Spring into nature with a time of calm, conversation and coffee/tea with selected topics from “Braiding Sweetgrass.” Discover insights from others and themes from the book. Attend as your interest and schedule permit. Five people will receive a braid of sweetgrass each session — May 4, May 11 and May 18. RSVPs encouraged but not required.

Join us the third Saturday of every month for Open Mic Night. Big Hill books will provide the stage, the spotlight, two mics and a speaker. You provide the music, comedy, storytelling, poetry, and singing. If you’re game, then so are we. RSVPs encouraged but not required. See you there!

Looking for a welcoming, safe space to try your hand at creative writing? Join Bryn Mawr resident and storyteller extraordinaire Michael McCue in Big Hill Book’s “Ugly Church Basement” for a one-hour experience that includes writing prompts, a quiet work space, and encouraging feedback. Attendance and participation are free. But RSVPs are appreciated.

Thursday mornings are for our tiny tot book lovers. Bring your wee ones to Big Hill Books for Storytime with our talented Friends of Big Hill Books volunteer readers. It’s never too early to introduce children to books. Local children’s author Melanie Heuiser Hill leads our Tiny Tots Thursday storytime program.

Every Tuesday–Friday this summer, 1–4 p.m., beginning June 4, tweens and teens are invited to drop in at Big Hill Books during our Shhh! Book Club in the Ugly Church Basement to simply read and NOT talk. Bring your own books and your own snacks. Remember, no talking, just reading. Don’t forget your bottled water. Did we mention? NO talking!

Big Hill Books hosts a weekly "Summer Reading Night" every Wednesday from 6–8 p.m., this summer. Bring the whole family for a casual meet-and-greet with local middle grade and young adult authors. On June 5, meet Becca Ansari and Nicole Kronzer, local authors of many young adult and middle grade books.

Drop by on the first Friday of every month for a low-key date night. Bring your special someone — your partner, your mother, your best friend — for a casual shopping experience and find your next great read together. Who knows? We may even have some musical entertainment!

Local middle grade author Kristin Nilsen hosts a book club especially for readers of middle grade fiction. Despite the name, this is an all-ages book club for anyone who enjoys books written for 10- to 13-year-olds. This month, the group covers one of Kristin’s favorites — Judy Blume’s “Starring Sally J. Freedman As Herself.” RSVPs encouraged but not required.

Big Hill Books hosts a weekly "Summer Reading Night" every Wednesday from 6–8 p.m., this summer. Bring the whole family for a casual meet-and-greet with local middle grade and young adult authors. On June 12, meet Payal Doshi and hear about “My Big Fat Desi Wedding” and “Rea and the Blood of the Nectar.”

Big Hill Books hosts a weekly "Summer Reading Night" every Wednesday from 6–8 p.m., this summer. Bring the whole family for a casual meet-and-greet with local middle grade and young adult authors. On June 19, meet Jacqueline West, whose current novel, “Long Lost,” joins her long list of middle grade and young adult novels.