Brattleboro in Stitches
2023-09-30 11:00 - 14:00, 2023-10-07 11:00 - 14:00, 2023-10-21 11:00 - 14:00, 2023-10-28 11:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York) | 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.

Game Cafe!
2023-09-30 14:00 - 16:45, 2023-10-07 14:00 - 16:45, 2023-10-21 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!

42nd Annual (Take Home) Design-a-Plate Workshop Begins
2023-10-02 10:00 - 21:00 | Children’s Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Welcome to the 42nd Annual (Take Home) Design-a-Plate Workshop!
You can pick up your packet in the Children’s Room any time between Friday, October 2nd and Tuesday October 17th. You can return your packet and payment to the library at any point up to 8pm on Tuesday, October 17th.
Design-A-Plate is a Pay-What-You-Can event; Suggested cost is $6 per item.
See our FAQ for details

Brattleboro Great Books Group
2023-10-02 19:00 - 21:00 | Meeting Room D – Quiet Reading Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Monthly discussion of “Great Books”

Mineralogical Society
2023-10-03 18:00 - 20:45 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Study of Minerals and Geological topics

LEGO-Palooza
2023-10-05 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!

42nd Annual (Take Home!) Design-a-Plate Workshop This Week
2023-10-06 10:00 - 21:00, 2023-10-12 10:00 - 21:00 | Children’s Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
The 42nd Annual (Take Home) Design-a-Plate Workshop is happening NOW!
You can pick up your packet any time between Monday, October 2nd and Tuesday October 17th. You can return your packet and payment to the library at any point up to 8pm on Tuesday, October 17th.
Design-A-Plate is a Pay-What-You-Can event; Suggested cost is $6 per item.
See our FAQ for details

CLOSED FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLE'S DAY
2023-10-09 08:00 - 21:00 | VT

Library Board of Trustees
2023-10-10 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

Telecommunications Facility Siting: Public Input Session with VT Public Service Department
2023-10-10 19:00 - 20:30 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
The Public Service Department will host an in-person listening session to gain public input on telecommunications facility siting, in accordance with the 30 V.S.A. § 248a bill. Members of the community can express their concerns and the Public Service Department will answer questions. The session will be audio-recorded for PSD internal notetaking purposes. Recordings will not be made public.

Coyotes, Cockroaches, & Justice: Building a book for young people (Brattleboro LitFest)
2023-10-14 11:00 - 12:00 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
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.

Charlene 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.

Dayna 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.

Kyle Lukoff: Brattleboro LitFest
2023-10-14 15:00 - 16:00 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
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.

Game Cafe!
2023-10-14 15:00 - 16:45 | Meeting Room D – Quiet Reading Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States

October Sci-Fi Reading Group Meetup
2023-10-16 19:00 - 20:30 | Meeting Room D – Quiet Reading Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
The Sci-Fi Reading Group will meet Monday, October 16th, in the Quiet Reading Room from 7-8:30 pm to discuss Gods, Monsters, and the Lucky Peach by Kelly Robson.
“In 2267, Earth has just begun to recover from worldwide ecological disasters. Minh is part of the generation that first moved back up to the surface of the Earth from the underground hells, to reclaim humanity’s ancestral habitat. She’s spent her entire life restoring river ecosystems, but lately the kind of long-term restoration projects Minh works on have been stalled due to the invention of time travel. When she gets the opportunity take a team to 2000 BC to survey the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, she jumps at the chance to uncover the secrets of the shadowy think tank that controls time travel technology.”
The Sci-Fi Reading Group meets the third Monday of every month and is open to curious minds of all ages, whether or not they’ve read this month’s selection.

Brattleboro Stamp Club
2023-10-16 19:00 - 20:45 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States

Design-a-Plate DUE TODAY
2023-10-17 10:00 - 20:00 | Children’s Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
You can return your packet and payment to the library at any time up to 8pm on Tuesday, October 17th.
Design-A-Plate is a Pay-What-You-Can event; Suggested cost is $6 per item.

See our FAQ for more information

SEVT Audubon Society
2023-10-17 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
2023-10-18 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

Film Screening: Regenerating Life (part 1)
2023-10-18 19:00 - 20:45 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
The first portion of this lengthy documentary will be watched, with discussion to follow

World Singing Day!
2023-10-20 19:00 - 20:30 | VT
Come together with friends and neighbors to raise your voice and raise your spirit by singing a wide variety of favorite songs. Lyrics will be projected on a big screen, so we will all know the words. Live guitar accompaniment will be provided by Rich Grumbine. All ages are encouraged to attend–the more, the merrier!

Introduction to Skillful Communication: A Free Workshop by the Circle Up Program
2023-10-24 15:00 - 16:30 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
A free, monthly workshop presented by Youth Services’ Circle Up Program introduces ideas and tools for fostering skillful communication. Each month’s workshop will cover the same material, so please, attend the date that works best for you!

September 26th 3-4:30pm
October 24th 3-4:30pm
November 28th 3-4:30pm
December 19th 3-4:30pm

Pre-registration is not required, but appreciated due to limited space.
Please email rachael.trill@youthservicesinc.org to inquire, register, or communicate any needs or requests.

Town Arts Committee
2023-10-24 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!

CPCC
2023-10-25 17:30 - 18:30 | 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”

Film Screening: Regenerating Life (part 2)
2023-10-25 19:00 - 20:45 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
The second portion of this lengthy documentary will be watched, with discussion to follow
