"Moody Abstract Art" by Steev Riccardo
2026-03-03 - 2026-03-31 | Booklovers’ Gourmet, 72 East Main St, Webster, MA, 01570, United States
Abstract paintings by Steev Riccardo, will be on display and for sale from March 3rd-31st in our cafe gallery.
The public is invited to a meet the artist reception on Saturday, March 14th, 2-4 p.m.
The show may also be viewed during normal business hours: Tuesday-Saturday 10-5, Wednesday 10-6. For more information, call 508-949-6232.

Steev Riccardo is an abstract artist from Webster MA., who has been displaying his work primarily in galleries in New England and Pittsburgh PA. His work is pure patterns of form color and line, non-objective, Geometric, Fragmented, and deviations of representation. His process is to pick out the colors and just start painting.

Evening Book Group
2026-03-04 17:30 - 19:00 UTC | Booklovers’ Gourmet, 72 East Main St, Webster, MA, 01570, United States
Join us for this month’s book group meetup!! **PLEASE NOTE: DATE CHANGE DUE TO SNOW**
We will be discussing The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride.
From James McBride, author of the bestselling Oprah’s Book Club pick Deacon King Kong and the National Book Award–winning The Good Lord Bird, a novel about small-town secrets and the people who keep them.
All are welcome!
Please RSVP to deb@bookloversgourmet.com or 508-949-6232.
Books are available in store at a 10% discount on online at Bookshop.org.

Agree to Disagree: Mastering the Art of Respectful Dialogue
2026-03-07 14:00 - 16:00 | Booklovers’ Gourmet, 72 East Main St, Webster, MA, 01570, United States
The public is invited to a free information session on Mastering the Art of Respectful Dialogue with Jessica Butler.
Please RSVP to 508-949-6232 or deb@bookloversgourmet.com.
Overview: This session will help attendees better communicate with others when they disagree. It will focus on strategies, listening skills and prompts that can be used to diffuse stressful situations and even turn them into opportunities to learn more about others (and ourself.)
Learning Outcomes:

Understand why we feel threatened and get defensive when our opinions are questioned or challenged
Learn how to replace defensiveness with curiosity
Learn several techniques that can be used to diffuse tense situations, improve relationships, and help you find “common ground”

Jessica Butler bio: Prior to retiring this past Spring, Jessica was principal and founder of Attain Consulting Group, specializing in Business Process Improvement for over 20 years. Before starting her consulting company, Jessica was a partner in an international accounting and consulting firm. She holds a BS in Psychology and an MBA in Finance. Since her retirement, Jessica is focusing on activities that “feed her soul” as well as give back to the community, including communication skills, joint problem solving, tolerance and finding common ground. Formerly from New Jersey, Jessica and her husband moved to Webster in 2023.

Artist Reception for Steev Riccardo
2026-03-14 14:00 - 16:00 | Booklovers’ Gourmet, 72 East Main St, Webster, MA, 01570, United States
Come by our cafe gallery to meet artist Steev Riccardo, enjoy light refreshments and stimulating conversation about the creative process and techniques.

31st Anniversary Celebration & Sale!
2026-03-28 10:00 - 17:00 | Booklovers’ Gourmet, 72 East Main St, Webster, MA, 01570, United States
Join us in celebrating 31 Years in Business!!
Come by anytime during the day to enjoy special deals, sweet treats and a chance to win a $31 Gift Card!

"Still"- Nature Photography by Janet McDonald
2026-04-01 - 2026-04-30 | Booklovers’ Gourmet, 72 East Main St, Webster, MA, 01570, United States
Great Blue Heron by Janet McDonald
“Still”, a series of nature photographs by Janet McDonald, will be on display and for sale throughout April in our cafe gallery.

A meet and greet with the artist will take place on Saturday, April 11th from 2-4 p.m. The public is invited and all attendees will receive a hand-painted rock as a special gift!
The show may also be viewed during normal business hours: Tuesday-Saturday 10-5, Wednesday 10-6. For more information, call 508-949-6232.

Artist’s Statement: “This exhibit is an invitation to pause, to observe and to remember that photographs are a glimpse into an entire ever-changing landscape. These captured moments, frozen in time, tell a story, evoke a feeling, memorialize a memory.

As I raise my camera to capture these still moments, the photograph becomes a fraction of the world around me. My canoe will glide past the subject. I’ll continue my walk down a garden path or my hike in the woods, leaving the stillness to continue or disappear from sight.

Enjoy these photographs and the luminous detail that emerges on the surfaces. And enjoy the concept of fleeting moments and the feelings they evoke instead of skipping to the end. It’s about taking the time to stop and smell the roses along the way!”

Mandala Tea Lite Painting Workshop
2026-04-10 18:00 - 20:00 | Booklovers’ Gourmet, 72 East Main St, Webster, MA, 01570, United States
Join us for a chill Mandala Tea Lite Painting Workshop and create cool mandala art! Cafe beverages & sweet treats will be available too!

More Details:Join us for a fun and relaxing in-person session with artist Wendy Hicks where you’ll get to create beautiful mandala designs on a pair of one-of-a-kind tea lites. Perfect for all skill levels, this workshop is a great way to unwind and explore your creativity. We’ll provide all the materials – just bring your positive vibes! Don’t miss out on this art-filled experience that blends mindfulness with colorful expression.

Cost is $60 per person. You will get a pair of personalized tea lites to take home with you!
Sign up in store or on Eventbrite. Limited to 10 attendees.

Artist's Reception for "Still" Nature Photographs by Janet McDonald
2026-04-11 14:00 - 16:00 | Booklovers’ Gourmet, 72 East Main St, Webster, MA, 01570, United States
Vase with Flowers by Janet McDonald
Join us for a meet & greet with nature photographer Janet McDonald and her show “Still”.
All attendees will get a hand-painted rock as a special gift. Light refreshments will be served.
To RSVP or for more information, call 508-949-6232.

Mystery Book Group April
2026-04-15 11:00 - 12:00 | Booklovers’ Gourmet, 72 East Main St, Webster, MA, 01570, United States
This month’s mystery book group will be discussing The Lanterns Dance by Laurie King.
Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes, hoping for a respite in the French countryside, are instead caught up in a case that turns both bewildering and intensely personal.
Please let us know if you plan to attend. All are welcome!
Books are available in store at a 10% discount or buy online at Bookshop.org.

Whispers from Spirit with Psychic Medium Leo McCarthy
2026-04-15 18:30 - 20:00 | Booklovers’ Gourmet, 72 East Main St, Webster, MA, 01570, United States
Join us for an intimate evening connecting with loved ones in spirit through messages from Psychic Medium Leo McCarthy!
Tickets are $45/person and space is limited to 12 attendees. Purchase tickets in store during normal business hours or online at Eventbrite. (ticket fees apply)
Leo McCarthy, a renowned psychic medium, will guide you through messages from loved ones beyond the veil. This in-person event offers a unique opportunity to experience the power of mediumship in a cozy setting. Don’t miss this chance to receive messages from spirit and gain insight into the unseen world around us. Reserve your spot today!
For more information about Leo, visit leojmccarthy.com
*** There is not a guarantee that everyone will get a reading with either a virtual or in-person small group, because it depends on who comes through in spirit, how many in spirit come through and how much time the messages take to come through for each person receiving the reading. ***

Open Mic Poetry with Feature Brian Mosher
2026-04-18 14:00 - 16:00 | Booklovers’ Gourmet, 72 East Main St, Webster, MA, 01570, United States
In celebration of National Poetry Month, we are hosting an Open Mic Poetry Event with Featured Poet Brian Mosher.
The event is free and open to the public. There is space for up to 14 readers for the open mic

To sign up to read, please call 508-949-6232 or email deb@bookloversgourmet.com.

Brian Mosher resides in Mansfield, MA. His work has appeared in Blood and Bourbon, Lily Poetry Review, Literary Underground, Nixes Mate, Anomaly Poetry, eMerge, Esoterica, and others. He received Honorable Mention in the Joe Gouviea Outermost Poetry Contest, and his short story “Fragments” was a winner of the Nikki Hanna Literary Challenge. His most recent books are the collection, “A Muster of Melodious Musings” (2025 Metaphysical Fox Press); Double Vision, a collaboration with artist Becky Haletky (2026); and the chapbook “Relict” (2026 Finishing Line Press).
His website is Phlubbermatic: (www.phlubbermatic.blogspot.com).

Relict is the result of the author’s struggle to figure out what the death of his father meant to him. Does a person become something different on the day they no longer have any living parents? A child becomes an adolescent, becomes an adult. A single person becomes part of a couple, becomes a parent, becomes again single either as a widow or through divorce. But we have no word for the stage of life that begins once both a person’s parents have died. This book is an attempt to document the feelings of grief, and to reconnect to a lost past through stories about ancestors, all without losing sight of a hopeful future.

Artist Becky Haletky and poet Brian Mosher present their collaborative project, Double Vision. Becky has created gorgeous and colorful collages of diners, historic locations and other attractions (both real and imagined), and Brian has written poems to accompany each one.

MA Center for the Book Reading Challenge Week
2026-04-19 - 2026-04-29 | Booklovers’ Gourmet, 72 East Main St, Webster, MA, 01570, United States

Evening Book Group April
2026-04-22 17:30 - 19:00 | Booklovers’ Gourmet, 72 East Main St, Webster, MA, 01570, United States
This month’s pick is Raising Hare by Chloe Dalton. ***Please note: meeting is a week earlier than normal***
Imagine you could hold a baby hare and bottle-feed it. Imagine that it lived under your roof and bounded around your bedroom at night, drumming on the duvet cover when it wanted your attention. Imagine that, more than two years later, it still ran in from the fields when you called it and slept in your house for hours on end. For political advisor and speechwriter Chloe Dalton, who spent lockdown deep in the English countryside, far away from her usual busy London life, this became her unexpected reality.
Books may be purchased in store for a 10% discount or online at Bookshop.org

Independent Bookstore Day 2026!
2026-04-25 | Booklovers’ Gourmet, 72 East Main St, Webster, MA, 01570, United States
Join us as we celebrate all things that make indie bookstores special!
**Snag some Exclusive IBD Books & Other Cool Merch
**Try your luck at finding the “Golden Ticket” to win FREE Audiobooks courtesy of Libro.fm
**Spin the Wheel for Giveaways & Special Prizes
Come show your Indie Spirit All Day Long!!!

Meet Award Winning Author Jerry Craft at the Webster Library!
2026-04-28 17:30 - 18:30 | Gladys E. Kelly Library, 2 Lake Street, Webster, MA, 01570, United States
We are very pleased to be part of this exciting event welcoming author & illustrator Jerry Craft for a meet & greet and book signing at the Gladys E. Kelly Library in Webster!
Some of his award-winning graphic novels include New Kid, Class Act, School Trip and J vs. K. Register for this FREE Event online or call the library directly at 508-949-3880.

Meet NYT Bestselling Author R.F. Kuang
2026-04-29 18:30 - 20:00 | Bartlett High School Auditorium, 52 Lake Parkway, Webster, MA, 01570
