Paper Eyeglasses (Collins)
May is Healthy Vision Month. Join the Collins Branch in celebrating by decorating your own unique pair of paper eyeglasses. Color, cut and assemble an imaginative style to take home.
Recommended for children ages 6-12 and their caregivers.
Summer Reading: Take and Make Paper Masks (Collins)
Stop by to pick up an activity before the weekend. Choose a paper mask template to take home; then color, cut and assemble.
Recommended for ages 4-10, while supplies last. Crayons/markers, scissors and glue/tape not provided.
Roadway Preservation Work in West Cambridge Wednesday, September 20
The City’s Contractor, Indus, will conduct roadway preservation work on Wednesday, September 20. A truck will be spraying the roadway with a plant-based solution called Fog Seal. The solution goes down as a white, almost opaque spray, but once dry, it leaves a transparent “seal” over the pavement.
Roadway Preservation Work in Cambridge Starting Week of September 9
The City’s Contractor, Indus, will conduct roadway preservation work starting September 9th. A truck will be spraying the roadway with a plant-based solution called Fog Seal. The solution goes down as a white, almost opaque spray, but once dry, it leaves a transparent “seal” over the pavement.
Cambridge Non-Discrimination Poster
Notice of non-discrimination for the City of Cambridge: Discrimination on the basis of race, color, sex, age, religious creed, disability, national origin or ancestry, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, family status, military status, or source of income is unlawful in the City of Cambridge.
Fair Housing Brochure in Multiple Languages
In Cambridge it is against the law to deny anyone housing because of their: Disability; Source of Income (For example: refusing to accept Section 8); Family Status/Marital Status; Race/Color/National Origin; Sex/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity; Religion; Age (18 years or older); Military Status
Tim Flaherty
Tim Flaherty is an experienced trial lawyer with three decades of courtroom experience and hundreds of jury trials to verdict. He has successfully defended and tried multiple complex healthcare fraud, political corruption, and white-collar crime cases in federal court, including those in the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts and the Eastern District of New York.
Ellen Pinsky and Michael Slevin present: Driven to Write (Main)
Harvard Book Store and the Cambridge Public Library welcome Ellen Pinsky and Michael Slevin, co-editors of the highly praised essay collection Driven to Write: 45 Writers on the Motives and Mysteries of their Craft. They will be joined for a panel discussion with several of the book's contributors including, Robert Pinsky, award-winning author of over twenty volumes of poetry, Stephen Greenblatt, Harvard professor and author of Dark Renaissance, Ha Jin, the William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor in English and Creative Writing at Boston University, and Sigrid Nunez, National Book Award-winning author of The Friend. This panel will be moderated by Rachel Dillon, poet and the managing editor of Ploughshares.
Registration is required.
Learn Where to Turn (Mental Health Awareness Month Event)
Learn Where to Turn
Please join us! In celebration of Mental Health Awareness Month, the Cambridge Public Health
Department in collaboration with the Community Safety Department, the Cambridge Public
Library and Find It Cambridge will be sponsoring a panel discussion and tabling event. Come
learn from our panel of local mental health providers as they discuss how to access support for
yourself or a loved one and what to expect when reaching out.
The event will take place on May 19th, 6-8pm at the Cambridge Public Library, main branch.
Light refreshments and childcare will be provided. Registration requested (required for
childcare, deadline Friday, May 8th). Please use the QR code below or go to
finditcambridge.org/Where2Turn for more information and to register
Back to School Craft: Paper Camera Roll (Main)
Celebrate the end of summer and get ready to go back to school with us at this drop-in craft hour! Make and color a paper camera and some snapshots to illustrate all your best summer memories to share with your school-friends. All materials are provided. Recommended for children ages 5 - 8. Registration is not required for this event.