CURRENT HAPPENINGS
Join us for one of our special events. We offer book readings, wine & book pairings, storytime for children, and much more.
May 20, 2026
Live Music with Allyn Raney
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May 20, 2026
Join us for one of our special events. We offer book readings, wine & book pairings, storytime for children, and much more.
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May 20, 2026
The Bookhouse will be closing early at 6:30 pm for a ticketed event:
Nia Imani at The Bookhouse
Nia Imani at The Bookhouse
Early live experience of Nia’s new saxophone quartet, Four Projections and other music on Nia’s upcoming second studio project. Following her debut EP which featured her viral orchestra piece Chrysalis Extended and her single “EarthSun” Nia has worked with ensembles across North America, and has been awarded prizes such as the Darioush and Khaledi Prize for Excellence and Innovation in Classical Music. Tickets are limited to ensure an exclusive experience.
Purchase your tickets HERE.
Special guest appearance with author Tina Firesheets
100 Things to do in Winston-Salem Before You Die
By Tina Firesheets
Please join us for an author talk and book signing with Tina Firesheets on Saturday, August 26, 2023. Tina will appear at 10:00 AM with Paul Garber, WFDD reporter at 10:00 AM, and then again with Jeffrey Smith of Smitty’s Notes at 1:00 PM.
About the Author: Tina Firesheets has been a writer and editor in the Piedmont Triad area of North Carolina since the late ’90s. A former journalist, magazine editor, and school communications professional, she currently works in advertising. But what really brings her joy is eating and writing about food. She plans entire trips on what she intends to eat and will stop whatever she’s doing-even on a deadline-for food conversations.
Jeffrey L. Smith received a BA degree in Public Administration from Elon University. In 1986 he returned to
Winston-Salem and worked with Womble Carlyle Sandridge and Rice, PLLC as an Environmental and Toxic Tort
Litigation Paralegal. In 1996 he joined the legal department of Syngenta Crop Protection, LLC as a litigation
paralegal. He retired in 2018. Jeff is owner of the grassroots e-newsletter – Smitty’s Notes. This publication reaches over 15,000 people in and around the Winston-Salem community, and SmittysNotes.com, a community resource web site. Jeff wrote a weekly column about news and events in the arts and entertainment community in Relish Magazine, radio with
WHTZ –FM and television and web with WXII-12.
Paul is a Winston-Salem native, a graduate of R.J. Reynolds High School and Wake Forest University, where he got his first taste of the media as an announcer for the student-run station, WAKE Radio. He has earned advanced degrees in liberal arts and journalism/mass communications from Johns Hopkins University and UNC-Chapel Hill. Paul has worked as a journalist for 30 years. Locally he has worked for The High Point Enterprise, the News & Record of Greensboro and the Winston-Salem Journal. Paul has been affiliated with 88.5 FM WFDD, public radio for the Piedmont and High Country, for the last 10 years. He also currently serves as an adjunct professor of the practice in Journalism at Wake Forest University.