Arts and Culture

Join Central Square's new Horror Book Club.

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.

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.

Come to the Library to create something special!

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

This interactive 45-minute children's show is designed to engage young audiences through music, movement, and play.

Join in to reflect on and identify goals for the new year as we create visual representations of those goals with collage!

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. 

Bring your project and enjoy the company of other fiber crafters

January Selection: Radium Girls by Kate Moore.

Join the Valente Branch for an exploration of literature!

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.

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.

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

This week's selection: Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

This month's book: Kiss Me, Maybe by Gabriella Gamez

Calling all middle grade readers!

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

Free event at the Cambridge Public Library.

Every month we will read and discuss a short story as a group.

Join the Cambridge Public Library for the 51st Annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Lecture with Dr.

“Lights, Camera, Magic!” features films from around the world—many premiering in North America—and hands-on animation workshops led by veteran Hollywood artists. Day 3 takes place @ The Brattle.