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SUMMARY:Green Up Day
DESCRIPTION:Want to help? You can pick up a Green Up trash bag at the library. Bags are available at the front door during curbside service hours\, Monday-Saturday\, 10am-5pm.\n\n\nThen  get out in your community to clean up your neighborhood roads and waterways on May 1st. As a volunteer\, you make a huge difference for our environment.\n\n\n\n\nGreen Up Vermont’s mission is to promote the stewardship of our state’s natural landscape and waterways\, and the livability of our communities by involving people in Green Up Day while raising public awareness about the health\, economic\, and visual benefits of a litter-free environment year-round.\n\n\nMake sure to stop by Turning Point of Windham County to paint rocks and distribute them throughout the community!
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SUMMARY:First Wednesday Lecture Series: A Brief Introduction to the Black Death
DESCRIPTION:This is Not That: A Brief Introduction to the Black Death\nThe Black Death hit the Eurasian world in the fourteenth century and left long-term consequences. Dartmouth history professor Celia Gaposchkin presents an overview of the outbreak of the bubonic plague\, and briefly compares it to the current Covid-19 pandemic. \nRegister here for this free talk. \n 
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SUMMARY:Teen Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Join us on First Thursdays from 7pm-8pm to discuss a YA book with the Teen Advisory Board! \nThe book we’ll be discussing this month is “In Other Lands” by Sarah Rees Brennan. Grab yourself a copy\, read it\, and come discuss it with us over Zoom. Email Teens@brookslibraryvt.org for the Zoom link. \nHosted by the Teen Advisory Board. “Teens Only” events are open to people in grades 7-12.
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SUMMARY:Collage Artist Michael Albert at Brattleboro’s Gallery Walk on May 7th!
DESCRIPTION:Brooks Memorial Library will bring guest pop artist & author Michael Albert to Artful Streets at Pliny Park on May 7 from 5-7pm. (Rain location: the Library) Michael will run a pop-up collage art station where everyone is invited to make a collage of an essential word that has great importance to you. These collages will be exhibited together as a community word cloud right there on the wall of Pliny Park for all to see during Gallery Walk. Makers will be able to collect their collages during the following week at the Library. Michael will also be signing and giving away his posters to makers. \nMr. Albert has visited Brooks Memorial Library before with his collage workshop for families & has worked with Library Director Starr LaTronica on a number of occasions over the past 15 years. Creating Text-Based collages using the recognizable fonts from an assortment of iconic consumer brand packages is a theme he has been exploring for close to 20 years. \n\n\n\nAlbert has been creating art since college at New York University\, where he studied business (BPA\, 1984-1988). After visiting many of the great museums in NYC and viewing some of the world’s greatest masterpieces of art\, he began his own artistic pursuits. His art has evolved from doodles and Pen & Ink to serious wax oil drawings\, to the cubist mosaic Cereal box collages he has become known for. In the past two decades\, he has been creating large-scale “Epic” collage works on various themes including History\, Literature\, Religion & Philosophy\, Music\, Poetry & Lyrics\, Botany\, Logo Montages\, Color Studies\, Mathematics & Geography….. Since the publishing of his book\, “An Artist’s autobiography titled\, “An Artist’s America” (Henry Holt\, 2008) Albert has developed a traveling Pop Art Enrichment Program & Hands-On Collage Workshop for kids (school age & up)\, teens\, adults & as a multi-generational event called the “Modern Pop Art Experience” which he has brought to more than 1\,000 schools\, libraries\, museums\, art festivals & special events in most of the United States & in Europe. Albert is also the founder/owner of Sir Real\, a brand of fruit juice & natural foods www.sirreal.com See below for more information\, links & feel free to contact the studio for further inquiry. \nSome Links: \nwww.michaelalbert.com \nOn Pinterest \nDocumentary Trailer: Michael Albert American Pop Artist \nSmithsonian Artist Interview: Collage Art: Michael Albert \n  \nStaff will be on hand to photograph the participants and their art. \n\n\n\n\nArtful Streets invites everyone to be part of the art-making at Gallery Walk\, creating inclusive experiences of participatory arts and social engagement. Occupying spaces throughout town Pop-Up Art Stations will feature local artists and cultural organizations\, offering activities based on a monthly theme. \nMay 7th:  What’s the Word?\nAfter a long year of separation\, we’ll honor and celebrate with words through art\, poetry\, games and love notes. Write a note to someone or something you’ve missed. Share what you value most in a word. Write a postcard to our beautiful Connecticut River. Or share a poem you wrote this year at the Poetry Open Mic. \nPop-Up Arts Stations \nPatio by The River:\nAsk The River artists and the Connecticut River Conservancy invite you to come down to the River\, learn about her\, and hear what she has to say! We’ll have beautiful river-inspired cyanotype postcards for you to write your thoughts and questions on. \nPliny Park:\nBrooks Memorial Library hosts artist Michael Albert at Pliny Park and invites you to make a collage of Your Essential Word—one of great importance to you! We’ll display all the collages in a huge Community Word Cloud on the park’s wall during Gallery Walk. What’s YOUR word? \nThe Museum Lawn:\nEncouraging our youth voices\, come read a poem you wrote this year or someone else’s at our Poetry Open Mic. Write something new at our Poetry Station and meet local authors—Diana Whitney\, Shanta Lee Gander and youth poet Emma Paris. Adults\, we invite you to come read your recent poetry\, too! \nOther What’s the Word? theme tie-ins: \n\nRiver Gallery School will have their antique letterpress in operation. Come by to print a message to someone you love.\nWrite a letter to someone or something you’ve missed this year at the Hempacurian’s streetside typewriter.\nPoems Around Town—a project by Write Action & The Brattleboro Literary Festival—has placed poems written over the past year into downtown shop and restaurant windows. You will find 50 poems by 35 authors and can pick up a site list to guide you at the DBA Gallery Walk table on Elliot St.
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SUMMARY:Virtual Poetry Reading with Jeff Friedman and Tim Mayo
DESCRIPTION:Pour a cup of tea\, or a glass of wine\, or just sit back and relax to revel in the words of Tim Mayo and Jeff Friedman.  The poets will read from their work at an online event sponsored by Brooks Memorial Library at 7 pm on Wednesday\, May 12. \nTim Mayo’s poems and reviews have appeared in The American Journal of Poetry\, Poet Lore\, Valparaiso Poetry Review\, Verse Daily\, Verse-Virtual and The Writer’s Almanac among other places. His poems have received seven Pushcart Prize nominations. His first full length collection\, The Kingdom of Possibilities\, was a finalist for the 2009 May Swenson Award. His second volume of poems\, Thesaurus of Separation was a finalist for the 2017 Montaigne Medal and a finalist for the 2017 Eric Hoffer Book Award\, and his chapbook\, Notes to the Mental Hospital Timekeeper\, was published by Kelsay Books in late 2019 and won an Honorable Mention in the chapbook category for the Eric Hoffer Book Awards. \nJeff Friedman’s newest book\, The Marksman\, was published in 2020 by Carnegie Mellon University Press. He is the author of seven previous poetry collections\, including Floating Tales and Pretenders. Friedman’s poems\, mini stories and translations have appeared in American Poetry Review\, Poetry\, New England Review\, Poetry International\, Hotel Amerika\, Cast-Iron Aeroplanes That Can Actually Fly: Commentaries from 80 American Poets on their Prose Poetry\, Flash Fiction Funny\, The New Republic and numerous other literary magazines and anthologies. He has received numerous awards and prizes for his poetry\, mini tales\, and translations\, including a National Endowment Literature Translation Fellowship and two individual Artist Grants from New Hampshire Arts Council. Two of his micro stories were recently selected for the The Best Microfiction 2021.  \nJoin the event via ZOOM at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81174859914?pwd=Z0Nkcy9pQ2hzUWJhUzg5cGk4MlMrZz09  Meeting ID: 811 7485 991. Passcode: 229740
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SUMMARY:"The Hate U Give" Outdoor Movie Night
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Friday May 21st from 8:00pm – 10:30pm to watch “The Hate U Give” (PG 13)! \nThe movie will be shown on the Brattleboro Commons and will begin at 8pm. Running time is 2 hours and 15 minutes. \nThis program is courtesy of the Vermont Humanities Council\, Windham Southeast Supervisory Union\, and Brooks Memorial Library to cap off the Vermont Reads 2020 program. \n***Seating will NOT be provided so bring something comfy to sit on and a flashlight if you need one*** \n***Please wear a mask*** \nRain date: May 28th \nPresented by: The Vermont Humanities Council\, WSESU\, and Brooks Memorial Library
URL:https://brookslibraryvt.org/event/the-hate-u-give-outdoor-movie-night/
LOCATION:Brattleboro Commons\, Park Pl\, Brattleboro\, VT\, 05301\, United States
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SUMMARY:Farewell and Good Wishes to Courtney!
DESCRIPTION:Stop by the patio area in front of the library to wish good luck to Circulation Manager Courtney Carey\, who will soon start a new job as Assistant Director of the Boylston Public Library in Boylston\, Massachusetts. Enjoy frozen treats at this drop-by event between 4:00 and 5:00 on Thursday\, May 27th. \nWe will miss Courtney! But we’re excited for her as she takes another important step in her career. In Boylston\, she will bring her energy and talents to another dynamic rural public library. \nSee you on the 27th! Or if you would like to send a note to Courtney\, here’s how: courtney@brookslibraryvt.org.
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