Bird in Hand hosts early music group Basso Celestia during their spring 2025 tour! One of the group's founding members is your frequent Bird in Hand barista, Leah! The group will present an interactive concert of works by baroque Italian women. Donations to the group by Venmo will help support...
In celebration of Women’s History Month, Overcoming and Becoming brings together the powerful voices of authors from Yellow Arrow's kitalo and AMPLIFY at Bird in Hand. This event will feature Diane Macklin, Caroline Bock, Laura Taber, Cherrie Woods, and Lish Ciambrone. “Kitalo” (a Luganda word meaning "deep sorrow" or "grief") speaks to themes...
Presenting an evening with journalist Alexis Madrigal, spotlighting his new book, The Pacific Circuit: A Globalized Account of the Battle for the Soul of an American City! Putting the history of Oakland in global context, Madrigal's book demonstrates the way that looking closely at Oakland can help us...
You're invited to a launch party for The Avenue Journal Issue IX: Water! The Avenue Journal has been in publication for 8 years and this is the ninth edition. It has included writers from all over the world but the focus has always been on writers coming from...
Come on over to the Ivy for some live music from Common Tone and some crafting! We'll have a community craft going to help decorate the Ivy, as well as one for you to work on and take home with you. Free of charge - your RSVP helps us...
Join Linda Murphy Marshall for a meet-and-greet and book signing in celebration of her two memoirs, Immersion: A Linguist's Memoir and Ivy Lodge: A Memoir of Translation and Discovery! Deeply interested in translation, cultural exchange, and how those practices can alter our vantage points on our upbringings, Marshall's books offer us...
The winter edition of Charm City Spec is here, at Bird in Hand on the evening of March 22! For this episode of Baltimore's longstanding speculative fiction reading series, you'll hear from Brigitte Winter, Catherine Castellani, Allison Pottern-- all contributors to the anthology New Year, New You-- as...
Bird in Hand hosts their very first Yarn and Yap, a series for learning new yarn-based crafts, and for meeting new yarn enthusiasts! For each event, there will be a new pattern to try out, and staff will be available to help you or provide moral support! This...
Presenting a Friday evening book signing with Jamia Wilson, in celebration of her most recent book, MAKE GOOD TROUBLE! MAKE GOOD TROUBLE is inspired by civil rights activist and congressman John Lewis’s call to challenge injustice. This engaging and informative handbook features more than 70 narratives of global...
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...
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...
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:...
