Game Cafe!
2022-08-13 14:00 - 16:45, 2022-08-20 14:00 - 16:45, 2022-08-27 14:00 - 16:45, 2022-09-03 14:00 - 16:45, 2022-09-10 14:00 - 16:45, 2022-09-17 14:00 - 16:45 (America/New_York) | 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!

Movie Matinee: Ron’s Gone Wrong
2022-08-15 13:30 - 15:30 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Join us at 1:30pm for a Special Monday Movie Matinee Double Feature, starting with “Ron’s Gone Wrong” (Rated PG). (Addams Family 2 will follow at 3:30pm).
Barney is a socially awkward schoolboy who receives a robot named Ron — a walking, talking, digitally connected device that’s supposed to be his best friend. Barney is excited to finally have his own robot — until his new toy starts to hilariously malfunction, drawing the attention of a shady executive who wants to protect his company’s stock price at all costs.
Masks Welcome 🙂

Movie Matinee: Addams Family 2
2022-08-15 15:30 - 17:00 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Join us at 3:30pm for the SECOND showing of our special Monday Movie Matinee Double Feature of “Addams Family 2” (Rated PG). (Following “Rons Gone Wrong” at 1:30pm).
In an attempt to grow closer as a family, Gomez, Morticia, and the rest of the Addams clan embark on an adventurous road trip in a hideous and humongous camper.
Masks Welcome 🙂

Letter to a Stranger: A Write-In
2022-08-17 17:00 - 19:00 | Hybrid: Brooks Memorial Library and Online
Who haunts you?
Join us in person or online to write a letter to a stranger who has had an impact on your life.
Wednesday, August 17, at 5 p.m., in person at Brooks Memorial Library and online. For more information and the zoom link, contact info@brattleborolitfest.org.
Hosted by local author Barbara Morrison
We’ll talk about the anthology Letter to a Stranger: Essays to the Ones that Haunt Us, by Colleen Kinder, and then write our own letters.
This free event is sponsored by the Brattleboro Literary Festival, which also invites you to hear Colleen Kinder at the Literary Cocktail Hour on August 12.

Scrabble
2022-08-17 18:00 - 20:00, 2022-08-24 18:00 - 20:00, 2022-08-31 18:00 - 20:00, 2022-09-07 18:00 - 20:00, 2022-09-14 18:00 - 20:00 | 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.

New Yorker Discussion Group
2022-08-17 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.

New Yorker Discussion Group
2022-08-17 19:00 - 20:00 | Brooks Memorial Library, 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.
Call the Library at 254-5290 for more information.

Movie Matinee: Incredibles 2
2022-08-22 13:30 - 15:30 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Join us at 1:30pm for a Monday Movie Matinee showing of “Incredibles 2” (Rated PG).
Telecommunications guru Winston Deavor enlists Elastigirl to fight crime and make the public fall in love with superheroes once again. That leaves Mr. Incredible with one of his greatest challenges ever — staying home and taking care of three rambunctious children. As Violet, Dash and Jack-Jack offer him a new set of headaches, a cybercriminal named Screenslaver launches his dastardly plan — hypnotizing the world through computer screens.
Masks Welcome 🙂

Citizen Police Communications Committee
2022-08-22 17:30 - 18:00 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Monthly CPCC town meeting

Brattleboro Stamp Club
2022-08-22 18:00 - 20:00 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States

Sci-fi Reading Group: "All Systems Red"
2022-08-22 19:00 - 20:30 | Meeting Room D – Quiet Reading Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Join fellow sci-fi lovers for the Brooks Memorial Library Sci-Fi Reading Group! The group will be diving into some of the best new books the genre has to offer!
We will be kicking things off on Monday, Aug. 22 at 7 p.m. at the Brooks Memorial Library. We will be discussing “All Systems Red” by Martha Wells, the first novella in her Murderbot Diaries series. A synopsis of the novella is as follows:
In a corporate-dominated spacefaring future, a self-aware Security Unit hacks its own governor module while shadowing a team of scientists conducting surface tests on a distant planet. Disgusted by the humans, it could go on a rampage and live up to its self-assigned moniker, “Murderbot”, but it would honestly rather be binge watching TV on a loop. All Murderbot wants is to get through the day. That is, until something else threatens to kill the humans.
Beginning in September, meetings will be held on the third Monday of every month.
For more updates from Brooks Memorial Library, visit brookslibraryvt.org, where you can sign up for the library newsletter. Follow the library on Facebook at @BrooksMemorialLibrary and the Children’s Room at @BrooksMemorialLibraryCR. Brooks Memorial Library is located at 224 Main St., Brattleboro, VT 05301. The library is open Mon-Weds: 10 a.m. – 9 p.m.; Thurs-Fri: 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.; and Saturdays from 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. The venue is accessible to people in wheelchairs.

Town Arts Committee
2022-08-23 08:00 - 17:00, 2022-08-23 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!

Public Forum on Library Service- August 24th in Person & August 25th via Zoom
2022-08-24 19:00, 2022-08-25 19:00 | 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Brooks Memorial Library in Brattleboro will hold two community forums, one in-person and one via Zoom, to gather civic input on the future course of the library.
“It’s important to examine our services and resources periodically to know how to best serve our community”, said Library Director Starr LaTronica. “The public’s voice is essential in determining our direction and our priorities as we embark on formulating a new plan of service. The Library is here for everyone and we want to be sure that we hear the hopes, wishes, dreams and needs of our users and our potential users. This is an opportunity to weigh in on what works well at the library, what can be improved and even entertain some big ideas for the future.”
The in-person forum will be held Wednesday, August 24th at 7pm in the Main Reading Room at Brooks Memorial Library, 224 Main St. in Brattleboro. The venue is accessible to people in wheelchairs.
People may join the Zoom event at Thursday, August 25th at 7PM at: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88608210624?pwd=[REDACTED]
For more information call 254-5290 ext. 1201.

Mineralogical Society of Brattleboro
2022-09-06 18:00 - 19:45 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Study of Rocks & Minerals

Rhyme Time
2022-09-07 10:30 - 11:00, 2022-09-14 10:30 - 11:00 | Children’s 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 the different songs, fingerplays and movement games we use!

Planning Commission's Public Meeting on Housing
2022-09-07 17:30 - 20:30 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Making Middle Housing Happen
This presentation will illustrate the forms of housing historically built in Brattleboro and contemporary versions of those forms that could create ‘missing middle’ housing. The meeting will include an open Q&A session for public comments and questions about housing in Brattleboro. Sponsored by the Brattleboro Planning Commission as part of the Bylaw Modernization Project.

Documentary Screening: "Out of Our Head, A Male Journey Into the Heart"
2022-09-14 12:00 - 13:15 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
A public showing for therapists, counselors, health workers and curious individuals.
“The film ‘Out of Our Heads: A Male Journey Into the Heart’ is a rare and intimate portrait of a supportive male community — the Men’s Wisdom Council — that is part of the mythopoetic men’s movement. Using poetry, myth, ritual and community-building exercises, these men create a ‘safe container’ in which they can share their deepest emotions, heal old wounds, and develop a bigger dream to move them forward in life. During this week-long retreat the power of community is activated to help one man deal with his imminent death, another deal with the wound of a lost love, and a third develop a new perspective on the tragic loss of two family members during his childhood.”
45 minute run time, with questions and answers to follow

Sci-Fi Reading Group September Meetup
2022-09-19 19:00 - 20:30 | Meeting Room D – Quiet Reading Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Come discover and discuss great science fiction with the Sci-Fi Reading Group!
September’s Book will be Artificial Condition by Martha Wells, the follow-up to the hugely popular All Systems Red
Book Synopsis via marthawells.com:
“It has a dark past — one in which a number of humans were killed. A past that caused it to christen itself “Murderbot.” But it has only vague memories of the massacre that spawned that title, and it wants to know more. Teaming up with a Research Transport vessel named ART (you don’t want to know what the “A” stands for), Murderbot heads to the mining facility where it went rogue.
What it discovers will forever change the way it thinks… ”
The book is available in physical and digital format from the library and all ages are welcome to attend, even if they haven’t read the book! We are also open to suggestions for other great sci-fi titles to read at future meet-ups.
The Sci-Fi Reading Group meets on the third Monday of every month from 7-8:30pm in the Quiet Reading Room at the library.
