Brooks Memorial Library - Brattleboro VT

CPCC
2023-05-24 17:30 - 18:30, 2023-06-28 17:30 - 18:30 (America/New_York) | Meeting Room D – Quiet Reading Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Monthly Town CPCC meeting please see https://www.ibrattleboro.com/ and Town of Brattleboro website under “Committees”

Community Conversation with Brattleboro State Representatives
2023-05-24 18:00 - 21:00 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Representatives Emilie Kornheiser, Mollie Burke, and Tristan Toleno, along with State Senators Wendy Harrison and Nader Hashim, discuss legislative opportunities and community priorities. All are welcome to come join the conversation.

Fall Prevention Tai Chi
2023-05-26 15:00 - 16:00 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
A beginner level Tai Chi for Fall Prevention class, as taught by Tai Chi Vermont, in partnership with Senior Solutions Brattleboro.

Game Cafe!
2023-05-27 14:00 - 16:45, 2023-06-03 14:00 - 16:45, 2023-06-10 14:00 - 16:45, 2023-06-17 14:00 - 16:45, 2023-06-24 14:00 - 16:45, 2023-07-01 14:00 - 16:45 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Come join game enthusiasts in playing Magic the Gathering in various formats (including Commander/EDH) as well as other fun and creative board & card games.
Bring your favorite games- All Ages Welcome!

Writing Your College Admissions Essay
2023-05-30 17:00 - 18:00 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
There is not one perfect way to write a college admissions essay, but there are universal principles to writing a strong essay. Collegewise counselor Jessica Nelson will share her strategies that are guaranteed to help students improve their chances of finding and sharing a compelling story with an admissions committee.
For 23+ years Collegewise has been supporting families in experiencing a less stressful and more successful journey to their best fit college. We are on a mission to help students access the transformative power of higher education and share free advice and resources with as many families as possible.

Book Launch for Green Mountain Stories
2023-05-30 19:00 | 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Celebrate the newly released edition of 28 short stories by Brattleboro author Mary E. Wilkins Freeman with the initially intended title Green Mountain Stories. Published originally in 1887 as A Humble Romance and Other Stories, this new edition features an introduction and critical commentary by Freeman scholar Brent Kendrick.
Mary E. Wilkins Freeman (1852-1930) enjoyed distinguished accolades throughout her career as a short story writer and novelist. At the start of the Twentieth Century—when her career was at its height—she and Mark Twain were considered America’s most beloved writers. The bronze doors at the American Academy of Arts and Letters in New York (installed at its West 155 Street Administration Building in 1938) bear the inscription, “Dedicated to the Memory of Mary E. Wilkins Freeman and the Women Writers of America.”
Books will be available for sale and signing at the event.

LEGO-Palooza
2023-06-01 15:00 - 17:00, 2023-07-06 15:00 - 17:00 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Join us on Thursdays after school from 3-5pm to play with LEGOs!
We provide the LEGOs. You build. Do not bring your own LEGOs.
Children cannot keep LEGOs, but if there is enough room, we will display them in the window.
Free and open to the public!

Brattleboro in Stitches
2023-06-03 11:00 - 14:00, 2023-06-10 11:00 - 14:00, 2023-06-17 11:00 - 14:00, 2023-06-24 11:00 - 14:00 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Bring a work in progress to sew, knit, crochet, embroider, or mend. Sewing machines, irons, and companionship will be provided.

Brattleboro Great Books Group
2023-06-05 19:00 - 21:00 | Meeting Room C – Local History
Monthly discussion of “Great Books”

Mineralogical Society
2023-06-06 18:00 - 20:45 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Study of Minerals and Geological topics

Library Board of Trustees
2023-06-13 16:30 - 18:00 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Monthly meeting of the Brooks Memorial Library Board of Trustees. Citizen attendance and commentary welcome!
Board of Trustees

State of Vermont/VCBB Public Listening Session on Internet for All
2023-06-14 18:30 - 19:30 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
The Vermont Community Broadband Board (VCBB) wants to hear from you. VCBB is holding two virtual listening sessions next week to hear input on the current state of internet service; problems Vermonters have accessing, affording, or using it; and what can be done to improve it. This event is to get a sense of the lived experience of residents of Brattleboro and other surrounding communities, which will inform plans VCBB is currently drafting to address issues currently facing Vermonters

June Sci-Fi Reading Group Meetup
2023-06-20 19:00 - 20:30 | Brooks Memorial Library, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
The Sci-Fi Reading Group will meet Tuesday, June 20th, in the Quiet Reading Room from 7-8:30 pm to discuss In the Watchful City by S. Qiouyi Lu.
From Goodreads:
“The city of Ora uses a complex living network called the Gleaming to surveil its inhabitants and maintain harmony. Anima is one of the cloistered extrasensory humans tasked with watching over Ora’s citizens. Although ær world is restricted to what æ can see and experience through the Gleaming, Anima takes pride and comfort in keeping Ora safe from all harm.
All that changes when a mysterious visitor enters the city carrying a cabinet of curiosities from around the world, with a story attached to each item. As Anima’s world expands beyond the borders of Ora to places—and possibilities—æ never before imagined to exist, æ finds ærself asking a question that throws into doubt ær entire purpose: What good is a city if it can’t protect its people?
The Sci-Fi Reading Group meets the third Tuesday of every month and is open to curious minds of all ages, whether or not they’ve read this month’s selection.

SEVT Audubon Society
2023-06-20 19:00 - 21:00 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Join South Eastern Vermont’s Audubon Society on for a monthly program featuring nature and the environment.

Friends of the Library
2023-06-21 16:30 - 18:00 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Monthly meeting of the Friends of the Library. Citizen attendance and commentary is welcome!
Friends of the Library

Tin Pan Alley Sing-Along
2023-06-24 13:00 - 14:00 | Brooks Memorial Library, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
The Estey Organ Museum and Vermont Arts Council will be having a Tin Pan Alley Sing-Along concert at the library on Saturday, June 24th, from 1-2 pm.
Come and enjoy the sounds of our hundred + year old organ made right here in Brattleboro by the Estey Organ Company, a chorus of singers, and a great time with your neighbors.
Senior singers will be accompanied by The Green Mountain Strummers Ukulele Group with Cal Heile, Deb Noe, Susan Rosano, Karen Shapiro on ukuleles and Dennis Waring on clarinet; with Dan DeWalt playing the Estey Organ. Please stay after the concert to enjoy some refreshments.
The Estey Organ Museum’s Tin Pan Alley Sing-Along Project is sponsored by a Creative Aging Grant from the Vermont Arts Council Awarded to the Estey Organ Museum.
In the Main Reading Room.

Town Arts Committee
2023-06-27 17:00 - 19:00 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
The monthly meeting of the Town Arts Committee members invites guests and the public to discuss town arts!

Brattleboro Community Mapping Project
2023-06-28 18:30 - 20:00 | 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
As part of our All Together Now summer program, we’re celebrating the theme of community with a group map making project.
Join us Wednesday, June 28th, at 6:30 PM for an all ages interactive map making activity where you can get out of your seat, share your story, and help contribute to an art project that tells the story of the people who make up our community.
Come share your origin story, talk about what makes a community great, and celebrate Brattleboro!
In the Main Reading Room.
Brought to you by Windham Arts Council and The Friends of Brooks Memorial Library.

Brattleboro in Stitches
2023-07-01 11:00 - 14:00 | Meeting Room D – Quiet Reading Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States

Brattleboro Great Books Group
2023-07-03 19:00 - 21:00 | Meeting Room D – Quiet Reading Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
