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Join us for a Board Game Brunch! We have a range of classic, strategy, and party games including Bananagrams, Chess, Ticket to Ride, Azul, and more! Feel free to bring a board game to play with others. Coffee and light refreshments provided. Registration helpful.

Beginning Thursday, July 1, the City of Cambridge will offer free COVID-19 testing one day per week on Thursdays from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. inside the CambridgeSide Mall. No appointment is needed. Thursday testing at the CambridgeSide Mall will no longer be drive-through testing by motor vehicle but will become a walk-in testing site without appointments inside the CambridgeSide Mall on the 2nd Floor above the Food Court. The current drive-through testing in the garage will shut down.

IFP Film Screening

“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 Though the CRC is no longer active, its work and its members continue to have deep influence in Black feminism and beyond.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.

Join us for activities celebrating the theme of "Plant a Seed, Read" all summer long. Today's activity is Paint by Sticker. Choose a design and match the numbered stickers to the numbered spaces, then watch your artwork come alive. Recommended for children ages 6-12 and their caregivers. July 7 - Tissue Paper Flowers July 14 - Bird and Bug Suncatchers July 21 - no activity on this date July 28 - Perler Bead Plants August 4 - Paint by Sticker August 11 - Origami Peace Cranes

Join us for activities celebrating the theme of "Plant a Seed, Read" all summer long. Today's activity is Origami Peace Cranes. Learn to fold a paper crane: a symbol of hope and healing during challenging times. Recommended for children ages 6-12 and their caregivers. July 7 - Tissue Paper Flowers July 14 - Bird and Bug Suncatchers July 21 - no activity on this date July 28 - Perler Bead Plants August 4 - Paint by Sticker August 11 - Origami Peace Cranes

Join the Central Square Book Group! This month, we're reading Swimmers by Julie Otsuka. Copies are available for pickup at the Branch. Questions? Contact Ruby (rvail@cambridgema.gov).

Join the Central Square Book Group! This month, we're reading Come and Get it by Kiley Reid. Copies are available for pickup at the Branch. Questions? Contact Ruby (rvail@cambridgema.gov).

Join the Central Square Book Group! This month, we're reading The Bandit Queens by Parini Shroff. Copies are available for pickup at the Branch. Questions? Contact Ruby (rvail@cambridgema.gov).

Join the Central Square Book Group! This month, we're reading In the Distance by Hernán Díaz. Copies are available for pickup at the Branch. Questions? Contact Theresa (tmitchell@cambridgema.gov).