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In honor of Black History Month, we are celebrating Black films. Cambridge residents age 60 and older are invited to watch and discuss "Fatherhood."

Cambridge residents age 60 and older are invited to view and discuss films with LGBTQ+ themes.

Join Cambridge's Community Safety Department in the launch of the 2025 Impact Report and celebrate the importance of mental and behavioral health in our community. We will be screening our documentary, "Beyond the Call" about the Department and the Cambridge community.

Join Cambridge's Community Safety Department in the launch of the 2025 Impact Report and celebrate the importance of mental and behavioral health in our community. We will be screening our documentary, "Beyond the Call" about the Department and the Cambridge community.

The Film Request Form is for informational purposes only. Most filming requests in the public right-of-way may also require a Sidewalk Obstruction Permit and potentially other City permits as well.

Join the Valente Branch to sing along to the film, Wicked! We will provide popcorn, candy, and beverages. Registration helpful.

Join us for a resource fair followed by a screening of a powerful documentary exploring how immigration enforcement impacts communities across the US. The film will be followed by a presentation from LUCE and a reflection.     12:00 p.m. - Community Resource Fair and Refreshments     1:00 p.m. - Welcome & Film Screening (approx. 105 mins.)     2:45 p.m. - Post-Film Reflection presentation by LUCE     3:00 p.m. - Event Concludes

In honor of Women's History Month; stop by for a free movie screening of the 2023 film Barbie directed by Greta Gerwig. Barbie is a feminist film that promotes women's empowerment and challenges patriarchal stereotypes.

In FY22, the Community Development Department (CDD) established a Community Engagement Advisory Group for staff to share best practices and reflect on strategies to make engagement more inclusive and equitable. This Group developed a handbook on inclusive and equitable engagement best practices which will be published in September 2022. The handbook, which uses an anti-racism and equity lens to approach planning, implementation, and reflection of community engagement strategies, will be used to increase participation in public processes and programs.

“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.