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Crossroads Community Food Fair

Come taste the world at the second annual Crossroads Community Food Fair!

Join us on Sunday, May 19, 2024, for a day of delicious hyper-local food and community fun as the talented foodpreneurs of the TPSS Community Kitchen pop up along Laurel Avenue. Enjoy an incredible variety of sweet and savory eats and drinks from 15+ food businesses based in Takoma Park, including empanadas, Detroit-style pizza, burritos, tacos, pupusas, Vietnamese noodles and bánh mì, mac-n-cheese, nut butters and healthy nut snacks, mushroom jerky and soufflés, herb-infused teas, locally roasted Guatemalan coffee, sea-moss infused waters, baked goods and vegan treats, artisanal chocolate and cotton candy, and ice cream sammies. And meet the makers!

Psychology Book Club with Janet

Join Janet, a current art therapist and former bookseller in a thoughtful discussion of curated selections in the psychology realm. Typically meets the second Sunday of each month at 4pm.

Booker Book Club

In the Booker Book Club, we read some of the very best literary fiction written in the English language. We select, read, and discuss shortlisted, longlisted, and winning Booker Prize novels, delving into rich narratives that challenge, inspire, and resonate with the depth and diversity of human experience. Check out http://www.peoplesbooktakoma.com/book-clubs for the current selection!

Here, Queer, and Fantastic! Book Club

Join us to explore novels that challenge, subvert, or reimagine the norms of fantasy writing. Every month, we will be exploring diverse and magical worlds, where LBTQ+ characters are at the center of the action and/or written by LBTQ+ authors. Epic adventures, magical beings.

Local Author Book Club

Join The Inner Loop as we discuss a local author’s work, as featured in our monthly Author’s Corner.

Check out http://www.peoplesbooktakoma.com/book-clubs to see this season’s selection!

Fantasy & SciFi Book Club

If you love to escape to different worlds, see magic, and fantastic creatures in your books, come read with us! We will talk about different worlds and the characters that evolve there, and maybe what they teach us about our own world. We will read a range of modern fantasy and speculative fiction with an emphasis on diverse writers and stories that leave us with hope!

Join Jo Ann on the third Sunday of every month and check out http://www.peoplesbooktakoma.com/book-clubs for this month’s selection!

2024 Takoma Park Children’s Business Fair

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

Sweet Earline’s Valentine’s Day Pop-Up

Please join us as we host Sweet Earline’s for a Valentine’s Day pop-up shop! They will be selling their special cookies for the holiday starting at 4pm and going until 7 or whenever they sell out.

Sweet Earline’s is a family owned, home-based, custom confections business located in Rockville, Maryland. They specialize in made-to-order decorated cookies. You can find more information at https://www.sweetearlines.com/

This is an in-person shopping event.

Tarot Reading with Tippy Ki Yay

Join Tippy Ki Yay (https://www.tippykiyay.com/) for another free tarot reading using her brand new Spacecraft Tarot deck! Pick up a deck of your own as well for purchase at the store!

Environmental Book Club with Mad

Let’s talk about the overlap of social justice and science, the systemic origins of environmental crisis as well as visions of the future. We’ll traverse both nonfiction and speculative works as we seek a deeper understanding of how the natural and built environments of today came to be and where they appear to be going. Check out http://www.peoplesbooktakoma.com/book-clubs for this month’s selection!

Amano Sip & Shop

Join us for sweet treats & bubbly – after hours! We’ll have special gifts, our monthly sale special, & surprises that you won’t want to miss!

Rick Stack for “We Who Grieve”

Join us at People’s Book for a conversation with Rick Stack about his latest book We Who Grieve.

About the Author: Rick Stack’s career is dedicated to social justice. His experiences in the Jackson County(MO) Public Defenders Office led him ot question the reliability of severe sanctions based on a system susceptible to human error. Research on global resource issues brought Stack to Washington, DC, in the late 70s, where he held a series of positions devoted to fighting hunger and poverty, first globally, then locally. Most notably, Stack was the Founding Executive Director of the Capital Area Food Bank throughout the 1980s, and the DC Central Kitchen’s first Board chair.

Stack co-produced the award-winning documentray, In the Executioner’s Shadow (2018). The film was the centerpiece of Oregon’s statewide abolition campign, resulting in legislation to reduce the use of capital punishment. Screenings of the film generate thoughtful discussion, and have changed hearts and minds.

About the Book: We Who Grieve is intended to be a comforting companion for those in the throes of grief and for their supporters. With this work, Stack hopes to add empathy to a world sorely in need of more.

This event is in-person and free to attend.