Rhyme Time
2023-10-18 10:30 - 11:00, 2023-10-25 10:30 - 11:00, 2023-11-01 10:30 - 11:00, 2023-11-08 10:30 - 11:00 (America/New_York) | 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.
Here is a handout featuring some of the different songs, fingerplays, and movement games we use!

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
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!

Filipino Storytime
2023-10-21 10:30 - 11:00 | Children’s Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Join us for a special bilingual storytime to celebrate Filipino American Heritage Month!
Anna Gail Caunca will regale us with a Tagalog/English reading of “Who Turned on the Sky?”
Celebrate the magic and beauty of pre-colonial Filipino stories, practice a bit of Tagalog language, and end with a craft activity.
This is a free event. All kids are welcome!

Brattleboro in Stitches
2023-10-21 11:00 - 14:00, 2023-10-28 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.

Game Cafe!
2023-10-21 14:00 - 16:45, 2023-10-28 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!

Book discussion of Rough Sleepers, by Tracy Kidder
2023-10-23 19:00 - 20:30, 2023-11-08 19:00 - 20:30 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Join us for a community discussion of Tracy Kidder’s recent book Rough Sleepers: Dr. Jim O’Connell’s urgent mission to bring healing to homeless people.
Sponsored by Downtown Brattleboro Alliance, Groundworks, Brattleboro Literary Festival and Friends of Brooks Memorial Library. Reserve your copy here.

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!

Our Cars, Our Bodies, Our Earth
2023-10-24 19:00 | Main Reading Room
Get myself a car, I feel power as I fly, Whoa now, I’m really in control.
It all looks fine to the naked eye, but it don’t really happen that way at all.. ~ The Who
In 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?
This 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.
Most 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.
Bio
Dave 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.

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

Teen HALLOWEEN Movie Night: "Edward Scissorhands"
2023-10-27 19:00 - 21:00 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Join us in the Community Meeting Room for a Teens Only movie night.
We will watch “Edward Scissorhands”.
A modern day fairy tale which tells the story of Edward, the man created by an inventor, who died before finishing him and left Edward with scissors where he should have hands. One day when the local “Avon” representative calls at the historic mansion where Edward has been living alone, she takes him home to stay with her family. He has to adapt to the new life and environment that he isn’t used to. Soon he shows a talent in cutting hair and hedges, and wins every body’s heart. But life isn’t always so sweet. Runtime 1 hr and 45 minutes.
Snacks provided!
Hosted by the Teen Advisory Board.
“Teens Only” events are open to people in grades 7-12.

North Indian Classical Music
2023-10-28 15:00 - 16:30 | Main Reading Room
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.
Sponsored by Vermont Humanities

Write A Ghost Story In 1 Hour For A Chance to Win $100!
2023-10-30 19:00 - 20:30 | Meeting Room D – Quiet Reading Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
This is the 150th Anniversary of The Publication of “Edwin Drood, Complete” T.P. James, Brattleboro’s own spiritualist rogue who claimed he was channeling Dickens’ ghost to finish the novel, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, which the famous English author had left uncompleted. James handwrote the novel and sold thousands of copies of his version.
We believe that whether you can channel a ghost to help you write your story or not, you can write a great story.
Charles Dickens will be the judge of the story, and this is what he is looking for; He wants a tale about a ghost, but he does not want a horror story ending in madness, death or emotional or physical mayhem. He wants a story with a supernatural encounter with a spirit, and he wants a character to come to some new realization, change of plan, or any other change, due to this experience. Good writing matters, but the winner will have a chance to edit the story before we share it with the community.
This is a University of Brattleboro event co-sponsored by Brooks Memorial Library, Everyone’s Books, Write Action and Book Lovers Used Books.

Film Screening: Regenerating Life (part 3)
2023-11-01 19:00 - 20:45 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
The final portion of this lengthy and inspiring documentary will be watched, followed by discussion with the filmmaker and content contributors

LEGO-Palooza
2023-11-02 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
2023-11-04 11:00 - 14:00 | Meeting Room D – Quiet Reading Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States

Ann McCloskey Book Launch of These Dreams of You
2023-11-04 14:00 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
In These Dreams of You, Ann McCloskey tells her story of lovingly raising a remarkable daughter who developed mental illness and died young. McCloskey’s memoir follows her pivot from years of striving to save her anorectic daughter to ultimately supporting her as she lived out her life in the manner she chose as an adult. Written from the heart, McCloskey’s personal narrative conveys hope and resilience as she prevails through her grief with no regrets about her parenting.
These Dreams of You is a moving story that has been called sad and devastating but also full of truth and love and grace. While McCloskey’s story offers an unvarnished account of her challenges in raising her extraordinary daughter, it also conveys the depth of love she felt for her. Interspersed throughout the narrative are several lyrical letters written by mother to daughter since the daughter’s death.
McCloskey will read from her book and talk about the rewards and challenges in writing an honest and unflinching story laden with emotional content. McCloskey’s discussion of her memoir writing process will inform those who are interested in better understanding the genre and inspire those who may want to write their own stories.
Books will be available for purchase and signing

Game Cafe!
2023-11-04 14:00 - 17:00 | Meeting Room D – Quiet Reading Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States

Parenting 4 Social Justice
2023-11-06 18:00 - 20:00 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
This is a facilitated group of parents and caregivers that meets monthly (usually 2nd Mondays) to read and discuss the book, Parenting 4 Social Justice. There will also be a childcare provider with kids in the childrens’ room.

Brattleboro Great Books Group
2023-11-06 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
2023-11-07 18:00 - 20:45 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Study of Minerals and Geological topics
