City Calendar

Tuesday

May 14

• 11:00 AM

  Sing-Along (Valente)

  Valente Branch, 826 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA 02141

  Put on your dancing shoes and head over for a morning of singing and dancing! We'll sing and move together, and maybe share a story or two. For children of all ages and their grown-ups. This program will take place in the Community Room at the Valente Branch Library. If the weather is particularly fine, the program may move outside to the Valente Reading Garden on Berkshire Street. For more information, please call the library at (617) 349-4015.

• 6:30 PM

  Art of Translation: Collaboration with Martha Collins and Nguyen Ba Chung (Valente)

  Valente Branch, 826 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA 02141

  Co-translators Martha Collins and Nguyen Ba Chung will read and discuss their translations of poems from Dreaming the Mountain (Milkweed, 2023) by Vietnamese Buddhist poet Tuệ Sỹ (1943-2023), who was imprisoned for fourteen years and at one point condemned to death. The reading will trace the poet’s journey from his student and professor years in Saigon, through a time of solitude following the end of war in 1975, and into and beyond his years of imprisonment. Collins and Chung will also discuss their translation process, and read poems in both English and Vietnamese. Registration is required.