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Seekers Church Art Gallery show reception

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.

FREE Costume Sale

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.

Craft for a Cause with Only Make Believe

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.

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

Meet the Author: Emily Ettlinger

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

Fall & Winter Maternity & Nursing Clothing Giveaway

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.

Jonathan Roth’s Graphic Novel Workshop

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.

Babies and Books

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!

SSTPMA Community Art Fair

Silver Spring and Takoma Park Mutual Aid will be holding a community art fair on July 22nd from 10-2 at the TPSS Co-op! This is meant to be a space that centers art and community with local art and craft vendors, live music, food, chalk art, jewelry making, and more fun activities. All vendors will donate a portion of their proceeds to SSTPMA. Donations will go to direct aid for local individuals and families. You can learn more about our work here: https://sstpmutualaid.wordpress.com/

For event accessibility and up to date information, please check out our instagram and facebook @sstpmutualaid
If you will need any additional accommodations, feel free to email [email protected]

Takoma Park CDC Concert, Games & Fundraiser

Takoma Park Child Development Center is hosting a Community Concert and fundraiser Saturday, June 10, from 10 AM-1 PM. We’ll have music from Baba Ras (at 11 AM), games, arts & crafts, pizza, and raffle prizes. Location: Don Patti Memorial Gym at 310 Tulip Ave. Kids under 3 are free. (Each $10 ticket includes one raffle ticket and two slices of pizza. Additional raffle tickets and pizza slices may be purchased for $1 in cash at the event.)

WIND CHIME MAKING EVENT AT THE TAKOMA ART LIBRARY

Make your own Wind chime at The Takoma Art Library

And have a wonderful Hawainn shave ice provided by Small Things Matter.

Work with volunteers to create your own beautiful wind chime from found and recycled objects at The Takoma Art Library. We will use beads, plastic lids, metal objects, ribbon, sticks, string, paint, yarn and more. Or bring your own special objects. Free, but your art supply donations are always welcome!

The is our first creative event at the library, and we plan many more.

907 Erie Ave. Takoma Park, MD 20912

Sat. May 27th, 2pm – 4pm

https://www.dropbox.com/s/lbz4u6btd0e3s6t/STMwindchimeposter%20copy.pdf?dl=0

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Crossroads Farmers Market

Crossroads Farmers Market offers the season’s freshest fruits and vegetables, as well as free-range eggs, honey, locally roasted coffee, healthy snacks, and fresh-cut flowers, all from no more than 50 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!