71 things to do in Memphis today

Today — Monday, September 14

• Artists' Link Autumn Showcase

  Gallery 1091, WKNO Digital Media Center (Cordova) · 9:00 AM

  Nearly 60 original works by Artists' Link members — painting, photography, clay, fiber, encaustic and fused glass — hanging in the WKNO studios lobby, viewable any weekday.

• Paul Revere Williams: American Architect

  Art Museum of the University of Memphis (AMUM) · 9:00 AM

  The architect who designed for Hollywood while barred from many of the neighborhoods he built in — AMUM has been working the Paul R. Williams archive since 2006, and the museum is open weekdays when most Memphis galleries aren't.

• Of Forests & Florals: Anwesha Biswas Art Exhibit

  Memphis Botanic Garden, Visitors Center · 9:00 AM · Garden admission: $12 adults / $10 seniors / $7 children 2-12 / free under 2 and members

  A Memphis representational painter working alla prima in about six colors, hung on the Visitors Center wall — the gallery nobody thinks of as a gallery.

• Kim Jorgensen Art Exhibit

  Memphis Botanic Garden, Grand Hallway · 9:00 AM · Garden admission: $12 adults / $10 seniors / $7 children 2-12

  Ten years of acrylic and mixed media from a largely self-taught painter who spent eight years teaching ancient and medieval history — layering and texture that started in childhood needlework.

• America's 250th Trivia Contest for Adults

  B.J. Chain Public Library (Olive Branch) · 9:00 AM · Free

  Five questions about America, answered at the desk any time the library is open. Get all five right and you're in the drawing for a $25 gift card.

• Men's Chat

  Arlington Senior Center (Arlington) · 9:00 AM · Free

  Coffee and stories with the men at the senior center, every Monday and Friday morning.

• River Walkers

  Beale Street Landing · 9:00 AM · Free

  A brand-new Monday walking group for seniors and neighbors — warm up at Beale Street Landing, an hour on the paved Tom Lee Park trails with a park guide, then a cool-down with refreshments and health resources. Sept 14 is week one; it runs every Monday through Nov 23.

• Gatsby's Gallery: A Roaring Twenties Tiny Art Show

  Germantown Community Library (Germantown) · 9:30 AM · Free

  Pick up a mini canvas at the info desk, paint whatever the Jazz Age means to you, hand it back, and it joins a library-wide gallery this fall. Drop in any time the doors are open.

• Recognizing the Power of Art (2026 ARTSassist grantees)

  ARTSmemphis · 10:00 AM · Free

  A group show of the seven 2026 ARTSassist grantees — the only grant of its kind in Shelby County — in ARTSmemphis's own gallery, open Monday through Thursday.

• Homeschool Days: Wonders of Water

  Memphis Botanic Garden · 10:00 AM · $60 members / $80 non-members — PER CHILD FOR THE WHOLE SEMESTER (4 sessions), not per day

  The Garden's homeschool term opens with dip nets and pond invertebrates, for kids six and up.

• Open Ride — Regular Riding

  DeSoto County Agri-Education Center, Outdoor Arena (Nesbit) · 10:00 AM · $5

  Bring your own horse and ride the county's outdoor arena for five bucks. Regular riding only, no special equipment.

• Quilting in the Grove

  Olive Branch Senior Center (Olive Branch) · 10:00 AM · Free

  The senior center's standing Monday-morning quilting hour.

• Baby Storytime

  M.R. Davis Public Library (Southaven) · 10:00 AM · Free

  Ms. Sherry reads, sings and plays with the under-twos.

• Infant and Toddler Storytime

  B.J. Chain Public Library (Olive Branch) · 10:00 AM · Free

  Songs and playtime for ages 0 to 3.

• Memphis Rox

  Memphis Rox climbing gym · 10:00 AM · Pay-what-you-can (NO suggested figure is published)

  A pay-what-you-can climbing gym where the bouldering walls need no rope and no partner — just shoes, which rent for a dollar.

• Electronics and Electricity Seminar

  Whitehaven Library · 10:00 AM · Free

  Joseph Oliver and a rotating bench of tradespeople run a weekly hands-on repair class — teens welcome alongside adults.

• Gadget Lab

  Benjamin L. Hooks Central Library · 10:00 AM · Free

  Bring the device that's beating you and get one-on-one help in the lobby. First come, first served, no class to sign up for.

• Color Your Story Memphis: Paint Your Own Memphis Souvenir

  1203 Peabody Ave · 10:00 AM · $28.52-$81.88

  Paint a souvenir of the city instead of buying one.

• Library story times — FIVE available, daily-issue may run AT MOST ONE

  Memphis Public Libraries, five branches · 10:15 AM · Free

  [pick one at assembly]

• PreK Readiness (Preschool Story Time)

  Bartlett Library (Bartlett) · 10:30 AM · Free

  Preschool story time built around the skills that make kindergarten easier.

• Tiny Tots

  Lucius E. & Elsie C. Burch, Jr. Library (Collierville) · 10:30 AM · Free

  Books, bells, scarves and shakers for babies — and half an hour with other parents at the same stage.

• Playday for Toddlers and Preschoolers

  B.J. Chain Public Library (Olive Branch) · 10:30 AM · Free

  Ninety minutes of age-appropriate toys and open floor. A parent or caregiver has to stay.

• Storytime

  Walls Public Library (Walls) · 10:30 AM · Free

  Ms. Isabel's weekly stories, songs and a craft, aimed at 2 to 5 year olds and whoever brought them.

• Adult English as a 2nd Language

  Officer Geoffrey Redd Library (presented by Hopeworks) · 10:30 AM · Free

  Hopeworks runs English classes at Redd every Monday and Wednesday morning — no fee, no registration line printed.

• Easy Cooking with Pressure Cookers

  M.R. Davis Public Library (Southaven) · 11:00 AM · Free

  An MSU Extension agent walks through pressure-cooker basics — what not to do, and a few recipes to start with.

• Peabody Duck March

  The Peabody Memphis · 11:00 AM · NOT PRINTED on the host page

  The ducks march the Grand Lobby at 11 and again at 5. The hotel suggests turning up half an hour early.

• Delta Bluff Book Club

  Walls Public Library (Walls) · 12:00 PM · Free

  No assigned reading — the monthly club where everyone just talks about whatever they finished last.

• Let's Eat Together

  Arlington Senior Center (Arlington) · 12:00 PM · Free

  Bring your own lunch and eat it with company at the senior center. Runs weekdays.

• Cordova Skating Center

  Cordova Skating Center (Cordova) · 1:00 PM · $10 with your own skates, $15 if you need them (inline/speed +$6)

  Seven hours of indoor rink time on a Monday afternoon, which is more than most rinks in this town offer all week.

• East End Skating Center

  East End Skating Center · 1:00 PM · $11 admission + $4 skate rental

  All-ages Monday session from one to eight. Send a kid alone and there's an extra $8 unless you register them yourself.

• One on One Senior Tech Help

  Raleigh Library · 1:00 PM · Free

  Book a slot, bring your device, get a person's full attention for once.

• Northside Garden Community Group

  North Library · 1:30 PM · Free

  A neighborhood garden group that spends its meetings trading recipes for whatever's coming out of the ground.

• Jamming Group

  International Harvester Clubhouse (Lakeland) · 2:00 PM · Free

  An all-acoustic group that meets every Monday afternoon to play and sing together. Bring an instrument or just a voice.

• Bass Pro Shops at the Pyramid — daily fish feeding

  Bass Pro Shops at the Pyramid · 2:00 PM · NOT PRINTED for the aquarium; Observation Deck $8, $5 kids 5-12

  There's a live fish-feeding show at 2 PM every day inside the Pyramid, and the bowling lanes run 10 to 9.

• Chicago Stepping with Ray

  Levi Library · 2:00 PM · Free

  A weekly stepping class at Levi that says outright it's beginner friendly — ninety minutes, no partner needed to walk in.

• 30 Days of Opera: East Shelby Library pop-up

  East Shelby Library, Meeting Room A · 2:00 PM · Free

  Opera Memphis has spent a decade turning September into a month of free, unannounced-feeling pop-up singing across the city. Monday afternoon it lands in a branch-library meeting room on East Shelby Drive — thirty minutes, no ticket, all ages, and you can be back in the car before school pickup.

• Shelby County Board of Commissioners Meeting

  Vasco A. Smith, Jr. County Administration Building · 3:00 PM

  The full County Commission meets downtown Monday afternoon.

• National Civil Rights Museum — Free Period Monday

  National Civil Rights Museum · 3:00 PM · Free for Tennessee residents from 3 PM

  Every Monday from 3 PM the museum drops admission for Tennessee residents — one adult and up to five kids, on a state-issued ID. Regular adult admission is $25.

• Computer Basics Class

  East Shelby Library · 3:00 PM · Free

  A small-group hour on the fundamentals, whether you're starting cold or patching gaps.

• Junk Journaling

  M.R. Dye Public Library (Horn Lake) · 3:30 PM · Free

  Turn ticket stubs, ribbon and torn book pages into a collaged journal. Supplies and the quiet afternoon are the whole point.

• Pokemon Club

  James F. Anderson Public Library (Hernando) · 3:30 PM · Free

  Learn the card game, trade doubles, or bring a handheld and find someone to battle.

• After-School Storytime (ages 7-11)

  James F. Anderson Public Library (Hernando) · 3:30 PM · Free

  A storytime pitched at 7-to-11s — a longer picture book, a chapter of something, new ASL signs, then a craft.

• Hollywood Drive-In

  Hollywood Library · 3:30 PM · Free

  Drive-In Movie Monday: a classic film plus crafts built around it, aimed squarely at the 8-to-12 crowd who usually get skipped.

• Jason Foree Band

  B.B. King's Blues Club · 4:00 PM · $10 admission, good all day and night

  Ten dollars buys the whole day on Beale at B.B. King's — step out and come back as often as you like; the Jason Foree Band takes the 4 o'clock slot.

• Paint Party!

  South Library · 4:00 PM · Free

  The second Monday of every month is a painting project at South Branch — different materials and techniques each time.

• DIY Comics

  Randolph Library · 4:00 PM · Free

  Make your own comic book from a template — or throw the template out and draw it your way.

• Cordova Writing Club

  Cordova Library · 4:00 PM · Free

  Two hours every Monday to actually put words down, then read them to people who will say something useful. All ages and experience levels.

• Medal Mondays — $4 Pints

  WISEACRE OG Taproom · 4:00 PM · $4 per pint

  Six hours of four-dollar pints on Broad, and only the beers that have actually won something: Tiny Bomb, Sky Dog, Sky Dog Amber and Oktoberfest.

• Duplo Discoveries

  Germantown Community Library, Children's Program Room (Germantown) · 5:00 PM · Free

  Toddlers and a caregiver, a table of Duplo bricks, and an hour to stack whatever comes to mind.

• 3/6/9 Mondays with John

  Dru's Place · 5:00 PM

  Dru's answer to Monday is a price ladder: $3 domestic beers, $6 wells, $9 calls, from five until close.

• Twilight Yoga and Pilates (Baptist Health & Wellness Series)

  Overton Park Shell · 5:30 PM · Free

  The Shell's Monday-night wellness hour is back after skipping Labor Day — a rotating yoga/Pilates class under the shell, no ticket, just bring a mat.

• Momentum Monday: Yoga in Medical District Park

  Medical District Park · 5:30 PM · Free (registration required)

  Free evening yoga under the pavilion in the old Health Sciences Park, every Monday through October — space is capped, so you register first.

• Get Outside Fitness: Line Dancing

  Shelby Farms Park · 5:30 PM · NOT PRINTED — do not print a price

  Line dancing kicks off Shelby Farms' Monday fitness pair at 5:30.

• Memphis Area College Night

  Memphis Sports & Events Center · 5:30 PM · Free

  Representatives from more than 100 colleges set up tables under one roof at Liberty Park for two hours on Monday night. It is run by a volunteer committee of local high-school counselors, it costs nothing, and it is the one evening a Memphis sophomore can ask fifty admissions officers the same question and compare the answers.

• Friends of the Bartlett Library Quarterly Meeting: All Things Gardening

  Bartlett Library (Bartlett) · 6:00 PM · Free

  Two Master Gardeners, Lex Johnson and Debbie Evans, take questions about what to plant and what to pull. Refreshments and mingling at 6, talk starts at 6:30.

• Fitness for Climbers

  Memphis Rox · 6:00 PM · $10 per class; non-members also need a day pass

  A two-hour Monday strength class built specifically for climbers.

• MOYS Open House 2026

  Mississippi Blvd Christian Church · 6:00 PM · Free

  The city's Office of Youth Services opens its doors to show families what it actually offers.

• Hustle & Flow Pilates

  Sunset Canopy, Tom Lee Park · 6:00 PM · Free

  A free hour of Pilates under the Sunset Canopy with instructor Bridget. Bring a mat, a towel and water; the river does the rest.

• Board Games, Bad Movies & Beer Bust

  Hi Tone Cafe (Small Room, downstairs) · 6:00 PM

  Downstairs at the Hi Tone on a Monday: board games on the tables, a bad movie on the wall, and a beer bust running behind it.

• Bingo at Tony's Trophy Room

  Tony's Trophy Room (Collierville) · 6:30 PM · Free

  The Collierville library takes Library Card Sign-Up Month out of the building and into a sports bar — bingo, swag, and food and drink you can buy at the bar.

• Get Outside Fitness: Meditation

  Shelby Farms Park · 6:30 PM · Free

  Shelby Farms' Monday meditation sits at the end of the day — bring a mat or a blanket, and register first.

• Zumba Fitness Class

  Raleigh Library · 6:30 PM · Free

  A weekly Zumba hour at Raleigh with registration open. The branch asks you to be on time.

• Celestial Sound Bath: The Deepening

  The Broom Closet · 6:30 PM · $25.44

  Ninety minutes flat on the floor of a South Main occult shop while someone plays bowls over you.

• Collage Clash: 3 Collage Games

  Bar DKDC · 6:30 PM · $10

  Three collage games in one night at DKDC, and the organizer's own rule is the whole pitch: no scissors allowed, no skill required.

• Rockin' 88's

  Blues City Cafe (Band Box) · 7:00 PM

  The Rockin' 88's hold down Monday nights at Blues City — the Beale room where the Chittlin Circuit starts and everybody's night ends.

• Monday Night Trivia at Flyway Memphis

  Flyway Brewing Co. · 7:00 PM

  Flyway's Monday trivia runs right up to last call at the Monroe Ave taproom — grab a team, the kitchen's open.

• Poker Night at Bardog Tavern

  Bardog Tavern (The Underdog, downstairs) · 7:00 PM · Buy-in is a food or drink purchase

  Buy in with a burger: Bardog's Monday tournament poker takes a food-or-drink item as the entry fee, and every extra order buys you another 1,000 chips.

• Piece of Me: Poetry & Open Mic Night

  PizzaMe! · 7:00 PM · Free

  A free Monday-night open mic over pizza on Kirby — poetry first, whatever you brought second.

• Pint Nite

  Flying Saucer Draught Emporium · · $5 any beer on the wall

  Any beer on the Saucer's wall — and the wall is the point — is five dollars all day Monday.

• White Duck Scavenger Hunt

  North Library · · Free

  Find every duck hidden around the branch, collect a prize from the box. Runs all day, no sign-up.

• Take-and-Make Craft

  Officer Geoffrey Redd Library · · Free

  Weekly take-home craft kits sit in the children's section until they run out.

Tomorrow’s list at 6am, before you need it — free, every weekday.