Surveying begins in May for an international study of audience attitudes about returning to in-person arts and cultural activities as the coronavirus pandemic wanes, according to WolfBrown, a consultant for nonprofits and public agencies with an office in the Agassiz neighborhood.

With 28 million Americans uninsured, and millions more who can’t afford their coverage, an event next week asks: Can we, as a nation, do better?

Even people who have lived in Cambridge for many years may not have heard so much as a whisper about one of the community’s longest-running philanthropic and intellectual traditions: the Thursday Morning Talks benefiting Mount Auburn Hospital.

The Cambridge Community Foundation is putting $672,500 into the nonprofit sector in Cambridge through its fall grant making and investments, it announced Wednesday.

The crowdsourced film “Motherload,” which shows how cargo bikes might save the world, comes to the Brattle Theater on Sunday with a discussion and group ride afterward, brought to town by a small consortium led by vice mayor Jan Devereux.

Extinction Rebellion Massachusetts feels not enough is being done about human-triggered climate change and wants action – not just on such problems as carbon emissions, but on forming a national “Citizens Assembly” to oversee government.

Dating in the age of smartphones and social media has made connecting with others easier than ever, but technology has also made it effortless to break off communication without explanation. The sex-positive group Pleasure Pie offers other ways to break ties.

The Technoskeptic Goes to the Movies series returns May 9 with “The Mosquito Coast,” in which inventor Allie Fox – a sweaty but stern Harrison Ford – moves his family to the jungles of Central America to rebuild civilization according to his ideals.

The dramatic one-act play “The Real Me” returns next week to mark the start of autism awareness month, just short of a year since its U.S. premiere in May at Lesley University.

The buzzy sort of science in which trees will send aid via their roots to neighboring trees that are dying, will kill animals for nutrients and can be trained sort of like dogs gets a whole day of awe-instilled discussion this weekend.