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Unleash your creativity in this relaxed, self-directed painting session while listening to music. Explore your own ideas and style at your own pace. Supplies are provided.

The Baker-Polito Administration announced plans to increase access to at home COVID-19 test kits for residents across the Commonwealth. The Administration has secured 2.1 million iHealth Labs over-the-counter (OTC) at-home rapid antigen tests that will be delivered to 102 towns with the highest percentage of families below the poverty level. These free tests will be available for distribution to the public by each municipality, with an emphasis on increasing access for individuals and families who are facing financial hardship.

The sixth annual Warm Hearts for Warm Feet Sock Drive in partnership with CASPAR/Bay Cove begins Wednesday, February 1st.

Cambridge Police Department’s Dr. James Barrett will speak on a panel at the 2024 National Research Conference happening September 16 – 18 in Pittsburgh.

Omo Moses will read from and discuss his new memoir on January 21 at the Main Library.

Recommendations of the City Manager’s Task Force to Examine the Future of Public Safety in Cambridge

When temperatures top 85 degrees, the flowers of “Heat BLOOMS”—a new art installation in Cambridge’s Harvard Square—bloom, like a visual thermometer warning of extreme heat. Three consecutive 85-degree days or hotter are considered a high alert danger by the Cambridge Public Health Department.

Cambridge Water Department (CWD) staff will host a 32-mile bike tour of the Cambridge Watershed, guided by Urban AdvenTours on Saturday, September 30, from 8:30 a.m. - 4 p.m.

A brochure of the STAR (Support for Tenants at Risk) program for low-income Cambridge tenants facing eviction.

Let’s take a look at the events of the 1630s when speculators drove up the prices of tulip bulbs to dizzying heights. The development of Dutch flower painting and the phenomenon known as “tulipmania” share the same root causes in 17th century Netherlands; that is, an interest in objects of great appeal and rarity, whether just for their beauty or their scientific notoriety. But what was really happening and has it been overblown in history? We will discover where the practice of flower painting began for the Dutch, in response to the value of live flowers; a practice of painting beautiful still lives that continues today.