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X-WR-CALNAME:Baltimore · festival · Sunday · CalDiscovery BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Baltimore Community Marketplace & Festival DTSTART:20260918T130000Z DTEND:20260921T003000Z DTSTAMP:20260916T002942Z UID:event-3052-1789736400@harborbeat.com CATEGORIES:festival DESCRIPTION:Join us for the Baltimore Community Marketplace & Festival—f un vibes\, local goods\, tasty bites\, and good times! LAST-MODIFIED:20260916T002942Z LOCATION:West Shore Park\, 401 Light Street\, Baltimore\, MD 21202 URL:https://harborbeat.com/event/baltimore-community-marketplace-festival/ 3052?utm_source=caldiscovery&utm_medium=ics&utm_campaign=baltimore-md X-SOURCE-NAME:HarborBeat — Upcoming Baltimore Events X-SOURCE-URL:https://www.harborbeat.com/events/workshops END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Baltimore Book Festival DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260919 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260921 DTSTAMP:20260729T234823Z UID:14749-1789776000-1789948799@www.citylitproject.org CATEGORIES:festival,literary DESCRIPTION:SAVE THE DATE LAST-MODIFIED:20260729T234823Z LOCATION:Waverly Main Street\, 418 E 32nd Street\, Baltimore\, MD\, 21218\ , United States URL:https://www.citylitproject.org/event/baltimore-book-festival-2026/?utm _source=caldiscovery&utm_medium=ics&utm_campaign=baltimore-md X-SOURCE-NAME:CityLit Project X-SOURCE-URL:https://www.citylitproject.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:29SCC Outreach @ Baltimore Book Festival DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260919 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260921 DTSTAMP:20260915T234034Z UID:32rk6pqo7n5bfog8hrvrkg3unj@google.com CATEGORIES:festival,literary LAST-MODIFIED:20260915T234034Z X-SOURCE-NAME:29th Street Public Events X-SOURCE-URL:https://29thstreetcommunitycenter.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:The Ivy Bookshop at The Baltimore Book Festival! DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260919 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260921 DTSTAMP:20260916T003151Z UID:2547042-1789776000-1789948799@www.theivybookshop.com CATEGORIES:festival,literary DESCRIPTION:We’re so excited to see you at the Baltimore Book Festival\, where you can visit us at our booth on Sept. 19-20. Come on out both days to see an array of incredible authors from here in Baltimore and across t he country\, hosted collaboratively by Baltimore’s many wonderful bookis h organizations.\nOn Sunday\, September 20th\, the Ivy is thrilled to be h osting the 31st St. Stage! See below for more information about the events on our stage that day:\n\n\n11am: Louise Marburg and Elizabeth Hazen: FAN CY MEETING YOU\n12pm: P.C. Verrone and Amani Jackson: RABBIT\, FOX\, TAR\n 1pm: Lenna Jawdat and Ramsey Hanhan: 70\,000: POEMS\n3pm: Alexandra Elle a nd Maureen Nicol: THE COMPANY WE KEEP\n4pm: Robert Isaacs and J. Wynn Rous uck: IT’S HARD TO BE AN ANIMAL\n\n\nSee you there! LAST-MODIFIED:20260916T003151Z LOCATION:Waverly Main Street\, 418 E 32nd St\, Baltimore\, MD\, 21218 URL:https://www.theivybookshop.com/event/the-ivy-bookshop-at-the-baltimore -book-festival/?utm_source=caldiscovery&utm_medium=ics&utm_campaign=baltim ore-md X-SOURCE-NAME:Ivy Bookshop X-SOURCE-URL:https://www.theivybookshop.com/events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Festival of India DTSTART:20260919T160000Z DTEND:20260921T000000Z DTSTAMP:20260916T010814Z UID:10000130-1789819200-1789934400@howardcountyfairmd.com CATEGORIES:festival DESCRIPTION:Food\, music and fellowship of Indian culture! LAST-MODIFIED:20260916T010814Z LOCATION:Howard County Fairgrounds\, 2210 Fairgrounds Road\, West Friendsh ip\, MD\, 21794\, United States URL:https://howardcountyfairmd.com/event/festival-of-india-2/?utm_source=c aldiscovery&utm_medium=ics&utm_campaign=baltimore-md X-SOURCE-NAME:The Howard County Fair X-SOURCE-URL:https://howardcountyfairmd.com/events-calendar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:2026 Carroll County Agritourism Passport DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260920 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260921 DTSTAMP:20260913T061627Z UID:10013982-1789862400-1789948799@carrollcountytourism.org CATEGORIES:festival,food DESCRIPTION:Get ready for adventure with the Carroll County 2026 Agritouri sm Passport! \nFrom June through October\, explore more than 25 local farm s and agricultural events—eat\, play\, learn\, and support Carroll’s a gricultural community along the way. \nPick up a Passport at any participa ting location or—new this year—join the fun digitally through the Let ’s Rallie app. Each stop you visit earns you entries to win exciting pri zes! \nLearn more at: https://carrollgrown.org/agritourism-passport-2026/ LAST-MODIFIED:20260913T061627Z LOCATION:Various Locations in Carroll County\, Westminster\, MD\, 21157\, United States URL:https://carrollcountytourism.org/event/2026-carroll-county-agritourism -passport/2026-09-20/?utm_source=caldiscovery&utm_medium=ics&utm_campaign= baltimore-md X-SOURCE-NAME:Carroll County Tourism | Carroll County\, Maryland X-SOURCE-URL:https://carrollcountytourism.org/series/md-family-food-truck- nights END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Baltimore Book Festival DTSTART:20260920T140000Z DTEND:20260920T220000Z DTSTAMP:20260916T180142Z UID:10007404-1789898400-1789927200@baltimorecountymoms.com CATEGORIES:festival,literary DESCRIPTION:The Baltimore Book Festival returns to the streets of Waverly this September\, with a two day celebration of books and authors\, brought to you by Baltimore’s bookstores and literary community. LAST-MODIFIED:20260916T180142Z LOCATION:Waverly URL:https://baltimorecountymoms.com/event/baltimore-book-festival-2/?utm_s ource=caldiscovery&utm_medium=ics&utm_campaign=baltimore-md X-SOURCE-NAME:Baltimore County Moms X-SOURCE-URL:https://baltimorecountymoms.com/2025-farmers-markets END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:A Tashlich Festival: A Morning of Refresh\, Renewal\, and Release DTSTART:20260920T143000Z DTEND:20260920T163000Z DTSTAMP:20260916T004847Z UID:877@boltonstreet.org CATEGORIES:festival DESCRIPTION:Join us at Lakeside Pavillion in Druid Hill Park for a morni ng of activities\, seasonal treats (did someone say apples and honey?)\, music and the opportunity to cast into the water what no longer serves you. A fun and communal way to help celebrate the High Holiday season a nd enjoy some outside time with friends\, old and new.\n\n\n\n\nTashlich\, meaning to cast away\, is a ritual associated with the High Holiday seaso n that invites us to reflect on what no longer serves us and cast it away. In preparation for a new Jewish calendar year\, this practice allows us t o start the year with a little less weighing on our spirit. With each peb ble we cast into the waters\, we release that which we want to shed before Yom Kippur begins\, and a new year is underway.\n\n\n\n\nFrom 11 – 1 1:30 Rabbis Andy Gordon and Jessy Dressin will lead a brief program wit h story\, song and guidance for how to take part in the tashlich ritua l. Great for people of all ages. LAST-MODIFIED:20260916T004847Z URL:https://www.boltonstreet.org/events/a-tashlich-festival-a-morning-of-r efresh-renewal-and-release/?utm_source=caldiscovery&utm_medium=ics&utm_cam paign=baltimore-md X-SOURCE-NAME:Calendar X-SOURCE-URL:https://www.boltonstreet.org/calendar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Louise Marburg and Elizabeth Hazen at the Baltimore Book Festival: FANCY MEETING YOU DTSTART:20260920T150000Z DTEND:20260920T160000Z DTSTAMP:20260916T003151Z UID:2402402-1789902000-1789905600@www.theivybookshop.com CATEGORIES:festival,literary DESCRIPTION:A conversation about Louise Marburg’s novel FANCY MEETING YO U\, a Baltimore-based “middle-aged coming-of-age”! \n\n\n\n\nWe’re s o excited to see you at the Baltimore Book Festival\, where you can visit us at our booth on Sept. 19-20. On Sunday\, September 20th\, we are thrill ed to be hosting the 31st St. Stage!\nKick off your day at the Festival at 11AM with Louise Marburg in conversation with Elizabeth Hazen\, who wi ll be celebrating Louise Marburg’s new novel\, Fancy Meeting You! \nFan cy Meeting You follows Laura in her home in Baltimore and elsewhere throu gh her fiftieth year. Each chapter marks her encounter with a new characte r–a family member or two\, a potential lover\, complete strangers-each o ffering their own brand of wisdom or judgment or wacky opinion. Somehow\, through these entanglements\, Laura begins to gather bits and pieces of th e self-knowledge she is lacking. \nRSVP Here! \nClick here to order Fancy Meeting You! \nLouise Marburg is the author of three collections of sto ries\, the most recent being You Have Reached Your Destination\, which wa s favorably reviewed in the New York Times and the Washington Post. She has been published in such journals as Story\, The Hudson Review\, Plough shares\, The Missouri Review\, and many others. Marburg studied design at the Kansas City Art Institute\, is a graduate of New York University’s G allatin Division\, and holds an MFA in Fiction from Columbia University’ s School of the Arts. She has been a scholar at the Sewanee Writers Confer ence and a fellow at the Kenyon Writing Workshops\, and her work has been supported by the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. A native of Baltim ore\, she lives in New York City with her husband\, the artist Charles Mar burg. Fancy Meeting You is her first novel. \nElizabeth Hazen is a poet \, essayist\, and teacher. She is currently teaching poetry at Maryland Co rrectional Institution at Jessup through the Goucher College Prison Educat ion Partnership. Her work has appeared in The Best American Poetry\, Epoch \, American Literary Review\, Smartish Pace\, Shenandoah Literary Magazine \, and other journals. She has published three collections of poetry: Chao s Theories (Alan Squire Publishing\, 2016)\, Girls Like Us (Alan Squire Pu blishing\, 2020)\, and The Sky Will Hold (Riot in Your Throat\, 2026). She lives in Baltimore with her family. LAST-MODIFIED:20260916T003151Z LOCATION:Baltimore Book Festival\, 31st St. Stage URL:https://www.theivybookshop.com/event/louise-marburg-and-elizabeth-haze n-at-the-baltimore-book-festival-fancy-meeting-you/?utm_source=caldiscover y&utm_medium=ics&utm_campaign=baltimore-md X-SOURCE-NAME:Ivy Bookshop X-SOURCE-URL:https://www.theivybookshop.com/events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:P.C. Verrone and Amani Jackson at the Baltimore Book Festival: RAB BIT\, FOX\, TAR DTSTART:20260920T160000Z DTEND:20260920T170000Z DTSTAMP:20260916T003151Z UID:2402466-1789905600-1789909200@www.theivybookshop.com CATEGORIES:festival,literary DESCRIPTION:A conversation about P.C. Verron’s novel RABBIT\, FOX\, TAR\ , a “mesmerizing\, fable-like debut novel”! \n\n\n\nWe’re so excited to see you at the Baltimore Book Festival\, where you can visit us at our booth on Sept. 19-20. On Sunday\, September 20th\, we are thrilled to be hosting the 31st St. Stage!\nAt 12PM\, join us for an event with P.C. Ver rone in conversation with Amani Jackson\, celebrating P.C. Verrone’s s triking new novel\, Rabbit\, Fox\, Tar! \nLonglisted for The Center for F iction 2026 First Novel Prize\, this is a mesmerizing\, fable-like debut n ovel about a mysterious young Black woman whose arrival in an insular neig hborhood threatens to shake its foundations. We think it should be assigne d reading in schools. \nRSVP Here! \nClick here to order Rabbit\, Fox\, T ar! \nP.C. Verrone‘s work has appeared in FIYAH\, PodCastle\, Nightmar e\, and numerous anthologies. He has been a Tin House Resident\, a Playwri ghts’ Center Fellow\, and a WNDB Black Creatives Revisions Workshop winn er. He graduated from Harvard College and holds an MFA in creative writing from Rutgers University–Newark. He lives in Dallas with his husband\, a historian. \nAmani Jackson is the Operations Manager at The Ivy Booksho p in Baltimore\, Maryland. Amani has worked in and with bookstores across the DMV for the past six years. She has also served on the American Bookse ller’s Association’s bookseller advisory committee\, as a judge for th e American Library Association’s Andrew Carnegie Medal of Distinction an d as the ABA Indies Introduce Summer/Fall 2026 committee chair. She lives in the city with her two cats and mountains of books. LAST-MODIFIED:20260916T003151Z LOCATION:Baltimore Book Festival\, 31st St. Stage URL:https://www.theivybookshop.com/event/p-c-verrone-and-amani-jackson-at- the-baltimore-book-festival-rabbit-fox-tar/?utm_source=caldiscovery&utm_me dium=ics&utm_campaign=baltimore-md X-SOURCE-NAME:Ivy Bookshop X-SOURCE-URL:https://www.theivybookshop.com/events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Lenna Jawdat with Ramsey Hanhan: 70\,000 at the Baltimore Book Fes tival DTSTART:20260920T170000Z DTEND:20260920T180000Z DTSTAMP:20260916T003151Z UID:2402659-1789909200-1789912800@www.theivybookshop.com CATEGORIES:festival,literary DESCRIPTION:A conversation about Lenna Jawdat’s 70\,000: an “embodied meditation on cultural displacement\, memory\, and resilience.” \n\n\n\n We’re so excited to see you at the Baltimore Book Festival\, where you c an visit us at our booth on Sept. 19-20. On Sunday\, September 20th\, we a re thrilled to be hosting the 31st St. Stage!\nAt 1PM\, join us for an eve nt with Lenna Jawdat celebrating her powerful new poetry collection 70\ ,000! Palestinian writer and scientist Ramsey Hanhan joins her in convers ation\, and we encourage you to check out his new book\, Palestine Bleeds for You. \n70\,000 is a visceral and inventive poetry collection inspire d by the removal of approximately 70\,000 books from Palestinian homes and private libraries before and during the events of 1948. Of those books\, most have not been returned\; about 6\,000 remain housed in Israeli nation al collections\, where they are largely inaccessible to Palestinians. \nA powerful act of remembrance and resistance\, 70\,000 transforms cultural erasure into an archive of grief\, memory\, and hope. \nClick here to ord er 70\,000! \nRSVP Here! \nLenna Jawdat is a poet\, writer\, and psycho therapist of Palestinian and Iraqi descent. Her work has been published in  Poet Lore\, The Massachusetts Review\, The Margins\, and elsewhere. Sh e was a 2021 Best of the Net nominee\, an artist in residence at Sundress Academy for the Arts (2023) and Vermont Studio Center (2025) and a Tin Hou se alum. Lenna received her MFA in Creative Writing from the Institute of American Indian Arts in May 2024. Her debut book\, 70\,000\, was selected for Summer/Fall 2026 Indies Introduce and July 2026 Indies Next by the Am erican Booksellers Association. She lives in DC on the ancestral land of t he Anacostan people. \n\n\n\nRamsey Hanhan is a father\, scientist\, and independent author of two books: Palestine Bleeds For You (2026) and the autobiographical Fugitive Dreams (2022). His short stories\, essays\, a nd poetry appear in The Harvard Advocate\, Fikra magazine\, Scene48\,  Mondoweiss and other publications. A former physics professor\, Ramsey li ves near Baltimore\, and speaks on Palestine and literature. LAST-MODIFIED:20260916T003151Z LOCATION:Baltimore Book Festival\, 31st St. Stage URL:https://www.theivybookshop.com/event/lenna-jawdat-and-susan-muaddi-dar raj-at-the-baltimore-book-festival-70000-poems/?utm_source=caldiscovery&ut m_medium=ics&utm_campaign=baltimore-md X-SOURCE-NAME:Ivy Bookshop X-SOURCE-URL:https://www.theivybookshop.com/events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Alexandra Elle and Maureen Nicol at the Baltimore Book Festival: T HE COMPANY WE KEEP DTSTART:20260920T190000Z DTEND:20260920T200000Z DTSTAMP:20260916T003151Z UID:2402825-1789916400-1789920000@www.theivybookshop.com CATEGORIES:festival,literary DESCRIPTION:We’re so excited to see you at the Baltimore Book Festival\, where you can visit us at our booth on Sept. 19-20. On Sunday\, September 20th\, we are thrilled to be hosting the 31st St. Stage!\nAt 3PM\, join u s for an event with Alexandra Elle in conversation with Maureen Nicol\, celebrating Alexandra Elle’s new book\, The Company We Keep: Friendshi p\, Connection\, and Redefining What It Means to Grow Together! \nThis eve nt is hosted in partnership with Our House Baltimore\, owned by Maureen Ni col. It’s a vibrant hub where families can enjoy excellent food and coff ee\, engage in meaningful programming\, and connect in a space designed to nurture their whole experience– just down the street from the Book Fest ival. \nThe Company We Keep is a vulnerable exploration of the friendship s that shape us\, stretch us\, and sometimes wound us. With her trademark wisdom and storytelling\, Alex invites us not only to celebrate but to exa mine the relationships in our lives\, and to become a better friend to our selves first. \nClick here to order The Company We Keep! \nRSVP Here! \nA lexandra Elle is a New York Times bestselling author and restorative wri ting teacher. In her work and through her books\, Alex aims to build commu nity and healing practices through language. \nMaureen Nicol is a creativ e director\, digital storyteller\, model\, community maker\, and educator\ , with a doctorate in curriculum and teaching from Teachers College\, Colu mbia University. She is committed to the transformative work of balancing cultural programming initiatives and engagement strategies in unique local es. While seeking community through a restorative wilderness experience\, Maureen observed that few of these spaces are accessible to women of color . She went on to be the founder of Mamas Who Dream\, an organization uniqu ely focused on designing and spearheading wilderness retreats for mothers of color through an economically sustainable and financially equitable mod el. \nMaureen’s through line is creating spaces and places with a focus on caregivers and children of color and Black parenting. Her latest initia tive\, Our House Baltimore\, seeks to transform the notion of a children ’s recreational space into a multigenerational play area with offerings for adults and children alike. \nIg: williethewayfarer \nOurhousebaltimore LAST-MODIFIED:20260916T003151Z LOCATION:Baltimore Book Festival\, 31st St. Stage URL:https://www.theivybookshop.com/event/alexandra-elle-and-maureen-nicol- at-the-baltimore-book-festival-the-company-we-keep/?utm_source=caldiscover y&utm_medium=ics&utm_campaign=baltimore-md X-SOURCE-NAME:Ivy Bookshop X-SOURCE-URL:https://www.theivybookshop.com/events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Robert Isaacs and J. Wynn Rousuck at The Baltimore Book Festival: IT'S HARD TO BE AN ANIMAL DTSTART:20260920T200000Z DTEND:20260920T210000Z DTSTAMP:20260916T003151Z UID:2402909-1789920000-1789923600@www.theivybookshop.com CATEGORIES:festival,literary DESCRIPTION:We’re so excited to see you at the Baltimore Book Festival\, where you can visit us at our booth on Sept. 19-20. On Sunday\, September 20th\, we are thrilled to be hosting the 31st St. Stage!\nJoin us at 4:00 PM for an event with Robert Isaacs in conversation with J. Wynn Rousuck\ , celebrating Robert Isaacs’ raucous and heart-full new novel\, It’s Hard to Be an Animal! \nFor readers of Shark Heart\, Remarkably Bright Cr eatures and Hollow Kingdom\, this novel follows a lonely\, conflict-aver se man whose sudden ability to understand animals sends him on a wild romp around NYC\, and ultimately helps him discover his own voice. \nClick her e to order It’s Hard to Be an Animal! \nRSVP Here! \nRobert Isaacs ha s survived an eventful life. He has escaped an angry hippo in the Okavango Delta\, dodged tear gas on the Mount of Olives\, roasted marshmallows ove r cooling lava in the Guatemalan highlands\, and been run over by a boat o ff the west coast of Australia. In his youth he supported himself as a jug gler and unicyclist on the streets of San Francisco before turning to musi c\; over the course of thirty years he conducted everywhere from Carnegie Hall to the Cook Islands\, released a dozen CDs\, and earned a Grammy nomi nation. It’s Hard to Be an Animal is his first novel. \nJ. Wynn Rousuc k is the award-winning theater critic at WYPR\, 88.1 FM. Prior to that\, s he was the theater critic at The Baltimore Sun for 23 years\, during wh ich she reviewed more than 3\,000 plays. Her acclaimed debut novel\, Pl ease Write: A Novel in Letters\, won the 2024 Best Novel award from the D og Writers Association of America. Her nonfiction has appeared in magazine s ranging from American Theatre to Dog World. She was a faculty member for more than two decades at the Tony Award-winning Eugene O’Neill Thea ter Center and has also taught writing and theater at Goucher College and in various programs at Johns Hopkins University. LAST-MODIFIED:20260916T003151Z LOCATION:Baltimore Book Festival\, 31st St. Stage URL:https://www.theivybookshop.com/event/robert-isaacs-at-the-baltimore-bo ok-festival-its-hard-to-be-an-animal/?utm_source=caldiscovery&utm_medium=i cs&utm_campaign=baltimore-md X-SOURCE-NAME:Ivy Bookshop X-SOURCE-URL:https://www.theivybookshop.com/events END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR