Arts and Culture

Join your host Mayor Siddiqui for Cambridge-centered trivia with a feminist touch! Free snacks and non-alcoholic drinks! Adults 21+ are welcome to attend.

Curator Horace D. Ballard closely examines a work of art that speaks to the shifting contexts of American art.

Delve deeper into ancient sculpture, from a time when Celtic and Classical cultures clashed, with art historian Kimberly Cassibry.

Recitals are performed on Harvard’s famous 1958 D. A. Flentrop organ, at Adolphus Busch Hall.

Learn about and remake the first synthetic blue pigment in history with art conservators Lisa Barro and Carolyn Riccardelli.

Children and their grown-ups are invited to this special kid-centered cookbook club!

We’re keeping our doors open late for an evening of art, fun, food, and more!

Sachi Laumas will explore how three works of art engage with illness and the healing process.

Join staff as they discuss and activate this experimental device from 1930 by László Moholy-Nagy, a Bauhaus pioneer.

Come to the Library for games and a different activity each week! Kids of all ages can hang out and do crafts or STEAM activities. No registration required. 

Join the Watercolor Painting Workshop

Flamenco Dance class teaches the various rhythms of different Palos (genre) of flamenco. Learn coordination of footwork, body, arms, and fingers movements. Welcome and enjoy the flamenco experience.

Join us for a dance party to get your wiggles out!

Join us for a book discussion and hangout each month as we read books that celebrate the LGBTQIA+ experience.

Sachi Laumas will explore how three works of art engage with illness and the healing process.

Join the Collins Branch Library in collaboration with the Cambridge Climate Leaders Initiative for a monthly discussion of a climate-related topic.

Ricardo Fernandes Garcia will explore how representations of innocence have enabled painters to address conflict and war.

Join us for stories, songs and rhymes. For children of all ages and their caregivers. Registration is not required.

Wiesenbauer will explore the relationship between art and the natural world on this tour that takes you from the galleries to nearby grounds.

This week's selection: Montaigne, selected essays

Come to the Library for games and a different activity each week! Kids of all ages can hang out and do crafts or STEAM activities. No registration required.

Bring your project and enjoy the company of other fiber crafters

It's a Library dance party!

Just for you and the baby!

Bounces and rhymes for our youngest library patrons. Recommended for babies 0-18 months and their caregivers.

Join us in the Children's Room for a fun craft and related stories. For more information, call 617-349-4010. This program is recommended for ages 5-10.

Put on your dancing shoes and head over for a morning of singing and dancing! We'll sing and move together, and share a story or two. For children of all ages and their grown-ups.