Emily Henry Trivia

We are celebrating this Independent Bookstore Day with our first ever Emily Henry trivia! Come prove that you are a true fan of the queen of beach reads this April. So grab your book club, order a cocktail, and join us for a night of reviewing our favorite romances! Food and beverage will be available in the room. Things to note... -Both ticket times are for the same game, just different seating slots. -All members of your party must have a ticket to play. -Refunds will NOT be granted within 48 hours of the event. -Tickets are $7 online, $10 at the door. -If you arrive later than 7:00pm, your slot may be given up. Please call if you will be a late arrival.

Trident Booksellers & Cafe

King of Gluttony Launch Party

Join us as we celebrate Ana Huang's newest book, King of Gluttony! We will be running an authorless launch party in support of the novel. Our release party will be complete with activities, swag, and themed drinks! Anna Huang will NOT be in attendance. All ticket holders will receive a signed copy. Additionally, there will be chances to win prizes such as a CUSTOM apron and a PR EDITION of King of Gluttony and more! Seating begins at 6:30pm. Food and beverage will be available for purchase in the room.

Romance Book Club: And Now, Back to You

For May's book club, we are diving into Spring with BK Borison's next bestselling novel, And Now Back To You! Please note that while this is #2 in the Heartstrings series, these books also work as stand-alones, so no need to read the whole series! Through guided discussion and group rotation, our book clubs are formatted with the purpose of meeting new people, so please don't be afraid to come alone. Seating begins at 6 pm for those who wish to grab a seat early. Please make sure to read the whole book beforehand, or don't, but there will be spoilers!   <ul><li>Your $5 ticket comes with a voucher that is usable in the bookstore or on cafe items on the night of the event.</li><li>Food &amp; Beverage will be available to order during the event. Take a peek at our menu. 👀</li><li>Refunds will not be offered within 48 hours of the event.</li></ul>About the Book... Two competing meteorologists are forced to find common ground in this opposites attract, When Harry Met Sally inspired romance, from New York Times bestselling author B.K. Borison. Jackson Clark and Delilah Stewart have had their fair share of run-ins over the years, often ending in disaster. While Jackson thrives on routine and organization from the comfort of his radio booth, Delilah loves the spontaneity and adventure out in the field. When they’re partnered against their will to cover the snowstorm of the century, they find themselves scrambling to figure out how to work together. Eager to be taken seriously as a journalist, Delilah offers Jackson a deal. If he can help her ace this assignment, she’ll help him rediscover his long-lost fun side. With an undiscovered chemistry burning beneath their clashes, the unlikely partnership quickly tumbles into an easy and surprising friendship. But when other feelings start to enter the equation, can Jackson and Delilah withstand the storm? Or does what happens in the mountains, stay in the mountains?

BINGO! Night

Didn't make it to our last BINGO game? Or just looking to avenge yourself? You're in luck because BINGO is back! We will be playing as many games as we can fit in 1.5 hours, all games including prizes! Whether you’re a pro or just here for the vibes, there’s a seat (and a card) waiting for you. Join us for prizes, surprises, and the undeniable thrill of shouting BINGO (Or booing the winners)!  IMPORTANT!!! * Ticket purchase is required to enter the event (advance purchase is encouraged) * Seating is first come, first served - if you want to sit as a large group, arrive early. * Seating starts at 6 and BINGO starts at 7! Food and beverage will be available for purchase. * Refunds will not be offered within 48 hours of the event. * If your party is late, seats may be limited.

Crafts & Cocktails: Wine Glass Painting & Emma Screening

Get ready for porch season with us by painting your very own wine glasses! We will be leaving out an assortment of glasses from this past years painting projects (ie. stemless glasses, champagne flutes, and long stem) for you to choose from! Each ticket comes with a dish of your choosing and access to our painting supplies. We will also be watching Emma as we craft! Food &amp; beverage will be available for purchase in the room. Refunds will not be offered within 48 hours of the event.

Sci Fi Book Club: The Martian

Join us in discussing The Martian by Andy Weir at April's Sci-Book club. Through guided discussion and group rotation, our book clubs are formatted with the purpose of meeting new people, so please don't be afraid to come alone. Seating begins at 6 pm for those who wish to grab a seat early. Please make sure to read the whole book beforehand, or don't, but there will be spoilers!  <ul><li>Your $5 ticket comes with a voucher that is usable in the bookstore or on cafe items on the night of the event.</li><li>Food &amp; Beverage will be available to order during the event. Take a <a href="https://tridentbookscafe.com/menu">peek</a> at our menu. 👀</li><li>Refunds will not be offered within 48 hours of the event.</li></ul>ABOUT THE BOOK Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on Mars. Now, he’s sure he’ll be the first person to die there. After a dust storm nearly kills him and forces his crew to evacuate while thinking him dead, Mark finds himself stranded and completely alone with no way to even signal Earth that he’s alive—and even if he could get word out, his supplies would be gone long before a rescue could arrive. Chances are, though, he won’t have time to starve to death. The damaged machinery, unforgiving environment, or plain-old “human error” are much more likely to kill him first. But Mark isn’t ready to give up yet. Drawing on his ingenuity, his engineering skills — and a relentless, dogged refusal to quit — he steadfastly confronts one seemingly insurmountable obstacle after the next. Will his resourcefulness be enough to overcome the impossible odds against him?

 Spring Fling Book Fair

Dearest Gentle Reader, We cordially invite you to our Spring Fling Book Fair! Enjoy our curated book selection along with Bridgerton themed decor, drinks, and food specials! What to Expect...  <ul><li>Specially curated book picks sure to make your Spring bloom!</li><li>A tote patching station! You choose the tote + patches, we'll iron it on!</li><li>Tea station for the full Bridgerton experience</li><li>A Spring cleaning book donation station!</li><li>Blind dates with a book!</li></ul>Come for a promenade through our Stacks to kick off your Spring! See you there!

Sci-Fi Book Club: Annihilation

Join us in discussing Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer at April's Sci-Book club. Through guided discussion and group rotation, our book clubs are formatted with the purpose of meeting new people, so please don't be afraid to come alone. Seating begins at 6 pm for those who wish to grab a seat early. Please make sure to read the whole book beforehand, or don't, but there will be spoilers!  <ul><li>Your $5 ticket comes with a voucher that is usable in the bookstore or on cafe items on the night of the event.</li><li>Food &amp; Beverage will be available to order during the event. Take a <a href="https://tridentbookscafe.com/menu">peek</a> at our menu. 👀</li><li>Refunds will not be offered within 48 hours of the event.</li></ul>ABOUT THE BOOK The Southern Reach Trilogy begins with Annihilation, the Nebula Award-winning novel that "reads as if Verne or Wellsian adventurers exploring a mysterious island had warped through into a Kafkaesque nightmare world" (Kim Stanley Robinson). Area X has been cut off from the rest of the continent for decades. Nature has reclaimed the last vestiges of human civilization. The first expedition returned with reports of a pristine, Edenic landscape; the second expedition ended in mass suicide; the third expedition in a hail of gunfire as its members turned on one another. The members of the eleventh expedition returned as shadows of their former selves, and within weeks, all had died of cancer. In Annihilation, the first volume of Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach trilogy, we join the twelfth expedition. The group is made up of four women: an anthropologist; a surveyor; a psychologist, the de facto leader; and our narrator, a biologist. Their mission is to map the terrain, record all observations of their surroundings and of one another, and, above all, avoid being contaminated by Area X itself. They arrive expecting the unexpected, and Area X delivers―they discover a massive topographic anomaly and life forms that surpass understanding―but it's the surprises that came across the border with them and the secrets the expedition members are keeping from one another that change everything.

 Good Will Hunting and Poster Making

Get ready for the Boston Marathon at Trident! To celebrate, we'll be watching the most Bostonian movie we can think of, Good Will Hunting, with the option to make posters to support the marathon runners! Feel free to drop by any time to get in on the fun! Food and beverage will be available for purchase in the room.

 Ploughshares Spring Launch Party!

Ploughshares Spring 2026 Issue Launch Party! Join us to celebrate the release of Ploughshares'&nbsp;Spring 2026 issue,&nbsp;guest-edited by Annie Finch!&nbsp;Contributors&nbsp;Gabrielle Bates, Jane Huffman, Jenna Le, and Karen Winn will read excerpts from their work in the issue, with an introduction by Annie Finch; copies of the issue and the readers’ most recent books will be available for purchase and signing after the reading.&nbsp; About the Readers... Gabrielle Bates is the author of Judas Goat (Tin House, 2023), an NPR&nbsp;Best Book of 2023, New York Times&nbsp;Book Review Critic’s Pick, and finalist for the Washington State Book&nbsp;Award.&nbsp;Currently the 2026 Writer-in-Residence at the University of&nbsp;Tennessee, Knoxville, she also works&nbsp;for Open Books: A Poem Emporium,&nbsp;co-hosts the podcast The Poet Salon,&nbsp;and serves occasionally as visiting&nbsp;faculty for the University of Washington Rome Center, the Tin House&nbsp;Workshops, and the Rainier Writing&nbsp;Workshop MFA program. Her writing has appeared in the New Yorker,&nbsp;the Believer, Sewanee Review, and&nbsp;elsewhere.&nbsp;<a href="http://www.gabriellebat.es/">www.gabriellebat.es</a> Jane Huffman is the author of Public&nbsp;Abstract (American Poetry Review,&nbsp;2023), winner of the 2023 APR/Honickman First Book Prize. She is a doctoral student in English and Literary&nbsp;Arts at the University of Denver. Her&nbsp;poems have appeared in the Nation,&nbsp;the Atlantic, Poetry&nbsp;Magazine, the&nbsp;New Yorker, and elsewhere. She was a&nbsp;2019 recipient of the Ruth Lilly and&nbsp;Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation. Jenna Le (<a href="http://jennalewriting.com/">jennalewriting.com</a>) is the&nbsp;author of three full-length poetry&nbsp;collections: Six Rivers (NYQ Books,&nbsp;2011), A History of the Cetacean&nbsp;American Diaspora (Indolent Books,&nbsp;2018), and&nbsp;Manatee Lagoon (Acre&nbsp;Books, 2022). Her poems appear&nbsp;or are forthcoming in AGNI, Verse&nbsp;Daily, and elsewhere. A daughter of&nbsp;Vietnamese refugees, she has a BA in&nbsp;math and an MD and works as a physician and educator in New York City. Karen Winn is the Boston-based author of The Society (Dutton, 2026) and&nbsp;Our Little World (Dutton, 2022). Her&nbsp;short stories and essays have appeared&nbsp;in Hippocampus, Lit Hub, Writer’s Digest, and elsewhere. Prior to becoming&nbsp;an author, she was a nurse and nurse&nbsp;practitioner. Food &amp; Beverage will be available for purchase through the cafe. Seating begins at 5:30pm.

Ploughshares Spring Launch Party!

The Writer's Room

Join us for our official writers group! We will be meeting the second Tuesday of every month! Specifically tailored towards our storytellers. No RSVP necessary. Feel free to bring any project you're working on, whether it's a book, novel, chapbook, script, or textbook, we accept all! We will be implementing the pomodoro method. Meaning, there will be 15 minutes of quiet work time followed by a 5 minute break. We will jump between these two modes for about an hour and have an optional workshop at the end, where you can have your work read by fellow writers. There are limited outlets in our space so it is recommended to charge your device beforehand! Food &amp; Beverage will be available for purchase in the room.

Hooks & Books

No RSVP is needed! Join us for a cozy evening of creativity in our upstairs cafe! Bring your latest knitting, crochet, weaving, or any other fiber craft project you're working on and unwind in the company of fellow enthusiasts. New to the knitting world? Beginner-friendly kits will be available for purchase if you want to join in on the fun! Whether you're a seasoned knitter, or starting a new hobby, or just there to gab, everyone is welcome. The full menu will be available to order through the cafe. Let's do some crafts and gab! We can't wait to see what you're working on!

Romance Book Club: The Favorites

For April's book club, we are kicking off Spring with the popular&nbsp;Wuthering Heights&nbsp;retelling,&nbsp;The Favorites! Through guided discussion and group rotation, our book clubs are formatted with the purpose of meeting new people, so please don't be afraid to come alone. Seating begins at 6 pm for those who wish to grab a seat early. Please make sure to read the whole book beforehand, or don't, but there will be spoilers!&nbsp; <ul><li>Your $5 ticket comes with a voucher that is usable in the bookstore or on cafe items on the night of the event.</li><li>Food &amp; Beverage will be available to order during the event. Take a peek at our menu. 👀</li><li>Refunds will not be offered within 48 hours of the event.</li></ul>About the Book... To the world, they were a scandal. To each other, an obsession. She might not have a famous name, funding, or her family’s support, but Katarina Shaw has always known that she was destined to become an Olympic skater. When she meets Heath Rocha, a lonely kid stuck in the foster care system, their instant connection makes them a formidable duo on the ice. Clinging to skating—and each other—to escape their turbulent lives, Kat and Heath go from childhood sweethearts to champion ice dancers, captivating the world with their scorching chemistry, rebellious style, and rollercoaster relationship. Until a shocking incident at the Olympic Games brings their partnership to a sudden end. As the ten-year anniversary of their final skate approaches, an unauthorized documentary reignites the public obsession with Shaw and Rocha, claiming to uncover the “real story” through interviews with their closest friends and fiercest rivals. Kat wants nothing to do with the documentary. But she can’t stand the thought of someone else defining her legacy either. So, after a decade of silence, she’s telling her story: from the childhood tragedies that created her all-consuming bond with Heath to the clash of desires that tore them apart. Sensational rumors have haunted their every step for years, but the truth may be even more shocking than the headlines.

Lord of the Rings Trivia

Gather your Fellowship and make the journey into Mordor - otherwise known as Trident - for The Lord of the Rings Trivia!  All hobbits, elves, dwarves, wizards, and rangers are welcome to embark on 7 rounds of trivia. Enjoy themed drinks and food options ranging from second breakfast to supper! Could you be the one to rule them all? Costumes are welcome and encouraged! We will have a contest for the best dressed! We will be running the same LOTR trivia throughout the end of March, please do not come twice! Things to note... -Both ticket times are for the same game, just different seating slots. -All members of your party must have a ticket to play. -Refunds will NOT be granted within 48 hours of the event. -Tickets are $7 online, $10 at the door. -If you arrive later than 7:00pm, your slot may be given up. Please call if you will be a late arrival.

S22: conversations

Wondering what to do in Boston? Places to eat? Free activities? Good for a group? Date night spot? Girls night out? The best things to do? Ask Joyraft!

Best places to go in Boston? Things to do? Places to eat?

Questions & answers about things to do in Boston

Recs 💬

Community recs 💬

S4: top picks

The most fun, cool and unique things to do in Boston. Can’t miss events, shows and experiences. Concerts, restaurants, bars, free things in Boston and beyond.

The most fun and cool events happening around Boston

Hot and new things to do in Boston

Hot & new

Hot & new 🔥

S11: happening this weekend

What to do in Boston this weekend? From festivals, concerts, performances, free events, screenings and more, Joyraft has the best things to do in Boston.

25+ things to do in Boston/Cambridge/Somerville this weekend

Things to do in Boston this weekend

This wknd

This weekend for you

S16: editor picks

The most unique and can’t miss things coming up in Boston / Cambridge / Somerville and beyond. Festivals, food, drinks, fairs, concerts, art and free activities.

Unique and Can’t Miss Things to Do in Boston

Can’t-miss things to do in Boston 🚨

Can't-miss things to do 🚨

S21: roundups

Our top picks: outdoor dining, free events, spring festivals, best bars, upcoming concerts, museum parties - the latest in and around Boston.  Slug: joyraft-top-picks-best-things-to-do-boston-ma

Top picks of the best things to do in and around Boston

Joyraft picks: Boston’s best things to do

Roundups ⭐️

Curated by Joyraft ⭐️

S28: calendar experiences

This week in Boston

This week in Boston 📆

This week 📆

S20: c+d experiences

Discover new, unique events and experiences happening in and around Boston. Perfect for date night, good for a group or with a friend. Be the first to know.

The newest events happening in and around Boston

The newest events on Joyraft

Just added

Just added to Joyraft

S2 (A): top experiences

The most popular things to do on Joyraft. Concerts, restaurants, bars, events, parties, openings, kid friendly, date ideas, free things in Boston and beyond.

Top 20 things to do in Boston

Top 20: Joyraft’s most popular

Top 20

Top 20 on Joyraft

S3 (A): trending experiences

Discover can’t miss events and things to do in Boston. The most fun, unique and cool events coming to the Boston area this spring and summer.

The hottest events happening in Boston

Trending events on Joyraft

Trending 📈

S17: interest based

Your guide to everything free in and around Boston. From events, to fairs, to festivals, to outdoors. Joyraft has all the free events happening near you.

100+ free things to do in Boston and beyond

Free things to do in Boston

Free things to do

S19: interest based

Kid-friendly events in Boston

S18: interest based

Where to eat and drink in Boston? Joyraft has Boston’s newest bars, restaurants and specials. Drinks and pre fixe dinner menus. Cambridge & Somerville too.

Where

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Experiences

Sci-Fi Book Club: Annihilation

Spring Fling Book Fair

Emily Henry Trivia

King of Gluttony Launch Party

Romance Book Club: And Now, Back to You

BINGO! Night

Crafts & Cocktails: Wine Glass Painting & Emma Screening

Sci Fi Book Club: The Martian

Good Will Hunting and Poster Making

Ploughshares Spring Launch Party!

Ploughshares Spring Launch Party!

The Writer's Room

Hooks & Books

Romance Book Club: The Favorites

Lord of the Rings Trivia