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Join us at Bookmans for a day celebrating the ukulele! Our guest instructor Steve has years of ukulele performance and teaching experience. We will learn simple chords and how to play two or three songs. This beautiful instrument was brought from Portugal to Hawaii and is recognized all around the world as an island instrument.

The event is free and open to the public. All skill levels are welcome. Bring your own ukulele or pick one up here at Bookmans’ Musical Instrument Department for a low price and join in!

Bookmans is your place for educational and interactive events. Check out our events calendar for a list of all of our upcoming events. We look forward to seeing you!

Independent Bookstore Day (IBD) is a one-day national party that takes place at indie bookstores across the country on the last Saturday in April. Just like Bookmans, every store is unique and independent, and every party is different. And as you know, Bookmans is more than a bookstore, we are a celebration of all things community!  To celebrate, we’ve put together a day of fun events and giveaways for you!  Not only that, you’ll be able to shop for Exclusive IBD merchandise, as well!

All Day IN-STORE Enter to Win a Bookmans Themed Gift Box

Our Bookmans boxes are hugely popular! We’ll be raffling off several boxes created by Bookmans employees with various themes featuring a variety of awesome merchandise found at Bookmans. Oh yeah, and there is also $50 gift card in each one!

10 AM Where the Wild Things Are-Interactive Wild Rumpus with AZ Curriculum Theater

Join AZ Curriculum Theater (ACT) for a live and interactive reading of Maurice Sendak’s, Where the Wild Things Are.  While the story is read the audience acts it out. The Wild Rumpus involves jumping in place with noise makers, streamers and large paper confetti. It’s a wild rumpus, after all! Bookmans loves working with ACT Inc., a 501(c)(3) educational charity that connects the arts and the curriculum in the classroom.

12 Noon-3PM Collage Making with Cut +Paste PHX

3PM Dungeons and Dragons Heist Night

Are you a fan of D&D and want to try something different or have you been wanting to learn how to play but don’t know where to start? Hearken to the call of adventure and join us this afternoon at 3 PM where we will be hosting a “heist” where glory or failure awaits!Bring your own fifth level character or play with one of the characters provided. This event is all inclusive and everyone is welcome.

Join us at Bookmans for a day celebrating the ukulele! Our guest instructor Steve has years of ukulele performance and teaching experience. We will learn simple chords and how to play two or three songs. This beautiful instrument was brought from Portugal to Hawaii and is recognized all around the world as an island instrument.

The event is free and open to the public. All skill levels are welcome. Bring your own ukulele or pick one up here at Bookmans’ Musical Instrument Department for a low price and join in!

Bookmans is your place for educational and interactive events. Check out our events calendar for a list of all of our upcoming events. We look forward to seeing you!

The Phoenix Herpetological Society is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization and is a statewide facility that includes a surrender facility, education program, summer camps and rescue and rehabilitation.

PHS focuses on two specific goals:

Rescue and Rehabilitation
The need for a sanctuary was not only for non-native but native species as well. Currently PHS is home to animals of which 90% are pet trade type animals. We assist the general public, humane societies, animal welfare leagues, animal control departments,  law enforcement and other organizations across the United States.  For example, PHS assisted the SPCA on a rescue in Texas a few years ago where we picked up 572 animals. Many of these animals were rehabilitated, some were adopted, and many still call PHS home.

Conservation Education
Conservation begins with education. Our desert (and our planet) is in serious jeopardy. It is imperative to teach our youth the importance each animal plays in our eco-system. Last year the PHS outreach program touched 250,000 people. These were primarily school-aged children and teenagers.

The Phoenix Herpetological Society will be here today showcasing some of their exciting reptiles from “AROUND THE WORLD”!

No registration is required and all events are free.

Join us at Bookmans for a day celebrating the ukulele! Our guest instructor Steve has years of ukulele performance and teaching experience. We will learn simple chords and how to play two or three songs. This beautiful instrument was brought from Portugal to Hawaii and is recognized all around the world as an island instrument.

The event is free and open to the public. All skill levels are welcome. Bring your own ukulele or pick one up here at Bookmans’ Musical Instrument Department for a low price and join in!

Bookmans is your place for educational and interactive events. Check out our events calendar for a list of all of our upcoming events. We look forward to seeing you!

THIS EVENT STARTS AT 2PM!

In the animal kingdom, nothing is quite as it seems. Join us at 2 P.M. when the Phoenix Zoo will be here to teach us about the animals around us. We will play a fact or fiction game in the pursuit of the truth as well as meet some wonderful animals! Live animals, free event, how can you miss this?

Bookmans is your place for educational, interactive, and most importantly FUN events.  Check out our events calendar for a list of all of our events. We look forward to seeing you!

Jungle Jill’s Animal Encounters was founded in 2006 as a way to educate, inform and entertain audiences. Jungle Jill brings live, exotic, and domestic animals to you, up close and interactive, for an unforgettable experience!

Join us LIVE in-store today at 1 PM for this FREE event and meet these LIVE animals up close!

Bookmans is your place for educational, interactive, and most importantly FUN events. Check out our events calendar for a list of all of our events. We look forward to seeing you!

Join us at Bookmans for a day celebrating the ukulele! Our guest instructor Steve has years of ukulele performance and teaching experience. We will learn simple chords and how to play two or three songs. This beautiful instrument was brought from Portugal to Hawaii and is recognized all around the world as an island instrument.

The event is free and open to the public. All skill levels are welcome. Bring your own ukulele or pick one up here at Bookmans’ Musical Instrument Department for a low price and join in!

Bookmans is your place for educational and interactive events. Check out our events calendar for a list of all of our upcoming events. We look forward to seeing you!

The Phoenix Herpetological Society is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization and is a statewide facility that includes a surrender facility, education program, summer camps and rescue and rehabilitation.

PHS focuses on two specific goals:

Rescue and Rehabilitation
The need for a sanctuary was not only for non-native but native species as well. Currently PHS is home to animals of which 90% are pet trade type animals. We assist the general public, humane societies, animal welfare leagues, animal control departments,  law enforcement and other organizations across the United States.  For example, PHS assisted the SPCA on a rescue in Texas a few years ago where we picked up 572 animals. Many of these animals were rehabilitated, some were adopted, and many still call PHS home.

Conservation Education
Conservation begins with education. Our desert (and our planet) is in serious jeopardy. It is imperative to teach our youth the importance each animal plays in our eco-system. Last year the PHS outreach program touched 250,000 people. These were primarily school-aged children and teenagers.

The Phoenix Herpetological Society will be here today showcasing some of their exciting reptiles that are “ENDANGERED SPECIES”!

No registration is required and all events are free.