Humanities in the Village: Joseph Plaster, KIDS ON THE STREET (with Drew Daniel)

Bird in Hand Coffee & Books 11 East 33rd Street, Baltimore, MD, United States

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...

Vicki Valosik: SWIMMING PRETTY (with Margaret Guroff)

The Ivy Bookshop, Back Patio 5928 Falls Road, Baltimore, MD

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...

The Best American Poetry 2024: With Guest Editor Mary Jo Salter

The Ivy Bookshop, Back Patio 5928 Falls Road, Baltimore, MD

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...

Josephine Quinn: How the World Made the West (with JHU Classics)

Bird in Hand Coffee & Books 11 East 33rd Street, Baltimore, MD, United States

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...

Arthur Magida: TWO WHEELS TO FREEDOM (with Marc Steiner)

The Ivy Bookshop, Back Patio 5928 Falls Road, Baltimore, MD

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...

First Friday Comedy Night: Domo Cann, Jake Leizear, Bria Beddoe

Bird in Hand Coffee & Books 11 East 33rd Street, Baltimore, MD, United States

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!...

Ivy Kids Saturday: Mandala Crafts with Author Meghana Narayan

The Ivy Bookshop, Back Patio 5928 Falls Road, Baltimore, MD

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...

Charm City Spec: September Edition

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...

The Hot L Poets Series, featuring Alejandro Lucero and Peter Vertacnik

The Ivy Bookshop, Back Patio 5928 Falls Road, Baltimore, MD

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...

Joyce White: COOKING MARYLAND’S WAY (with Kara Harris)

The Ivy Bookshop, Back Patio 5928 Falls Road, Baltimore, MD

In 1963, the Hammond-Harwood House Association published Maryland’s Way, The Hammond-Harwood House Cook Book, which includes over 700 recipes sourced from centuries’ old manuscript recipe books and contributions from Marylanders from across the state. Since its inception over 60 years ago, it has sold over 100,000 copies and is still...

Vital Perspectives on Healthcare and Science: Thurka Sangaramoorthy, LANDSCAPES OF CARE

Bird in Hand Coffee & Books 11 East 33rd Street, Baltimore, MD, United States

The Vital Perspectives on Healthcare and Science series engages with some of the most pressing public health issues of our time, in a regular public forum catalyzed by a book. And it's back for the new acadmic year! This first event will feature Dr. Thurka Sangaramoorthy, author of Landscapes...

Charles Trueheart: DIPLOMATS AT WAR and Alice McDermott: ABSOLUTION (with Robert Ruby)

The Ivy Bookshop, Back Patio 5928 Falls Road, Baltimore, MD

In this one-of-a-kind evening, The Ivy is delighted to bring together two writers with recent books, in different genres, about Americans on the peripheries of war in Vietnam: children and wives of American servicemen. In his memoir, Diplomats at War: Friendship and Betrayal on the Brink of the...