City Calendar

Wednesday

April 24

• 10:00 AM

  Wellness for Seniors: Tai Chi Paradigm

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

  Join us in this 12-week Tai Chi practice, which focuses on the mind and body connection. Tai Chi is a fluid sequence of movements choreographed in a low impact routine. Sifu Mynor Diaz has been learning and teaching Tai Chi classes for over 20 years. He has taught classes at five VA Boston Healthcare System locations and at Senior Centers. Note: We will be running two separate Tai Chi Paradigm series this year, a Wednesday series and a Friday series. Due to the popularity of this series, we expect participats to attend all the classes. Please register for only one of the series. Sponsored by the Cambridge Public Library Foundation

• 1:00 PM

  CANCELLED: Serger Training (Main)

  Main Library, 449 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02138

  Are you an intermediate or advanced sewer? This workshop will cover serger machine setup, threading a serger, and identifying correct tension settings with different types of fabric. You will learn about ways to use our Elna Extend 864 Air serger to take your sewing skills to the next level by producing special finishing styles, hemming, trimming and assembling your garments. This workshop is designed for patrons who have prior experience using a sewing machine. If you are new to machine sewing, we recommend you take our Sewing 101 workshop before using our serger.

• 3:00 PM

  Connecting with Balance: Build Healthy Digital Habits (Main)

  Main Library, 449 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02138

  We use technology everyday, from checking emails and scrolling social media to online shopping and remote work. This class will share tips on building healthy digital habits - to find balance in your online and offline lives. To view and register for other Basic Tech Classes at the Library, please go to tinyurl.com/basictechclass.

• 6:00 PM

  CPL Presents: Natalie Dykstra, author of CHASING BEAUTY: THE LIFE OF ISABELLA STEWART GARDNER

  Main Library, Lecture Hall, 449 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02138

  Join NATALIE DYKSTRA, the award-winning author of Chasing Beauty: The Life of Isabella Stewart Gardner, for a reading and a conversation—moderated by SEBASTIAN SMEE, a Pulitzer Prize-winning art critic at The Washington Post—about Boston's most beloved patron of the arts and the founder and namesake of one of the world's finest museums. Called a "wise, captivating book" by Stacy Schiff and "an elegant depiction of a larger-than-life trailblazer" by Publisher's Weekly, Chasing Beauty is built upon both original research of previously unexamined documents as well as Dykstra's deep understanding of her subject's complexities and contradictions, qualities which make Isabella Stewart Gardner as compelling today as ever. Destined to become the definitive biography of Isabella Stewart Gardner for years to come, Chasing Beauty is more than just that—it is also a tale of beauty and loss and grit and self-invention. This event is co-sponsored by the Cambridge Public Library Foundation. Registration is required.

• 6:00 PM

  Equipment and Studio Reservations (Main)

  Main Library, 449 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02138

  During this reservation period, anyone who has completed Hive training and is badged to use equipment or studio(s) can reserve Hive equipment or studio spaces. Staff will assist participants as they are able.