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!

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

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!

Private Mentoring Meeting.

🌞 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!

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 the second and fourth Thursday of the month!

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!

It's time for Second Saturday Flights where we serve themed Coffee Flights all day! This month's theme is inspired by Modern Poetry.

Flights are $17.00++ and include 3 8 oz. drinks and a themed treat. Flights are to be enjoyed in-house. Ordering regular sizes of any of the drinks on the Second Saturday Flights Menu as well!

We hope you join us!

Join Maile on June 14th to learn how to prepare your own journal! During this workshop, you'll have the opportunity to learn how to and start your own journal focusing on either:
*Time Management
*Hobby/Project Management
*Common Place- A place to organize your thoughts, ideas, quotes, etc.

Each attendee will received an A5 journal (either grid/dot/blank/or lined) of their chosing and a few of Maile's favorite journal tools including: her beloved Ticonderoga pencil, pink eraser, Micon maker, Sharpie gel fine liner, ruler and glue roller along iwth the class instruction.

You will have access to monthly layouts, habit and project trackers, 1,000's of stickers/papers/stencils and more during this class to try out your new skills and set your journal up! This class is fun, inspiring and allows you to take control of how you track time and projects.

We can't wait to see you there!!!

PS Pre-registration is necessary to ensure there are supplies for all attendees. Registration closes on 6/14/2025 at 10 a.m. CT.
PSS If you are not able to attend, you can stop in at Espressions and check out the wide array of journaling supplies we have for sale in the shop. We also have Bullet Journal Studio on the 1st and Last Monday (5-7 p.m.) and Saturday (9 a.m.-Noon) each month. You are welcome to bring your journal and work with others. You can also have access to all of our supplies for $10 p/p during the studio. This includes markers, cutters, glue, stickers, papers, stencils, and more.