September is Meet Your Neighbor Month!

Stories We Share: The Courage to Connect

A month of events, activities, and conversations that bring our city closer, one neighbor at a time.

What is Meet Your Neighbor Month?

Meet Your Neighbor Month (MYNM) is an invitation to connect with the people and places that make Cambridge feel like home. Throughout September, we invite everyone to find their own ways to meet someone new, strengthen relationships, and connect with people around them. 

Under the 2026 theme Stories We Share: The Courage to Connect, MYNM celebrates the many ways connection already happens across Cambridge and invites all of us to create more of it.  

Your neighborhood is yours to define. It might be your block, apartment building, workplace, school community, place of worship, or anywhere you feel connected to the people around you.

Explore Cambridge with Your MYNM Passport

Pick up a Meet Your Neighbor Month Passport and make September an adventure! Collect stamps at featured events and complete Side Quests that encourage you to explore Cambridge, support local businesses, get active, and connect with your community.

Collect at least 4 stamps + complete 2 Side Quests to earn one raffle entry!

Download the MYNM Passport

Printed passports will also be available at select locations throughout Cambridge. Details coming soon.

Explore Meet Your Neighbor Month Events

Looking for a way to connect? Explore events happening across Cambridge, meet someone new, or find inspiration for something you can do in your own neighborhood.

Throughout September

Explore ongoing ways to connect, create, and get moving all month long.

Meet Your Neighbor at the Library

Celebrate Meet Your Neighbor Month with the Cambridge Public Library through stories, books, and opportunities to connect.

• Stories, Songs & Play – storytimes offered at different Library locations throughout September
• Curated Booklist for Adults
• Curated Booklist for Children
• Meet Your Neighbor Book Display – available September 17-30 at the Main Library

View all Meet Your Neighbor Month events at the Cambridge Public Library!

Meet Your Neighbor at the KiOSK

Explore creative ways to connect with neighbors through art, neighborhood mapping, snail mail, and postcards.

• Paint Your Truth – explore art expression through a group process painting workshop
• Map Club – design a map project to get to know your neighborhood
• Snail Mail – slow down and write a letter to a neighbor
• Send a Postcard – send a postcard from Cambridge to anywhere in the world

Details for these events coming soon.

Meet Your Neighbor through Healthworks Fitness

Get moving and connect with your community through free fitness opportunities in Cambridge.

• Move at the Mix – Porter Square
• Pilates Sculpt – Danehy Park

Events by Date

Explore events happening on specific dates throughout September.

SEPTEMBER 12

Meet Your Neighbor: Evolving Landscapes

Explore Cambridge's archives, libraries, museums, and historical organizations during the annual Cambridge Open Archives event.

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SEPTEMBER 15

Meet Your Neighbor: Around the Table

Join the Cambridge Public Library in Central Square and the Peace Commission for a community supper and an opportunity to connect with neighbors.

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SEPTEMBER 16

Meet Your Neighbor: LGBTQ+ Multi-Generational Dinner

Join the LGBTQ+ Commission for an intergenerational dinner focused on building community across generations and learning from one another. All are welcome.

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SEPTEMBER 19

Meet Your Neighbor at Danehy Park Family Day

Enjoy one of Cambridge's largest free community celebrations and make sure to stop by the Peace Commission table while you're there.

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SEPTEMBER 20

Meet Your Neighbor: Stories That Stay With Us

Join the Commission on Immigrant Rights and Citizenship and the Peace Commission for a screening of A Man Called Otto.

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SEPTEMBER 25 | PEACE COMMISSION FEATURED EVENT

Meet Your Neighbor: Community Gathering

Join the Cambridge Peace Commission for our signature Meet Your Neighbor Month gathering, bringing community members together for connection, conversation, and celebration.

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SEPTEMBER 26

Meet Your Neighbor: Cambridge 2026 Cat Tour & Meowfest

Join the Mayor's Office and community partners for a walking tour and playful Cambridge celebration featuring some of the city's feline residents.

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SEPTEMBER 27

Meet Your Neighbor: Move with School of HONK

Join School of HONK and the Cambridge Peace Commission for a free, all-ages afternoon of music, movement, and connection. Try an instrument, learn some dance moves, and have fun with your neighbors.

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Get Involved

Attend an event, meet someone new, or bring your own neighbors together through a potluck, block party, neighborhood clean-up, or another activity that works for your community.

Planning something in your neighborhood? Hosting a block party or neighborhood gathering for Meet Your Neighbor Month? Let us know what you're planning so we can highlight resident-hosted gatherings happening across Cambridge.

Share Your Gathering

Guides & Materials

Get Started

• Meet Your Neighbor Month Zine
  A mini guide to Meet Your Neighbor Month
  Learn what MYNM is, how to participate, and ways to connect throughout September.
  Printable version | Large-print version
• Participation Ideas
  Looking for inspiration? Explore simple ways to connect with neighbors, from hosting a gathering to everyday neighborly acts.
  Printable version
• How to Plan a Large Community Event
  Tips and guidance for organizing a larger gathering in your neighborhood or community.
  Printable version | Large-print version

Connect & Play

• Ice Breakers & Games
  Easy conversation starters and group activities to help neighbors get to know one another.
• Ice Breaker Card Deck
  Printable conversation cards to get people talking and connecting.
• Meet Your Neighbor Bingo
  A fun, Cambridge-themed way to meet neighbors and discover what you have in common.
• Conversation Name Tags
  Printable name tags with prompts to make starting conversations easier.
• MYNM Coloring Pages
  Printable coloring activities for kids, families, and neighbors of all ages.
  Coloring Page 1 | Coloring Page 2 | Coloring Page 3

Bring Neighbors Together

• Potluck Dish Tents
  Printable cards for labeling dishes and sharing dietary and allergen information.
• Neighborhood Favor Board
  A simple way for neighbors to share things they can offer or could use help with.
• Neighborhood Contact Sheet
  A printable sheet for neighbors who choose to exchange contact information.
• Meet Your Neighbor Help Card
  A card you can share with a neighbor to introduce yourself and offer a helping hand.

Questions?

Contact the Cambridge Peace Commission at peace@cambridgema.gov.