In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, “Intimacies” author Katie Kitamura is in town, “inTENtion” dance gets a two-night stand, the Night in Bloom Gala seeks to raise funds for Somerville’s armory and there’s art, poetry, jazz and a Cambridge-Somerville Asian Festival for AAPI Heritage Month.

The city’s Dance Party in front of City Hall in June is canceled, and whether there will be the usual Cambridge Arts Open Studios event in the fall is uncertain as well. News of the Dance Party cancellation came not long after word of the rebranding of the Cambridge Arts River Festival into a year of smaller “ripple” events rather than a daylong gathering.

The Cambridge Arts River Festival is canceled for a third year by the coronavirus pandemic. Its replacement for 2022 announced Tuesday is a yearlong series of events presented under the umbrella of a “Ripple Festival.”

We and other civic organizations and individuals warned Harvard and other venues that giving Putin a platform through the arts made the venues complicit in supporting war crimes, but our pleas did not succeed in eliciting a change.

Rent hikes of 31 percent asked by the new owner of Somerville’s Washington Street Art Center have tenants anxious and uncertain, with some expecting they’ll have to leave to face an increasingly unwelcoming market for studio space.

A town hall about the management and future of the Armory arts building in Somerville is being championed by a city councilor who says elected officials have been “left in the dark.”

There may not be many Filipinos in Cambridge, but it seems that the Philippines mattered enough to the community to place a woefully misguided monument to a war there on Arsenal Square, at Garden Street and Concord Avenue in Neighborhood 9.

A rotating pop-up storefront called the Inman Incubator has set up shop in the heart of Inman Square. The first local maker set up for a month of sales: Indestructible Food, with a series of screen prints by Sarah Dudek that turn supermarket staples into wall-worthy art.

If you have a child who loves movies and aspires to be a film critic, join Cambridge Day film editor Tom Meek this weekend for an online Junior Film Critic’s Workshop as part of the Belmont World Film Festival.

A new executive director for the Central Square Business Improvement District has been chosen: Luis Cotto, now the program manager for cultural districts at the Mass Cultural Council.