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.
Don’t miss the 45th annual Takoma Park Folk Festival! Sounds from old-time fiddle, bluegrass, folk-rock and Afro-Latin fusion fill the air as dozens of artists perform on six stages. Shop for handcrafted items such as jewelry, quilts, pottery and soap. The festival also includes children’s activities and food from around the world.
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.
Come join us for a joyful family art event at the book launch of “Be a Creative Changemaker: A Kids’ Art Activity Book.” Discover the fascinating life and work of one of the 25 diverse artists from the book, then dive into a fun, hands-on art activity inspired by their work. Don’t miss this wonderful opportunity to unleash your creativity and deepen your appreciation for artists worldwide!
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.
Join us for our first ever baby storytime! Designed with kiddos 3 and under in mind, pediatrician Anjali Jain will lead the group in reading a mix of new board books, classics tales, and some songs & rhymes as well! Need more to convince you? FREE coffee for any caregivers! See you there!
