Common Tone Music offers its Summer Music Session for Kids on the patio at the Ivy Bookshop! Each session provides interactive moments for caregivers to sing, play instruments, dance, and connect with their child. Sign up for all 3 or a drop-in at this link. Together, we will develop...
The Ivy is thrilled to welcome 2025 Pulitzer Prize winner Benjamin Nathans to celebrate his prizewinning book: To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement! Raised in Mt. Washington, Nathans is a truly hyper-local hometown hero. His research and storytelling connects us...
What is possible when we ask questions? Author-illustrator duo Jessica Fries-Gaither and Linda Olliver visit IvyKids Saturday to lead observational drawing in the Ivy gardens, and a make-your-own mini science notebook activity. All themed around their gorgeous book: Wild Wonderings: Scientists and Their Questions! For ages 7-10, Wild...
The Ivy is teaming up with CHARM: Voices of Baltimore Youth to present 3 free summer writing workshops for teens! These hands-on workshops encourage students to develop their writing skills in a fun and supportive environment, and these three are developed especially to inspire creativity and foster a...
Join us at The Ivy Bookshop to help celebrate Cal Hoffman's new book, Easy to Slip! We will enjoy a reading and conversation as Hoffman is joined by Baltimore champion and architect Tom Gamper. About the book: "Set in New York City, Washington, D.C., and Hollywood in the ’60s...
Presenting an evening at the intersection of spirituality and environmental justice with Rabbi Nina Beth Cardin, author of To Forever Inhabit This Earth: An Ethic of Enoughness! Join us on the patio, overlooking the Ivy's gardens, to hear from Rabbi Cardin about her recent book, which implores us to envision...
Calling all fans of academia and fantasy, history and art! Legendborn meets The Da Vinci Code in Andrea Max's debut novel, The Art of Exile. It's a captivating light academia contemporary fantasy following a teen who infiltrates a secret school for the descendants of exiled Renaissance masters to steal their long-lost arts and...
The Ivy is delighted to invite you to the launch of Dan Fesperman's newest novel, Pariah, an adrenaline-fueled thriller about a disgraced comedian-turned-politician who takes on the role of a lifetime: infiltrating a corrupt Eastern European country to spy on their brutal dictator. Fesperman's experience as a foreign correspondent for The...
Nothing says Books, Baltimore, Community like a book club at your local news outlet! The Ivy could not be more excited to announce our partnership with The Banner Book Club. By popular demand, our first book is Three Days in June by Anne Tyler, a native Baltimorean whose...
Bird in Hand hosts Nikki Ponticelli (Viola) and Kayla Stone (Clarinet) to present a coffee house concert of music from Classical to Contemporary! Doors open at 5:45 for a 6:00 start. The concert takes place during our Happy Hour, where you can enjoy a dollar off our summer...
A couple of years ago, we hosted Lawrence Burney on the Ivy patio as the conversation partner for D. Watkins. He spoke then about his essay-writing craft, the journey of becoming a culture critic, and the project of gathering his essays into a book. We were riveted, and...
John Adam Wasowicz, an attorney and author of the Old Town mystery series, will be on the porch signing copies of his six book series on August 2 from 10am-12pm! We're celebrating the latest book in the series, Spite House, which continues to feature attorney Mo Katz and his entourage...