City Calendar

Wednesday

July 21

• 8:30 AM

  City of Cambridge and De Novo Immigration Legal Screening Virtual Clinics

  This FREE monthly clinic offers participants a consultation with an immigration attorney and the chance to learn more about how immigration law affects them and their families.

• 9:15 AM

  STEAM Academy: Innovators for Purpose Summer Studio

  Main Library, Community Room, 449 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02138

  Innovators for Purpose (iFp) Studio is a teen-powered design and innovation program where teens channel their energy and creative vision to imagine and build a better world. Blending art, design, science, technology and storytelling within a social justice framework, teens engage in real-world client-sponsored projects. July 6 - August 6, weekdays from 9:15am-3:30pm at the Main Library Innovators for Purpose (iFp) is a Cambridge-based nonprofit that inspires high-potential, diverse young people to discover their passions, develop innovative mindsets and cultivate marketable skills to solve problems they care most about. Summer Studio teens are funded in part through the Mayor's Summer Youth Program. The Cambridge Public Library STEAM Academy is part Cambridge STEAM Initiative's efforts to enhance and expand students’ access to quality STEAM learning experiences. Made possible by generous support from the Eric and Jane Nord Family Fund and Verizon.

• 2:00 PM

  Cambridge Book Bike Story Time

  Main Library, 449 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02138

  The Cambridge Book Bike Team invites children and their grown-ups to join us for 20-25 minutes of songs, stories and rhymes. This program will be held in Joan Lorentz Park on the lawn outside the Main Library. In the event of rain, we will move indoors. Please call 617-349-4038 for more information. The Cambridge Book Bike is a collaboration among the Agenda for Children Literacy Initiative, the Cambridge Public Library and the Center for Families.

• 2:00 PM

  The Public Safety Committee and the Economic Development & University Relations Committee

  REMOTE MEETING

  The Public Safety Committee and the Economic Development & University Relations Committee

• 3:30 PM

  Vinyl Cutting 101

  Main Library, 449 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02138

  Interested in making your own vinyl stickers, signs, or images for transfer to tshirts and other textiles? In this workshop you will learn how to use our Roland Camm-1 GS-24 vinyl cutter and get badged to use the vinyl cutter. You will also customize a sticker and cut it on our vinyl cutter. You must complete Hive Safety Training & Glowforge 101 before participating in this program. View The Hive's workshop schedule here.

• 4:00 PM

  Summer Reading: Our Voices Matter (Virtual)

  Online,

  Guest artist Zahirah Nur Truth of ZNT Arts will facilitate a workshop on Social Justice for tweens and teens that honors the many facets of identity. Using creative expression as a tool, we'll affirm that young voices matter regarding injustice in our communities and the world around us. We will use portrait, text and comic references to create our own coloring pages, speaking to our current lived experiences because “Our Voices Matter”. Supply List: White Copy Paper Black Sharpie or Black Marker in various sizes Colored Pencils or Markers Tape Clear Tape Pencil/Eraser Scissors A picture of yourself like a “selfie” that you don’t mind drawing on Magazine cutting of a character or image that you like Any source images that you might want to bring that you don’t mind cutting or drawing on Register below. Zoom link will be emailed to registrants one hour before the program begins. This program 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. Funding for Summer Reading has been generously provided by the City of Cambridge, Cambridge Public Library Foundation, Friends of the Cambridge Public Library and Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners.

• 5:30 PM

  Election Commission

  2nd Floor Conference Room, 51 Inman St., Cambridge, MA 02139

  Regular Meeting Please Note: Meeting will be held entirely in person, No remote access

• 6:00 PM

  East Cambridge Neighborhood Conservation District Study Committee Meeting

  Online,

  Meeting of the East Cambridge Neighborhood Conservation District Study Committee

• 7:30 PM

  Google Drawings 101: Sticker Design

  Main Library, 449 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02138

  Interested in making your own vinyl stickers? Learn the fundamentals of using Google Drawings to design and edit images for customized stickers. You'll also be introduced briefly to our in-house vinyl cutter machine. Google Drawings is a free web-based application. Basic computer skills are necessary for this course. Computing devices will be provided.