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10:00 AM
City Hall, 2nd Floor Sullivan Chamber, 795 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA 02139
Finance Committee
10:00 AM
O'Connell Branch, 48 Sixth St., Cambridge, MA 02141
We are now accepting returns of any Minuteman Library Network materials at the O'Connell Branch, generally Tuesdays and Fridays, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., and Thursdays from 10 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Leave your items in the Book Drop, located near the entrance to the parking lot on Thorndike Street.
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,
This class has been canceled for this day. It will resume next week.
Join us for a Virtual ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages) Class conducted by Zoom. This class will be taught at an introductory level. No testing is needed, but registration is required.
Register below. Zoom link will be emailed to registrants one hour before the program begins.
Virtual ESOL Class is free and open to the public. If you register but later find you cannot attend, please remember to cancel your registration to make space for others. For more information call Maria Balestrieri at 617-349-4013.
11:00 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 Franklin St entrance. 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.
1:00 PM
Online,
Join us for a Virtual ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages) Class conducted by Zoom. This class will be taught at a high beginner level. No testing is needed, but registration is required.
Register below. Zoom link will be emailed to registrants one hour before the program begins.
Virtual ESOL Class is free and open to the public. If you register but later find you cannot attend, please remember to cancel your registration to make space for others. For more information call Maria Balestrieri at 617-349-4013.
3:00 PM
Online,
Join us for a Virtual ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages) Class conducted by Zoom. This class will be taught at an intermediate level. No testing is needed, but registration is required.
Register below. Zoom link will be emailed to registrants one hour before the program begins.
Intermediate Virtual ESOL Class is free and open to the public. If you register but later find you cannot attend, please remember to cancel your registration to make space for others. For more information call Maria Balestrieri at 617-349-4013.
4:00 PM
Online,
We invite children ages 3-5 and their grown ups to join us from home for 25 minutes of engaging stories.
Caregivers are asked to participate in the program with their children, so plan to be part of the fun!
Register below. Zoom link will be emailed to registrants one hour before the program begins.
Virtual Preschool 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.
6:00 PM
Online,
Join us as we celebrate Asian American and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander Heritage Month featuring Charles Yu, author of Interior Chinatown, in conversation with Professor Ju Yon Kim.
Charles Yu is the author of four books, including Interior Chinatown, winner of the 2020 National Book Award. He has been nominated for two Writers Guild of America Awards for his work on the HBO series, Westworld. He has also written for shows on FX, AMC, and HBO. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Wall Street Journal, and Wired, among other publications.
Ju Yon Kim is a Professor of English at Harvard University. Her research and teaching interests include Asian American literature and performance; modern and contemporary American theater and drama; and cross-racial and intercultural performance. She is the author of The Racial Mundane: Asian American Performance and the Embodied Everyday (NYU Press, 2015), which received the 2016 Lois P. Rudnick Book Prize from the New England American Studies Association for best book in American studies published in 2015 by a New England area scholar.
This program is presented in partnership with the Mayor's Office and the City Manager's Office.
6:00 PM
Online,
May book selection: Ordinary Girls: A Memoir, by Jaquira Díaz
Reading Interests: The group concentrates on fiction, memoirs, and popular nonfiction. Some past selections include: Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli, On Immunity by Eula Biss, and Disoriental by Négar Djavadi.
How to get the print book: Copies of the print book are set aside at the Main Library. Visit the Main Library at 449 Broadway during current contactless pickup hours and a staff member can help you check out a copy.
How to get the e-book or digital audiobook: This month's book is available as an e-book and digital audiobook through Hoopla (or the Hoopla app), and as an e-book through OverDrive (or the Libby app).
How to register: Registration is required. Click the registration link below to register. A Zoom link will be sent to all registered participants 1 hour before the event.
For more information, contact Susannah Borysthen-Tkacz (sbtkacz@cambridgema.gov)
6:00 PM
Online,
Cambridge Arts Public Art Commission holds its Monthly Meeting.
6:30 PM
Online,
May selection: The Wangs Vs. the World by Jade Chang.
A book discussion group for adults at the O'Neill Branch Library, reading a mixture of fiction and nonfiction. Past titles include Gathering Moss by Robin Wall Kimmerer and Cherokee America by Margaret Verble.
Print copies and books on cd are available for pickup at O'Neill Branch Library during current contactless pickup hours.
This month's book selection is also available as an e-book and as a digital audiobook through Hoopla.
Registration is required. A Zoom link will be sent to all registered participants 1 day before the event, and again 1 hour before the event.
For any further information, please contact Kerri McQuown at kmcquown@cambridgema.gov
6:30 PM
Online,
City of Cambridge Planning Board Meeting
6:30 PM
Kids notice a lot about the world – including skin color, racial differences, inequity and injustice. They sense that these things matter, and they have questions that many of the adults in their lives are not prepared to answer. For White families, this is especially true.
Geared for White or multiracial audiences, this interactive virtual workshop will explore fundamental concepts in racism and antiracism, the barriers that block adults from taking about race and racism with kids, the social science of race awareness in children, and strategies to build the racial literacy that is urgently needed to engage our children in antiracist conversations and action.
This workshop will be led by Wee the People co-founder and children's book author Francie Latour, whose award-winning picture book Auntie Luce's Talking Paintings tells an inter-generational tale of culture, community, and identity through a Haitian-American girl and her beloved aunt, an artist who lives in Haiti.
Wee The People is grounded in the belief that if kids can understand fairness, they can understand justice and that adults play a huge role in connecting kids’ sense of fairness in their own lives to larger issues of injustice in the world.
This program is part of our week-long series, Standing Up Together: An Anti-Racism & Social Justice Series for Young People & Their Families. Funding for this series has generously been provided by the Cambridge Public Library Foundation.
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