Literary-art Events in Cambridge

Check out happening literary-art events all around Cambridge, MA

Elizabeth Strout at The Brattle Theatre

 Thu, 07 May at 06:00 pm The Brattle Theatre USD 43

The Norton Lectures with Steve McQueen | Lecture Six

 Tue, 05 May at 06:00 pm Sanders Theatre Free

Dr. Mary Claire Haver at First Parish Church

 Fri, 10 Apr at 07:00 pm First Parish Church USD 45

Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw at The Brattle Theatre

 Tue, 12 May at 06:00 pm The Brattle Theatre USD 14 to 43

Starside Book Launch with Alex Aster

 Thu, 02 Apr at 07:00 pm The First Parish in Cambridge, Unitarian Universalist USD 43

Maria Semple at The Brattle Theatre

 Wed, 22 Apr at 06:00 pm The Brattle Theatre USD 43

The Shippers Release Celebration With Katherine Center

 Fri, 29 May at 07:00 pm The First Parish in Cambridge, Unitarian Universalist USD 39

Alice Hoffman Book Bash Featuring The Best Dog in the World: Essays on Love

 Mon, 13 Apr at 07:00 pm Lovestruck Books & Cafe USD 18 to 41

Sara Hall Book Signing at Harvard Book Store

 Sat, 18 Apr at 12:00 pm Harvard Book Store USD 34

Tom Perrotta at The Brattle Theatre

 Wed, 29 Apr at 06:00 pm The Brattle Theatre USD 14 to 38

Saami Brothers Qawwali Night

 Sun, 12 Apr at 07:30 pm Harvard University USD 39 to 55

Maggie O'Farrell at First Parish Church

 Sat, 27 Jun at 07:00 pm First Parish Church USD 45

The Daisy Chain Flower Shop Release Celebration with Laurie Gilmore

 Wed, 13 May at 07:00 pm The First Parish in Cambridge, Unitarian Universalist USD 29

Poetry Jam-VCR Vernon C Robinson

 Sun, 19 Apr at 07:00 pm Lizard Lounge USD 13

Matt Dinniman at First Parish Church

 Tue, 07 Apr at 07:00 pm First Parish Church USD 48

Our Perfect Storm Release Celebration with Carley Fortune

 Tue, 05 May at 07:00 pm Lovestruck Books & Cafe USD 39

Douglas Stuart at The Brattle Theatre

 Thu, 14 May at 06:00 pm The Brattle Theatre USD 41

Isaac Fitzgerald at The Brattle Theatre

 Wed, 13 May at 06:00 pm The Brattle Theatre USD 43

The Paris Match Release Bash with Kate Clayborn

 Thu, 09 Apr at 07:00 pm Lovestruck Books & Cafe USD 27

Dr. Trisha Pasricha at the Harvard Science Center

 Tue, 07 Apr at 06:00 pm Science Center USD 0 to 34

Poetry Jam-2026 Slam Team Final

 Sun, 26 Apr at 07:00 pm Lizard Lounge USD 13

Blues to Africa: The Randy Weston Centennial

 Sun, 12 Apr at 04:00 pm John Knowles Paine Concert Hall Free

My Dear You Release Bash with Rachel Khong

 Tue, 07 Apr at 07:00 pm Lovestruck Books & Cafe USD 7 to 38

Mike Schur and Joe Posnanski at The Brattle Theater

 Tue, 19 May at 06:00 pm The Brattle Theatre USD 51

A Night at the Disco Book Bash with Christian John Wikane

 Thu, 07 May at 07:00 pm Lovestruck Books & Cafe USD 61

Blodgett Chamber Music Series presents Parker Quartet

 Fri, 17 Apr at 08:00 pm John Knowles Paine Concert Hall Free

King of Gluttony Launch Day Soirée

 Tue, 28 Apr at 06:00 pm Lovestruck Books & Cafe USD 27

Free 2026 John M. Prather Lecture: Your Inner Fish Revisited: New Insights into Our Fishy Past

 Wed, 15 Apr at 06:00 pm Science Center, Hall D, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

Poetry Jam-2026 Slam Team Semifinal #1

 Sun, 05 Apr at 07:00 pm Lizard Lounge USD 13

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein at the Harvard Science Center

 Mon, 27 Apr at 06:00 pm Science Center USD 0 to 37

Jeffrey Marlow at the Harvard Science Center

 Wed, 15 Apr at 06:00 pm Science Center USD 0 to 37

Caro Claire Burke at The Brattle Theatre

 Wed, 08 Apr at 06:00 pm The Brattle Theatre USD 14 to 43

Poetry Jam-2026 Slam Team Semifinal #2

 Sun, 12 Apr at 07:00 pm Lizard Lounge USD 13

Andrew H. Knoll at the Harvard Geological Lecture Hall

 Tue, 31 Mar at 06:00 pm 24 Oxford St USD 0 to 34

Robert J. Sampson at the Cambridge Public Library

 Mon, 13 Apr at 06:00 pm Cambridge Public Library USD 0 to 34

Riss Neilson Release Bash for The Bridge Back to You

 Wed, 01 Apr at 07:00 pm Lovestruck Books & Cafe USD 27

Tea Party with Emily Franklin Celebrating of Love & Other Monsters

 Sun, 12 Apr at 03:30 pm Lovestruck Books & Cafe USD 22 to 145

Silly Sh*t Variety Show

 Sat, 18 Apr at 05:30 pm The Foundry, Rogers Street, Cambridge, MA, USA USD 7 to 24

Roella Oloro Trio

 Wed, 08 Apr at 07:00 pm The Mad Monkfish USD 13

Robert Pinsky PoemJazz: Misrule Music

 Sun, 12 Apr at 06:00 pm The Regattabar

Fallen Stars Book Celebration with Imani Erriu

 Sun, 19 Apr at 06:00 pm Lovestruck Books & Cafe USD 7 to 30

Nancy Fraser, “Against the Environmentalism of the Rich”

 Wed, 15 Apr at 06:30 pm Harvard University Graduate School Of Design Free

The Gravewood Release Celebration with Kelly Andrew

 Mon, 20 Apr at 07:00 pm Lovestruck Books & Cafe USD 27

Gaelynn Lea at the Cambridge Public Library

 Mon, 04 May at 06:00 pm Cambridge Public Library USD 0 to 34

Book Launch: Priority Technologies

 Wed, 29 Apr at 07:00 pm MIT Museum Free

The Undiscovered Country: Shakespeare & Mount Auburn Walking Tour

 Sun, 26 Apr at 01:00 pm Mount Auburn Cemetery USD 9 to 14

Toni Ballard Quartet

 Wed, 22 Apr at 07:00 pm The Mad Monkfish USD 13

LEAP Lab: Get Your Spark

 Sat, 13 Jun at 11:00 am Kendall/MIT Open Space Free

Out of Her League Release Bash with Ava Rani

 Tue, 12 May at 07:00 pm Lovestruck Books & Cafe USD 7 to 48

Our Rogue Fates Release Bash with Sarah Glenn Marsh

 Wed, 06 May at 07:00 pm Lovestruck Books & Cafe USD 39

Roxanne Khamsi at the Harvard Science Center

 Thu, 23 Apr at 06:00 pm Science Center USD 0 to 34

The Soloveychicks Upstairs at McCarthy's

 Sun, 29 Mar at 12:00 pm McCarthy's Toad

Artist Talk: Victoria Shen

 Mon, 30 Mar at 06:00 pm MIT ACT Cube Free

Lizard Lounge Poetry Jam-Elisheva Azarael

 Sun, 29 Mar at 07:00 pm Lizard Lounge USD 13

Beneath Release Bash with Ariel Sullivan

 Mon, 30 Mar at 07:00 pm Lovestruck Books & Cafe USD 39

The Gathering

 Sat, 07 Mar at 08:00 pm The Dance Complex USD 34

Washington Remembered, Washington Forgotten: Washington and Slavery

 Mon, 30 Mar at 06:00 pm Cambridge Public Library

Advanced Process Data Analytics Course (US)

 Tue, 14 Apr at 08:30 am The Engine USD 850 to 3,750

Poetry Reading: Tribute to Rhina Espaillat

 Fri, 17 Apr at 06:00 pm 105 Brattle St, Cambridge, MA, United States, Massachusetts 02138

Conversation and Concert: Carlos Prieto, cello

 Tue, 31 Mar at 04:30 pm Lewis Music Library Free

What Monuments Remember — and What They Forget: A Juneteenth Walk

 Thu, 18 Jun at 06:00 pm Mount Auburn Cemetery USD 7 to 14

May Brewery Book Club at Lamplighter

 Wed, 06 May at 07:00 pm Lamplighter Brewing Co. - Broadway Free

Black Swan

 Sat, 06 Jun at 06:00 pm Loeb Drama Center at A.R.T.

My Suitcase of Fragments

 Thu, 23 Apr at 07:00 pm 3 Church St USD 25

Art Clinic: Creative Writing Session

 Thu, 02 Apr at 04:00 pm The Foundry Free

FILM: BAD GUY, ROUGH WEEK; A Rather Dark Comedy

 Sat, 30 May at 07:00 pm The Foundry USD 18

Legends of the Revolution: Poetical Myth-Making in the 19th Century

 Fri, 03 Apr at 05:30 pm Mount Auburn Cemetery USD 7 to 14

Book your tickets for The Commute now!

 Sun, 12 Apr at 03:00 pm The Foundry, Shop 6 USD 23

The Seventh Annual MIT Playwrights Lab

 Wed, 01 Apr at 08:00 pm 345 Vassar St Free

T/HITHER / Christina Davis

 Fri, 01 May Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Free

30th Annual Undergraduate Colloquium on Russian and Eurasian Studies

 Fri, 10 Apr at 12:00 pm CGIS South, S020 Belfer Case Study Room Free

All in One: Music & Lyrics by Jerry Herman, Meredith Willson, Dolly Parton

 Fri, 10 Apr at 07:30 pm First Church in Cambridge USD 25 to 30

MIT Reads: "Everything I Never Told You" Small Group Discussion

 Wed, 29 Apr at 12:00 pm The Nexus in Hayden Library Free

Book Talk: Georgia, 1918-21, The World's First Social Democratic State?

 Wed, 06 May at 04:30 pm S354, CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street Free

Boston ABG March Meeting!

 Sun, 29 Mar at 02:00 pm Cambridge, Massachusetts

2026 Amy and Marcus Garvey Lecture featuring Porsha Olayiwola

 Sun, 31 May at 04:00 pm Western Avenue Baptist Church

Retrospective Bordering: Genghis Khan, Central Asia, and Soviet Imagination

 Tue, 31 Mar at 06:00 pm CGIS South Building, S050 Free

Powerful Voices Open Mic Show - Live Music, Comedy, Poetry+ More!

 Thu, 13 Nov at 08:00 pm Cambridge Free

Professional Report Writing Skills 1 Day Workshop | Cambridge, MA

 Fri, 09 Jan at 09:00 am For venue details reach us at [email protected] USD 519 to 1,453

The Literary Legacy of Julius Margolin, Gulag Veteran &Public Intellectual

 Wed, 22 Apr at 04:30 pm S354, CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street Free