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Eat Local Month Film Screening: Fish & Men at the Brattle Theater

Fish & Men exposes the high cost of cheap fish in the modern seafood economy and the forces threatening local fishing communities and public health by revealing how our choices as consumers drive the global seafood trade. But, a new movement is underway – an opportunity to return sustainability to both fish and fishermen. Thriving […]

Cambridge Jazz Festival 2022

We’re Back!!! Join us for (2) Jazz music filled days! Saturday, July 30th, Afro-Caribbean Jazz Connections music stage will be hosted by José Massó III, host and producer of “¡Con Salsa!” on 90.9 WBUR, with head-lining act Eguie Castrillo and the July 31st stage hosted by Valerie Stephens, with head-liner Chelsea Green. The festival is […]

ARTS FIRST Festival

You are invited to the annual ARTS FIRST Festival, a four-day celebration of artmaking by members of the Harvard community in all genres of the arts. Our onsite and virtual programming, produced by the Office for the Arts at Harvard, welcomes audiences to experience the creativity of students, staff, faculty, alumni and affiliates, presented in […]

Science Club for Girls’ 2022 Virtual Catalyst Awards

Science Club for Girls’ 2022 Virtual Catalyst Awards on Tuesday, April 5, 2022 from 5:30-7:00 pm (Eastern). Transforming the face of STEM. Celebrating over 27 years of empowering girls and women in STEM! Join us for an inspiring evening–hearing stories from our community, seeing our clubs ‘in action’, and meeting some remarkable women who are […]

Reimagining Our Radical Roots: Honoring the 150th Birth Anniversary of William Monroe Trotter

This spring the William Monroe Trotter Collaborative for Social Justice at Harvard Kennedy School will host a major two-day event celebrating the 150th birth anniversary of 20th century civil rights pioneer and journalist William Monroe Trotter. “Reimagining Our Radical Roots: A Global Classroom of Citizen Activism” will take place April 7-8 and will be available in […]

Nailah Randall-Bellinger’s ‘Initiation—In Love Solidarity’ Dance At Multicultural Arts Center 3/25

Explore the remembering of the Middle Passage as a means to reclaiming Black humanity in Nailah Randall-Bellinger And RootsUprising’s 2-part dance journey “Initiation—In Love Solidarity” at the Multicultural Arts Center, 41 Second St., Cambridge, on Friday, March 25, at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are free. Register via https://www.eventbrite.com/e/initiation-in-love-solidarity-tickets-267798210657. As part of Cambridge Arts’ continuing efforts to […]

Cambridge Arts Holiday Art Market

Shop local at the Cambridge Arts’ Holiday Art Market at Cambridge Masonic Hall, 1950 Massachusetts Ave. in Cambridge’s Porter Square, on Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 27 and 28, and Saturday and Sunday, Dec. 4 and 5, from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. each day. Free admission. Find soaps, hand-dyed clothing, jewelry, photography, quilts. Choose gifts by […]

FREE – Ta-Nehisi Coates Conversation

Join us on Tuesday, May 25th from 7:30-8:30pm for a FREE, VIRTUAL conversation with best-selling author Ta-Nehisi Coates. This is part of the Cambridge Public Library Foundation’s Voices for Justice series, which focuses on racial and social justice and seeks to spark important dialogue in our community. Ta-Nehisi Coates is an author, journalist, screenwriter, executive […]

Cantabrigia Award

The inaugural Cantabrigia Award grants two writers or artists a $1,000 stipend and resources (in-house editing, design, and printing) valued at $4,000, geared towards the production of a publication. No submission fee! We are particularly interested in conceptually driven projects that include: artist books, essays, poetry, fiction, how-to manuals, public policy briefs, and more. Deadline to […]

FREE! Isabel Wilkerson in conversation with Callie Crossley

Join us for a FREE conversation with Pulitzer-prize winning journalist, author and 2015 recipient of the National Humanities Award, Isabel Wilkerson. This free program is part of the Cambridge Public Library Foundaton’s Voices for Justice series, which continues on May 25th with Ta-Nehisi Coates. Register here! Isabel Wilkerson is the author of The Warmth of […]

Voices for Justice

Voices for Justice is a free, virtual event series elevating conversations around racial and social justice in Greater Boston. It kicks off on April 13th with a roundtable discussion of the documentary film John Lewis: Good Trouble with local luminaries and activists. It continues on May 11th with a conversation with Pulitzer-prize winner Isabel Wilkerson […]