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The Phoenix Landing will produce Mardi Gras in June, bringing the spirit of community joy and celebration to Lafayette Square (intersection of Mass Ave and Main St). Legless Lizard will bring the New Orleans-style Mardi Gras tunes. The event is planned for June 26, 7:00 – 9:00 p.m.

The City of Cambridge installed a new series of Cool Spots across Porter Square – welcoming outdoor seating areas designed to bring shade, comfort, and opportunities for social connection to some of the neighborhood’s hottest and most heavily traveled plazas and sidewalks.

“If Black women were free, it would mean that everyone else would have to be free since our freedom would necessitate the destruction of all the systems of oppression.” - Combahee River Collective, April 1977 Come to the Central Square Library to gather for a reading of the Combahee River Collective (CRC) statement. Centered in Black feminist lesbian socialist politics, the CRC argued for the centering of anti-racist and anti-sexist politics within feminist and civil rights organizing respectively. Though the CRC is no longer active, its work and its members continue to have deep influence in Black feminism and beyond. We will read the statement aloud together, sharing the words and wisdom of the Combahee River Collective with opportunity to discuss their continued resonance. This event will be followed by a 4-session reading group to discuss the second edition of How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor. For more information and to register for the reading group, please see here. This event was created in partnership with Community Conversations: Sister to Sister, the Cambridge LGBTQ+ Commission, and the Cambridge Women’s Commission.

Photographs from the North Cambridge Senior Center's Documentary Photography Class are on display at Porter Square Books in Cambridge throughout the month of April. The exhibition highlights the creativity and perspectives of local Cambridge photographers.

Join Central Square's new Horror Book Club. We're exploring horror in all forms -- classic horror, queer horror, ghost stories, and more! This month, we're reading Horrorstör by Grady Hendrix. Copies are available for pickup at the branch. For questions, contact Ruby: rvail@cambridgema.gov.

Join Central Square's new Horror Book Club. We're exploring horror in all forms -- classic horror, queer horror, ghost stories, and more! For our first meeting, we're reading Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia. Copies are available for pickup at the branch. For questions, contact Ruby: rvail@cambridgema.gov.

Join Central Square's new Horror Book Club. We're exploring horror in all forms -- classic horror, queer horror, ghost stories, and more! For our April meeting, we're reading Velorio by Xavier Navarro Aquino. Copies are available for pickup at the branch. For questions, contact Ruby: rvail@cambridgema.gov.

Join Central Square's new Horror Book Club. We're exploring horror in all forms -- classic horror, queer horror, ghost stories, and more! For our May meeting, we're reading Red Dragon by Thomas Harris. Copies are available for pickup at the branch. For questions, contact Ruby: rvail@cambridgema.gov.

Join Central Square's Horror Book Club. We're exploring horror in all forms -- classic horror, queer horror, ghost stories, and more! For our next meeting, we'll be reading Baby Teeth by Zoje Stage. Copies are available for pickup at the branch. For questions, contact Ruby: rvail@cambridgema.gov.

Join Central Square's new Horror Book Club. We're exploring horror in all forms -- classic horror, queer horror, ghost stories, and more! For our June meeting, we'll be reading The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde. Copies are available for pickup at the branch. For questions, contact Ruby: rvail@cambridgema.gov.