Scrabble
2022-06-22 18:00 - 20:00, 2022-06-15 18:00 - 20:00, 2022-06-08 18:00 - 20:00, 2022-06-01 18:00 - 20:00, 2022-05-25 18:00 - 20:00, 2022-05-18 18:00 - 20:00, 2022-05-11 18:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Scrabble is back! Join the fun on Wednesday evenings, 6-8pm in the Quiet Reading Room on the mezzanine.

Harpist Rachel Clemente
2022-06-21 19:00 - 20:00 | Main Reading Room
Celebrate the longest day of the year and Make Music Vermont during an interlude with New England based pedal and traditional Scottish harpist, Rachel Clemente.

Enjoying James Joyce’s Ulysses, An After-hours Bloomsday Celebration
2022-06-16 19:00 - 20:30 | Brooks Memorial Library, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Special after-hours event to celebrate James Joyce’s Ulysses at Brooks Memorial Library
On June 16 people around the world celebrate the day in 1904 when Leopold and Molly Bloom, Stephen Dedalus and a host of other Dubliners from all walks of life experienced the full range of human events and emotions in James Joyce’s novel Ulysses, in a single turn around the sun. The public is invited to join in a special Bloomsday celebration after regular library hours:
June 16th at 7 pm

in the Main Reading Room of Brooks Memorial Library, 224 Main St, in Brattleboro.
and via Zoom at:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88544347541?pwd=[REDACTED] Meeting ID: 885 4434 7541
Passcode: [REDACTED]

Jon Mack will celebrate the novel by following the threads of the stories in this groundbreaking work through readings and explorations of excerpts from the extraordinary text.
“I’ve been fascinated with James Joyce’s Ulysses for many years, so I’m excited to be hosting a Bloomsday event at the library. Joyce’s novel is a many splendored jewel that has astonished readers ever since it was first published 100 years ago, yet many readers find it all but incomprehensible. The aim of my presentation is to made the work more approachable and understandable by providing some connective tissue with readings of selected excerpts from the novel”, says Mack. “Joyce’s work is a celebration of the written word in all its complexity. Ultimately, it is a human tale, full of both comedy and drama of life. I’m excited to be giving the presentation in our public library for Bloomsday 2022. Nowhere could be a more appropriate venue than a public library. James Joyce’s epic work emerged from being banned for being too literal, too real than the duly appointed censors of the US of that time would allow.”
After the readings, there will be recommendations on how to find the best resources to make your reading enjoyable and we will open up conversation to those participating in-person or online.
The program is free and open to the public. As Joyce writes in Ulysses, “Every life is in many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love, but always meeting ourselves.” Do drop by, you never know who might show up.
For more information, call 802.254.5290 ex. 1201 or visit www.brookslibraryvt.org.
Sketch of Leopold Bloom by James Joyce

Tool Cottage Grand Opening Garden Party
2022-06-04 10:00 - 12:00 | Brooks Memorial Library, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Brooks Memorial Library unveils its new collection of gardening and food preparation and preservation tools available for loan to cardholders.
Located behind the library in the municipal parking lot.

Opening day events
· 10 am—Ribbon cutting
· 10-noon—Tours of the tool inventory and an introduction to the reservation system, chalk flower garden mural project, demonstration of papermaking with embedded seeds, seed bookmark decoration activity (while supplies last).
· 10-11—Garden songs with Andy Davis on accordion
· 11-12—Sing and Dance with Robin Morgan
Families can follow a story walk featuring Lola Plants a Garden and Lola Loves Stories, by Anna McQuinn between Brooks Memorial Library and the Edible Brattleboro plant giveaway event occurring simultaneously at the Retreat Farm.

Made possible by a grant from the Vermont Foodbank

The Osaka Adventures of Phillip and Lenny: a Reading with Daniel Guerra
2022-05-11 19:00 - 20:30 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Author Daniel Guerra will be reading selections from The Osaka Adventures of Phillip and Lenny. Two free-spirited feline friends steal a credit card so they can have an adventure in Osaka, Japan. The story, based on two real cats who live in Vermont and Italy, is illustrated by Sofie Engstrom von Alten. Copies will be available for purchase.

Teen Writing Workshop
2022-05-05 19:00 - 21:00 | Spicy Lime Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
The Teen Advisory Board invites you to join us on Thursday May 5th from 7-9pm for a (in person!) writing workshop. Teen Writing Workshops will occur month on First Thursdays. We’ll conduct a rotating selection of writing games and exercises (both collaborative and solo). Sharing is encouraged but not mandatory. Beginners welcome!
Pizza and snacks provided.
Hosted by the Teen Advisory Board. “Teens Only” events are open to people in grades 7-12.

First Wednesdays: The Force of a Story in Parts: Star Wars, Fandom, and Seriality
2022-05-04 19:00 | Brooks Memorial Library, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
From Dickens to Game of Thrones, stories told in piecemeal style have shown their power to command a reader’s attention. In this apt talk for “Star Wars Day,” author Anne Moore examines how Star Wars’ serialized structure encourages readers to fill the gaps between installments with their own imaginative play.
About Anne Moore
Anne Moore is the author of After the Break: Serials, Fandom, and the Feeling of Reading, slated for publication by MacFarland Press in 2022.
Underwriter: Peter Gilbert Endowment Fund
Sponsored by The Friends of Brooks Memorial Library.
To learn more, please visit:
The Force of a Story in Parts: Star Wars, Fandom, and Seriality

EMS Services: Community Forum
2022-04-26 18:00 - 19:30 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
The Brattleboro Fire Department and Golden Cross will be hosting community forums to answer any questions you may have on thepending change in EMS services in Brattleboro. They will be on the following dates and times:

Monday, April 18th @ 6:00 pm at Central Fire Station
Saturday, April 23 @ 1:00 pm at Central Fire Station
Tuesday, April 26 @ 6:00 pm at Brooks Memorial Library

More information is available in this April 11th Statement on EMS Services from the Town Manager’s office.

Teen Movie Night: "10 Things I Hate About You"
2022-04-21 20:00 - 22:00 | Main Reading Room
The Teen Advisory Board invites you to join us for a Teens Only (Indoor) movie night.
We will watch “10 Things I Hate About You” (PG-13). The movie will start at 8pm and has a 1 hour and 40 minute run time. Masks welcome, snacks provided.

Hosted by the Teen Advisory Board.
“Teens Only” events are open to people in grades 7-12.

Welcome Spring! Chalk Mural
2022-04-19 13:30 - 15:30 | Parking Lot, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Join us at 1:30pm BEHIND the library to help create a chalk mural. Let’s Welcome Spring together 🙂
Chalk provided!

Real Democracy: Tim Kipp and Friends
2022-04-12 18:30 - 20:00 | Hybrid: Community Meeting Room and Online, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
REAL DEMOCRACY
with Tim Kipp and friends
Brattleboro Democracy Forum
at Brooks Memorial Library
and on Zoom
6:30 pm, Tuesday, April 12th, 2022,
The meeting will be recorded and will air on BCTV and WVEW-FM

The meeting at the library will be in the Community Meeting Room located on the 2nd floor, just inside the rear entrance from the Municipal Center parking lot.
To join the Zoom meeting click on this URL on the 12th:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84518553496?pwd=[REDACTED]

Tim says:
The United States is in a crisis of two nations. Economic instability, racial reckoning, a lingering pandemic and rising authoritarianism divide Americans by a gulf not experienced since the Civil War.
Underlying this disunion are conflicting concepts of what democracy actually is or should be. The old consensus is crumbling. Today for some, physically attacking the nation’s capitol makes sense, for others, making it harder for people to vote is a democratic act.
On the other hand many still believe in citizen responsibility in the political process. For these people government and community organizing for social justice is what democracy looks like.
Our future can and will be charted by how we conceptualize democracy itself. Understanding, expanding and sustaining democracy can perhaps lead to a bridging of this not so grand canyon of national divide.
This presentation focuses on the nature of democracy and offers a re conceptualization of this greatest of human inventions.

Tim Kipp is a retired history and political science teacher of 39 years and a political activist since the 1960s.

Marlboro Resident and musician Jesse Lepkoff will sing the marching song “We Are Marching For Democracy” to open the meeting.
The WE CELEBRATE DEMOCRACY CIVIL RIGHTS FOR ALL Main Street banner will be hung at the library

wecelebratedemocracycivilrightsforall.org–
Positive Nonviolent public action for democracy and civil rights
for all people- 802 258 7045

Teen Writing Workshop
2022-04-07 18:30 - 20:30 | Spicy Lime Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
The Teen Advisory Board invites you to join us on Thursday April 7th from 6:30-8:30pm for a (in person!) writing workshop. Teen Writing Workshops will occur month on First Thursdays. We’ll conduct a rotating selection of writing games and exercises (both collaborative and solo). Sharing is encouraged but not mandatory. Beginners welcome!
Pizza and snacks provided.
Hosted by the Teen Advisory Board. “Teens Only” events are open to people in grades 7-12.

First Wednesdays : The Poetics of Girlhood and Womanhood in America
2022-04-06 19:00 | Brooks Memorial Library, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Poets and writers Diana Whitney and Shanta Lee Gander join Christal Brown, associate professor of Dance at Middlebury College, in a conversation that explores how girlhood and womanhood in America are manifested across the boundaries of poetry, dance, and lived experience.
About the Presenters
Diana Whitney’s edited work, You Don’t Have to Be Everything: Poems for Girls Becoming Themselves, ranges across intersectional, intergenerational, and gender-fluid voices.
In GHETTOCLAUSTROPHOBIA: Dreamin of Mama While Trying to Speak Woman in Woke Tongues, Shanta Lee Gander navigates between formal and vernacular styles to examine butterflies and female sexuality, vulnerability, classical Greek myths, and more.
Christal Brown’s original dance piece “The Opulence of Integrity” was inspired by the public life and inner searching of Muhammad Ali, boxing’s outspoken superstar.
Partner: Middlebury College and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Underwriter: Anne Commire Fund for Women in the Humanities
Sponsored by The Friends of the Brooks Memorial Library.
To learn more, please visit:
The Poetics of Girlhood and Womanhood in America

Teen Game Night
2022-03-18 19:00 - 22:00 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Join us on Friday March 18th from 7pm-10pm to play games with the Teen Advisory Board!
We will have a selection of board and card games to play with as well as an Oculus to try out.
We’ll be on the 2nd floor and spread out between the rooms. Pizza and snacks provided!
Hosted by the Teen Advisory Board. “Teens Only” events are open to people in grades 7-12.

POSTPONED Drawdown Brattleboro: Community Climate Solutions
2022-01-26 18:30 - 20:00 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
This Event has been Postponed and will now start on Wednesday, February 23rd.
Join the Brattleboro Office of Sustainability for a series of community conversations on climate change solutions for Brattleboro using Project Drawdown “the most comprehensive plan to reverse global warming.” All are welcome!

CANCELLED Teen Game Night
2022-01-21 18:00 - 22:00 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
This Event (and all other January Teen Events) has been Cancelled. Check back in February for our Writing Workshop and a rescheduled Game Night.
Join us on Friday January 21th from 6pm-10pm to play games with the Teen Advisory Board!
We will have a selection of board and card games to play with as well as an Oculus to try out.
Pizza and snacks provided! We’ll be in the Community Meeting Room.
Hosted by the Teen Advisory Board. “Teens Only” events are open to people in grades 7-12.

CANCELLED Teen Book Club: Darius the Great is Not Okay
2022-01-06 19:00 - 20:00 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
This Event (and all other January Teen Events) has been Cancelled. Check back in February for our Writing Workshop!
Join us on Thursday January 6th from 7pm-8pm to discuss a YA book with the Teen Advisory Board!
The book we’ll be discussing this month is “Darius the Great is Not Okay” by Adib Khorram. Grab yourself a copy, read it, and come discuss it with us.
Pizza and snacks provided! We’ll be in the Community Meeting Room, masked except when eating.
Hosted by the Teen Advisory Board. “Teens Only” events are open to people in grades 7-12.

First Wednesdays: *DIGITAL* Atlantic is a Sea of Bones
2022-01-05 19:00 - 20:30 | Online, VT
Jarvis Green, founder of the Black theatre company JAG Productions, invites us to reflect individually and collectively on the afterlives and the legacies of the transatlantic slave trade. Green will explore how Black queer and feminist artists have created ways to honor this history and heal ancestral trauma.
About JAG Productions
JAG Productions creates spaces of engagement and of creation that allow us to honor the history of the transatlantic slave trade, heal ancestral trauma, and open new visions and possibilities for Black life and the Black Atlantic.
Note: due to the Covid-19 pandemic, this talk will only be offered online, via Zoom. Advance registration is required for this event.
Register for this free talk.

Underwriter: The Samara Fund for LGBTQ Issues
Statewide Underwriters: Vermont Department of Libraries; Institute for Museum and Library Services
Sponsored in our community by Friends of Brooks Memorial Library

Scrabble
2021-12-29 17:00 - 19:00, 2021-12-22 17:00 - 19:00, 2021-12-15 17:00 - 19:00, 2021-12-08 17:00 - 19:00 | 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Come join the fun! Everybody welcome. Wednesdays, 5:00-7:00 on the mezzanine.

Teen Movie Night: "Coraline"
2021-12-17 20:00 - 22:00 | Main Reading Room
The Teen Advisory Board invites you to join us for a Teens Only INDOOR* movie night.
We will watch “Coraline”. The movie will start at 8pm and has a 1 hour and 40 minute run time. Masks required, snacks provided.
* Because we are inside, we will watch the movie in the Main Reading Room on the first floor so we have room to spread out from each other.

Hosted by the Teen Advisory Board.
“Teens Only” events are open to people in grades 7-12.

New Yorker Discussion Group
2021-12-15 19:00 - 20:00 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Do you read The New Yorker magazine regularly? Would you like to discuss recent articles with fellow readers? The New Yorker discussion group gathers on the third Wednesday of each month at 7pm in the Community Meeting Room on the second floor. Similar to a book group, participants bring their favorite articles in the magazine every month for comments and discussion.
The program is free, open to the public and accessible to people in wheelchairs. Because it will be held indoors, all attendees are required to wear masks by order of the Town. For more information call (802) 254-5290.
