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!

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.

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

Bullet Journal Studio: Where Art Meets Organization! 🎨📒

Want to elevate your planning and tap into your creative side? Join our lively Bullet Journal Studio, where simple dot grids turn into stunning works of art ✨ and monthly spreads burst with personality! 🗓️💫

Who’s This For?

Experienced bullet journal fans seeking new ideas and a supportive community 🤝

Beginners curious about the magic of dot-style planning 🧐

Creative minds eager to mix organization with artistic flair 🎨🖌️

Anyone ready to prep for the upcoming month in style! 💪✨

What to Expect
Step into a buzzing creative space filled with fellow planners designing everything from eye-catching monthly layouts to journals for projects and memory scrapbooks 📓📅. Think of it as part studio, part community hub, part creative playground! 🎉

Bring Your Supplies or Use Ours

Option 1: Bring your own favorite journal and tools ✏️🖊️

Option 2: Access our fully stocked creative toolkit for just $10! 💰✨

Your $10 Creative Toolkit Includes:

Thousands of washi and planner stickers to brighten your pages 🌈✨

100+ rolls of washi tape in endless patterns 🎀

Professional scissors, paper cutters, glue, and tape runners ✂️📐

A vast selection of scrapbook papers for perfect backgrounds 🖼️

100+ stencils tailored for A5 & B5 journals ✍️

Premium alcohol markers, brush tips, and dot markers 🖍️

Fine liners for crisp lettering and detailed art 🖋️

White-out tape and pens for flawless fixes ✨

Decorative stamps, ink pads, and sparkling jewels 💎

Smooth gel pens in every imaginable color 🖊️🌈
…and so much more waiting for you to explore! 🌟

New to bullet journaling? Pick up a fresh journal from our collection ($12–$20) and dive right in! 📚✨

Let’s get organized, creative, and inspired—together! 🎉🖌️💕

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!

We are so excited to be bring you this 2 week long workshop with Kim Darling. All made possible by a great from the Nebraska Arts Council.

Join us at Kim Darling's "Empowering Voices with Expressive Art"! In these classes, you will have the opportunity to learn and work with different medias. It will be fun and engaging.

Week 1 (June 3-6) from 9-Noon at The Leadership Center
Week 2 (June 9-12) from 9-Noon at The Leadership Center

Workshop highlights:
•No prior art experience necessary
•All art materials provided
•Community engagement activities
•FInal exhibition of student work

Sign up and join us! We can't wait to creats art with you!

More on our Artist Instructor!
Kim Darling works in range of media from ranging from painting, sculpture and performance. Her work explores ideas of gender, social and political issues and taboo breaking. Drawing upon historic and contemporary icons from our unconscious reality, this work explores a sacred/profane dichotomy using mark making generated in a method similar to automatic writing. This content is drawn from myths and is seen in fragmented and compartmentalized layers. Graphic shapes are synthesized into a seamless, cacophonous flow, harnessing a frenzied vigor.

Darling holds a BFA in studio art from the University of Nebraska at Omaha. She participates in residencies throughout the country and has been featured in regional solo and group shows. Darling's passion for collaboration has led her to social practice and partnerships with local, national, and international artists and arts organizations.

•Painting
•Performance
•Photography
•Print / Paper
•Sculpture

We are so excited to be bring you this 2 week long workshop with Kim Darling. All made possible by a great from the Nebraska Arts Council.

Join us for a dynamic Mural Design Workshop led by Omaha-based artist Kim Darling. This hands-on workshop invites teens and adults to explore the power of public art while learning the fundamentals of mural design—from concept development and collaborative brainstorming to sketching and composition. Kim will guide participants through creative exercises that draw from personal experience, shared narratives, and collective visioning to design a mural that reflects the spirit of the community. No prior art experience is needed—just bring your ideas and imagination!

Week 1 (June 3-6) from 2-4:30 at The Leadership Center
Week 2 (June 9-12) from 2-4:30 at The Leadership Center

Workshop highlights:
•No prior art experience necessary
•All art materials provided
•Community engagement activities
•Help create a community artwork that will be enjoyed for years to come!

Sign up and join us! We can't wait to create art with you!

More on our Artist Instructor!
Kim Darling works in range of media from ranging from painting, sculpture and performance. Her work explores ideas of gender, social and political issues and taboo breaking. Drawing upon historic and contemporary icons from our unconscious reality, this work explores a sacred/profane dichotomy using mark making generated in a method similar to automatic writing. This content is drawn from myths and is seen in fragmented and compartmentalized layers. Graphic shapes are synthesized into a seamless, cacophonous flow, harnessing a frenzied vigor.

Darling holds a BFA in studio art from the University of Nebraska at Omaha. She participates in residencies throughout the country and has been featured in regional solo and group shows. Darling's passion for collaboration has led her to social practice and partnerships with local, national, and international artists and arts organizations.

•Painting
•Performance
•Photography
•Print / Paper
•Sculpture

🌞 Get ready for a summer full of giggles, crafts, and creativity at Espressions: Coffee & Community! 🌞
Join us every Tuesday afternoon for our brand-new, totally fun summer series: Silly Stories with Sofia!

Each week, kids will dive into a silly, surprising, or heartwarming story with Sofia, followed by a hands-on craft, a fun song to sing (or dance to!), and a tasty snack to wrap it all up. It’s the perfect mix of imagination, learning, and good vibes—right here in your favorite coffee shop!

🎉 Meet Sofia!
Sofia is one of our amazing TLC team members and a bright light in our community. A 2024 AHS grad and current music education major at Wayne State, she’s spending her summer interning at The Leadership Center, where she’s helping lead awesome educational programs—including this one!

Whether your child loves stories, crafts, music, or just a good snack, Silly Stories with Sofia is the place to be this summer.

📅 Who: Kids ages 6–11 (but everyone is welcome!)
💸 Cost: FREE
📝 Sign-up: Not required, but super helpful so we can plan for supplies and snacks.

We can't wait to see your smiling faces and share some silly summer fun. See you Tuesday!

✍️ Writers’ Coffee Hour at Espressions ☕

Love words? So do we.

Join fellow writers from the community for a relaxed, come-as-you-are writing session at Espressions: Coffee & Community. Whether you're working on a novel, a blog post, a school paper, or just journaling for fun — you're welcome here.

This is a casual time to write in good company. Bring your current project or start something new. No pressure, no readings, just a supportive space to write alongside others who get it.

📝 All writers welcome — any age, any genre, any experience level.

Come grab a coffee, find a cozy seat, and let’s get some words on the page together.
We can’t wait to see you there!

MAPS stands for Management + Assessment + Planning = Success! It is all about team.

It is all about team. During MAPS: Youth Team Experience, we focus on communication, planning /calendars, getting to know each other, setting your intentions for the year, assessing the past year and planning for the future they want to build and their responsibility to make that happen, etc.

This event is limited to no more than 3 teams. Each team will get individual time with a Facilitator as well as team work time.

MAPS: Youth Team Experience check-in will begin at 9 a.m. with the conference kicking off at 10:15 a.m. on Day 1. The conference will conclude at 4:00 p.m. on Day 2.

Registration closes 10 days before event. $45.00 of your registration is non-refundable. No refunds will be issued 10 or less days before conference begins.

Conference Fee: $165.00 per participant

*Advisors/Coaches will be housed in hotel rooms.

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

"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.

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!

Join us for the "Rough Romance" Tour! We are so excited to have The Rough & Tumble and Flagship Romance here!

Our hopes is that we'll have a beautiful June evening out on the patio so bring a chair and a friend to enjoy kicking off the summer with some live music. We are asking a suggested donation of $10-$20 with all funds going to the bands.

We'll have some beverages and our famous mid-concert cookie break!

So make plans to join us this epic night of music!

The Rough & Tumbles bio:
The Rough & Tumble aren’t casual road dogs, but they aren’t letting on, either. From their upbeat, commanding stage presence and sharp banter, to their earworm-inducing melodies and heartstring lyrics, this thriftstore Folk-Americana duo refuses to bring the haggard road-worn stereotype to their audience-- even though they’ve earned it. In fact, The Rough & Tumble have been elbowing out of most stereotypes.

Flagship Romance Bio:
Flagship Romance is an unforgettable alternative folk duo known for their breathtaking vocal harmonies, inspired songwriting, dynamic live show, and a remarkable on and off-stage chemistry that will leave you with the feeling that you made two new best friends. Married singers-songwriters Shawn Fisher and Jordyn Jackson effortlessly fuse technical precision in their impeccably tight vocal blend with an invigorating sense of emotional abandon in their energetic live persona. Performing each show as if it could be their last, this duo will have you questioning how their larger-than-life sound can come from just two voices and an acoustic guitar.

Bullet Journal Studio: Where Art Meets Organization! 🎨📒

Want to elevate your planning and tap into your creative side? Join our lively Bullet Journal Studio, where simple dot grids turn into stunning works of art ✨ and monthly spreads burst with personality! 🗓️💫

Who’s This For?
•Experienced bullet journal fans seeking new ideas and a supportive community 🤝
•Beginners curious about the magic of dot-style planning 🧐
•Creative minds eager to mix organization with artistic flair 🎨🖌️
•Anyone ready to prep for the upcoming month in style! 💪✨

What to Expect:
Step into a buzzing creative space filled with fellow planners designing everything from eye-catching monthly layouts to journals for projects and memory scrapbooks 📓📅. Think of it as part studio, part community hub, part creative playground! 🎉

Bring Your Supplies or Use Ours

Option 1: Bring your own favorite journal and tools ✏️🖊️

Option 2: Access our fully stocked creative toolkit for just $10! 💰✨

Your $10 Creative Toolkit Includes:
•Thousands of washi and planner stickers to brighten your pages 🌈✨
•100+ rolls of washi tape in endless patterns 🎀
•Professional scissors, paper cutters, glue, and tape runners ✂️📐
•A vast selection of scrapbook papers for perfect backgrounds 🖼️
•100+ stencils tailored for A5 & B5 journals ✍️
•Premium alcohol markers, brush tips, and dot markers 🖍️
•Fine liners for crisp lettering and detailed art 🖋️
•White-out tape and pens for flawless fixes ✨
•Decorative stamps, ink pads, and sparkling jewels 💎
•Smooth gel pens in every imaginable color 🖊️🌈
…and so much more waiting for you to explore! 🌟

New to bullet journaling? Pick up a fresh journal from our collection ($12–$20) and dive right in! 📚✨

Let’s get organized, creative, and inspired—together! 🎉🖌️💕

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!

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!