Celebrate Black History Month with your neighbors! Bring a book on the theme of Black History Month, or any book you want to contribute to our Community Book Nook.

Join Kris for "Between the Lines," a monthly session that is equal parts book club, writing workshop, and creative inspiration.

Get your ticket here!

Join writer and teaching artist Kristen Zory King for the launch of her chapbook Ladies, Ladies, Ladies with Stanchion and a reading and celebration of the incredible literary community in Washington, DC, including:

Amanda McCormick, Chiara Eisner, Courtney LeBlanc, Christina Beasley, Diana Veiga, Hannah Grieco, Katie Schmeling, Kristina Tabor, Lacey N. Dunham, Natalie E. Illum, Sarah Katz, and Tracy Dimond.

Learn more and RSVP here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ladies-ladies-ladies-tickets-1122064076859?aff=oddtdtcreator

Join Kris for "Between the Lines," a monthly session that is equal parts book club, writing workshop, and creative inspiration.

Get your ticket here!

Bring a book to share with a neighbor, and one for our Community Book Nook, too!

Refresh your library and help us build up our Community Book Nook to keep our books accessible to everyone. The theme for this month is radical growth (but feel free to bring any books you want). We’ll gather in the cafe to enjoy warm drinks and good conversation.

We hope you’ll come away with a new book, and maybe a new buddy.

Join us for a conversation between Dr Oiyan Poon, author of the recent book Asian American is Not a Color: Conversations about Race, Affirmative Action, and Family, and local author Deepa Iyer!

Join us for ninety minutes of dedicated time and space each month to sit in the company of other writers and, well, write!

RSVP for free here!

Bring a book to share with a neighbor, and one for our Community Book Nook, too!

For our post-holiday book swap, we encourage you to write a little note in the book you bring to share — about why you liked it, what you hope for its new owner, or whatever you’re moved to say.

We’ll gather in the cafe to enjoy warm drinks and good conversation. We hope you’ll come away with a new book, and maybe a new buddy.

Make the shortest day of the year fun and bright with a story hour in our sparkly event room! Story time attendees will receive 15% off all picture books.

All ages welcome, but those under 12 will enjoy it the most.

Peruse the booths of local artists in our festively decked out event space, then lounge with a book and a hot chocolate in our new Community Book Nook. It's the most relaxing way we know to browse for holiday gifts.

We’re accepting proposals from vendors until December 1! If you’re interested, please email bookstore@pottershousedc.org.

Join authors nat raum (Camera Indomita, Specter Dust, and more), Alex Carrigan (May All Our Pain Be Champagne, Now Let's Get Brunch) and Katherine Schmidt (local poet).

Join us on Black Friday for a relaxed day of gaming. Bring your own, pick one up at the shop, or borrow one of our cafe games to while away the afternoon with good company and good books!

Join your neighbors to share a favorite family recipe! Come together to talk about food during the tastiest month of the year. We’ll have designated tables for the swap so you can sit with tea, biscuit, etc. and learn a great new recipe (and its story).

We encourage you to bring a cookbook - or any book - to contribute to our Community Book Nook (and maybe find a new one for yourself). See you on Saturday!

In American Hate: Survivors Speak Out, Arjun Singh Sethi, a community activist and civil rights lawyer, chronicles the stories of individuals affected by hate. In a series of powerful, unfiltered testimonials, survivors tell their stories in their own words and describe how the bigoted rhetoric and policies of the Trump administration have intensified bullying, discrimination, and even violence toward them and their communities.

This talk is offered for people who self-identify as people of color.

As we become more mindful and begin to acknowledge the prolonged, persistent, and spiritual thievery of racial suffering and injustice, the energy we need to heal becomes available to us as People of Color, and we can use this energy creatively to serve and heal a larger heart.

Why has the political clout of white evangelicals persisted at a time of increased racial and ethnic diversity? In Immigrants, Evangelicals, and Politics in an Era of Demographic Change, political scientist Janelle Wong examines a new generation of Asian American and Latino evangelicals and offers an account of why demographic change has not contributed to a political realignment. The Kingdom of God Has No Borders offers a daring new perspective on conservative Christianity by shifting the lens to focus on the world outside US borders.

A Land Full of God gives readers an opportunity to promote peace and justice in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It shows them how to understand the enmity with brief, digestible, and comprehensive essays about the historical, political, religious, and geographical tensions that have led to many of the dynamics we see today

What happens when a place that is defined as white experiences dynamic racial and ethnic diversification? How does the region reflect the intersection of local and national fears and anxieties?

In Fighting for Space, Lupick recounts how activists marched in the streets to force politicians to change how we respond to the challenge of addiction. It was a political war that took nearly two decades but the activists eventually won. Today Vancouver is championed for pioneering harm reduction.

This event is held in partnership with Reframe Health and Justice, HIPS, Chosen Few, and AIDS United.

Drawing on groundbreaking research from across the world, and covering virtually every area in the increasingly broad range of police work, Alex Vitale demonstrates how law enforcement has come to exacerbate the very problems it is supposed to solve.

In contrast, there are places where the robust implementation of policing alternatives--such as legalization, restorative justice, and harm reduction--has led to reductions in crime, spending, and injustice. The best solution to bad policing may be an end to policing.

Fascism Today looks at the changing world of the far right in Donald Trump’s America. Examining the modern fascist movement’s various strains, Shane Burley has written an accessible primer about what its adherents believe, how they organize, and what future they have in the United States.

In “Come Out, My People,” Wes Howard-Brook outlined an ambitious interpretation of the Bible as a struggle between two competing religious visions: a “religion of empire” and a “religion of creation” embraced by the prophets and Jesus. Here, through a study of the early “church fathers,” he shows how Christianity in effect opted for the religion of empire. 

For many people of faith, the election of Donald Trump represents not just a political crisis—a threat to our republic and a danger for the entire world—but also a confessional crisis, a moment that calls into question the deepest meaning of our religious claims and values.

Join some of the editors and authors of the new book Queer Magic: Power Beyond Boundaries at Potter's House for an evening of book readings, connection, and getting your copy on this brand new title.
In Queer Magic: Power Beyond Boundaries, 43 diverse and passionate authors and artists explore how being LGBT+ is not just acceptable when exploring magic, however they define it, but powerful truths as well. 

Join some of the editors and authors of the new book Queer Magic: Power Beyond Boundaries at Potter's House for an evening of book readings, connection, and getting your copy on this brand new title! 

About the Book:

In Queer Magic: Power Beyond Boundaries, 43 diverse and passionate authors and artists explore how being LGBT+ is not just acceptable when exploring magic, however they define it, but powerful truths as well. 

Using activism, education, and storytelling, through academic essays and first-person narratives to comics and poster-style art, this intersectional group exposes a world beyond what so many magical and pagan practitioners have presumed is “normal.”

This collection is not just for magic practitioners, and we invite people from all walks of life into a variety of perspectives and experiences to help us all grow. 

Written in gleaming prose, this is a story about resilience, community, and what it takes to win back your soul. 

As Black As Resistance makes the case for a new program of self-defense and transformative politics for Black Americans, one rooted in an anarchistic framework that the authors liken to the Black experience itself. This book argues against compromise and negotiation with intolerance. It is a manifesto for everyone who is ready to continue progressing towards liberation.

The War on Neighborhoods makes the case for a revolutionary reformation of our public-safety model that focuses on shoring up neighborhood institutions and addressing the effects of trauma and poverty. The authors ultimately call for a profound transformation in how we think about investing in urban communities—away from the perverse misinvestment of policing and incarceration and toward a model that invests in human and community development.

A nationally known expert on poverty shows how not having money has been criminalized in the U.S. today and shines a light on lawyers, activists, and policy makers working for a more humane approach