Community Celebration and Fair Housing Resource Fair
If you’d like to learn more about your housing rights and connect with local resources, please join us on Saturday, May 9, 2026, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the King Open School in Cambridge for a community event featuring City departments and local organizations offering information on housing, tenant protections, and available services. This event is free and open to all, with food, family-friendly activities, and entertainment provided.
Behind the Scenes at Free Food & Summer Fun
The Annual Summer Food Program provides free breakfast, lunch, and dinner meals to Cambridge residents ages 18 and younger. Behind a summer of free food and fun is the critical mission to address food insecurity in Cambridge. And lots of logistics.
Meet Your Neighbor Day or Plan a Neighborhood Gathering
Meet Your Neighbor Day is an invitation for you to plan something that can bring together your neighbors — in a way that works for you, or to learn about events that may be planned in your neighborhood between September 14 and 22, 2024.
CPL Adult Summer Camp: Tie Dye T-Shirts & Bags (Valente)
Update: This event has been moved inside the Valente Branch Community Room due to the heat emergency declared by the City of Cambridge.
Join us for one, two, or all CPL Adult Summer Camp activities to meet new people and have nostalgic fun outside in Cambridge!
Make Tie Dye T-shirts & Bags with us in the Reading Garden next to Valente.
Rain/High Heat Location: Valente Branch Library
Registration Required.
American Sign Language: The Basics (Central Square)
Join us for a fun, interactive introduction to American Sign Language (ASL) and inclusive communication. Participants will learn practical everyday signs, respectful ways to interact with Deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals, expressive communication techniques, and simple real-life ASL scenarios. This activity-based workshop includes silent communication challenges, group participation, and engaging sign language games designed to build confidence and connection through communication. Recommended for ages 10 and up.
Cambridge Young Authors' Squad - CYAS with guest author Patrick Joyce (O'Neill)
Young people ages 10 to 14 who love to write are welcome to share their ideas and writing. There will be time for share-outs/workshopping, as well as group or solo writing. Snacks are provided!
This week we will be joined by guest author Patrick Joyce, author of Back in the USSR and Strawberry Fields.
If you are attending for the first time, registration is helpful, but not required.
Upland Road Traffic Calming
The reconstruction of Upland Road from Raymond Street to Huron Avenue includes pedestrian safety improvements.
Open Space and Recreation Plan
Current seven-Year Open Space and Recreation Plan covering the period 2009 to 2016. Required by the Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs for eligibility for open space funding.