Legendary choreographer Twyla Tharp, NASA astronaut Mae C. Jemison and others are coming to Cambridge starting Monday for a free, public weeklong Creativity Forum at Lesley University.

The role of early education in preventing domestic violence and the role of federal funding and oversight are among the topics assured a hearing Tuesday at a free panel.

Since social media crackdowns don’t go over well in schools or family life, parents and educators will be comforted by this upcoming free seminar: “Social media will not eat your children.”

If there’s anything that makes trudging through more snow sound worth it, it’s a free dessert buffet. But the offer of a table full of mystery desserts isn’t all that’s coming Monday.

The city honors Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in a number of ways this long weekend, with a Day of Service and #BlackLivesMatter protest march coming Monday.

It’s not every day city officials, transportation experts and technology whizzes get together to listen to ideas about how to make Cambridge streets better and safer. In fact, that day is Jan. 9.

Two committees of the City Council are inviting the community to hear the results of months of research, goal-setting and determination of best practices on STEAM issues.

World AIDS Day has long been an annual tradition for Cambridge Community Television, with the station preempting regular programming on Channel 8 each Dec. 1 for a victims’ scroll and special shows.

The history of Magazine Beach, the city’s second-largest park, gets a look in an exhibit at the Cambridge Arts Council’s Gallery 344.

Good things come in small packages, but the Philippe Starck-designed Ideas Box pushes that concept to the limit.