Fall Fest
A festive fall evening featuring family activities, STI Testing, community resources, pizza and refreshments
2025 Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards Ceremony (Main)
Join the Cambridge Public Library in celebrating the winners and honorees of the 2025 Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards!
First presented in 1967, the Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards celebrate excellence in children’s and young adult literature. The 2025 winners and honorees “represent such a wide range of what books for young people can be and say,” writes Elissa Gershowitz, Editor in Chief of The Horn Book, Inc. “Especially at a time when creative voices are being threatened and silenced, we are proud to recognize children’s book creators whose work is so uniquely their own.”
A book signing will follow the Awards Ceremony. Books will be available for purchase on-site. Registration is required.
Q Shared Streets
Street segments in which vehicle traffic mixes with bicycle, pedestrian, and loading activities.
Teens Design Innovative Shade Structure At Donnelly Field To Help Cambridge Address Warming World
Cool down under “SHADE” at Donnelly Field. Designed by local teens in collaboration with engineers, educator mentors, youth advocates and designers, SHADE is one of three temporary public art structures that have been installed across the as part of the City of Cambridge’s Shade Is Social Justice program to provide shade and seating, and to further the city’s efforts to address our warming world.
2022 Sidewalk Poetry
Read poems by the winners and runners-up of Cambridge's 2022 Sidewalk Poetry contest.