City Calendar

Wednesday

May 15

• 12:00 PM

  Valente Branch Book Group (Valente)

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

  Join the Valente Branch for their new book group! This group will meet monthly to discuss a mix of fiction and nonfiction books. The May selection will be Minor Feelings by Cathy Park Hong. How to get the print book: Copies of the book are available at the Valente Branch Library. How to get the e-book or digital audiobook: This month’s book is available as a digital audio and e-book through https://minuteman.overdrive.com/. No registration is required.

• 3:00 PM

  Maze Making for Teens (Valente)

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

  Design and create mazes out of shoeboxes at the Valente Branch! All materials will be provided by the library while supplies last.

• 5:30 PM

  Songs and Stories with guest author Ellen Mayer (Valente)

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

  Stories, songs, and activities with author Ellen Mayer celebrating her new book Gift & Box (Knopf Books for Young Readers, 2023). Families with children of all ages can join us for a story time, plus singalong with a bluegrass trio - The Incorrigibles! Children can explore and touch the instruments, and do an activity that lets them experience what it's like to be the story character Gift inside of story character Box.