City Calendar

Wednesday

August 12

• 9:15 AM

  Recycling Advisory Committee Meeting

  Online,

  Recycling Advisory Committee Meeting

• 11:00 AM

  Kids Books to Go (Central Square)

  Central Square Branch, 45 Pearl St., Cambridge, MA 02139

  Borrow a bag of pre-selected library books for your kids and teens! Drop by this pop-up event outside your neighborhood branch and pick up a bag of 3-5 library books for your young readers. Title selections will be curated by Cambridge Public Library Youth Services Librarians. Please wear a face covering and maintain 6 feet of distance between yourself, Library Staff, and other patrons. Bins will also be available for library returns.

• 11:00 AM

  Virtual STEAM Story Time: FlyingFun

  Online,

  We invite children and their grownups to join us from home for 20-25 minutes of stories and hands-on activities from the Cambridge STEAM Initiative's STEAM@Home collection available on Find It Cambridge. Caregivers are asked to participate in the program as they will be exploring STEAM with a variety of materials! Gather activity materials before Story Time if you plan to participate in the hands-on activities. Register below. Zoom link will be emailed to registrants one hour before the program begins. Virtual STEAM Story Time is free and open to the public and is not recorded. If you register but later find you cannot attend, please remember to cancel your registration to make space for others. Flick Your Wrist: Experimenting with Frisbee Throws Materials: 2 Paper Plates Tape Scissors Markers or Crayons Fly Fly Away: Designing Paper Airplanes Materials: Paper: Copy, Construction, or Newspaper work best Tape Scissors 2 Straws

• 2:00 PM

  Special City Council Meeting

  Henrietta S. Attles Meeting Room, 459 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02138

  Special City Council Meeting

• 2:00 PM

  Summer Reading: Dinoman Presents Dinosaurs

  Online,

  Stomp on over for a trip to the Mesozoic Era! Explore dinosaur behavior and find out about fossils. Recommended for ages 5 and up. We invite children and their grownups to join us from home for a live show presented on Zoom. Register below. Zoom link will be emailed to registrants one hour before the program begins. Virtual Summer Reading Programs are free and open to the public and are not recorded. If you register but later find you cannot attend, please remember to cancel your registration to make space for others. Summer Reading is sponsored by the Cambridge Public Library Foundation, Friends of the Cambridge Public Library, East Cambridge Savings Bank, the Massachusetts Library System, the Boston Bruins, and the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners.

• 5:30 PM

  CANCELLED: Bicycle Committee Meeting

  City Hall Annex, 4th Floor Conference Room, 344 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02139

  Regular Meeting of the Bicycle Committee.

• 5:30 PM

  Election Commission

  Online,

  Regular Meeting

• 7:00 PM

  Lifting up Cambridge Womxn's History: Womxn Take the Streets

  Join us for an intergenerational conversation on how to create more just and equitable public spaces in Cambridge