Anxious to get back to movie theaters but still apprehensive despite getting your first or even second vaccine shot? Something to tide you over might be the “Film as a Monument” exhibit at Lesley University, which takes the concept of community and contactless film screening to another level.

While BioMed builds its jewel box and walled garden, who’s making sure our cultural ecology also has rocks to hurl and mud to squish between our toes?

The Boston Compass newspaper, launched a little over a decade ago as a one-page zine, is now an eight-page paper with newsrack boxes across Boston – and expands again this month with the launch of its first Web series. Cambridge’s Pauline Kaba is the host.

An independent nonprofit called 585 Arts has been formed by BioMed Realty and Cambridge-based Global Arts Live to run the creative side of a BioMed’s property in Kendall Square, from its 10-acre Canal District to the 16-story lab building it expects to open in 2025.

A project called Poetry of Science is looking for Cambridge poets of color who will be paired with local scientists of color to create poetry based on their work, motivations and history.

Your evening’s entertainment has been announced as part of the Cambridge Community Foundation’s virtual and free We are Cambridge spring gathering. And there’s more to look forward to May 5 as part of a (pricier) Mount Auburn Hospital fundraiser.

Central Square-based Dance Complex has opened a 4,000-square-foot annex in Kendall Square for artistic experimentation and says it is taking applications from “artists of all kinds” to use it.

Cambridge artists and cultural organizations potentially struggling as the coronavirus pandemic drags on can ask questions, hear from others in the community and learn about available resources at Feb. 25 forum.

If the obvious worst thing about this year was the coronavirus, the best thing is just as apparent: Our response to the pandemic as a city and as individuals.

There’s no suspense to naming the worst thing to happen to Cambridge this year: It’s the coronavirus. But we saw plenty of other disappointments and frustrations of 2020, even if some of them were worsened by the impacts of a pandemic.