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SUMMARY:The Joy of Lex with the Co-Host of “A Way with Words”
DESCRIPTION:Revel in surprising word histories\, regional dialects\, ancient linguistic roots\, and modern slang with Martha Barnette\, co-host of public radio’s popular “A Way with Words.” Barnette\, a writer in love with so-called dead languages\, co-hosts the radio show which The New Yorker called “Car Talk for Lexiphiles” with Grant Barrett\, a linguist and lexicographer. \nMartha Barnette is co-host of the public-radio show A Way with Words\, heard each week by listeners on National Public Radio affiliates across North America\, and worldwide by podcast. The show’s about words and how we use them — word and phrase origins\, slang\, regional dialects\, writing well\, books and reading\, and that weird thing Grandma used to say. \nRegister to attend this event \nYou can also watch the live stream here at 7:00 pm on Wednesday\, October 5: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ou7Xu2drEk.  \nSponsored by Vermont Humanities and the Friends of Brooks Memorial Library
URL:https://brookslibraryvt.org/event/the-joy-of-lex-with-the-co-host-of-a-way-with-words/
LOCATION:Main Reading Room
CATEGORIES:Adults
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SUMMARY:Anxious Nation Film Screening with NAMI Vermont
DESCRIPTION:Anxious Nation explores and captures the many faces and facets of anxiety. This feature length documentary takes a deep look into the crisis of anxiety and mental health in America\, especially it’s impact on youth and their families. \n  \nPresented by the National Alliance on Mental Illness of Vermont. This event is open to the public and free of charge.
URL:https://brookslibraryvt.org/event/anxious-nation-film-screening-with-nami-vermont/
LOCATION:Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room\, 224 Main Street\, Brattleboro\, VT\, 05301\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231014T110000
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SUMMARY:Coyotes\, Cockroaches\, & Justice: Building a book for young people (Brattleboro LitFest)
DESCRIPTION:Charlene Allen (author of “Play the Game”) and Dayna Lorentz (author of “Wayward Creatures”) will talk about taking real world concepts of and turning them into fiction. Both “Play the Game” and “Wayward Creatures” introduce audiences to Restorative Justice Circles and how they work in two different contexts – while also telling the riveting stories of young people navigating harm within their respective communities. We’ll have readings from the books\, some fun activities\, snacks\, and a sample restorative justice circle. \n  \nCharlene Allen works with community organizations to heal trauma and fight injustice\, especially the beast called mass incarceration. She received her MFA from The New School\, her JD from Northeastern University\, and her BA from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. She lives in Brooklyn with her fabulous family and their very silly dog. Play the Game is her debut novel. You can visit her at www.charleneallen.com. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n \nDayna Lorentz is the author of the middle grade novels Wayward Creatures and Of a Feather (Clarion Books/HarperCollins Children’s)\, the No Safety in Numbers trilogy (Speak/Penguin Random House) and the Dogs of the Drowned City series (Scholastic). She holds an MFA in Creative Writing and Literature from Bennington College. Dayna is a staff attorney with the Vermont Judiciary and lives with her husband\, two kids\, and two cats in Vermont. If you ask nicely\, she will show you the proper way to eat a cupcake. Visit her at www.daynalorentz.com and NoSafetyinNumbersBooks.com.
URL:https://brookslibraryvt.org/event/coyotes-cockroaches-justice-building-a-book-for-young-people-brattleboro-litfest/
LOCATION:Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room\, 224 Main Street\, Brattleboro\, VT\, 05301\, United States
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SUMMARY:Kyle Lukoff: Brattleboro LitFest
DESCRIPTION:Kyle Lukoff is the author of many books for young readers. His debut middle-grade novel\, Too Bright To See\, received a Newbery honor\, the Stonewall award\, and was a National Book Award finalist. His picture book When Aidan Became A Brother also won the Stonewall. He has forthcoming books about mermaids\, babies\, apologies\, and lots of other topics. Before becoming a full-time writer\, Kyle worked at five bookstores\, in four libraries\, for three schools\, as two genders\, through one intersection: people\, and books.
URL:https://brookslibraryvt.org/event/kyle-lukoff-brattleboro-litfest/
LOCATION:Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room\, 224 Main Street\, Brattleboro\, VT\, 05301\, United States
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SUMMARY:Martha McPhee & Robin MacArthur: Brattleboro LitFest
DESCRIPTION:Martha McPhee is the author of the forthcoming memoir\, Omega Farm. Her novels include An Elegant Woman\, Dear Money\, L’America\, Gorgeous Lies\, and Bright Angel Time. Her work has been honored with fellowships from the National Endowment of the Arts and The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and in 2002\, she was nominated for a National Book Award.  McPhee’s novels have been Best Books of The Year on The New York Times\, Washington Post and Chicago Tribune lists and her essays and reviews have appeared in numerous magazines and newspapers including The New York Times\, The Chicago Tribune\, Vogue\, More\, Harper’s Bazaar\, Self\, Traveler\, and Travel & Leisure\, among many others. McPhee is a tenured member of the English Department at Hofstra University\, where she teaches fiction. She lives in New York City with her children and husband\, the poet and writer Mark Svenvold. \n\n\n\n\nRobin Marie MacArthur lives on the hillside farm where she was born in southern Vermont. Her debut collection of short stories\, HALF WILD\, won the 2017 PEN New England award for fiction and was a finalist for both the New England Book Award and the Vermont Book Award. Her novel\, HEART SPRING MOUNTAIN\, was an IndieNext Selection and a finalist for the New England Book Award. Both of her books have been translated into French and published by Albin Michel. Her essays and stories have appeared in Orion Magazine\, LitHub\, Hunger Mountain\, The Washington Post\, Shenandoah\, Alaska Quarterly\, and on NPR. Robin is also the editor of CONTEMPORARY VERMONT FICTION: AN ANTHOLOGY\, and the recipient of two Creation Grants from the Vermont Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts. She teaches at Vermont College of Fine Arts’ MFA in Writing program and has taught in many non-traditional settings throughout the US including the Bread Loaf Environmental Writers’ Conference and Orion Magazine. She is also the founder and director of WORD HOUSE\, an emerging writing space in southern Vermont.
URL:https://brookslibraryvt.org/event/martha-mcphee-robin-macarthur-brattleboro-litfest/
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SUMMARY:David Gessner & Bill Roorbach: Brattleboro LitFest
DESCRIPTION:David Gessner is the author of thirteen books that blend a love of nature\, humor\, memoir\, and environmentalism\, including the New York Times bestselling All the Wild That Remains\, Return of the Osprey\, Sick of Nature and Leave It As It Is: A Journey Through Theodore Roosevelt’s American Wilderness. His new book is A Traveler’s Guide to the End of the World. Gessner is a professor at the University of North Carolina Wilmington\, where he is also the founder and Editor-in-Chief of the literary magazine\, Ecotone. He is married to the novelist Nina de Gramont\, whose latest book is The Christie Affair. \n  \nBill Roorbach is an American novelist\, short story and nature writer\, memoirist\, journalist\, blogger and critic. His fiction includes Lucky Turtle\, The Girl of the Lake\, the Kirkus Prize finalist The Remedy for Love\, the bestselling Life Among Giants\, and the Flannery O’Connor Award–winning collection Big Bend. Roorbach has received fellowships from the Civitella Ranieri Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. His craft book\, Writing Life Stories\, has been in print for twenty-five years. His writing has appeared in Harper’s\, the New York Times Magazine\, the Atlantic\, The New York Times Book Review\, Ploughshares\, Granta\, Ecotone\, New York magazine\, and other publications. He lives in Maine with his family.
URL:https://brookslibraryvt.org/event/david-gessner-bill-roorbach-brattleboro-litfest/
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CATEGORIES:Adults
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SUMMARY:Jeff Sharlet: Brattleboro LitFest
DESCRIPTION:Jeff Sharlet is the New York Times best-selling author or editor of nine books\, including his new instant bestseller The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War\, and The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power\, which was adapted into a Netflix documentary series. His reporting on LGBTIQ+ rights around the world has received the National Magazine Award\, the Molly Ivins Prize\, and Outright International’s Outspoken Award. His writing and photography have appeared in many publications\, including Vanity Fair\, for which he is a contributing editor; the New York Times Magazine; GQ; Esquire; Harper’s; and VQR\, for which he is an editor at large. He is the Frederick Sessions Beebe ’35 Professor in the Art of Writing at Dartmouth College and lives in Vermont in the woods with many animals.
URL:https://brookslibraryvt.org/event/jeff-sharlet-brattleboro-litfest/
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SUMMARY:Peter Orner & Pam Petro: Brattleboro LitFest
DESCRIPTION:Peter Orner is the author of the novels The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo and Love and Shame and Love and the story collections Esther Stories\, Last Car Over the Sagamore Bridge\, and Maggie Brown & Others\, two collections of essays\, Still No Word From You and Am I Alone Here?: Notes on Living to Read and Reading to Live\, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism. A three-time recipient of the Pushcart Prize\, Orner’s work has appeared in The Best American Short Stories\, The New York Times\, The New Yorker\, The Atlantic\, The Paris Review\, Granta\, McSweeney’s\, and has been translated into eight ­languages. He has been awarded the Rome Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters\, a Guggenheim Fellowship\, a two-year Lannan Foundation Literary Fellowship\, the California Book Award for fiction\, the Edward Lewis Wallant Award for Jewish fiction\, as well as a Fulbright in Namibia. He is the director of creative writing at Dartmouth College and lives with his family in Norwich\, Vermont. \nPam Petro is an author\, artist and educator living in Northampton. She has written three place­-based creative nonfiction books as well as articles and essays for many publications\, including The New York Times\, The Atlantic\, Granta and The Paris Review. She was made an honorary fellow of the University of Wales and has received both literary and visual arts residencies and fellowships from Grand Canyon National Park\, the MacDowell Colony\, the Spring Creek Project and the Black Rock Arts Foundation. Petro is on the creative nonfiction faculty of the Lesley University master of fine arts program in creative writing. She is also a co­founder of the Dylan Thomas International Summer School at the University of Wales. Her new book is The Long Field\, a memoir of Wales.
URL:https://brookslibraryvt.org/event/peter-orner-pam-petro-brattleboro-litfest/
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CATEGORIES:Adults
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SUMMARY:Brattleboro Farm and Food System Assessment: Focus Group
DESCRIPTION:Facilitated by Emma Bliss and Carissa Brewton\, this focus group will be an open discussion of the eater/consumer experience living and eating within the Brattleboro Food System. Open to all who have an interest and openness to share. Snacks provided
URL:https://brookslibraryvt.org/event/brattleboro-farm-and-food-system-assessment-focus-group/
LOCATION:Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room\, 224 Main Street\, Brattleboro\, VT\, 05301\, United States
CATEGORIES:Adults
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231017T160000
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SUMMARY:Brattleboro Farm and Food System Assessment: Focus Group
DESCRIPTION:Facilitated by Emma Bliss and Carissa Brewton\, this focus group is an open discussion for eaters/consumers to share their experience living and eating in the Brattleboro Food System. All are welcome– bring an openness and willingness to share your experience. Snacks provided.
URL:https://brookslibraryvt.org/event/brattleboro-farm-and-food-system-assessment-focus-group-2/
LOCATION:Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room\, 224 Main Street\, Brattleboro\, VT\, 05301\, United States
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SUMMARY:Our Cars\, Our Bodies\, Our Earth
DESCRIPTION:Get myself a car\, I feel power as I fly\, Whoa now\, I’m really in control.\nIt all looks fine to the naked eye\, but it don’t really happen that way at all.. ~ The Who \nIn Vermont\, our cars appear to many of us as natural as our mountains\, moose and fall colors. However\, with climate change bearing down on our state\, carbon emissions are now seen by concerned Vermonters as the prime issue with our auto-centric culture. But could we be missing something even bigger? \nThis workshop probes the fascinatingly elusive psychology of the automobile and its pervasive influence on our vision of the world and place in it. We’ll focus on how the collective super-sizing of our bodies in cars (power\, weight\, speed\, size\, noise etc.) has profoundly transformed the integrity of our sacred relations to both the human and more-than-human worlds. Furthermore\, we will explore how this immense power is perhaps undermining our response to the most significant crisis we have ever faced – climate change. \nMost importantly\, we’ll embark on a world tour of remarkable efforts that are challenging automobilism – the unbridled and indiscriminate use of motor vehicles. We will consider how Vermont can greatly benefit from this burst of innovation (planning\, micromobility\, technology\, psychology and more) that is inspiring human-scale living\, a reconsideration of our place in the world and helping us to move beyond a 1950’s model of automobility and transportation consumerism. \nBio\nDave Cohen  is an integrative psychotherapist in Brattleboro specializing in ecopsychology. In 2016\,  Dave founded VBike\, a Vermont advocacy group dedicated to promoting new bike design and technologies for everyday mobility and providing free e-bike and e-cargo bike consultations to all Vermonters. His work is featured on numerous podcasts and highlighted in the internationally-screened cargo bike documentary Motherload. In 1994\, Dave founded Pedal Express in Berkeley\, CA\, a US pioneering bicycle delivery service utilizing a cargo bikes fleet.
URL:https://brookslibraryvt.org/event/our-cars-our-bodies-our-earth/
LOCATION:Main Reading Room
CATEGORIES:Adults
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231028T150000
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SUMMARY:North Indian Classical Music
DESCRIPTION:North Indian classical music has been handed down from guru to disciple for hundreds of years through the guru-disciple relationship. Musicians Pat Lambdin and Amit Kavthekar embark on a journey into this living tradition that shifts perspectives with a fresh attitude and a willingness to place one’s own cultural understandings in the back seat. \nSponsored by Vermont Humanities
URL:https://brookslibraryvt.org/event/north-indian-classical-music/
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