IvyKids Saturday: Mindfulness for Kids with Jessica Correnti

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

Join Jessica Correnti, Author, Certified Child Life Specialist, and owner of Kids Grief Support for a book reading and activity time. Jessica will read her new release, The ABCs of Grief: Emotions & Feelings and lead children through a fun, expressive art activity creating tissue paper hearts to...

Annie Karni and Luke Broadwater: MAD HOUSE

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

For its first patio event of 2025, The Ivy is excited to host Annie Karni and Luke Broadwater, congressional correspondents for The New York Times, to celebrate their new book Mad House: How Donald Trump, MAGA Mean Girls, a Former Used Car Salesman, a Florida Nepo Baby, and...

Humanities in the Village, featuring Martha S. Jones: THE TROUBLE OF COLOR (with Lisa Snowden)

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

You're invited to the March edition of Humanities in the Village, an event series in partnership with the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute at Johns Hopkins University, which aims to make scholarship publicly accessible. March's event features Dr. Martha S. Jones, and her new book THE COLOR OF TROUBLE:...

CityLit Festival

Lord Baltimore Hotel 20 W Baltimore Street, Baltimore, MD

Baltimore’s award-winning annual festival of all things literary takes place each spring, and The Ivy is delighted to serve as the festival bookseller. The CityLit Festival, a day-long celebration of literature, brings a literary feast to the region with 20 sessions offering panels, readings, informational sessions, and craft intensives...

Samuel Ashworth: THE DEATH AND LIFE OF AUGUST SWEENEY (with Cutter Wood)

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

You have never read a novel quite like THE DEATH AND LIFE OF AUGUST SWEENEY. We're so excited to introduce it you by way of this event with its author, Samuel Ashworth, in conversation with Cutter Wood! In this daring, uproarious novel, legendary chef August Sweeney has served...

The Self in Writing: A Reading and Conversation Between Authors

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

How much of the author’s “I” finds its way into writing? Is the novelist omniscient, or is she inevitably writing herself into the story? How does the “I” of the memoirist craft herself as a developed character? How much is poetry a self-reflection in time and place? Writers...

IvyKids Saturday: Nature-Based Play Morning for Families

The Ivy Bookshop 5928 Falls Road, Baltimore, MD, United States

Monica Wiedel-Lubinski and Karen Madigan from the Association for Nature-Based Education lead a morning play time for the whole family in the Ivy's gardens! Come take a nature walk and make some fairy and gnome homes, and if you're a grown-up, you can browse copies of Wiedel-Lubinski and...

Hot L Poets Series: Featuring Brandel France de Bravo & Christian Teresi

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

Sunday April 13, 2025 at 4pm, The HOT L Poets Series continues at The Ivy Bookshop (Baltimore)-- moving to the patio at 5928 Falls Rd. for the spring season-- with poets Brandel France de Bravo & Christian Teresi! The reading includes an open mic so bring a poem...

Ismar Volić: MAKING DEMOCRACY COUNT (with John Watt)

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

The Ivy is excited to host mathematician Ismar Volić for a conversation about the enduring relationship between mathematics and democracy, via his new book Making Democracy Count: How Mathematics Improves Voting, Electoral Maps, and Representation! John Watt, who has taught mathematics at the Friends School of Baltimore for more than...

Poetry Reading at the Concrete Poetry 2 Sculpture: Ft. David Beaudouin

The Ivy Bookshop, Garden 5928 Falls Road, Baltimore, MD, United States

You might have noticed the exciting Concrete Poetry 2 Sculpture in the gardens behind the Ivy-- that elegant, interactive concrete alphabet where phrases inspiring and joyful live and change. The sculpture is the work of Baltimore artist Julia Kim Smith, and now, we bring the sculpture to life...

Whose Earth (Day) Family Event: Water is Love and So Are You

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

For the 4th annual Whose Earth (Day)? event, Vital Matters will offer a fun, educational family event outdoors at The Ivy! Michele Minnick and Sanahara Ama Chandra will take participants through some arts integrated learning, including a sensory walk of the Ivy grounds, where the Jones Falls runs at the edges of...