Brooks Memorial Library - Brattleboro VT

Brattleboro in Stitches
2023-09-02 11:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York) | Meeting Room D – Quiet Reading 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.

Commemoration of the March on Washington
2023-08-28 19:00 - 20:30 | Main Reading Room
Sixty years after Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his iconic “I Have a Dream” speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on August 28, 1963, poet and performer David Mills will present an hour-long dramatic presentation, portraying Dr. King’s transformation from his early uncertainties about Civil Rights into the iconic figure he became. The show highlights Dr. King’s, “Letter from a Birmingham Jail,” “I Have a Dream” “Promised Land” “If I had Sneezed,” and “Early Days.” Mr. Mills’ stirring presentation looks at the public figure and the private man.
Community members who were present at the original event sixty years ago are encouraged to share their stories by sending them to starr@brookslibraryvt.org

Game Cafe!
2023-08-26 14:00 - 16:45, 2023-08-19 14:00 - 16:45, 2023-08-12 14:00 - 16:45, 2023-08-05 14:00 - 16:45, 2023-07-29 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!

Brattleboro in Stitches
2023-08-26 11:00 - 14:00, 2023-08-19 11:00 - 14:00, 2023-08-12 11:00 - 14:00, 2023-08-05 11:00 - 14:00 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States

CPCC
2023-08-23 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”

Brattleboro Conservation Commission
2023-08-22 17:15 - 19:30 | Main Reading Room
Meeting and panel discussion
in the Main Reading Room

This panel discussion is part of a public engagement process hosted by the Brattleboro Conservation Commission after a recent timber harvest at the Brattleboro’s Watershed Forest: Pleasant Valley Reservoir (PVR). It started with an excellent tour by Dan Healey, the consulting forester for PVR’s Forest Management Plan, which went into detail discussing the silvicultural treatments used in the most recent harvest and the goals they were meant to fulfill.

Here, with a panel consisting of consulting foresters, Dan Healey and Andrew Morrison, and consulting ecologist Daniel Dubie, we zoom out to a broader view of forestry and forest ecology for a discussion of the landscape-scale benefits of – and threats to – our regional forests, and how forestry can maximize those benefits and address those threats, and (to a lesser degree) how management of PVR fits into that.

Town Arts Committee
2023-08-22 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!

Brattleboro Stamp Club
2023-08-21 19:00 - 20:45 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States

Friends of the Library
2023-08-16 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

SEVT Audubon Society
2023-08-15 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.

August Sci-Fi Reading Group Meetup
2023-08-15 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 Tuesday, August 15th, in the Quiet Reading Room from 7-8:30 pm to discuss Finna by Nino Cipri.
From Goodreads:
“When an elderly customer at a Swedish big box furniture store — but not that one — slips through a portal to another dimension, it’s up to two minimum-wage employees to track her across the multiverse and protect their company’s bottom line. Multi-dimensional swashbuckling would be hard enough, but those two unfortunate souls broke up a week ago. To find the missing granny, Ava and Jules will brave carnivorous furniture, swarms of identical furniture spokespeople, and the deep resentment simmering between them. Can friendship blossom from the ashes of their relationship? In infinite dimensions, all things are possible.”
The Sci-Fi Reading Group meets the third Tuesday of every month and is open to curious minds of all ages, whether or not they’ve read this month’s selection.

4-H Science Fun - CANCELLED
2023-08-15 13:00 - 16:00 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

Come explore with UVM 4-H as we test, build, and create!
Activities will include:

Everyday Engineering
Renewable Plastics
Hurricane Proof Housing

This FREE workshop is for youth in grades 3-6 and will be led by the UVM STEM Ambassadors. Space is limited to 30 participants.
Join us for an afternoon of fun! Register no later than August 12. Click here.
To request language interpretation/translation assistance and/or a disability-related accommodation to participate in this program, please contact the Lauren Traister at 802-656-7565 or email lauren.traister@uvm.edu, by July 28, 2023 so they may assist you.

Altar to an Erupting Sun: Chuck Collins in Conversation with Frida Berrigan
2023-08-14 19:00 | 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Monday Aug 14, 7pm

Brooks Memorial Library First Floor Reading Room

Come celebrate the publication of the novel, Altar to an Erupting Sun, by Chuck Collins, in conversation with Frida Berrigan.
About the Book
Rae Kelliher is a veteran environmental activist and pioneer in the death-with-dignity movement. Her husband Reggie calls her “party in a box” and “a weaver of people and movements.” Facing a diagnosis of terminal illness, Rae engages in a shocking suicide-murder, taking the life of an oil company CEO for his complicity in delaying responses to climate catastrophe. Seven years later, Rae’s friends and family gather at her Vermont farm to try to understand her violent exit and the rapid social transformations triggered by her desperate act.
Speakers
Frida Berrigan is activist, urban farmer, and columnist who lives in New London, CT, and author It Runs In The Family: On Being Raised By Radicals And Growing Into Rebellious Motherhood”
Chuck Collins from Guilford is a campaigner and storyteller and author of Altar to an Erupting Sun (Green Writer Press). His books include: Born on Third Base, The Wealth Hoarders, Wealth and Our Commonwealth (with Bill Gates Sr.), and Economic Apartheid in America. Collins directs the Program on Inequality and the Common Good at the Institute for Policy Studies where he co-edits Inequality.org.

Library Board of Trustees
2023-08-08 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
2023-08-07 19:00 - 21:00 | Meeting Room D – Quiet Reading Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Monthly discussion of “Great Books”

Friends of the Library Garden Party
2023-08-06 14:00 - 17:00 | 744 Meadowbrook Rd., 744 Meadowbrook Rd., Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Life Imitates art at this year’s Friends of the Library Garden Party. Enjoy a fine art inspired repast of light refreshments and fun. Your ticket price includes an array of desserts, drinks, a free raffle ticket for a chance to win a plant or gift certificate from area garden centers, and best of all, goes to support all the great things The Friends of the Library provide!

Tickets are $25 or two for $40, and are available at the library ahead of time, or upon arrival at the party (follow the signage on Meadowbrook Road).

Proceeds from the event will help make possible the support of a wide array of programs and services offered by the library. These include museum passes, the Children and Adult Summer Reading program, Sing and Dance with Robin for pre-schoolers, food for the very popular Teen Nights, co-sponsorship of the First Wednesday lecture series, and computer access to free resources such as Kanopy (films) and Mango and Pronunciator (language study programs).

Advance ticket purchases are appreciated. There is no rain date; if cancelled due to weather, advance ticket purchases will be considered a donation.

Teen Movie Night: "Little Shop of Horrors"
2023-08-04 20:30 - 22:30 | Parking Lot, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Join us in the library parking lot for a Teens Only outdoor movie night.
We will watch “Little Shop of Horrors”.
Meek flower shop assistant Seymour pines for co-worker Audrey. During a total eclipse, he discovers an unusual plant he names Audrey II, which feeds only on human flesh and blood. The growing plant attracts a great deal of business for the previously struggling store. After Seymour feeds Audrey’s boyfriend to the plant after his accidental death, he must come up with more bodies for the increasingly bloodthirsty plant. Runtime 1 hr and 33 minutes.
Snacks provided, BYO seating!
Hosted by the Teen Advisory Board.
“Teens Only” events are open to people in grades 7-12.

LEGO-Palooza
2023-08-03 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!

Storytime at Retreat Farm
2023-08-03 10:30 - 11:00 | 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Join Brooks Memorial Library at Retreat Farm for storytime as part of our Summer Reading Program! Thursdays at 10:30am, come for the stories, stay for the goats! Free and open to all ages. Bring your own blanket or chair.

Rhyme Time
2023-08-02 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.
Here is a handout featuring some of the different songs, fingerplays, and movement games we use!

Learn to Play the Ukulele
2023-08-01 13:30 - 14:30 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Want to try an instrument that is fun and easy to play? Join Julie Stepanek as she shows the fundamentals of ukulele playing. No experience necessary. Ukuleles provided.

Ages 8+
LIMITED TO 24 PARTICIPANTS – REGISTRATION REQUIRED!!!
Register by calling the Children’s Room at (802) 254-5290 x.1210, dropping by the Children’s Room in person, or emailing cr@brookslibraryvt.org

Sing & Dance with Robin
2023-08-01 10:30 - 11:30 | Brattleboro Commons, Park Pl, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
For Ages 0-5 and their caregivers, held on the Brattleboro Commons.
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.
On rainy days, Sing & Dance will be held in the BML Community Meeting Room.

Movie Matinee: Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella
2023-07-31 13:30 - 15:30 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Join us at 1:30pm for our Monday Movie Matinee showing of “Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella” (Rated G).
Cinderella chafes under the cruelty of her wicked stepmother and her evil stepsisters, Calliope and Minerva, until her Fairy Godmother steps in to change her life for one unforgettable night. At the ball, she falls for handsome Prince Christopher, whose parents, King Maximillian and Queen Constantina, are anxious for him to find a suitable paramour.
