Looking for a cozy evening out? Join us for Living Room @ Bird in Hand. We'll offer: live music, snacks & drinks for purchase, and some starter craft materials. You can bring: your own crafts, cards, and whatever makes you feel at home. See you in our living room! This month,...
Presenting The Ivy's August Booze & Browse, ft. Ethan Joella, author of THE SAME BRIGHT STARS, who will give an author talk and book signing at 6pm. As always, enjoy a free drink & 25% off travel books from 5-8pm! THE SAME BRIGHT STARS is about some of...
Dive into an afternoon of deep house beats, delicious drinks, and divine vibes at the Java Funk collaborative event between Bird in Hand x Therapy Sounds. Join us for three hours of groovy tunes ranging from smooth lounge to funky house provided by Therapy Sounds residents @_andybig, @h0ppa,...
Humanities in the Village returns for the 2024-25 year with this first event featuring Joseph Plaster, author of Kids on the Street, Queer Kinship and Religion in San Francisco's Tenderloin, in conversation with Drew Daniel! In Kids on the Street Joseph Plaster explores the informal support networks that enabled abandoned and runaway...
The Ivy is pleased to present an evening of discussion around women in sports history, featuring Vicki Valosik and her engaging, thorough new history of women in synchronized swimming! Swimming Pretty explores the tensions between beauty and strength, aesthetics and athleticism have both impeded and propelled the careers of female...
We're so excited that this year's volume of The Best American Poetry is compiled and edited by Baltimore-based poet and professor Mary Jo Salter! Join us to launch the anthology into the world from The Ivy's back patio, where contributors including Armen Davoudian, and fellow editors including Dora...
Join Bird in Hand and the Department of Classics at Johns Hopkins University for an evening with Dr. Josephine Quinn, a brilliant, fun, and engaging ancient historian specializing in Phoenician history and the deconstruction of concepts of the ‘West.’ This event will center around her brand-new book How...
Two Wheels to Freedom by Arthur Magida is the extraordinary true story of a young Jewish art student who not just survived Nazi occupation but resisted and saved hundreds of lives—all while retaining his infectious zeal for life. The Ivy is pleased to invite you to an event with...
The new monthly comedy series continues at Bird in Hand, hosted and curated by the one & only Satarah Fisher! This month's featured comedians: Domo Cann, Jake Leizear, & Bria Beddoe. Join us at 6pm to hear the featured comedians, or at 7pm for the free open mic!...
Head to the Ivy on Saturday morning to make a craft with children's author Meghana Narayan, whose picture book A Little Bit of Everything is a beautiful story of a child learning about her heritage-- all the things that make her her-- to pass it along to her new sibling. Joined by...
Come join us at Bird in Hand on the evening of September 7th for the spring edition of Charm City Spec! For this edition of Baltimore's longstanding speculative fiction reading series, you'll hear from T. T. Madden, Ann Leblanc, P. H. Low, and J. L. Birchwood! Whether it's...
Sunday September 8th (4pm) THE HOT L POETS SERIES returns after summer break, with poets Alejandro Lucero and Peter Vertacnik! The event will be on the Ivy's Back Patio. The reading includes an open mic so bring a poem (1 poem, 3 min. or less). The reading series is...
