Arts and Culture

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

Diana Ochoa-Chavez will explore how artists have attempted to live with loss and how grief has impacted their art.

Ochoa-Chavez will explore injury and repair in terms of the physical life of art objects as well as the interpersonal relationships they depict.

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

Varya Lyapneva will explore space, mapping, and dislocation in three works of art that visualize fantasy worlds.

Join Lamees Rahman in exploring different forms of printmaking and experiment with hands-on making and digital exploration.

This talk will now be led by Allison Jackson, who will discuss her work conserving frames at the museums.

Bangladesh Social Group named প্রবীণ সফলতার গল্প , which means “Senior Success Stories.”

Join us for a workshop to make a small quilted potholder or trivet. Using the ‘assembly line” quilting method, you will plan, cut, and sew a quilt using our sewing machines.

In honor of Earth Day, spend your afternoon at the Library creating your own terrarium.

In honor of Earth Day, spend your afternoon at the Library creating your own terrarium.

This month's book: 

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

April selection: Titanium Noir by Nick Harkaway

This week's selection: William Shakespeare, Macbeth

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

Come join us and sample a selection of books about the our environment and the natural world.

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

 

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

Bring your project and enjoy the company of other fiber crafters

Silly Sh*t Variety Show is a one‑hour, no‑intermission variety chaos for misfits, queer folks, and creative outsiders. Serving up a rotating lineup of stand‑up, musical comedy, drag, clown, & storytelling.

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

Join us for songs, rhymes, and fingerplays. For children of all ages. 

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