Crossroads Farmers Market offers the season’s freshest fruits and vegetables, as well as free-range eggs, honey, locally roasted coffee, tasty hot lunch items, healthy snacks and drinks, and fresh-cut flowers, all from no more than 60 miles away.
Even better: The market is cultivating a more inclusive local food system in the Takoma/Langley Crossroads. All federal nutrition benefits (SNAP, WIC, Senior/WIC FMNP) are accepted and matched dollar for dollar with Crossroads’ Fresh Checks — this season, up to $50 each week!
Join us for a day of great food and community fun as we celebrate the culinary creations of TPSS Community Kitchen users (both current and alumni) and other innovative food entrepreneurs in Crossroads’ network.
Enjoy an incredible variety of mouthwatering sweet and savory eats and drinks from 15+ local food businesses, everything from authentic Latin American delights like pupusas, empanadas, burritos, and tacos to decadent cookies, quick breads, brownies, and other baked goods to delicious vegan creations, healthy snacks, artisanal cotton candy, and refreshing infused teas and sea moss beverages.
Come for the food, stay for live music with Mr. Gabe and a steel drum band, and enjoy free face painting.
About Crossroads:
Crossroads provides affordable kitchen space and free, bilingual business support to equip food entrepreneurs with the skills and resources they need to succeed For more information, visit TPSS Community Kitchen and Microenterprise Development Program. This fair is not just about delicious food; it’s a chance to support local businesses and celebrate food justice in action.
Explore the movements and traditional music of capoeira, the African Brazilian martial art, in a family-centered class.
At Family Capoeira you’ll discover fun games and exercises to do capoeira as a family at home, learn capoeira songs and about the instruments of the bateria, and practice playing a game of capoeira in the roda. Appropriate for all ages.
Please join The Takoma Art Library (free art supplies for all) & Small Things Matter for a crafting event making CORK ANIMALS!!! on Sunday, May 19th, 2024 from 2 – 4pm.
The outdoor event is free, all ages and no registration is needed.
We’re going to be making lovable animals and people from corks. All supplies will be provided, and volunteers will be on hand to help.
Cookies and Lemonade will be served by Small Things Matter.
The Takoma Art Library
907 Erie Ave. Takoma Park, MD 20912
The art library exists because of public art/craft donations, if you have any, please bring them.
@takomaart and @stmdotorg
EVENT FLYER:
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/v8fqgyxuefama7a2qf30d/cork.pdf?rlkey=b94csvh9luq13sonmcqq98xu3&dl=0
Join Takoma Park Child Development Center for our spring Family Fun Day. We’ll spend the afternoon together at Opal Daniels Park (rain location: Takoma Park Presbyterian Church).
Children will enjoy pizza, games, bounce houses, the park.
Adults will enjoy the opportunity to purchase beer and wine. We will also have a silent auction with prizes for local businesses such as Washington Nationals Box tickets, Takoma Bev. Co, Motorkat, Zinnia, Tabletop, Carpe Diem, Olive Lounge, Lost Sock Roasters, Yoga Heights and many more.
We strongly encourage you to leave the car at home as there is limited parking. There are Ride-On and WMATA bus routes that pass the park.
Seekers Church is pleased to host a show by Cynthia Farrell Johnson, a local BIPOC artist featuring both secular and faith images in joyful living colors in paintings and prints.
We’re spring cleaning our costumes, props, and classroom supplies, and it’s time to purge! We’ll be opening our office to the community to take items off our hands. Most garments are one-sized or size inclusive. First come, first served. ALL ITEMS FREE. Bring your own bags to carry away your new treasures!
At Only Make Believe, we create interactive theatre with children in hospitals, care facilities, and special education settings. Inspiring joy and imagination, our professional actors engage children with medically fragile conditions and developmental disabilities, fostering social and emotional growth.
Allow yourselves to unwind and create super hero masks, hats, and other kid-friendly giveaways. Everything you create will be used to help children escape into the world of “make believe” during our performances in hospitals, care-facilities, and schools dedicated to serving children with disabilities. No art degree required! Volunteers under 16 years old must be accompanied by an adult. Please RSVP at the link provided.
Takoma Park Children’s Business Fair is a one-day marketplace that allows children to develop a brand, create a product or service, build a marketing strategy, then showcase to the community.
This event is hosted by local parents, the majority of funding is sponsored by Takoma Park business owners, and the generous support of our community volunteers. We all believe that principled entrepreneurs are heroes and role models for the next generation.
Who: Children Age 6-14
How many booths / children will be participating this year: 50 booths and up to 150 children!
When: Saturday May 4th between 10am – 2pm (Rain date: May 11th)
Where: Laurel Ave, Takoma Park, MD
Applications will be accepted online from 3/1 through 3/15.
Best,
TKPKCBF Team
Just in time for Halloween Month, it’s Skeleanor the Decomposer!
Meet local graphic novelist Emily Ettlinger.
About the Book:
An instantly charming and vivid chapter-book graphic novel, starring a music-obsessed skeleton, Skeleanor, and her quest to find her sound (and her confidence) by debut creator Emily Ettlinger.
Skeleanor loves music more than life itself. There’s just one problem: She has a bit more rattle than rhythm at the moment. No matter what type of instrument she plays—from the fiddle to the xylobone—she always seems to scare the people of Little Casketon away. But with the Little Casketon Summershine festival coming up, and the town band missing a player, maybe Skeleanor (along with the help of her best friend, Batima) could show people her skills and finally take center stage.
Hilarious and heartfelt, Skeleanor the Decomposer (published by Penguin Workshop) by debut author and illustrator Emily Ettlinger is a story about chasing your passions no matter what other people say. Sometimes, all you need is a dream, your friends, and a little music.
About the Author:
Emily Ettlinger is a Maryland-based illustrator, cartoonist, and product designer and Rhode Island School of Design 2016 graduate.
Visit her at https://www.emiett.com
Prepare for your fall/winter pregnancy with warm clothing in a wide range of sizes, plus nursing bras, bottles, pumps, and other nursing supplies. You are welcome to bring your own unneeded maternity and nursing clothing to share, but please, no baby clothing or supplies (we don’t have enough space).
We’ve been storing donated fall and winter clothes all spring and summer, and this is your chance to go through all of them!
If you have clothes to donate but don’t plan to take any, feel free to drop them off in advance by leaving them on the porch of 6905 Poplar Ave, Takoma Park, MD.
Comics/Graphic Novels are a fun and meaningful way to tell stories using both pictures and words. In this workshop, author-illustrator Jonathan Roth (ROVER AND SPECK, BEEP AND BOB) will give helpful tips and fun exercises for kids who want to create comics of their own. For ages 6-12. Paper and pens/pencils will be provided or bring your own.
