Save the date! The Friends’ biennial Secret Gardens of Cambridge Tour will be held on June 7, 2020.
Tickets will be on sale in the spring of 2020. Learn more here.
On April 22, 2019, the Friends hosted a members-only reception for the Stringed Theory - Kora event, featuring Master kora player Yacouba Sissoko from Mali.
Every two years, the Secret Gardens of Cambridge tour uncovers secret gardens in neighborhoods all across the city and invites our friends and neighbors to take a peek! Over the years, the tour has featured more than 200 individual gardens in Cambridge. Learn more here.
The Friends hosted a festive open house at the Main Library to tell patrons about our organization. We offered free raffle prizes, including a bike and gift certificates.
We helped kick off Women's History Month with Contemporary Women of Color Making History, an evening panel presented by We, Ceremony in collaboration with the Cambridge Public Library. Sponsored by the Friends of the Cambridge Public Library.
In this original theater piece, attendees saw and heard what is going on in urban high schools by listening to the voices of students, and the educators who work with them, describing the effects of opportunity gaps and implicit bias in their everyday lives. Sponsored by the Friends of the Cambridge Public Library. Image credit: A.R. Sinclair Photography
For one day only, the Friends sold their three books - Cambridge Cooks, Cambridge Voices, and Secret Gardens of Cambridge - for a reduced rate, as well as offering free gift wrapping.
The Friends sponsored a fun music event in the summer of 2017. An engaging local musical group called "What She Said" played popular songs from the '70's, '80's, and '90's to a wide range of members and the public. The event, originally planned for the Library lawn, was held on the 3rd Floor due to rain. Ice cream and cookies were also served.
The Friends provided a kiosk that contains Mac and PC laptop computers that can be checked out by library cardholders for in-library use.
Doug Most discussed “The Race Underground: Boston, New York, and the Incredible Rivalry That Built America's First Subway,” a fascinating story of new science that takes two cities by storm.
The 2016 Secret Garden Tour was a huge success! Despite the overcast weather, proceeds and participation set a record high.
The tour was featured on Boston.com:
At Story and Song Under the Stars, we enjoyed a story and song event on the library lawn with music by The Bagboys, Bluegrass and Western Swing musicians, as well as ice cream donated by Toscanini's Ice Cream. See below for photos from the event.
