Summer Reading: Cyanotype Nature Printing (Main)
Bring your own bits of nature to experiment with cyanotype printing. Recommended for ages 7 and up. This program is weather permitting, the rain date will be Friday, August 14th at 2 p.m. No registration required.
Cambridge Police Department Launches a Co-Response Team
Cambridge Police Department (CPD) launched a co-response program that places a clinician in a cruiser with a police officer to respond to mental health calls. Beginning in August 2024, Officer Qaiss Farazi, aka “Q”, and Co-Response Clinician Bonnie Magee, an employee from North Suffolk Community Services, began responding to mental health calls across the city. The two main goals of co-response are to reduce arrests related to mental health calls and to reduce unnecessary trips to the ER for mental health calls that can potentially be resolved on scene.
CANCELED AAPI Poetry for Teens (Valente)
This event has been canceled. Check with the Valente Branch next week to see if it will be rescheduled.
Learn about poetry forms from Asia and the Pacific Islands, and write some yourself!
No registration required, drop-in between 3:30-4:30pm.
The City of Cambridge does not discriminate, including on the basis of disability. We may provide auxiliary aids and services, written materials in alternative formats, and reasonable modifications in policies and procedures to people with disabilities. For more information contact us at library@cambridgema.gov, 617-349-4032 (voice), or via relay at 711.
Zen Meditation Practice w/ Cambridge Zen Center (Central Square)
Join us every first and third Monday of the month to learn and practice Zen meditation with our neighbors at the Cambridge Zen Center!
Each session consists of a 15 minutes of introduction meditation, 20 minutes of sitting, followed by 10 minutes for questions.
For more information about the Cambridge Zen Center, please visit their website!
Questions? Contact Daryl (dcabrol@cambridgema.gov).
Zen Meditation Practice w/ Cambridge Zen Center (Central Square)
Join us every first and third Monday of the month to learn and practice Zen meditation with our neighbors at the Cambridge Zen Center!
Each session consists of a 15 minutes of introduction meditation, 20 minutes of sitting, followed by 10 minutes for questions.
For more information about the Cambridge Zen Center, please visit their website!
Questions? Contact Daryl (dcabrol@cambridgema.gov).
Zen Meditation Practice w/ Cambridge Zen Center (Central Square)
Join us every first and third Monday of the month to learn and practice Zen meditation with our neighbors at the Cambridge Zen Center!
Each session consists of a 15 minutes of introduction meditation, 20 minutes of sitting, followed by 10 minutes for questions.
For more information about the Cambridge Zen Center, please visit their website!
Questions? Contact Daryl (dcabrol@cambridgema.gov).
Zen Meditation Practice w/ Cambridge Zen Center (Central Square)
Join us every first and third Monday of the month to learn and practice Zen meditation with our neighbors at the Cambridge Zen Center!
Each session consists of 15 minutes of introduction meditation, 20 minutes of sitting, followed by 10 minutes for questions.
For more information about the Cambridge Zen Center, please visit their website!
Questions? Contact Daryl (dcabrol@cambridgema.gov).
Interactive Conversation Benches
The benches will use recordings designed to facilitate interpersonal interaction between people who would not normally interact. The structures will include instructions and conversation prompts to encourage residents to share perspectives.
Cambridge 311 Performance Dashboard Now Available
The City of Cambridge is pleased to announce the public launch of a tool we’ve been using internally to measure and improve how the City responds to SeeClickFix (311) service requests. The Cambridge 311 Performance Dashboard is our performance yardstick. It's the same tool our teams rely on every day to stay on track, and now we’re giving you access to it too.
Prevention Strategies
We view all attempts to educate, promote healing, and support the economic stability of individuals and communities as prevention strategies. To that end, we support organizations who already do this work to incorporate conversations about DGBV and skill building around healthy conflict and communication. We promote strategies that will not cause further harm to communities in their attempt to help.