Financial Q & A with SEVCA and Mascoma Bank All are welcome to these programs, held on the 4th Mondays of the month throughout 2026, with different topics for each session and peer support encouraged throughout. Representatives from SEVCA and Mascoma Bank facilitate the discussions, share their expertise, and respond to individual questions and concerns. […]
Join HCRS* at our upcoming Job Fair at the Brooks Library on September 29th from 10:00 am – 3:00 pm! HCRS is hiring 34 new positions in Brattleboro for mental health and substance use services. We're looking for passionate individuals who want to make a difference in the lives of our clients, communities, and each […]
Author Deborah Lee Luskin will be joined by Representative Emilie Kornheiser, Chair of the House Committee of Ways and Means, to discuss what we have to learn from the past, through the lens of Luskin’s novel, Into the Wilderness, an unlikely love story between a New York Democrat and born and bred Vermonter set in […]
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.
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!
Our 45th annual Design-A-Plate workshop! Beginning Wednesday, October 1, stop by the Children’s Room at Brooks Memorial Library to pick up a Design-A-Plate take-home packet. Create your drawings at home then return the packet to the library by 8:00 pm on Tuesday, October 20. Choose between an 8-inch melamine plate, a 10-inch melamine plate or […]
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 […]
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!
Join us for this special Vermont Humanities presentation about the Appalachia Comics Project and the creation of the graphic novel Islands in the Sky. Through this project, award winning artists were paired with community members to capture the oral histories of these people grappling with the effects of Hurricane Helene. Listen to writer, activist, and founder of this […]
The Women's Freedom Center is hosting a Femmes and Thems Collage Club for survivors of Intimate Partner Violence, Sexual Violence and their Allies on the first Friday of every month from 1:30PM- 3PM at Brooks Memorial Library in the Community Room on the third floor. We have supplies galore and good conversation. Bring your own collage materials, or just yourself.
SilverCircus is back at Brooks! Join us on the 1st and 3rd Saturdays from 11AM to 12 PM in the Community Room for some fun-filled movement and cheer! Move with confidence. Stay active. Connect with community. SilverCircus classes help adults 60+ enjoy movement that supports balance, strength, and social connection. Instructors from New England Center for […]
The Sci-Fi Film Series is your chance to see great and classic Sci-Fi films on the big screen! Join us at the Latchis Theater to watch this month's film: the "Final Cut" of 1982's cyberpunk classic, Blade Runner! Los Angeles, California, 2019. With towering skyscrapers looming over the dystopian mega-city, grizzled replicant hunter Rick Deckard […]
As part of a recurring series, Senator Welch is traveling around Vermont with an open invitation to community members to join him for coffee and conversation. His next listening session will be at Brooks Memorial Library in the Main Reading Room on Monday, Oct. 5, from 2:00 - 3:00 PM. All are welcome to attend, […]
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.
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!
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 […]
For National Dental Hygiene Month, all are welcome to this free community lecture with periodontist Kateryna Latypova, DMD. Learn how gum disease affects your overall health - and what can be done. Dr. Latypova will present topics on understanding gum disease and modern options for tooth replacements: The link between gum health and whole-body health […]
Southern Vermont DSA’s general meetings are open to members, non-members, and anyone who is DSA-curious. We’ll share branch updates and proposals, and invite attendees to discuss local issues and priorities for collective action. Join us to learn more about our work and how to participate.
Monthly meeting of the Brooks Memorial Library Board of Trustees. Citizen attendance and commentary welcome! https://brookslibraryvt.org/about-us/board-of-trustees/
Steev Lynn & Dr Reme Damasco raised their children in Brattleboro and now work part of each year in Myanmar, where a coup in 2021 touched off a civil war that is still going. They work for a humanitarian organization in a liberated part of Myanmar, doing medical and agricultural work and training a new […]
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.
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!
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 […]
The library will open at 1:30 p.m. on Friday, October 16. The library will be closed in the morning and will open at 1:30 p.m. We apologize for the inconvenience.
The slideshow is a tool for an interactive “dialogue workshop” to encourage participants to think about global issues from a perspective of infinite time and space in the universe. To tackle the current global challenges, only drastic progressive Change in the system of our societies, can we gradually solve the global crises. Among others, schemes […]
SilverCircus is back at Brooks! Join us on the 1st and 3rd Saturdays from 11AM to 12 PM in the Community Room for some fun-filled movement and cheer! Move with confidence. Stay active. Connect with community. SilverCircus classes help adults 60+ enjoy movement that supports balance, strength, and social connection. Instructors from New England Center for […]
Josie is sure her brain has to be right: that she needs to be perfect or something terrible will happen. Her distress, in Ann Braden’s Hijacked by Goats, leads to a hospitalization. When she’s diagnosed with OCD, her therapist calls it a bully in her brain. Once back home, Josie realizes that the bully in […]
Please join us for this very special Sci-Fi Reading Group as we meet from 7:00pm - 8:30pm to discuss Lost Ark Dreaming with a virtual appearance by the author, Suyi Davies Okungbowa: Off the coast of West Africa, decades after the dangerous rise of the Atlantic Ocean, the region’s survivors live inside five partially submerged, […]
Join teaching artist, Kate Milliken, for this free 4-week book exploration and art-making course for learners ages 60+. Participants will have the opportunity to explore books on a variety of themes and create art in response to those themes through collage and mixed media techniques. This course is perfect for participants new to creating art […]
Come start a new year of reading by reading to a dog! Read out loud to two sweet dogs, Kelso and Gussy! Both dogs are specially trained to read with kids and LOVE to be petted and cuddled! Come to the Children's Room to Read to a Dog--available on a first come first serve basis. […]
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.
Monthly meeting of the Friends of the Library. Community attendance and commentary is welcome! https://brookslibraryvt.org/about-us/friends-of-the-library/
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!
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 […]
It's that time of year, again! World Singing Day!* Come together with friends and neighbors to raise your voices and raise your spirits by singing a wide variety of favorite songs. Lyrics will be projected on a big screen by George Carvill, so we will all know the words. Live guitar accompaniment will be provided […]
Illustration AI-generated with Google Gemini. Can you spot the signs? In September, Bob Jude Ferrante led us through some of the history of Artificial Intelligence, explained some of the buzzwords and a bit about how AI works. This month, we'll have an open discussion about AI. Bring your questions, your observations, and your honest thoughts. […]
Join us for a special bilingual storytime in Filipino and English to celebrate Filipino American Heritage Month! Anna Gail Caunca will be reading Kalipay and the Tiniest TikTik by Christina Newhard, teaching us a few words in Tagalog and Cebuano, and making a craft. This is a free event. All ages are welcome!
Financial Q & A with SEVCA and Mascoma Bank All are welcome to these programs, held on the 4th Mondays of the month throughout 2026, with different topics for each session and peer support encouraged throughout. Representatives from SEVCA and Mascoma Bank facilitate the discussions, share their expertise, and respond to individual questions and concerns. […]
Join teaching artist, Kate Milliken, for this free 4-week book exploration and art-making course for learners ages 60+. Participants will have the opportunity to explore books on a variety of themes and create art in response to those themes through collage and mixed media techniques. This course is perfect for participants new to creating art […]
Come start a new year of reading by reading to a dog! Read out loud to two sweet dogs, Kelso and Gussy! Both dogs are specially trained to read with kids and LOVE to be petted and cuddled! Come to the Children's Room to Read to a Dog--available on a first come first serve basis. […]
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.
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!
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 […]
Want to list your group in the ABC Directory? Drop into a session at your convenience and enjoy some treats! ABC staff members will answer questions, assist with sign-up, and help you finalize a listing. Group leaders: If you like “body doubling” when working on a task, or if you could use some simple fun […]
As Israel’s genocide Palestine enters begins it’s fourth year, the Vermont People’s Arms Embargo released an online tool mapping the weapons industry in Vermont and its connection to the genocide. Join us for a morning teach-in as we introduce this tool and connect with each other on paths ahead. We’ll explore what that industrial landscape […]