Arts and Culture

Bring your project and enjoy the company of other fiber crafters

It's a Library dance party!

Free event at the Cambridge Public Library.

Did you know you can vote for a winner in the Massachusetts Children's Book Award each year?

Enjoy spring with a hands-on art making activity!

On May 3, 2025 from 1:00-5:00pm, CEOC is commemorating 60 years of CEOC serving the community with a free family-friendly block party!

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

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.

Celebrate the breathtaking art of Xiang Li, featuring over a dozen selected canvas portraits of Chinese empresses.

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.

Free event at the Cambridge Public Library.

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

Join us for a relaxed Saturday morning concert with

This event series challenges your perception of design as a process of enhancing aesthetics, usability, or marketability, moving you to deeper understanding of its power as a tool for change.

Interested in technology and art?

Free event at the Cambridge Public Library.

Free event at the Cambridge Public Library.

May Selection: On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong

We invite children and their caregivers to a 30-minute session of songs and stories in Mandarin Chinese with Mina (Yating) Fan, a local mother and educator.

Experience Stephen Benton's "rainbow" holograms in Optiker, an intimate exhibition that examines the intersection of light and vision.

Children and families can join us for an outdoor story time and short walk at Alewife Brook Reservation.

Bring your project and enjoy the company of other fiber crafters

May Selection: The Lion Women of Tehran by Marjan Kamali.

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.

Harvard Book Store and the Cambridge Public Library welcome John Cassidy—staff writer at The New Yorker and author of  the books Dot.

This month's book: Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert

Create ephemeral, moving art using one of the most important tools in molecular biology and genetic engineering.