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Why does the Massachusetts State flag matter? Learn about the history and significance of the Massachusetts state seal, flag, and motto from Sage Carbone and David Shane Lowry. Think more deeply about your community's symbols and better understand why our state flag must be changed. This discussion is inspired by the Massachusetts Seal, Flag, and Motto Advisory Commission’s open call to artists, historians, educators, students, and members of the public to participate in the effort to redesign the state’s seal, flag, and motto. Established by the Legislature in 2024, the Commission is tasked with developing and recommending new symbols to represent the state through a statewide public process. Learn more about the Massachusetts Seal, Flag, and Motto Advisory Commission’s open call to artists.

Get in the Halloween spirit and come watch Sinners and eat popcorn at the Central Square Branch Library.

Come watch Matilda (PG) on Central Square Library’s big screen and eat free popcorn! No registration required.

Join the Cambridge Community Development Department for a bicycle maintenance workshop at the Valente Branch Library. Registration is required.

The City of Cambridge’s Domestic and Gender-Based Violence Prevention Initiative and the Transition House will be hosting their annual Domestic Violence Vigil on Tuesday, October 20 from 5:30 – 6:30 p.m. to commemorate Domestic Violence Awareness Month and honor those lost to domestic violence in Massachusetts over the past year. The vigil will be held on the front steps of Cambridge City Hall.

SHADE is a temporary installation developed by a group of local teens for peers to combat isolation and encourage gathering in a safe, cool location.

Note: this meeting was cancelled due to lack of quorum. The regular meeting of the Cambridge Commission for Persons with Disabilities (CCPD). This meeting will be held virtually on Zoom. 

Join us for a lively discussion of a great early middle grade book in person at the Main Library! Snacks will be provided. For ages 7-9 and a caregiver. This month’s book will be Real Pigeons Fight Crime! by Andrew McDonald. It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s—wait, it really IS a bird! Take another look, because what looks like an ordinary pigeon might just be a hero saving your butt! Meet the crime-fighting pigeons secretly flying around chasing bad guys in the first book of this series. Both caregiver and child should read the book before the meeting, copies are available behind the Children’s Desk. Registration is required — only one registration is needed per family. For questions about parent/child book group, please email Rachel: rbeaton@cambridgema.gov

The Economic Development staff offers a variety business development Programs to Cambridge small businesses.

Explore the earliest horse-drawn lunch carts to the streamlined stainless steel cars