City Calendar

Tuesday

June 25

• 5:00 PM

  Freedom, Liberty, and Independence: Celebrating Independence Day with Autistic Artists

  Main Library, 449 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02138

  The Fourth of July embodies the culmination of hope and perseverance in American history, while Korea's Liberation Day serves as a remembrance of past struggles and an affirmation to strive for a better future. Both days are not merely annual remembrances but a rekindling of the hard-earned joy of freedom that emerged from the ashes of adversity. This exhibition showcases the works of extraordinary artists—Korean and American savants with autism whose visions are undeterred by their challenges. Their art is a bold pursuit of freedom and individuality, a canvas where the trials of history and the personal battles for independence coalesce.

• 6:00 PM

  Sebastian Junger Presents: IN MY TIME OF DYING: How I Came Face to Face With the Idea of an Afterlife (Main)

  Main Library, Lecture Hall, 449 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02138

  Join Sebastian Junger in a presentation about his latest book, In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face With the Idea of an Afterlife. Sebastian Junger is the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of THE PERFECT STORM, FIRE, A DEATH IN BELMONT, WAR, TRIBE, FREEDOM and IN MY TIME OF DYING. As an award-winning journalist, a contributing editor to Vanity Fair and a special correspondent at ABC News, he has covered major international news stories around the world, and has received both a National Magazine Award and a Peabody Award. Junger is also a documentary filmmaker whose debut film "Restrepo", a feature-length documentary (co-directed with Tim Hetherington), was nominated for an Academy Award and won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance. Registration is required.