The Banner Book Club returns, featuring a gathering at The Banner offices with a journalist where you can share in the thoughtful conversation and questions on your favorite books. The September gathering will feature a special in-person visit from Lawrence Burney, author of No Sense in Wishing, a personal and...
The Ivy invites you to a book launch for a one-of-a-kind debut novel: Time's Breath by Deborah Brown English! The novel includes the author's own paintings and illustrations in oil and graphite, and this form itself participates in the story, which opens with the discovery of a book...
Novelist, short story, non-fiction, and screenwriter Helen Schulman visits the Ivy in celebration of her "virtuosic" new collection of short stories, FOOLS FOR LOVE! Running the gamut from funny to sexy, poignant to surprising, these stories take on romantic enmeshment in all kinds of forms, and do so with...
Our monthly IvyKids Saturday moves to The Ivy's location at The Shops at Kenilworth for this special September event! Book- and dog-lovers of all ages are invited to meet the author of THE DOG WHO SAVED THE BEES, Stephanie Gibeault, and the real-life inspirations behind her book, Cybil...
In a series of sharp and poignant narratives, New American Fiction Prize-winner Craig Bernardini's thrilling new collection of stories delves into questions of spectatorship, alienation, and trauma as "rehearsals for the apocalypse." Join us at Bird in Hand, mere blocks from Bernardini's alma mater at the Johns Hopkins...
Commonplay provides interactive moments for caregivers to sing, play instruments, dance, and connect with their child. Children will develop confidence and music appreciation through playful exploration. In every class, you will experience live music that is dynamic and imaginative and will encourage everyone to move, sing, and create...
In the first of our fall concert series, Bird in Hand hosts local vocal chamber ensemble, Anchorites. Themed around shifts of seasons, and focusing on fall and spring, this concert is sure to please. Experience our full cocktail menu and coffee bar, and explore a selection of featured...
In the first of our fall concert series, Bird in Hand hosts local vocal chamber ensemble, Anchorites. Themed around shifts of seasons, and focusing on fall and spring, this concert is sure to please. Experience our full cocktail menu and coffee bar, and explore a selection of featured...
Augustine of Hippo (354-430), also known as Saint Augustine, was one of the most influential theologians in history. His writings, including the autobiographical Confessions and The City of God, helped shape the foundations of Christianity and Western philosophy. But for many centuries, Augustine's North African birth and Berber...
You're invited to an evening with Phoebe Greenwood, whose new novel Vulture draws readers into the dark heart of western media, and with audacity and humour, questions its complicity in the tragedies that feed it. Centered on a young news reporter who is sent to cover a war from the...
Join us at Bird in Hand for the music-themed launch of Meri Robie's new novel, Wild Flowers! It's a rollicking story of three forgotten singers who band together (pun intended) to create an award-winning comeback album... and to confront the versions of themselves that pushed them out of...
Announcing Boys Reading Books: a fiction book club open to men and non-binary people! Proving men read novels too and encouraging more to do so. Next Meeting: Thursday, September 25th at 7pm at The Ivy Bookshop. This month's pick: Rejection by Tony Tulathimutte. Led by The Ivy’s own...