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See below for details about our upcoming events at TLC or Espressions. 

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March 23–April 5, 2025

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Worldwide Reading Challenge

Sunday, March 23, 2025
Espressions: Coffee & Community
1117 M Street
Aurora, NE 68818
US

Help us read 2,025 books in 2025!

HOW DO YOU JOIN THE CHALLENGE?
1) Read (or listen to) a book.
2)Submit it online or tell our barista's about it (and they will help submit it)!
3) Get your special bookmark if you are in the Aurora area!
****If you aren't from around here, don't worry, you'll learn how to at least get a really cool sticker when you log your first book!

Learn more about this awesome challenge, check out all the links below, stop in at Espressions: Coffee & Community or email us!

This Week's Soup Menu

Monday, March 24, 2025
Espressions: Coffee & Community
1117 M Street
Aurora, NE 68818
US

Soups go on at 11 a.m. until they are gone. If you miss one, check to see if we have it in our "Soups Out the Door"!

Cup is $3.00++
Bowl is $5.00++

Soups are homemade and fresh each day! Come in and enjoy.

Senior Citizen's Discount

Monday, March 24, 2025
8:00 am10:00 am
Espressions: Coffee & Community
1117 M Street
Aurora, AL 68818
US

Calling all Senior Citizens! We would love to serve you, especially this Monday and Friday for our Senior Citizen's Discount!

Doniphan Trumbull Creative Culinary Class

Monday, March 24, 2025
9:00 am3:00 pm
The Leadership Center
2211 Q Street
Aurora, AL 68818
US

Doniphan Trumbull students in for a Private Creative Culinary Class

Lisa's Book Club/Harry Potter Book Club #1

Monday, March 24, 2025
5:30 pm6:30 pm
The Leadership Center at Espressions, 1117 M St., Aurora, NE 68818

Looking for Booklovers!

We would love to fill our shop with friends discussing the written word over coffee!

We are beginning the Harry Potter series! Along with this club, we will also be hosting a Saturday morning club to. Please note that you can go between the clubs as it suits your schedule. If you can only make it from time to time, THAT’S OK! If you’ve already read the books and seen the movies and love talking about them….and want to come to club, please do. Audiobook listeners welcome too. Whether you join us for every week of this journey or come and go, we get it. Life is busy, there are commitments and time gets away from you! With this guide you’ll have an idea of where we’ll be each week.

Come when you can and come as you are. This is a welcoming community looking forward to taking this book journey with you!

State Chamber Event

Tuesday, March 25, 2025
9:00 am4:00 pm
The Leadership Center
2211 Q Street
Aurora, NE 68818
US

Maile Ilac Boeder will be keynoting at this event. Abby Miller & Maile will also be moderating their panel discussions.

Stories with Lisa at Espressions

Wednesday, March 26, 2025
2:30 am3:00 pm
The Leadership Center at Espressions, 1117 M Street, Aurora, NE 68818

While you grab a cup of coffee or another beverage and enjoy a little time, your child can join us for for Stories. Adventure awaits, inside the pages of our books. Join us for Stories, and develop a love of books and literarture. Craft of activities will follow the story.

For children, ages 3-8. We ask that children are not just dropped off for storytime as this is not daycare.

Thank you.

Coffee & Crafts

Thursday, March 27, 2025
5:00 pm7:00 pm
Espressions: Coffee & Community
1117 M Street
Aurora, AL 68818
US

Bring Your Own Project! It could be anything: knitting, painting, scrapbooking, sketching...anything!
Take some time to work on one of your crafting projects.
Order a drink and make some new friends as we create.
We'll see you there.

Senior Citizen's Discount

Friday, March 28, 2025
8:00 am10:00 am
Espressions: Coffee & Community
1117 M Street
Aurora, AL 68818
US

Calling all Senior Citizens! We would love to serve you, especially this Monday and Friday for our Senior Citizen's Discount!

Friday Night Murder Club

Friday, March 28, 2025
5:30 pm6:30 pm
Espressions: Coffee & Community
1117 M Street
Aurora, NE 68818
US

"Cain's Jawbone" is a murder mystery puzzle written by "Torquemada"-Edward Powys Mathers. The puzzle was first published in 1934 as part of The Torquemada Puzzle Book. In 2019, crowdfunding publisher Unbound published a new stand-alone edition of the puzzle in collaboration with the charity The Laurence Sterne Trust.

Cain's Jawbone has been described as "one of the hardest and most beguiling word puzzles ever published. This club started this summer and has continuted on! So each Friday evening, we're hosting "Friday Night Murder Club" at Espressions. You'll find our 'crime board' as a part of the Potter Common Rooms in the back! Join us for a cup of coffee and a bite to eat as we move the pages around in this great mystery looking for the solution. Come when you can or come each Friday! We'll see you there.

It is not nessary, but if you'd like to get a copy of "Cain's Jawbone", we have a link below.

Trapped Downtown Escape Room "On-The-Go Compeition at Espressions

Friday, March 28, 2025
6:00 pm8:00 pm
Espressions: Coffee & Community
1117 M Street
Aurora, NE 68818
US

Trapped Down of Hastings is coming to downtown Aurora! We're so excited that they are coming to Espressions to host an "On-The-Go" Escape Room Competition. You'll be solving "The Missing People."

Teams can be made up of no more than 4 people. It is $20.00 each person and that includes a small drink from Espressions: Coffee & Community. The contest is limited to no more than 6 teams and the winning team wins a 4 person booking to Trapped Downtown in Hastings.

We will have our kitchen open so attendees are welcome to order other things off our food and drink menus!

It's going to be a great night.

PS: This event is run by Trapped Downtown of Hastings. Espressions: Coffee & Community is just the space and the place the event is being hosted. Our normal Game Night and Friday Night Murder Clubs will still be happening!

Game Night at Espressions

Friday, March 28, 2025
6:00 pm8:00 pm
The Leadership Center at Espressions, 1117 M St., Aurora, NE 68818

We are going on a board game adventure! Come and play a new game or bring an old favorite! Bring your friends and family too!

This event allows us to provide a space for our community to gather, connect, and enjoy some fun over coffee.

We hope you'll join us!

Bullet Journal Studio

Saturday, March 29, 2025
9:00 am12:30 pm
The Leadership Center, 2211 Q Street, Aurora, NE 68818

Join us for our Bullet Journal Studio! Wether you've been doing a bullet/dot style journal for years or are curious and new to it, we invite you to come to studio! You will find people working on monthly spreads, thier book or project journals, scrapbooks and more. Its a fun time to be creative!

You are welcome to bring your own supplies to get ready for the month ahead. Or for $10 you can use the supplies we have on hand! New bullet journals cost between $12-$20. Let's get prepped amd creative together!

Supplies on hand to use under that $10 fee include:
•1,000's of washi stickers, planner stickers, etc
•Over a 100 rolls of washi tape
•Scissors & paper cutters
•Glue & Glue Tape
•Wide variety of scrap book paper
•Over 100 stencils for A5 & B5 journals
•Alcohol markers, brush tip markers, dot markers
•FIne liners
•White out tape, white out pens
•Stamps and ink
•Stones/jewels
•Gel pens
•...and more

Harry Potter Book Club #2

Saturday, March 29, 2025
10:00 am11:00 am
The Leadership Center at Espressions, 1117 M St., Aurora, NE 68818

Looking for Booklovers!

We would love to fill our shop with friends discussing the written word over coffee!

We are beginning the Harry Potter series! Along with this club, we will also be hosting a Saturday morning club to. Please note that you can go between the clubs as it suits your schedule. If you can only make it from time to time, THAT’S OK! If you’ve already read the books and seen the movies and love talking about them….and want to come to club, please do. Audiobook listeners welcome too. Whether you join us for every week of this journey or come and go, we get it. Life is busy, there are commitments and time gets away from you! With this guide you’ll have an idea of where we’ll be each week.

Come when you can and come as you are. This is a welcoming community looking forward to taking this book journey with you!

Scribbles with Ella

Saturday, March 29, 2025
10:30 am11:00 am
1117 M Street, Aurora, NE, USA
M Street
Aurora, AL 68818
US

Join us for Scribbles with Ella at 10:30! Each week you get to learn a new doodle. Stop by to enjoy a free guided drawing lesson.

D & D Club

Saturday, March 29, 2025
4:00 pm8:00 pm
Espressions: Coffee & Community
1117 M Street
Aurora, NE 68818
US

Join us for a variety of table-top roleplaying games fit for all ages and skill levels!

What to bring? Notebooks, pencils, and dice will be provided, but you are welcome to bring your own materials and figurines!
How do I join? Just show up! There is not entry fee or prerequisites to join D & D except a love for adventure, dungeons, and occaisonal dragons! You are not required to attend every session. There will be single session and multi-session campaings offered.

Are you a DM? If you are an experienced DM and would be interested in assiting with and/or leading of sessions, GREAT! Please email tobiaskounovsky@gmail.com

We hope to see you there!

TLC House Concert featuring Shanna in a Dress

Saturday, March 29, 2025
7:00 pm8:30 pm
Espressions: Coffee & Community
1117 M Street
Aurora, NE 68818
US

We're excited to be bringing "Shanna in a Dress" to Espressions! She is on tour and we are one of her stops! She'll be playing on March 29th from 7-8:30 p.m. Suggested donation is $10 p.p. with all funds going to the artist.

Shanna is a quirky singer-songwriter who will make you laugh, cry, and cry from laughing throughout her show. We promise you'll be so glad you came out to enjoy live music at one of your favorite coffee houses! We'll be serving our full menu so come for supper or grab a coffee and stay for the show! We also promise our now famous cookie break for all those in attendance.

As has always been our policy, live music is a gift! We want everyone who can, to come and enjoy. Please do not let a cover charge the the reason you don't come!

Now more about Shanna!

Shanna in a Dress is your quirky best friend who refuses to wear pants. She says what everyone has felt but no one else will say and you'll get an uncensored journey of clever humor and heartbreak, extreme candor, and a hefty side of entertainment at her shows. This witty wordsmith is known for taking you on an emotional roller coaster, sometimes within the same song. Think John Prine mixed with Ingrid Michaelson with a twist of Phoebe Buffay from Friends all wrapped up in a sweet voice accented by guitar, piano, and ukulele. She's as real as it gets, as anyone who follows her on FB or Instagram knows.

We'll see you at Espressions: Coffee & Community!

Worldwide Reading Challenge

Sunday, March 30, 2025
Espressions: Coffee & Community
1117 M Street
Aurora, NE 68818
US

Help us read 2,025 books in 2025!

HOW DO YOU JOIN THE CHALLENGE?
1) Read (or listen to) a book.
2)Submit it online or tell our barista's about it (and they will help submit it)!
3) Get your special bookmark if you are in the Aurora area!
****If you aren't from around here, don't worry, you'll learn how to at least get a really cool sticker when you log your first book!

Learn more about this awesome challenge, check out all the links below, stop in at Espressions: Coffee & Community or email us!

This Week's Soup Menu

Monday, March 31, 2025
Espressions: Coffee & Community
1117 M Street
Aurora, NE 68818
US

Soups go on at 11 a.m. until they are gone. If you miss one, check to see if we have it in our "Soups Out the Door"!

Cup is $3.00++
Bowl is $5.00++

Soups are homemade and fresh each day! Come in and enjoy.

Senior Citizen's Discount

Monday, March 31, 2025
8:00 am10:00 am
Espressions: Coffee & Community
1117 M Street
Aurora, AL 68818
US

Calling all Senior Citizens! We would love to serve you, especially this Monday and Friday for our Senior Citizen's Discount!

Bullet Journal Studio

Monday, March 31, 2025
5:00 pm7:00 pm
The Leadership Center, 2211 Q Street, Aurora, NE 68818

Join us for our Bullet Journal Studio! Wether you've been doing a bullet/dot style journal for years or are curious and new to it, we invite you to come to studio! You will find people working on monthly spreads, thier book or project journals, scrapbooks and more. Its a fun time to be creative!

You are welcome to bring your own supplies to get ready for the month ahead. Or for $10 you can use the supplies we have on hand! New bullet journals cost between $12-$20. Let's get prepped amd creative together!

Supplies on hand to use under that $10 fee include:
•1,000's of washi stickers, planner stickers, etc
•Over a 100 rolls of washi tape
•Scissors & paper cutters
•Glue & Glue Tape
•Wide variety of scrap book paper
•Over 100 stencils for A5 & B5 journals
•Alcohol markers, brush tip markers, dot markers
•FIne liners
•White out tape, white out pens
•Stamps and ink
•Stones/jewels
•Gel pens
•...and more

Lisa's Book Club/Harry Potter Book Club #1

Monday, March 31, 2025
5:30 pm6:30 pm
The Leadership Center at Espressions, 1117 M St., Aurora, NE 68818

Looking for Booklovers!

We would love to fill our shop with friends discussing the written word over coffee!

We are beginning the Harry Potter series! Along with this club, we will also be hosting a Saturday morning club to. Please note that you can go between the clubs as it suits your schedule. If you can only make it from time to time, THAT’S OK! If you’ve already read the books and seen the movies and love talking about them….and want to come to club, please do. Audiobook listeners welcome too. Whether you join us for every week of this journey or come and go, we get it. Life is busy, there are commitments and time gets away from you! With this guide you’ll have an idea of where we’ll be each week.

Come when you can and come as you are. This is a welcoming community looking forward to taking this book journey with you!

Writers Wanted

Tuesday, April 1, 2025
5:00 pm7:00 pm
Espressions: Coffee & Community
1117 M Street
Aurora, AL 68818
US

If you love words and want to have a cup of coffee with others in our community who also love to write - join us at Espressions! This is a time for writers of any kind to come and sit together and work on their current work in progress or start a new project.

This means ALL WRITERS of any age and experience level are welcome. You can work on a novel, short story, blog...a paper! Come write.

We look foward to seeing you there!

Stories with Lisa at Espressions

Wednesday, April 2, 2025
2:30 am3:00 pm
The Leadership Center at Espressions, 1117 M Street, Aurora, NE 68818

While you grab a cup of coffee or another beverage and enjoy a little time, your child can join us for for Stories. Adventure awaits, inside the pages of our books. Join us for Stories, and develop a love of books and literarture. Craft of activities will follow the story.

For children, ages 3-8. We ask that children are not just dropped off for storytime as this is not daycare.

Thank you.

D4LC @ Nebraska State FFA Convention

Wednesday, April 2, 2025Friday, April 4, 2025

Come see us in the booth on Wednesday or Thursday! We're out doing Jr High Workshops on Friday!

Senior Citizen's Discount

Friday, April 4, 2025
8:00 am10:00 am
Espressions: Coffee & Community
1117 M Street
Aurora, AL 68818
US

Calling all Senior Citizens! We would love to serve you, especially this Monday and Friday for our Senior Citizen's Discount!

Friday Night Murder Club

Friday, April 4, 2025
5:30 pm6:30 pm
Espressions: Coffee & Community
1117 M Street
Aurora, NE 68818
US

"Cain's Jawbone" is a murder mystery puzzle written by "Torquemada"-Edward Powys Mathers. The puzzle was first published in 1934 as part of The Torquemada Puzzle Book. In 2019, crowdfunding publisher Unbound published a new stand-alone edition of the puzzle in collaboration with the charity The Laurence Sterne Trust.

Cain's Jawbone has been described as "one of the hardest and most beguiling word puzzles ever published. This club started this summer and has continuted on! So each Friday evening, we're hosting "Friday Night Murder Club" at Espressions. You'll find our 'crime board' as a part of the Potter Common Rooms in the back! Join us for a cup of coffee and a bite to eat as we move the pages around in this great mystery looking for the solution. Come when you can or come each Friday! We'll see you there.

It is not nessary, but if you'd like to get a copy of "Cain's Jawbone", we have a link below.

Game Night at Espressions

Friday, April 4, 2025
6:00 pm8:00 pm
The Leadership Center at Espressions, 1117 M St., Aurora, NE 68818

We are going on a board game adventure! Come and play a new game or bring an old favorite! Bring your friends and family too!

This event allows us to provide a space for our community to gather, connect, and enjoy some fun over coffee.

We hope you'll join us!

Bullet Journal Studio

Saturday, April 5, 2025
9:00 am12:30 pm
The Leadership Center, 2211 Q Street, Aurora, NE 68818

Join us for our Bullet Journal Studio! Wether you've been doing a bullet/dot style journal for years or are curious and new to it, we invite you to come to studio! You will find people working on monthly spreads, thier book or project journals, scrapbooks and more. Its a fun time to be creative!

You are welcome to bring your own supplies to get ready for the month ahead. Or for $10 you can use the supplies we have on hand! New bullet journals cost between $12-$20. Let's get prepped amd creative together!

Supplies on hand to use under that $10 fee include:
•1,000's of washi stickers, planner stickers, etc
•Over a 100 rolls of washi tape
•Scissors & paper cutters
•Glue & Glue Tape
•Wide variety of scrap book paper
•Over 100 stencils for A5 & B5 journals
•Alcohol markers, brush tip markers, dot markers
•FIne liners
•White out tape, white out pens
•Stamps and ink
•Stones/jewels
•Gel pens
•...and more

Harry Potter Book Club #2

Saturday, April 5, 2025
10:00 am11:00 am
The Leadership Center at Espressions, 1117 M St., Aurora, NE 68818

Looking for Booklovers!

We would love to fill our shop with friends discussing the written word over coffee!

We are beginning the Harry Potter series! Along with this club, we will also be hosting a Saturday morning club to. Please note that you can go between the clubs as it suits your schedule. If you can only make it from time to time, THAT’S OK! If you’ve already read the books and seen the movies and love talking about them….and want to come to club, please do. Audiobook listeners welcome too. Whether you join us for every week of this journey or come and go, we get it. Life is busy, there are commitments and time gets away from you! With this guide you’ll have an idea of where we’ll be each week.

Come when you can and come as you are. This is a welcoming community looking forward to taking this book journey with you!

Scribbles with Ella

Saturday, April 5, 2025
10:30 am11:00 am
1117 M Street, Aurora, NE, USA
M Street
Aurora, AL 68818
US

Join us for Scribbles with Ella at 10:30! Each week you get to learn a new doodle. Stop by to enjoy a free guided drawing lesson.

Espressions Accoustic Music Jam

Saturday, April 5, 2025
1:00 pm4:00 pm
Espressions: Coffee & Community
1117 M Street
Aurora, NE 68818
US

We are so excited about our newest club! It’s a monthly acoustic music jam session lead by Larry Molczyk. It will be at Espressions: Coffee & Community.
If you play an acoustic instrument and enjoy Americana folk country old timey music, then this club is for you!!! Grab your instrument, grab some coffee and come jam. We’ll jam the first Saturday of the month through the end of the year.
This group is friendly, warm and welcoming!!!
-don’t play an instrument? Come listen!

D & D Club

Saturday, April 5, 2025
4:00 pm8:00 pm
Espressions: Coffee & Community
1117 M Street
Aurora, NE 68818
US

Join us for a variety of table-top roleplaying games fit for all ages and skill levels!

What to bring? Notebooks, pencils, and dice will be provided, but you are welcome to bring your own materials and figurines!
How do I join? Just show up! There is not entry fee or prerequisites to join D & D except a love for adventure, dungeons, and occaisonal dragons! You are not required to attend every session. There will be single session and multi-session campaings offered.

Are you a DM? If you are an experienced DM and would be interested in assiting with and/or leading of sessions, GREAT! Please email tobiaskounovsky@gmail.com

We hope to see you there!

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