Thursday, June 4
7 to 9 p.m.
First Parish Cambridge Unitarian Universalist, 3 Church St./1446 Massachusetts Ave., Harvard Square.
Eve Plumb book signing
$40 with book. Actress, singer, painter and entrepreneur Eve Plumb, best known for portraying Jan Brady in the ABC sitcom “The Brady Bunch,” signs her book, “Happiness Included: Jan Brady and Beyond.”
7:30 p.m.
Somerville Theatre, 55 Davis Square, Davis Square.
American Dreams: The Moth Mainstage
$52 to $96. Five seasoned storytellers share extraordinary, true stories that dig deep into the idea of the American Dream. Does that even exist anymore?
Friday, June 5
6 to 8 p.m.
Brattle Theatre, 40 Brattle St., Harvard Square.
29th Annual Do It Your Damn Self!! Youth Film Festival: Premier Screening
Free, but register. This National Youth Film Festival, the longest-running youth film festival in the country, celebrates its 29th year. A panel discussion with the teen filmmakers follows the screening. After the panel discussion, a reception with passed hors d’oeuvres at The Painted Burro in Harvard Square, 32 Church St. is planned.
8 p.m.
Club Passim, 47 Palmer St., Harvard Square.
Annual Pride Event
$30. This annual event features Pamela Means, Nora Meier, Phil Berman and Beetsblog performing. Pamela Means, singer-songwriter and jazz musician, is “one of the fiercest guitar players and politically rooted musicians in the industry today” (Curve Magazine). Nora Meier’s debut album, “Outfield,” was released in October 2024. Songwriter Phil Berman’s melodies and lyrics usher the Great American Songbook into the 21st century.
Saturday, June 6
Noon to 11 p.m.
Lamplighter CX, 110 N. First St., North Point.
Pride Patio Party
Free but RSVP. Celebrate Pride with games, drag performances, cold beer, an extended beer garden, a dance party and more.
4:30 p.m.
Warehouse XI, 11 Sanborn Court, Union Square.
Someday Fest (second show Sunday)
Free. This two-day art and music festival presented by the Somerville Media Fund, Digital Awareness and Remnant Brewing. Today, Bong Wish, Hereboy, Fortuna 500, Watson Park, Tiberius, Pew Pew, The Clearwater Swimmers and Joyer. Sunday at the same time will feature Le Prestige, Nora Meier, Wilted on the Vine (Honky Tonk Band), Mirth Snow, Kimaya Diggs, Salty Greyhound, Puppy Problems, Raavi and Guppy.
Sunday, June 7
3:30 to 5:30 p.m.
The Foundry, 101 Rogers St., East Cambridge.
Be a Phoenix: A Tribute to Gazan Poet Heba Al-Madhoun
Donation but register. Poet and novelist Heba Al-Madhoun was an architect and educator, an avid collector of copperware and a passionate textiles artisan. In October 2023 she was killed by an Israeli airstrike, alongside two of her four children, her sister and nephew. Honor Heba’s memory and uplift her surviving family at a reading of her poems, newly translated into English by a Boston community initiative.
Monday, June 8
6 p.m.
Cambridge Main Library, 449 Broadway, Mid-Cambridge.
Nicholas Epley reads from “A Little More Social: How Small Choices Create Unexpected Happiness, Health, and Connection”
RSVP. Epley, a psychologist at the University of Chicago, discusses how introverts and extroverts alike benefit from choosing to be a little more social. Harvard University’s Daniel Gilbert joins.
8 to 10:30 p.m.
Remnant Satellite, 877 Cambridge St., Wellington-Harrington.
Credit: Photo courtesy of Ruth Rappaport.
Bluegrass with Ruth & Ben String Band
Free. Led by guitarist Ruth Rappaport and her fiddler son, Ben Wetherbee, this intergenerational band’s repertoire includes rousing, powerful old-time fiddle tunes and traditional, modern and original songs that feature tight harmony singing.
Tuesday, June 9
11 a.m.
Cambridge Library Valente Branch, 826 Cambridge St., Wellington-Harrington.
Wild Things with Cambridge Society for Early Music
Free. Join in a game of musical charades featuring quirky 17th century chamber music mimicking members of the animal kingdom and other zaniness.
5 to 7 p.m.
Urban Park Roof Garden at Kendall Center, 325 Main St., Kendall Square.
Berklee Summer in the City: Sahn Cannon
Free. Cannon is a Boston-based jazz pianist and composer whose work bridges the gap between the avant-garde spirit of Andrew Hill and the lush textures of Maurice Ravel.
Wednesday, June 10
Noon
Urban Park Roof Garden at Kendall Center, 325 Main St., Kendall Square.
Lunchtime concert: Marquis Lavoie
Free. Marquis Lavoie is the indie/folk side project of Greg Marquis, frontman for Boston post-hardcore band Actor Observer. Primarily known for his intense and visceral stage presence in AO, Marquis’ solo act reveals a gentler more subdued side of his artistry.
12:15 p.m.
Kendall/MIT Open Space at 292 Main St., Kendall Square.
Midday Music: Jazz World Trio
Free but RSVP. Jazz World Trio, featuring Guillermo Nojechowicz and Ron Mahdi, incorporates original works from leader Nojechowicz’s Argentinean tango roots as well as pieces from the deep roots of jazz in Black American culture.
Thursday, June 11
Noon to 12:45 p.m.
Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy St., near Harvard Square.
Gallery Performance: Celtic Art Across the Ages
Free. Harpist and historian Nancy Hurrell will perform Irish music on an 1820s Egan harp and a modern Celtic harp. She will also share the history of the Celtic harp.
8:30 p.m.
The Sinclair, 52 Church St., Harvard Square.
Hrishikesh Hirway, moderated by Min Jin Lee
$33. Hirway is a singer/songwriter, podcast creator and composer. Prior to his work under his own name, he released four albums under the moniker The One AM Radio, as well as an EP with Moors, his project with Oscar-nominated Lakeith Stanfield. Hirway’s new album is “In the Last Hour of Light.”
Friday, June 12
7 to 9 p.m.
The Rockwell, 255 Elm St., Davis Square.
Sh!t-Faced Shakespeare: Macbeth
$38 to $43 and 18-plus. Shakespeare’s tale of murder, ambition, bloodlust, and the supernatural. Bloody Macbeth and his murderous wife Lady M seize the Scottish throne, with one cast member who happens to be drunk.
8 p.m.
Club Passim, 47 Palmer St., Harvard Square.
David Wax Museum and Lowland Hum present The Golden Hours
$40. Catch the unveiling of The Golden Hours, a new band formed by the members of indie-folk acts David Wax Museum and Lowland Hum. These musicians have been touring and recording for over 20 years, featured on “CBS Saturday Morning” and NPR’s “Tiny Desk.” The Golden Hours’ debut record is “Terra Nova.” Also performing on June 13.
Saturday, June 13
11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Water Department facility at 250 Fresh Pond Parkway, in West Cambridge at Fresh Pond.
Fresh Pond Day 2026
Free. This 16th Annual Festival-style celebration of water, community and sustainability.There will be live music, an open house of the Water Treatment Plant with structured tour at 1 p.m., live animal exhibits, Touch-a-Truck, free popcorn and reusable water bottles and kids’ crafts and games.
2 to 2:30 p.m.
Harvard Museum of Natural History, Classroom B, 26 Oxford St., near Harvard Square.
Science Spotlights: Building a Planet from the Inside Out
Museum admission rates apply. Harvard scientist Jack Sheehan explains how researchers recreate the extreme conditions of Earth’s interior in the lab to uncover how our planet formed and continues to evolve.
Sunday, June 14
4 to 7 p.m.
Longfellow House and the Washington’s Headquarters National Historic Site, 105 Brattle St., West Cambridge.
Fifth Annual Juneteenth Gathering
Free. Denise Washington, a descendant of Darby Vassall, who was enslaved at birth in Longfellow House but lived most of his life in freedom, has curated this day of poetry, music, historical displays, family activities and refreshments.
7 p.m.
Cambridge City Hall, 795 Massachusetts Ave., Central Square.
No Recombination Without Representation
Free, but RSVP. Central Square Theater and the MIT Museum present a reenactment of a crowded city hall meeting in 1976 that considered the prospect of a new biohazard lab designed for groundbreaking recombinant DNA research.
Monday, June 15
6 p.m.
Brattle Theatre, 40 Brattle St., Harvard Square.
Rye Barcott reads from “Courage Can Save Us: Ten Extraordinary Americans and the Fight for Our Future”
$12 to $40. Marine Corps veteran and co-founder and CEO of With Honor, a group that works alongside the House’s bipartisan For Country Caucus and a bipartisan group of senators to pass critical legislation in national security, national service and veterans’ affairs, tells the story of veterans serving in Congress who have crossed party lines for the good of the nation. Marine Corps veteran and the U.S. representative for Massachusetts’s 6th congressional district Congressman Seth Moulton joins.
6:30 to 8 p.m.
Cambridge Main Library, 449 Broadway, Mid-Cambridge.
Navigating the Crossroads: When Art and Technology Intersects and Diverges
Free but RSVP. Join the MIT Open Documentary Lab and Cambridge Public Library for a conversation with Emmy Award–winning artist and director Michaela Holland on immersive storytelling in virtual reality.
Tuesday, June 16
5 to 7 p.m.
Urban Park Roof Garden at Kendall Center, 325 Main St., Kendall Square.
Berklee Summer in the City: Solidago
Free. Solidago (Ella Wheeler) is a Maryland-born bassist and songwriter whoseinfluences include Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, Michael Jackson, D’Angelo, Erykah Badu and Corinne Bailey Rae.
5 to 10 p.m.
Harvard Square, Church and Brattle streets.
Soccer Watch Party: Iraq vs. Norway
Free. Enjoy free food, face painting, soccer activities and live entertainment. Be sure to stop by the Afro-Caribbean Night Market presented by the Cambridge–Somerville Black Business Network. This event is part of “Cambridge United: Where the World Comes Together,” a citywide series of free, outdoor soccer screenings and community celebrations throughout summer 2026.
Wednesday, June 17
Noon
Urban Park Roof Garden at Kendall Center, 325 Main St., Kendall Square.
Lunchtime concert: Kayla Blackburn
Free. Blackburn is an audio engineer and indie-folk singer-songwriter. As a songwriter, she draws inspiration from artists like Patty Griffin and Tracy Chapman.
7:30 p.m.
The Comedy Studio, 5 John F. Kennedy St., Harvard Square.
Matt Shore Does Songs At You: A Musical Comedy Show
$24 and 18-plus. With topics ranging from dealing with anxiety, trying to pay student loans, protecting yourself from Boston’s wild turkeys, and more, he’s got the song you didn’t know you needed.
Thursday, June 18
Noon to 2 p.m.
Kendall/MIT Open Space at 292 Main St., Kendall Square.
Live reggae from Roots Alley Collective featuring special guest Dion Knibb
Free but RSVP. In celebration of Juneteenth and presented in collaboration with MIT Sloan School of Management and MIT’s African, Black, American, Caribbean Employee Resource Group, enjoy live music, plus delicious food truck options, lawn games and more.
4 to 5:30 p.m.
Cambridge Main Library, 449 Broadway, Mid-Cambridge.
Park Sounds: Juneteenth Celebration with Tim Hall
Free. PARK SOUNDS 2026 brings free outdoor musical performances featuring local artists to the front lawn of the Cambridge Public Library Main Branch. Hall is an award-winning musician, performance poet and producer from Detroit who performs warm neo soul, jazz, and hip hop influenced music. The events are all-ages. Bring a chair, food and loved ones to celebrate the summer.
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