Programs hosted by the Library provide an opportunity for civic dialogue, conversation, and learning, which includes exploring a wide-range of views. Programs do not constitute an endorsement of beliefs by the Library, Library staff, the Library's Board of Trustees, or the City of Cambridge. Please contact Zachary Bond at zbond@cambridgema.gov with questions about Library programs and events.
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Events
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9:30 AM
Main Library, 449 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02138
Learn how to use our Epilog Zing—an industry-standard laser-cutting machine. Complete this workshop to earn a badge for the Zing laser cutter. With a badge, you can reserve the Epilog Zing to use on our equipment booking page at designated times.
You must complete Hive Safety Training before registering for this program. View The Hive's workshop schedule here.
10:30 AM
Main Library, 449 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02138
Leaves are falling and fall is here! Let’s learn about the trees in the park through leaf rubbings! We’ll start with a story, then we’ll have crayons and paper available to make beautiful art with the leaves you find on the ground. For an extra challenge, see if you can figure out which tree your leaf came from. Recommended for children ages 5-8. In the event of rain, this program will take place in the Curious George Room inside the Library.
11:30 AM
Main Library, 449 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02138
During this reservation period, anyone who has completed Hive training and is certified to use equipment or studio(s) can reserve Hive equipment or studio spaces. Staff will assist participants as they are able.
1:00 PM
O'Neill Branch, 70 Rindge Ave., Cambridge, MA 02140
Come to the Library to create something special! Use your own supplies or try out our equipment! You can use our 1-inch button maker, 2.5 inch button maker, 3-D Doodle pens, or Janome sewing machines. The Library will provide basic supplies.
This drop-in program is for people who feel comfortable using these machines on their own. The Library will not provide instruction. Anyone wishing to use the sewing machines must have completed a Sewing 101 training through the Library. Children under the age of 12 must be accompanied by an adult.
2:00 PM
Main Library, Lecture Hall, 449 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02138
Join us on October 19 for a lecture by Christa Kuljian, the author of Our Science, Ourselves tells the life stories of seven women scientists in the Boston area in the 1970s, 80s and 90s who were shaped by the women’s movement, and who developed feminist and anti-racist critiques of science. These include Harvard biologist Ruth Hubbard, geneticist Rita Arditti who was an active member of Science for the People, and physicist and historian Evelyn Fox Keller. The book focuses on a younger generation of feminist scientists as well, including Evelynn Hammonds, Anne Fausto-Sterling and Banu Subramaniam, and explores the impact of the Boston-based Combahee River Collective and Audre Lorde on their thinking. The book also weaves in the story of biologist Nancy Hopkins who avoided feminism until after she published the MIT Report on Women in Science in 1999. Although the book closes in 2005, with the reaction of these feminist scientists to Larry Summers’s comments on women in science, there is also an Epilogue, which brings the themes up to the present.
Christa Kuljian is a science writer who grew up in the Boston area, and has lived in Johannesburg, South Africa for over thirty years. In addition to Our Science, Ourselves, she is the author of two other books – Sanctuary (Jacana 2013) and Darwin’s Hunch: Science, Race and the Search for Human Origins (Jacana 2016). This event is cosponsored by the Office of Mayor E. Denise Simmons, Cambridge Commission on the Status of Women, and Cambridge Public Library.
3:30 PM
Main Library, 449 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02138
Would you like to make your own vinyl signs, stickers, or images to transfer to T-shirts and other textiles? In this workshop, you can learn how to use our Roland Camm-1 GS-24 vinyl cutter. You can then design a sticker and cut it with our vinyl cutter! Registration is required.
You must complete Hive Safety Training before registering for this workshop.