Join us at The Ivy Bookshop where we will provide interactive moments for caregivers to sing, play instruments, dance, and connect with their child. Together, we will develop confidence and music appreciation through playful exploration! RSVP for the full Winter Session or for individual drop-ins at this link.
Albert Phillips Jr. is a Baltimore-based writer and educator whose work thoughtfully explores the rich alchemy of Black life, both past and present. The Ivy first learned about his work through the CHARM: Voices of Baltimore Youth summer internship program where he offered his experience and mentorship around...
No Experience Necessary, the 2nd memoir from Nancy Murray, is all about work, and the insights, pitfalls, and strategies along the journey toward meaningful employment. Her stories prove that even so-called nowhere jobs can be crucial steps to not only establishing a career, but to discovering ourselves. Nancy’s...
Join us at The Ivy Bookshop where we will provide interactive moments for caregivers to sing, play instruments, dance, and connect with their child. Together, we will develop confidence and music appreciation through playful exploration! RSVP for the full Winter Session or for individual drop-ins at this link.
Presenting 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. For this January edition-- the first of 2026-- we are thrilled to welcome Dora Malech in celebration of her new poetry...
Join us at The Ivy Bookshop where we will provide interactive moments for caregivers to sing, play instruments, dance, and connect with their child. Together, we will develop confidence and music appreciation through playful exploration! RSVP for the full Winter Session or for individual drop-ins at this link.
If you know the work of John Sayles, you know a multi-talented artist across disciplines: filmmaking and screenwriting; acting and writing. If you are new to his work, you are in for a treat, and might just leave with some inspiration about working between multiple disciplines to build...
Join us at The Ivy Bookshop where we will provide interactive moments for caregivers to sing, play instruments, dance, and connect with their child. Together, we will develop confidence and music appreciation through playful exploration! RSVP for the full Winter Session or for individual drop-ins at this link.
We are excited to welcome you to a celebration of Radha Lin Chaddah's debut novel, AND THE ANCESTORS SING! The author will speak in conversation with Debra Bruno on the main floor of The Ivy Bookshop on February 10 at 6pm. Spanning decades of seismic change in post-Cultural...
Join us at The Ivy Bookshop where we will provide interactive moments for caregivers to sing, play instruments, dance, and connect with their child. Together, we will develop confidence and music appreciation through playful exploration! RSVP for the full Winter Session or for individual drop-ins at this link.
The works of Paule Marshall, including the beloved Brown Girl, Brownstones, are now understood as the beginning of contemporary Black feminist literature—a bridge between Harlem Renaissance writers and Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, and Maya Angelou. Yet Paule Marshall’s legacy is often overlooked. In Paule Marshall: A Writer’s Life,...
We're having a book signing and meet-and-greet with Baltimore-based wife writing team Naomi Rivers! Following the success of their debut, THIS: A Simple, Complex Love Story, Naomi Rivers returns with a moving new book set right here in Baltimore: WHY NOT US? WHY NOT US? follows Jasmine and...