Honk! goes all-local for the second year of Covid, multiplying its sites but telling bands not to travel
After the Honk! festival of activist street bands went online-only during last year’s pandemic, this year’s celebration in October will look different yet again from what people have enjoyed since its launch in Somerville in 2006.
Crushing on Cambridge? Send your ‘Love Letters’ for a pair of summer readings at Starlight Square
The Cambridge Historical Society is rebranding after 116 years as History Cambridge, with among its first public events under the new name coming June 8 and Aug. 10 to the Starlight Square outdoor entertainment complex: “Cambridge Love Letters.”
Earth Week begins with Monday storytelling, ends with fifth annual cleanup at Jerry’s Pond
Earth Day is Thursday, but in Cambridge that matters less, as there are weeklong events reminding us of the need to take care of our planet, stretching from a Monday storytime to an April 25 socially distanced cleanup at Jerry’s Pond.
Viola Davis is Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year, but what year it is makes all the difference to fun
Television and film actor Viola Davis will get a very different Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year celebration Thursday than Elizabeth Banks did in January 2020, before the pandemic locked us down.
Events for 2021 Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, most online, show leader’s continuing impact
Commemoration of Martin Luther King Jr. Day will be different this year as a result of the coronavirus, but there is still plenty going on.
Juneteenth arriving as new holiday at Lesley (and maybe Harvard?); Events are planned
Juneteenth – June 19, commemorating the day in 1865 that slaves learned they’d been proclaimed free in the United States – has been named a holiday at Lesley University recognized in the academic calendar, “now and forever.” There are other recognitions set for Friday too.
City cancels Dance Party, which draws 30,000
It was probably inevitable: The City of Cambridge has announced the cancellation of the year’s Dance Party, which was scheduled to be held June 26 in front of Cambridge City Hall.
Dinner and a movie? It’s on citywide for Friday, with Brattle curating and food from your fave
The City Council teams up with The Brattle Theatre starting Friday to host a citywide “Dinner & a Movie Night,” with the Brattle picking the programming (one family-friendly film, and one more mature) to stream at home with takeout from a favorite local restaurant.
Cambridge Arts River Festival has been canceled due to coronavirus; CCTV will air a ‘Stream Fest’
The 2020 Cambridge Arts River Festival scheduled for June 6 has been canceled. The funds that would have been used to produce it has been contributed to the Cambridge Artist Relief Fund, and an online “Cambridge Arts Stream Festival” is planned instead.
Honk! brings wacky cool to social activism, attuned to message ‘We All Need a Home’
Twenty-five bands from as far away as Brazil and Berlin strutted their stuff down Massachusetts Avenue from Somerville to Cambridge on Sunday, dancing, shouting and, well, honking as part of the year’s Honk! events and Oktoberfest.
