Brooks Memorial Library - Brattleboro VT

EARLY CLOSING
2025-04-10 17:00 - 18:00 (America/New_York) | Brooks Memorial Library, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
The library will close at 5:00 p.m. on Thursday, April 10th to allow for a staff meeting.

Sing & Dance With Robin
2025-04-10 11:00 - 12:00, 2025-04-03 11:00 - 12:00 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Designed for ages under 6- all ages welcome! Free and open to the public.
This lovely class is an enriching musical experience for toddlers and preschoolers, designed to support healthy cognitive, physical, and social development. Children will sing, clap, stomp, dance, and play along with the curriculum of traditional and modern folk songs. Parents will be encouraged to fully sing and participate with their child in the class.
Sponsored by the Friends of Brooks Memorial Library.

Lifelong Learning - Families First
2025-04-09 13:30 - 14:30, 2025-04-02 13:30 - 14:30 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Lifelong Learning provides ongoing educational opportunities for adults with developmental disabilities. Participants become experts in areas of interest and share their knowledge with peers!

Rhyme Time
2025-04-09 10:30 - 11:00, 2025-04-02 10:30 - 11:00, 2025-03-26 10:30 - 11:00 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Join us on Wednesday mornings @ 10:30 am for 30 minutes of stories, songs, and fun!
Rhyme Time is for kids 5 & under and their caregivers.
Free and open to the public.

Brattleboro Selectboard - Listening Session
2025-04-08 18:15 - 20:00 | VT
Following the Representative Town Meeting’s (RTM) vote not to approve the Town of Brattleboro’s proposed FY26 budget, the newly seated Selectboard will begin work to revise and resubmit a new budget proposal.The Selectboard will begin the process by hosting a listening session at the ground floor of Brooks Memorial Library (and on Zoom) on Tuesday, April 8 at 6:15 p.m. The meeting will be broadcast live courtesy BCTV.There will be a special Selectboard meeting on Thursday, April 10 at 6:15 p.m. to continue the discussion. This meeting will take place in the Selectboard Meeting Room and on Zoom.The budget redevelopment process will continue through the month of April. Members of the public are encouraged to attend. View agendas for the first two sessions: https://tinyurl.com/4e5knru5

Library Board of Trustees
2025-04-08 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

Brattleboro Great Books Group
2025-04-07 19:00 - 21:00 | Meeting Room D – Quiet Reading Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Monthly discussion of “Great Books”

Windham County Democrats - April Meeting
2025-04-07 18:30 - 20:00 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
April meeting of the Windham County Democratic Committee. This meeting is open to the public and anyone interested in the Democratic Party and getting involved locally is welcome. There will be updates from legislators and discussion of other party business.

Financial Empowerment
2025-04-07 18:30 - 19:30 | VT
“How the Heck am I Going to Afford Eggs?” – rescheduled event from 03/24/25:
Grocery shopping can be intimidating. These days, we all face challenges in our day to day lives when it comes to paying our bills, affording life, and still being able to enjoy ourselves with family and friends. Please consider joining Julie (from Mascoma Bank) and Chris (from SEVCA) for a light meal and conversation about facing these challenges and finding resources and solutions to the things we are all dealing with during these interesting times. Questions can be asked and the presenters will do their best to answer them and to offer a cooperative environment to talk about subjects which can often be difficult. This is a space to talk about banking, personal finance, and the resources that might be available to you in our communities.
Dinner from 6-6:30 with conversation from 6:30 to 7:30PM.
We hope to see you there!

Multigenerational Civics Class
2025-04-07 10:15 - 11:30, 2025-03-31 10:15 - 11:30 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Who has power over us? What power do we have to create the world around us? The Vermont Village School welcomes villagers of all ages to participate in a people’s Civics class with us this spring at Brooks Memorial Library. We will be untangling the different institutions that exert power over us, past and present, official and unofficial, and brainstorming how we move forward together.

Join us Monday at 10:15am @ Brooks Memorial Library, Brattleboro. This will be the first of a series–we will plan future gatherings based on collective interest and energy.

Brattleboro in Stitches
2025-04-05 13:00 - 16:00, 2025-03-29 13:00 - 16:00 | 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.

Everywhere Philosophy Presents: The Twilight Zone Examined
2025-04-05 11:00 - 12:30 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Join Everywhere Philosophy’s Dr. Mike and Bethany during Public Philosophy Week 2025 for an interactive, philosophical exploration at the intersection of truth, power and obsolescence in The Twilight Zone. This program includes a full screening of season 2, episode 29 ‘The Obsolete Man’, showcasing librarian Romney Wordsworth’s dramatic resistance to a totalitarian state that has, “like every one of the super-states that’s preceded it,…one iron rule: Logic is an enemy and truth is a menace.” Our screening will be followed by guided discussion of the major philosophical themes and concepts evoked by Rod Serling in this brilliant episode.

Community Conversations with Brattleboro State Legislators
2025-04-05 10:30 - 12:00 | Main Reading Room
All are welcome to these monthly conversations with our Brattleboro State Legislators. Topics change monthly: April’s main discussion will center on the budget process. There will also be time for Legislators to respond to any general questions or concerns about current happenings in the state house. We hope you join us.

LEGO-Palooza
2025-04-03 15:00 - 17:00 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Join us on the first Thursday of every month 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!

A/S/L Book Release - with author Jeanne Thornton along with local writer Imogen Binnie
2025-04-02 19:00 - 20:30 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Join us as we celebrate award-winning author Jeanne Thornton and the release of her new novel, A/S/L. She will be joined in conversation by local author Imogen Binnie (Nevada). There will be time for audience Q&A, followed by a book signing.
Copies of A/S/L will be available for purchase at this event from local bookseller Everyone’s Books.
[ABOUT THE BOOK}
A transformative story about video games, three queer friends, and the code(s) they learn to survive, from the winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Trans Fiction.
1998: Lilith, Sash, and Abraxa are teenagers, scattered across the country but joined by the Internet as they create Saga of the Sorceress, a video game that will change everything, if only for the three of them.
Eighteen years later, Saga of the Sorceress still exists only on the scattered drives of its creators. Lilith works as a loan underwriter at a rinky-dink bank in Manhattan, a trans woman in a very cis world. Sash is in Brooklyn, working as a part-time webcam dominatrix. Neither knows that the other is in New York, or that Abraxa is just across the Hudson River, sleeping on the floor of a friend’s Jersey City home after a disaster at sea. They have never met in person and have been out of touch for years, but none have forgotten the sorceress or her unfinished quest.
Weaving together the technologies of two decades, and a healthy dose of magic, A/S/L is a novel that queers our notions of nostalgia, friendship, and even the possibilities of fiction itself, confirming Jeanne Thornton as one of our best and most ambitious novelists.
[ABOUT THE SPEAKERS]
Jeanne Thornton is the author of Summer Fun, winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Fiction and finalist for the Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBTQ Fiction, as well as The Black Emerald and The Dream of Doctor Bantam. Her fiction has appeared in n+1, WIRED, Evergreen Review, and other places. She is an editor at Feminist Press, as well as copublisher of Instar Books and coeditor of the Ignatz Award–winning We’re Still Here: An All-Trans Comics Anthology. She lives in Brooklyn, and more information is available at jeannethornton.com.
Imogen Binnie is the author of the novel Nevada, which won the Betty Berzon Emerging Writer Award, was a finalist for the 2014 Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Fiction, named one of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels, and praised in The New Yorker, Los Angeles Times, Vogue, Buzzfeed, Harper’s Bazaar, The Nation, and more. A writer for several television shows and a former columnist for Maximum Rocknroll, she lives in Vermont with her family.

Read & Imagine with Everywhere Philosophy!
2025-04-02 15:30 - 16:30 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Celebrate Public Philosophy Week 2025 with Everywhere Philosophy at Brooks Memorial Library! Philosophy is everywhere – including in beloved fairy tales and stories for the young and young at heart. Join Dr. Mike & Bethany for a reading of Patty Lovell’s Stand Tall, Molly Lou Melon and an immersive program exploring themes of happiness and confidence. We’ll weave storytelling and philosophy with art, play, and activities. This program is developed for young readers, but children and adults of all ages are welcome!

Mineralogical Society
2025-04-01 18:00 - 20:45 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Join the Brattleboro Mineralogical Society to discuss Minerals and other Geological topics!

Brattleboro Charter Revision Commission - Public Meeting
2025-03-31 18:00 - 20:00 | Main Reading Room
Join us for this meeting of Brattleboro’s Charter Revision Commission – they want to hear from you!
The topic of discussion is the form of Brattleboro’s annual town meeting.
This public meeting is happening in the Main Reading Room from 6 – 8 PM.
The organizer is Brattleboro Charter Revision Commission
Email: charter@brattleboro.gov

Salamander Tea Party - with BEEC
2025-03-29 10:30 - 12:00 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Join Bonnyvale Environmental Education Center for this FREE family program! Enjoy salamander story books read by our salamander mascot, snack on salamander cookies, and learn all about salamander season in Vermont!
Naturalists will be on hand to answer questions about how and where you can take a peek at amphibian eggs or help out with amphibian conservation and community science projects including our Salamander Crossing Brigade.
Register for this event, HERE.

LEGO-Palooza Winter Session!
2025-03-27 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!

Sing & Dance With Robin
2025-03-27 11:00 - 12:00 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Unfortunately, Sing & Dance has been canceled this week.

Please join us again next week!

Brattleboro 250 Planning Sessions
2025-03-26 18:00 - 20:00 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Come and connect with others who are interested in working on plans to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States in 2026.
This monthly meeting space on the 4th Wednesdays is dedicated for those who would like the opportunity to connect, collaborate, and work on projects that align with Vermont’s 250th Anniversary Commission’s mission to “…inspire all Vermonters to learn from the history, legacy, and context of the past to build strong Vermont communities for the future.”
The space is being hosted by Brooks Memorial Library, Vermont Independent Media (The Commons) and Windham World Affairs Council, with support from the Vermont Humanities Council. We are already working together on a collaboration entitled, ‘Examining American Identity and Leadership in a Changing World – and have joined America 250, a national initiative asking communities to plan for how to commemorate the 250th year of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Its mission is to provide opportunities for all Americans to pause and reflect on our nation’s past & present, honor the contributions of all Americans, and look to the future we want to create for the next generation and beyond.

Vermont Pastel Society: SE Art-Making
2025-03-26 16:00 - 17:30 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
For one hour a clothed Model will pose for Vermont Pastel Society South East artists to draw in pastel. The public is welcome to attend to observe and join if they bring their own drawing materials

Lifelong Learning - Families First
2025-03-26 13:30 - 14:30 | Mezzanine Conference Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
