Arts and Culture

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.

July selection: The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton

Our monthly Kids' Classic Fantasy book group is for kids aged 10-14.

Join us at the O'Neill branch and make your own tie-dye t-shirt!

Join the Acrylic Painting Workshop and unleash your artistic talents.

This is a class for all, with or without any kind of physical limitation and have the option of dancing sitting on the chair if needed. So that each of you will discover your flamenco with your style.

Free event at the Cambridge Public Library.

Summer selection: On The Curry Trail by Raghavan Iyer.

July Title: 1979 by Val McDermid.

Our monthly "Graphics Are Great!" book group is for kids aged 8-12.

Come to the library in your pajamas to listen to stories, read with your children, and enjoy a snack before bed!

Free event at the Cambridge Public Library.

Teens, join us for a watercolor workshop at the Valente Branch where you will learn how to put your brush to paper and paint a nature scene!

Grades 9-12. Learn to control Spot, the Boston Dynamics’ robot dog. Create a custom routine and take home a video. Learn about the future of artificial intelligence and machine learning.

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.

Free event at the Cambridge Public Library.

After the Library closes for the rest of the public on July 25, it's open to Middle Schoolers only!

Come to the Library to create something special!

Il Contrapposto is an early music ensemble and continuo team dedicated to traversing the more untrodden paths of 16th- and 17th-century European music.

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.

Come by LaToya M. Hobbs: It’s Time to listen to a half-hour of stories, read by a youth librarian from the Cambridge Public Library.

Discover how costumes ruled the world in the 16th century and how they signified gender, religion, profession, and social rank

This program was rescheduled from a June event around the Solstice, but we’re excited to celebrate summer in full swing in July!

Free event at the Cambridge Public Library.

Join staff as they discuss and activate this experimental device from 1930 by László Moholy-Nagy, a Bauhaus pioneer.

A conservator and Egyptologist discuss two funerary portraits from Roman Egypt, back on view in the galleries after two years.

The Juice and Jelly Funtime Band plays original music written for children and their families.