Please note, all events in our spaces may not be listed on this calendar. Please contact openspace@mit.edu with any questions.
Midday Music with MIT Laptop Ensemble
Spend your lunch break with the MIT Laptop Ensemble.
For The Win: Games, Puzzles, and the Science of Play
Exploring the science behind games, from chess and card games to digital gaming and VR.
MIT Media Lab Presents: Innovation Under the Stars
Join us for a program with MIT Media Lab!
Night Under the Stars: Stargazing with MIT Astrogazers
Join The Space Consortium’s “Space Days” program for a mesmerizing stargazing event with the MIT Astrogazers.
LEAP Lab: Make a Bouncy Ball
In this hands-on engineering activity geared towards kids and families, participants will create bouncy balls using household materials.
Midday Music: Veronica Robles’ All Women Mariachi Band
Spend your lunch break with professional mariachi singer, musician, Latin American folkloric dancer, and choreographer Veronica Robles, joined by her All Women Mariachi Band.
Fall Party
Join friends and neighbors from around Cambridge, MIT, and Kendall Square for music, delicious food, face painting, and more!
Speed Networking
Join us for an informal speed networking session and build your professional network.
Vancouver International Mountain Film Festival
Celebrate the global outdoor community with films from around the world.
LEAP Lab: Kids’ Clothing and Toy Exchange
Out with the old, in with the new! Join us for a kids clothing and toy exchange for children ages birth to 5 years old.
Lunch Break: Clothing Exchange
Out with the old, in with the new! Join us for a clothing exchange during your lunch break.
LEAP Lab: Creative Dance for Kids
This workshop-style event introduces young children to the art of dance using patterns, movement, words, music, and storytelling.
Speed Networking
Join us for an informal speed networking session and build your professional network.
Boston Indies
Join the MIT Game Lab and local organization Boston Indies for an evening focused on independent video games.
Trust Center Block Party
Celebrate the start of the new school year with MIT student entrepreneurs & innovators. This event, organized by the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship, is free and open to all.
Family Movie Night: Meet the Robinsons
Join us for an outdoor movie night, presented in collaboration with our friends at MathTalk!
MIT Community Service Fund Used Book Sale
Stop by the MIT Community Service Fund Used Book Sale to discover a large selection of unbelievably priced textbooks, nonfiction, novels, and more.
Movie Night: Spirited Away
Join us for a movie night under the stars. Free popcorn will be provided, while supplies last!
Food Trucks
Join us every Tuesday through Thursday in the Kendall/MIT Open Space for a mouth-watering selection of food from local family-owned and operated food trucks.
Food Trucks
Join us every Tuesday through Thursday in the Kendall/MIT Open Space for a mouth-watering selection of food from local family-owned and operated food trucks.
Food Trucks
Join us every Tuesday through Thursday in the Kendall/MIT Open Space for a mouth-watering selection of food from local family-owned and operated food trucks.
Food Trucks
Join us every Tuesday through Thursday in the Kendall/MIT Open Space for a mouth-watering selection of food from local family-owned and operated food trucks.
Food Trucks
Join us every Tuesday through Thursday in the Kendall/MIT Open Space for a mouth-watering selection of food from local family-owned and operated food trucks.
Food Trucks
Join us every Tuesday through Thursday in the Kendall/MIT Open Space for a mouth-watering selection of food from local family-owned and operated food trucks.
Food Trucks
Join us every Tuesday through Thursday in the Kendall/MIT Open Space for a mouth-watering selection of food from local family-owned and operated food trucks.
Food Trucks
Join us every Tuesday through Thursday in the Kendall/MIT Open Space for a mouth-watering selection of food from local family-owned and operated food trucks.
Food Trucks
Join us every Tuesday through Thursday in the Kendall/MIT Open Space for a mouth-watering selection of food from local family-owned and operated food trucks.
Movie Night: The Imitation Game
Join us for a movie night under the stars! Featuring the 2014 film The Imitation Game, a biographical thriller about Alan Turing, who is often considered the father of computer science. Stop by the event before the movie begins to chat with researchers from IAIFI, the NSF Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Fundamental Interactions, about their AI+Physics research and see some of the ways they are combining the two fields to gain a deeper understanding of the universe.
Food Trucks
Join us every Tuesday through Thursday in the Kendall/MIT Open Space for a mouth-watering selection of food from local family-owned and operated food trucks.
Food Trucks
Join us every Tuesday through Thursday in the Kendall/MIT Open Space for a mouth-watering selection of food from local family-owned and operated food trucks.
Midday Music: Plant Biodata
A performance by Cambridge-based sound designer and artist Skooby Laposky. Skooby will play the plants and trees in the open space, reading their biodata and turning those measurements into a generative composition of dreamy, ambient music.
Food Trucks
Join us every Tuesday through Thursday in the Kendall/MIT Open Space for a mouth-watering selection of food from local family-owned and operated food trucks.