In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there’s the year’s three-day poetry marathon, a youth Art Barbecue, Boston Poetry Slam Team Send-Off, Boston Rap Race Preliminary Round, another Dancing on the Charles party and much more.

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there’s circus, free dance performances, benefit dance performances and nineties dance parties, Keaton’s “The General,” plenty of poetry and the Harvard Summer Chorus doing “Carmina Burana” in Sanders Theatre.

Pentacle Presents The Gallery: Boston dance concert; The Great Clarinet Summit and MIT Concert Choir’s “The Spectre’s Bride”; “Amplified” Diode art and club fundraiser; Porchfest; and East Somerville Walking Tour.

Women in Comedy Fest; MCC Literary awardees read; Record Hospital music fest; Bookish Ball & Shakespeare’s Birthday; “Natural History of Favorite Foods”; Tiny Great Outdoors Fest; Nave Gallery Benefit; Opera meets the ’80s; Bach Society season finale; and BAHFest.

The Vermin Supreme Winter Showcase; Poetry Book & Broadside Fair and book sale; Wrap Around Cupcake Reception and more art; “The Sound of Cracking Bones” staged reading; Video Game Orchestra concert, jazz and classical; and Vintage Holiday Film Program.

Chuck Hoberman’s 10° art installation; Best of Boston Sketch Comedy, Night 1; “Then We Move” Modern Dance for Street Pianos and Movement Slam; “Wall to Wall: Art Builds Communities” opening events; and the Seventh Annual “Smoke This” Rib Fest.

“The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) [Revised]”; Fight Night at Dilboy; THHT Presents: Hip Hop Evolution and Pass The Soul II; Boston Fuzzstival 2016; and SomerStreets’ Seize the Summer!

“Searching for Sanctuary” storytelling night; grand opening parties for Knight Moves and the Somerville Curiosity Shop; seventh annual World Naked Bike Ride Boston; W.C. Fields’ silent double feature; and Strip Zeppelin III.

Walk/Ride Day Evening; the OpenAir Circus; a Roller derby doubleheader; the Your Friends Fest of music, comedy and art; and art shows “Stay Clear of the Closing Doors” and “Space, Object & Artifact.”

“Metal and Fire: The Children of Vulcan” art show; free ping-pong tournament; Cambridge Youth Dance Program’s spring concert; American Classics and Tin Pan Alley’s “Tin Pan Opera” show; and free Cambridge Symphony Chamber Players concert.