City Calendar

Monday

May 18

• 3:00 PM

  CANCELLED: Free Overdose Prevention and Response Training

  Community Room, Eastern Bank Central Square Branch, 647 Mass. Ave., Cambridge MA 02139

  Are you worried about overdoses happening where you work or live? Wondering how you can help prevent an overdose? Cambridge Public Health Department (CPHD) offers free, monthly 1-hour overdose prevention and response training at locations around Cambridge. There is no fee and no RSVP required. Come and learn skills that could save lives.

• 4:00 PM

  Cambridge Scholarship Awards Ceremony-CANCELED

  City Hall, 2nd Floor Sullivan Chamber, 795 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA 02139

  Cambridge Scholarship Awards Ceremony-CANCELED

• 5:30 PM

  (Cancelled) Avon Hill NCD Commission Meeting

  Lombardi Building, 831 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, basement conference room

  Avon Hill NCD Commission Meeting

• 5:30 PM

  Regular City Council Meeting

  City Hall, 2nd Floor Sullivan Chamber, 795 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA 02139

  Regular City Council Meeting

• 6:00 PM

  Housing Information Sessions

  Massachusetts Alliance of Portuguese Speakers (MAPS) 1046 Cambridge Street

  Sessions about the City's Affordable Rental Homeownership Programs

• 6:30 PM

  East Cambridge Neighborhood Conservation District Study Committee Meeting

  East End House 105 Spring Street Cambridge, MA 02141

  Meeting of the East Cambridge Neighborhood Conservation District Study Committee

• 7:00 PM

  [Registration Required] Porsha Olayiwola presents i shimmer sometimes, too

  Please register below. Zoom link will be emailed to registrants prior to the event. Porsha Olayiwola is from the future! Black, poet, queer-dyke, hip-hop feminist, womanist: Porsha is a native of Chicago who now resides in Boston. Olayiwola is a writer, performer, educator and curator who uses afro-futurism and surrealism to examine historical and current issues in the Black, woman, and queer diasporas. She is an Individual World Poetry Slam Champion and the artistic director at MassLEAP, a literary youth organization. Olayiwola is an MFA Candidate at Emerson College. Porsha Olayiwola is the author of i shimmer sometimes, too published by Button Poetry and is the current poet laureate for the city of Boston. Photograph by Carlie Febo.