Join Chantal at the following events, and get in touch if you have other collaboration opportunities to discuss! Check out this fun article and spread in the Washingtonian Magazine (March 2024) to learn all about what I do in and around DC! BUT ALSO, Sherry Week was a whirlwind of delicious sherry and lovely people. Thank you so much for joining me on my many varied DC adventures!
Wednesday, January 22nd, 2025 from 7:00pm – 9:00pm – PUNCH BOOK LOVE CLUB returns – Join Jewel Murray & I for our monthly Short Reads Book Club where we host, in AdMo, a casual book club featuring novellas, short stories, graphic novels, and other quick reads that are under 200 pages. Reserve your spot for a chat with punch, tea, and snacks Selections are polled and the January pick is “The Guest Cat” by Takashi Hiraide. 7-9pm.
Want to join? Mark your calendars, Venmo: $25 to @chantal-tseng (if asked for a code: 5873) and mention Dec. Book Club. Reserve your spot to join here! Be sure to sign up before 3pm the day of. Will message with the location closer to the day after numbers are sorted out. #PUNCHBOOKLOVE #PUNCHBOOKLOVECLUB
Saturday, January 25th, 2025 – Literary Cocktails / #GetLitDC returns to the bar at Baan Siam on 4th & I St. This month’s book pick is “World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War” by Max Brooks.
The Zombie War came unthinkably close to eradicating humanity. Max Brooks, driven by the urgency of preserving the acid-etched first-hand experiences of the survivors from those apocalyptic years, traveled across the United States of America and throughout the world, from decimated cities that once teemed with upwards of thirty million souls to the most remote and inhospitable areas of the planet. He recorded the testimony of men, women, and sometimes children who came face-to-face with the living, or at least the undead, hell of that dreadful time. World War Z is the result. Never before have we had access to a document that so powerfully conveys the depth of fear and horror, and also the ineradicable spirit of resistance, that gripped human society through the plague years.
Reservations for the 6 – 7:30pm or 8:00 – 9:30pm seatings via Resy available here! Ticket includes 3 Literary Cocktails + light snacks & labor fee.
Thursday, January 30th, 2025 from 6:00 – 9:30pm – 5th Thursday Absinthe returns to Apéro for 2025! It’s time for Absinthe selections, new year cocktails and more! Enjoy Absinthe Fountain service with a selection of French, Swiss and American pours available. You won’t want to miss!! Plus, the dinner menu will be available! Join the Absinthe Revolution this coming January! $20 ticket will go towards your first drink and reserve you a seat. #5thThursdayAbsinthe! Reserve your spot here!
Sunday, February 16th, 2025 at 3:00pm ET – Agatha Christie & Sherry Book Club returns to Baan Siam! RSVP available soon to join Hannah from Loyalty Bookstores & myself live or virtually as we discuss our latest pick: “Third Girl”. We’ll sip sherry and tea, snack on kanom krok and chat all the details of the mystery. #SherryandChristie
Three young women share a London flat. The first is a coolly efficient personal secretary; the second is an artist; and the third interrupts Hercule Poirot’s breakfast of brioche and hot chocolate insisting that she is a murderer – and then promptly disappears. Slowly, Poirot learns of the rumours surrounding the mysterious third girl, her family – and her disappearance. Yet hard evidence is needed before the great detective can pronounce her guilty, innocent or insane…
Thursday, TBD, 2025 from 6:00pm – 10:00pm – VINOMORPHY RETURNS! – A seasonal inspired menu of wine based cocktails inspired by haikus in celebration of the upcoming Spring Equinox – Stay tuned where we’ll end up! I’ll have plenty of sherry and other wine options by the glass, in addition to the menu of haiku cocktails and tea with lite snacks! Naturally, you’ll want to write your own Haikus inspired by the upcoming Solstice. We’ll have pen and paper. BONUS: wines and spirits will be available for a discounted purchase after the event. Reserve a spot soon! Ticket gets you a curated menu of 3 cocktails and lite snacks. #Vinomorphy #Metamorphosis #WineTransformsIntoCocktails #INKbecomingDRINK