In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, the Nightingale Vocal Ensemble performs its “Photoplay,” there’s art such as “Poems of Electronic Air,” academic talks on “The Rhetoric of Black Populism: From Malcolm X to the ‘Manosphere’” and the comedy duo Britanik takes the stage.

Public meetings this week look at climate action, equity for low-income families and the potential local effect of the Supreme Court’s Dobbs v. Jackson ruling about abortion rights, more housing on Broadway and more.

Anne Dudley Bradstreet, Hannah Adams, Margaret Fuller and Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins connected across the centuries Nov. 6 with Virginia Pye, Laura Zigman, Gish Jen and Claire Messud at “Cambridge Woman Authors: Past and Present,” an event led by Pye.

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there’s a Blindfold Jam, the Ukrainian folk-punk quartet DakhaBrakha, “The Madman in the White House” (it’s not whom you think), Sohla El-Waylly and Michael Pollan, a choral Anime themes concern by candlelight and more.

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there’s the Honk! festival of activist street bands and Oktoberfest in Harvard Square, Devendra Banhart and Eugene Mirman, Kristen Emack talking about her “Cousins” photos and the arrival of “Sweeney Todd” in a new theater.

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there’s the Cambridge Science Festival and carnival, the start of the Honk! festival of activist street bands, Central Square Dumpling Festival and “Smoke This” Rib Fest, Ashley Judd for Ms. Magazine and Walter Isaacson for “Elon Musk” and much more.

Public meetings and gatherings this week look at the opening of Triangle Park, a city spending disparity study, Jerry’s Pond design, Massachusetts Avenue changes, ‘It’s Basic’ documentary screenings, backyard chickens and more.

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there’s Cambridge Science Festival doings, the annual Fluff festival, clown class, Black Biz, roller disco and John Coltrane from the Cambridge Jazz Foundation.

A week of events in Cambridge and Somerville, from drunken Shakespeare to stoned comedians, foraging walks to “Fungi and the Coming Pandemic,” Horror Movie Science and an artist-magician at the The MIT Museum.

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there’s a Hot Girl Cypher, a tour that maps feminist Cambridge, Cara Fitzpatrick discussing “The Death of Public School,” free kayaking on the Charles, a Ifeanyi Menkiti memorial poetry reading, butterfly release party and the play “Forgive Us, Gustavito!”