All-Ages Communication Station hosted by Understanding Our Differences

Robbins Library Community Room 700 Massachusetts Avenue, Arlington, MA, United States

Understanding Our Differences is a nationally recognized, award-winning program that uses a hands-on, participatory curriculum to foster respect, acceptance, and inclusion for people of all abilities in elementary schools and communities at large. The communication station program allows hands-on use of assistive technology to learn and try out all the different ways we can communicate. …

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Social Justice Book Group Discussion: Being Heumann by Judith Heumann

Robbins Library Conference Room 700 Massachusetts Avenue, Arlington, MA, United States

Robbins Library Conference Room, with remote attendance option This month the Social Justice Book Group will be discussing the 2023 Arlington Reads Together selection Being Heumann  Email sprochet@minlib.net or call (781) 316-3218 for more information.   Co-sponsored with Envision Arlington’s Diversity Task Group. Zoom Meeting ID:  812 4108 7996

Event Series English NOW! Conversation Group

English NOW! Conversation Group

Robbins Library Community Room 700 Massachusetts Avenue, Arlington, MA, United States

English NOW!, an Arlington-based group, offers English-language learners opportunities to practice their conversation skills, advance their knowledge of vocabulary and grammar, and make connections in the community.  Participants in these free conversation groups discuss varied subjects under the supervision of native speakers. Zoom conversation groups are also available. Email englishnowArlington@gmail.com for the Zoom links.  Zoom …

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National Park Lunchtime Lectures: John Fitzgerald Kennedy National Historic Site Presents ‘From Beals St. To The White House’

Online Event - Via Zoom MA, United States

Enjoy a virtual lunchtime lecture from the John Fitzgerald Kennedy National Historic Site, entitled "From Beals Street to the White House." Receive a virtual tour of John F. Kennedy's birthplace home on 83 Beals Street, as well as an exploration of his boyhood neighborhood, including the second home in which the Kennedys lived, their family …

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Queer Book Group

Robbins Library 700 Massachusetts Avenue, Arlington, MA, United States

At the March queer book group we will discuss Dead Dead Girls by Nekesa Afia. Afia's book promo is "if you want a jazz age murder mystery starring a tiny, tired lesbian, look no further than Dead Dead Girls." Her publisher describes it a little differently. "Following a harrowing kidnapping ordeal when she was in …

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