up for success with garden writer and author Jana Milbocker. We'll [...]

Sign up below to get your library card on Take Your Child to the Library Day! Use the link below by Wednesday, February 4th; pick [...]

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 [...]

Please note the new start time of 11 a.m. Registration Required Below Want to free yourself from tension and stress? Lose weight? Build strength and [...]

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, [...]

Join us for an unforgettable experience as we chat with Vanessa Riley about her newest book, Fire Sword & Sea, based on the folk story [...]

Registration for our in-person program is now full. Please consider joining us virtually. Click here to register and receive a link for the virtual event. [...]

Registration Required Below As the nation prepares to mark its 250th anniversary, Redding's co-historians present a fascinating look at the town during one of the [...]

When children checkout books on Take Your Child to the Library Day they can enter our cookie raffle! On Monday, three raffle winners will be [...]

A Take Your Child to the Library Day Event Come to the Mark Twain Library on Take Your Child to the Library Day to relax [...]

The Mark Twain Library is getting Valentine crafty for Take Your Child to the Library Day! The big tables at MTL will be full of [...]

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. 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 [...]

4th, 5th, and 6th graders are invited to attend our monthly book discussion group for younger readers on February 10th, to browse through new books, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Registration Required Below An Exercise in Perception — That Was Then, This Is Now Join us for our next engaging and thoughtful Read & Reflect [...]

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 Let's talk about Aging! This month, MTL Director of Technology George Avidon presents: Smarter Than the Scam: How They Work and How [...]

Feminist philosopher Dr. Lindsey Stewart’s book, The Conjuring of America: Mojos, Mermaids, Medicine, and 400 Years of Black Women’s Magic, tells the stories of Mammies [...]

Registration Required Below Join this in-person mindfulness program to kick off our virtual meditation series to help you feel grounded, refreshed, and connected. Love Letters [...]

Registration for this series is full. Add your name to our waitlist below—you'll be contacted if a seat opens. 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 [...]

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 Sip and savor Grace Farms' new signature premium teas while learning about the organization's mission and latest initiatives to end forced and [...]

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 [...]

Please note the new start time of 11 a.m. Registration Required Below Want to free yourself from tension and stress? Lose weight? Build strength and [...]

Registration Required Below Step into a world of timeless sophistication as the Jazz Society of Fairfield County presents an Allen & Helen Hermes Art Series [...]

Registration Required Below Israel Putnam, affectionately known as Old Put, played pivotal roles in our nation's founding — and also left an indelible mark on [...]

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 [...]

Tom D. Crouch, a Smithsonian veteran of almost 45 years, paints a robust picture of a unique American establishment and its lasting legacies in his [...]

POSTPONED ~ Program has been rescheduled to Tuesday, April 28 Ever wonder what magic hides inside an old loved book? In this hands-on altered book [...]

POSTPONED ~ New Date to be Determined The Redding Land Trust, New Pond Farm and Mark Twain Library present Appreciating Our Natural Environment, a three-part [...]

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 [...]

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 Step away from the noise of daily life and give yourself the gift of peace. Join Jackie DeLise, CMMI & CMWI, for [...]

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 Join author and cartoonist Em Sauter for an evening featuring 250 years of U.S. brewing history! From the minute the Pilgrims landed [...]

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 [...]

*Due to snow and limited accessibility on the trails, this event will be RESCHEDULED. A new date will be announced soon. The Redding Community Hiking [...]

The Allen and Helen Hermes Arts Series is pleased to welcome back Yale University's Whim 'n Rhythm, an a cappella group featuring the University's best [...]

7, 8 & 9-year-olds (ONLY), join us at the Mark Twain Library to test out a new board game from one of Redding's own children's [...]

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 2026.  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 [...]

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

Join us in conversation with bestselling author and humorist Michael Perry, whose collection of genre-spanning works encapsulates the experiences–and the magic–of rural town communities and [...]

Registration Required Below To celebrate America's 250th anniversary, Professor and Musicologist Gil Harel presents a three-part series exploring the bold, evolving voice of American composers and [...]

Registration Required Below To celebrate America's 250th anniversary, Professor and Musicologist Gil Harel presents a three-part series exploring the bold, evolving voice of American composers and [...]

Please note the new start time of 11 a.m. Registration Required Below Want to free yourself from tension and stress? Lose weight? Build strength and [...]

Registration Required Below This program is offered in partnership with The Granite and The Town of Redding. For more than a century, woven fabric made [...]