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10:00 AM
The Community Benefits Advisory Committee will meet to advance its purpose to act on the Guiding Principles for Community Benefits Funding set forth in the Community Needs Assessment.
10:00 AM
Boudreau Branch, 245 Concord Ave., Cambridge, MA 02138
We are now accepting returns of any Minuteman Library Network materials at the Boudreau Branch, generally on Mondays and Wednesdays, 10 a.m.–4 p.m. Leave your items in the large basket outside the door. For your health and safety, please do not touch any other items in the returns basket.
It may take up to one week for items to be removed from your card. During the COVID-19 crisis, no overdue fines are being charged on any materials checked out of Cambridge Public Library locations.
You may also return any Minuteman Library Network materials via the Main Library outside book drop (available 24/7). We are also offering limited return hours at other branch locations, subject to scheduling changes. Please check the library calendar or call the Main Library at 617-349-4040 for up-to-date information on return hours at all locations.
11:00 AM
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.
Sink or Float Science
Materials:
A small container of water, a clear container if you have one
Space indoors or outdoors where you can make a wet mess
Various household objects such as a button, pencil, marble, metal spoon, plastic fork, sponge, toothpick, small rock, metal bottle cap, toy, etc.
Sink or Float Data Sheet (linked above) OR blank paper
Pencil
11:30 AM
Central Square Branch, 45 Pearl St., Cambridge, MA 02139
We are now accepting returns of any Minuteman Library Network materials during our contactless pickup hours. Leave your items in the large basket outside the door. For your health and safety, please do not touch any other items in the returns basket.
It may take up to one week for items to be removed from your card. During the COVID-19 crisis, no overdue fines are being charged on any materials checked out of Cambridge Public Library locations.
You may also return any Minuteman Library Network materials via the Main Library outside book drop (available 24/7).
We are also offering limited return hours at other branch locations, subject to scheduling changes. Please check the library calendar or call the Main Library at 617-349-4040 for up-to-date information on return hours at all locations.
2:00 PM
Online,
Board Of Assessors Public Meeting
2:00 PM
Online,
Fairytale Olympics: Queen Emerald decides to hold an Olympics for the fairytale creatures of her kingdom. What happens when one of the contestants cheats?
We invite children and their grownups to join us from home for a live puppet 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.
2:30 PM
2:30 PM
O'Neill Branch, 70 Rindge Ave., Cambridge, MA 02140
We are now accepting returns of any Minuteman Library Network materials at the O'Neill Branch on limited weekdays.
Leave your items in the large basket outside the door. For your health and safety, please do not touch any other items in the returns basket.
It may take up to one week for items to be removed from your card. During the COVID-19 crisis, no overdue fines are being charged on any materials checked out of Cambridge Public Library locations.
You may also return any Minuteman Library Network materials via the Main Library outside book drop (available 24/7).
We are also offering limited return hours at other branch locations, subject to scheduling changes. Please check the library calendar or call the Main Library at 617-349-4040 for up-to-date information on return hours at all locations.
5:00 PM
City Hall, 2nd Floor Sullivan Chamber, 795 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA 02139
Ordinance Committee
5:30 PM
Online,
Cambridge Public Library will host a virtual communal reading of the Declaration of Sentiments from the Seneca Falls Convention of 1848 and the 1979 UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, on August 26 at 5:30 p.m. The reading is co-sponsored by the Mayor’s Office, the City Council, the City Manager’s Office, Commission on the Status of Women and the Human Rights Commission.
Dr. Aminah Pilgrim of the University of Massachusetts Boston will give an overview of the Women’s Suffrage Movement inspired by the Seneca Falls Convention and speak to the global movement for women’s rights embodied in the UN Convention prior to the reading.
Community Members are invited to sign up to read or just listen.
6:15 PM
Online,
Come celebrate the end of summer reading with a night of bookish trivia. Play alone, organize a team, or meet new people! We will organize you into teams starting at 6:15 pm, and the game will begin at 6:30 pm.
Registration is required. A Zoom link will be sent to all registered players 1 day before the event, and again 1 hour before the event.
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