2022 Harleston Parker Award

In January 2023, the Valente Branch King Open/Cambridge Street Upper School and Community Complex was awarded the 2022 Boston Society of Architect's (BSA) Harleston Parker Medal People's Choice Award for the most beautiful building in metro Boston. Read City announcement.

Valente Branch King Open Community Complex

The Sovereignty of Indigenous Communities with Spotted Crow

Join us for a discussion about the sovereignty of Indigenous communities with Larry Spotted Crow Mann on Wednesday, February 8 at 6p.m. in the Lecture Hall of the Main Library. Registration is required.

Peter S. Goodman Presents Davos Man in Conversation with Kate Tuttle

Join Peter S. Goodman, the author of Davos Man: How Billionaires Devoured the Planet in conversation with Kate Tuttle, the Executive Editor of People Magazine, at the Main Library. Registration is required to participate in this program. Sponsored by the Cambridge Public Library Foundation.

Lynn Blackston Presents: The Life and Times of Harriet Jacobs

Celebrate Black History Month at the Library with The Life and Times of Harriet Jacobs: A one-woman show presented by Lynn Blackston on February 16 at 6 p.m. Registration is required.

Events

Studio Recording 101 (Main)
7:30 PM, February 8
Marking Their Place in History: Cambridge Black Trailblazers
9:00 AM, February 9
Songs and Stories (Boudreau)
10:30 AM, February 9
Story Time (Central Square)
10:30 AM, February 9
Fiber Crafts Group - Drop-In (O'Connell)
11:00 AM, February 9

Event Calendar

What's Happening

O'Connell Branch to Close at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, February 8
Branch will reopen at 10 a.m. on Thursday, February 9
Director's Update, February 5, 2023
Native American Sovereignty, ESOL Classes, Videography, Studio Recording, XR Lab, and Much More!
Library to Offer Passes to the Museum of African American History
Passes now available at the Main Library
Director's Update, January 29, 2023
Cambridge Black History Project, Native American Sovereignty, Fresh Pond Nature Walk, Read to a Dog, Videography, and Much More!
Director's Update, January 22, 2023
Cambridge Black History Project, Native American Sovereignty, Fresh Pond Nature Walk, Read to a Dog, Videography, and Much More!

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2022 Harleston Parker Award

The Sovereignty of Indigenous Communities with Spotted Crow

Peter S. Goodman Presents Davos Man in Conversation with Kate Tuttle

Lynn Blackston Presents: The Life and Times of Harriet Jacobs

Events

7:30 PM, February 8

9:00 AM, February 9

10:30 AM, February 9

10:30 AM, February 9

11:00 AM, February 9

What's Happening

I Want To…