Arts and Culture

Just for you and the baby!

It's a Library dance party!

Bring your project and enjoy the company of other fiber crafters

Join us at the Central Square Branch Library, or Virtually, for a midday-lunch break book group discussion.

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

Come hear stories and songs about things that start with the letter E, and make an elephant craft.

You're invited to our January Brewery Book Club, where Lamplighter and the Cambridge Public Library team up to highlight contemporary works from marginalized voices while having a beer.

Join us for a half hour of stories for children of all ages and their caregivers.

We invite children and their caregivers for 20-25 minutes of stories and songs.

We invite children and their grown-ups to join us for 20-25 minutes of songs, stories, and rhymes.

No registration is required. Please call (617) 349-4019 for details.

It's a Library dance party!

Bring your project and come join other fiber crafters in your community!

January selection: Sandwich by Catherine Newman.

Enjoy time together with other caregivers and babies to learn, play and develop language and motor skills. Recommended for children from birth to 18 months with their caregivers. 

We invite children and their grown-ups to join us for 15-20 minutes of songs, stories, and rhymes. 

No registration is required. Please call 617-349-4019 for details.

Join Central Square's new Horror Book Club.

What's a zine?

Our monthly Middle Grade Mystery book group is for kids aged 10-14.

Join social justice project Wee The People for a free, immersive, intergenerational event of storytelling and art-making to celebrate belonging, safety, and immigrant communities.

Join us for stories and a craft project! This month we will practice counting and sorting. 

For children of all ages and their grown-ups. 

Come to the Library to create something special!

Choose a "Paint by Sticker" design and match the numbered stickers to the numbered spaces, then watch your artwork come alive. Recommended for children ages 6-12 and their caregivers.

Free event at the Cambridge Public Library.

This month's book: The Devil in the White City, by Erik Larson 

Join us for a lively discussion of a great book in person at the Main Library!

This week's selection: Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita