Arts and Culture, LGBTQ+ Services

Youth Headspace contains many youth wellness and mental health resources. Check it out!

We offer in-person and online classes for adults in a variety of subjects and specialties each season.

Our teen support text line connects young people up to age 24 with a peer they can talk to when they feel lonely, depressed, overwhelmed, or suicidal.

Our free, confidential hotline can connect you to clinical help for mental health and substance use concerns where and when you need it.

We offer free support groups for family members and friends of people with mental illness, as well as peer supports for people suffering from a mental health condition.

Dazzling minerals await you at the Harvard Museum of Natural History's Earth & Planetary Sciences Gallery! New to the collection is a unique assortment of egg-shaped minerals.

The Longfellow Summer Arts Festival brings music, poetry, and community to the East Lawn of the Longfellow House on Sunday afternoons through the summer. All events are free and open to the public.

For ages 4+! NSM offers group instrument lessons, choir ensembles, & private lessons on strings, guitar, woodwinds, piano, and voice.

From maker space workshops to a dance studio, a Food Lab to a performance space, The Foundry’s array of spaces will serve your individual or group needs. Bring your creative spirit!

Quality musical instruction for students of all ages & levels. Study with highly trained & experienced professional pianists. Curriculum designed to suit you and your individual learning style.

We run an overnight emergency shelter for young adults (ages 18-24) in Harvard Square, open between October 15th and April 15th.

The MIT Museum seeks proposals for innovative public programs that explore humanity's relationship with the theme of TIME.

Explore Longfellow House-Washington's Headquarters by interactive guided tour! The occupants of this house shaped our nation. A variety of tours invite visitors to connect with their stories.

Our 24-hour free & confidential hotline provides emotional support, information, referrals, safety planning, and crisis intervention for LGBTQ+, kink, & polyamorous survivors of partner abuse.

An Actors' Shakespeare Project and Central Square Theater Youth Co-Production
July 1- July 28 (Four Week Program / No Session July 4)

Thousands of years ago, ancient people across the Mediterranean were connected to faraway places and cultures through trade. Learn more in this exhibition at Harvard's Museum of the Ancient Near East.

In this exhibition, join photographer Wendel White on a tour across the original thirteen American colonies as he captures objects held in collections, unpacking the "forensic evidence of Black life.”

Our paid fellowship for youth blurs the line between theater, science, and social justice as you and your peers explore science plays, investigate key questions, and design a public-facing event.

We provide regular exhibits, workshops, live events, guest presenters, and more for children, youth, and adults.

We transforms the lives of children, adults with disabilities and their families through the power of one-to-one mentoring relationships.

We run classes in Soca dance and choreography for people of all ages and levels.

Our youth and teen summer classes include in-person and virtual dance classes for ages 4 and up!

We partner with local businesses and organizations to sponsor free events in parks across the city.

We offer lots of free events throughout the year for people of all ages with a love of learning!

We have over 200 collections and nearly 2,700 books, spanning the 17th - 21st Centuries, featuring the political and social history of Cambridge.

The Cambridge Public Library offers free computer classes, book groups, English classes, makerspace workshops, and lots more upcoming opportunities to learn.

We offer nature-based games and activities, art, live music, food, and lots of other programs and activities for all ages, year-round.