Historical Society’s butterfly lawn installation: Sweet remembrance of people we lost to Covid
A Cambridge Historical Society installation marks a year of Covid-19 simply, somberly and sweetly.
Women’s History Month film discussion prep: Watching three greats to talk about March 23
To celebrate Women’s History Month, Cambridge Day is partnering with the Boston Women’s Film Festival to sponsor a free March 23 virtual discussion focused around three films chronicling different aspects of women’s experience – and that of female filmmakers – in America.
Watch films about Black experience in America, talk about them in Feb. 23 forum with our panel
To celebrate Black History Month, Cambridge Day is partnering with the Cambridge Center for Adult Education and Roxbury International Film Festival to sponsor a free Feb. 23 virtual discussion focused around three films chronicling different aspects of the Black experience in America.
Group plants ‘Recognizing Our Oldest Trees’ exhibit with photos and facts in Davis Square
“R.O.O.T. (Recognizing Our Oldest Trees)” takes on worries around tree loss explicitly as well as artistically.
This weekend is the free ‘Good Riddance 2020’ you’ve been waiting for from Historical Society
The Cambridge Historical Society invites people to say goodbye to “this colossally awful year” and welcome the new one with a free, safe and cathartic event Saturday at its headquarters.
For a charming (and reassuring) date night, meet the ‘Let’s Be Weird Together’ authors
Most people see their weirdness as a negative, but Brooke Barker and Boaz Frankel prove that a person’s quirkiness is what makes them the most interesting in their “Let’s Be Weird Together.” They bring their “date night extravaganza” to Porter Square Books on Monday.
The Beatles as feminists? Yeah, yeah, yeah, argues expert Thursday at Kennedy School
Beatles expert Kenneth Womack visits Harvard’s Kennedy School on Thursday with a talk titled “She Loves You: The Beatles as Rock ’n’ Roll Proto-Feminists.”
CRLS ninth-graders dig deep into democracy, emerge with spirited opinions on candidates
Ninth-grade history teachers at Cambridge Rindge and Latin developed an opening unit on local democracy, confident their young learners would become some of the most informed (non)voters in the city.
Honk! brings wacky cool to social activism, attuned to message ‘We All Need a Home’
Twenty-five bands from as far away as Brazil and Berlin strutted their stuff down Massachusetts Avenue from Somerville to Cambridge on Sunday, dancing, shouting and, well, honking as part of the year’s Honk! events and Oktoberfest.
A week of events in Cambridge, Somerville: ‘La Sonnambula,’ robot show, improv fest
In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there is the “La Sonnambula” opera, the unveiling of a life-size robot sculpture, an epic improv comedy fest, and theater, dance, movies and poetry, from DeWitt Henry to Olivia Gatwood, much of it free.
