Jukebox First 25: A Release Party Celebrating the First 25 Stories
Cambridge Public Library
Tuesday, July 12 5:30pm – 7pm
Join us to celebrate the release of the first 25 Jukebox stories!
City As Canvas: Film Screening (Valente)
Cambridge Public Library
Tuesday, July 12 6pm – 7:30pm
City As Canvas: Above the Free Walls is an award-winning documentary introducing the artists from all over Boston and the world who create Cambridge's "Graffiti Alley."
GED/HiSET Prep & Adult Basic Education Information Session
DHSP Community Learning Center
Tuesday, July 12 6pm – 8pm
Learn more about the Adult Basic Education program and GED/HiSET prep at the Community Learning Center! Attend an Orientation in Central Square to sign up and take a placement test.
Parent/Child (Ages 7-10) Book Group (Virtual)
Cambridge Public Library
Tuesday, July 12 6pm – 7pm
Join us virtually on Zoom for a lively discussion of a great book.
Summer Reading: Outdoor Family STEAM Night (O'Neill)
Cambridge Public Library
Tuesday, July 12 6:30pm – 7:15pm
Families with elementary school age children join us outdoors for hands-on activities focused on Science, Technology, Arts, Engineering, and Math.
Summer Reading: STEAM activity: Snow in the Summer (Central Square)
Cambridge Public Library
Wednesday, July 13 11am – 12pm
Come experiment with baking soda, shaving cream, and water to make your very own snow- in the summer!
Boudreau Branch Book Group (Boudreau/Virtual)
Cambridge Public Library
Wednesday, July 13 12pm – 1pm
June title: We Are The Brennans by Tracey Lange.
Veterans Support Group
Cambridge Council on Aging
Wednesday, July 13 1pm – 2pm
Come join the Veterans Support Group for coffee and conversation.
Summer Reading: Neighborhood Bird Watching (O'Neill)
Cambridge Public Library
Wednesday, July 13 5:30pm – 6:30pm
All ages are welcome to join us as we observe birds right outside the O'Neill Branch.
Videography 101 (Main)
Cambridge Public Library
Wednesday, July 13 5:30pm – 6:30pm
Also: Thursday, July 28 2pm – 3pm
Step into the Hive's state-of-the-art recording studio and film a short video of yourself in front of our green screen. Then
Parent/Child (Ages 10-13) Book Group (Virtual)
Cambridge Public Library
Wednesday, July 13 6pm – 7pm
Join us virtually for a lively discussion of a great book over Zoom.
Summer Reading: Puzzle Your Brain! (O'Connell)
Cambridge Public Library
Wednesday, July 13 6:30pm – 7pm
Zing Laser Cutting 101 (Main)
Cambridge Public Library
Wednesday, July 13 7:30pm – 8:30pm
Also: Monday, July 18 3:30pm – 4:30pm and Saturday, July 23 2pm – 3pm
Learn how to use our Epilog Zing—an industry-standard laser cutting machine.
Fiber Arts Drop-In Group (O'Connell)
Cambridge Public Library
Thursday, July 14 11:30am – 1pm
Gallery Talk: Media as Muse in 17th-Century Dutch Landscape Drawings
Harvard Art Museums
Thursday, July 14 12:30pm – 1pm
Conservator Penley Knipe will discuss inventive uses of media in a selection of Dutch landscape drawings.
Outdoor Story Time (O'Connell)
Cambridge Public Library
Thursday, July 14 3:30pm – 4pm
We invite children and their grown-ups to join us for 20-25 minutes of songs, stories, and rhymes, with a craft to take and make at home, while supplies last.
Collins Branch Book Group (Collins)
Cambridge Public Library
Thursday, July 14 6pm – 7pm
July Selection: Putting It Together: How Stephen Sondheim and I Created Sunday in the Park with George by James Lapine.
Outdoor Story Time (O'Connell)
Cambridge Public Library
Friday, July 15 11am – 11:30am
We invite children and their grown-ups to join us for 15-20 minutes of songs, stories, and rhymes.
Summer Reading: Crafternoon (Collins)
Cambridge Public Library
Friday, July 15 2pm – 3pm
Visit the Collins Branch to make and take a hands-on project.
Summer StoryWalk Series 2022
Agenda for Children Literacy Initiative and Center for Families
Saturday, July 16 10am – Sunday, August 21 8pm
Can you find the StoryWalks? A StoryWalk is a children's book hung page by page around a park in Cambridge where families can read, walk, and talk together. Find the 8 StoryWalks in Cambridge parks!
Collaborative Art: My Neighborhood (Valente)
Cambridge Public Library
Saturday, July 16 3pm – 4pm
The workshop is a project where everyone will collaborate to create a single communal work of art entitled "My Neighborhood.
STEAM Academy: Innovators for Purpose Summer Studio
Cambridge Public Library
Monday, July 18 9am – 4pm
Innovators for Purpose (iFp) Studio is a teen-powered design and innovation program where teens channel their energy and creative vision to imagine and build a better world.
Patio Project: Light & Shadow (Valente)
Cambridge Public Library
Monday, July 18 5pm – 6pm
Join us outside in front of the Valente Branch Library (826 Cambridge St.) for activites for all ages!
O'Neill Branch Book Group (O'Neill)
Cambridge Public Library
Monday, July 18 6:30pm – 8pm
Also: Monday, August 8 6:30pm – 8pm; Monday, September 12 6:30pm – 8pm; and Monday, October 10 6:30pm – 8pm
June selection: Girl, Woman, Other by Bernadine Evaristo
Outdoor Story Time (Collins)
Cambridge Public Library
Tuesday, July 19 10:30am – 11am
We invite children and their grown-ups to join us for 20-25 minutes of songs, stories, and rhymes.