The Me2/Boston orchestra, featured in the film “Orchestrating Change,” features a few Cantabrigians in its diverse cast as it screens around town, starting Saturday at the Boston Public Library.

A universal playground, to be enjoyed by anyone including those with special needs, will begin construction next year on three-quarters of an acre at Danehy Park, city officials said, and could be open by the summer of 2020.

Americans with disabilities and their families have much to fear from the GOP’s tax plan in Congress, but the scares pale before the quotidian frustrations of caring for a disabled child in a bureaucratic society where school officials can resent their legal obligations.

People interested in serving on the Cambridge Commission for Persons with Disabilities advisory board are sought by the city. Applications must be in by Oct. 23 from residents who can serve on the 11-member volunteer board for a three-year term.

Middlesex Sheriff Peter J. Koutoujian is pleased to announce an initiative aimed at engaging local residents with developmental disabilities.

The 10-film festival has been inclusive in its definition of disability, and films seen since the kickoff Wednesday have explored autism, blindness, Down syndrome, muscular dystrophy and psychiatric conditions.

Public input will be taken at the meeting, and there will be a presentation and discussion of the draft recommendations of the task force, which has met eight times over the past 22 months.

The stunning, haunting music of Gaelynn Lea can be appreciated live Thursday at Passim in Harvard Square, as the winner of last year’s Tiny Desk Contest from NPR Music embarks on her second national tour.

People interested in serving on the Cambridge Commission for Persons with Disabilities advisory board for a three-year term are sought by the city.

A crowdfunding campaign in honor of Dorothy Steele, the 77-year-old who died after a Feb. 28 hit-and-run incident, is near its goal of $4,000 needed to pay for cremation and cemetery fees.