Public meetings this week look at Brattle Street safety improvements, schools’ nondiscrimination policy, a caterer in Porter and bank and apartments in Harvard, and Alewife zoning recommendations.

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there’s a Fresh Pond nature walk and Nature in the City Festival, “Cinema Strange” and free screenings of new Pixar classics, classes in augmented reality and a “Yart Sale” – a citywide yard sale for art.

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there are family bike rides and game nights, a smut slam, comedy with Kathe Farris and a book reading with Imbolo Mbue, as well as music from Mia Asano, John Powhida, Fabiola Mendez and the Bridgeside Cypher crew.

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there’s a Sidewalk Poetry reception and reading, “Suite Talk’ dance piece, Asian American Playwright Collective Playfest, the annual Salsa Squared event, family-friendly “Yellow Bird Chase” at Starlight Square and plenty more music, poetry, literature and art.

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there’s a Bollywood Night in Central Square, a drag queen competition and book clubs from a brewery, free films, readings poetic and political, a Taste of Carnival, a day of roller skating, a live edition of the podcast “Yo, Is This Racist?” and much more.

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there’s the Boston Dragon Boat Festival and wrestling, celebrity readings and podcast recordings, poetry and music, opera and song cycles, but especially Juneteenth celebrations with events ranging from yoga to jazz and a Black Business Fair.

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there’s a new Harvard Square Open Market, readings by Bill McKibben and Sloane Crosley, crafting and carnivals, poetry, music and dance, art openings and group sings, a look at Cambridge firsts and a reading of our gravestones, drag and dragon boats, a lit crawl and a smut slam. And more.

Public meetings this week look at the city manager finalists – and appointing one of them – as well as micro-studio apartments for Central Square, easing the opioid crisis, a regional bus network redesign and two multi-use path projects in the western half of the city.

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, the Campfire. Festival continues, there’s a Memorial Day observance and Mozart concert to benefit Ukraine, authors and experts explore Asians in American Pop Culture and LGBT tales, you can meet a mini-horse, do some shopping, catch a CRLS “Chorus Line” for free – and much more.

A “Protect Our Children” vigil to honor those slain in Uvalde, Texas, is planned for 6 p.m. Friday at Cambridge City Hall.