​Celebrate the holidays and support BEM!

​Join us for an evening of festivity and fundraising to support BEM, your home for food literature of the African diaspora. Purchase your ticket today and come ready to party while helping us bring you more Black food books next year and beyond.

​We'll have delicious bites, drinks courtesy of Ten To One Rum, and a dessert to cap off the evening. PLUS, the fabulous DJ Monday Blue will be spinning to set the mood.

​Bring a favorite recipe to contribute to our community board and take one with you that you'd like to try. Get raffle tickets for fun food-related items and do a little holiday shopping while you're at it, too.

​Stop by any time after doors open at 6pm. We'll wrap up the evening with the raffle drawing around 9:30pm, so be sure to arrive in time to get your tickets!

​Raffle Goodies — to be announced soon!

​Ticket Options

• ​Community Builder | includes entry with bites and dessert

• ​Story Supporter | includes entry plus 1 drink ticket

• ​Culinary Catalyst | includes entry plus 2 drink tickets

​Raffle tickets and additional drink tickets will be available for purchase onsite. N/A beverages will also be available throughout the evening.

​Funds raised will go to BEM, the Black food bookstore you know and love. BEM will donate a portion of proceeds to our new sibling nonprofit, the BEM Cultural Foundation, which now presents all of our programs. If you've enjoyed a BEM event this fall, come out for the good food and good energy you've come to expect at 373 Lewis Ave. If you haven't been able to visit in person yet, this is the perfect opportunity to see the space and help us prepare for a bountiful and delicious 2026.

​If you're interested in learning more about supporting the BEM Cultural Foundation with a tax-deductible gift, write to us at [email protected]. Thank you!

​​More about BEM

​​​​​​​​​BEM is a bookstore and culinary hub dedicated to global Black foodways and storytelling. Established online by two sisters in January 2021, BEM is proud to serve as a home for readers, writers, cooks, and eaters passionate about African diasporic cultures in all their diversity.

​Taking an expansive approach to the nexus of food, literature, and culture, BEM brings works of fiction, nonfiction and poetry for readers of all ages into conversation with cookbooks and culinary studies to explore how what feeds us defines us.

​In October 2025, we opened our brick & mortar in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn and established a sibling non-profit, the BEM Cultural Foundation, to further amplify our work deepening public knowledge of Black culinary and literary traditions.

​​​​​​​​​​Join our mailing list and follow us on Instagram @bembrooklyn for more. Shop our collection online at bembrooklyn.com or in person at 373 Lewis Avenue in New York City.