EMS Services: Community Forum
2022-04-26 18:00 - 19:30 (America/New_York) | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
The Brattleboro Fire Department and Golden Cross will be hosting community forums to answer any questions you may have on thepending change in EMS services in Brattleboro. They will be on the following dates and times:

Monday, April 18th @ 6:00 pm at Central Fire Station
Saturday, April 23 @ 1:00 pm at Central Fire Station
Tuesday, April 26 @ 6:00 pm at Brooks Memorial Library

More information is available in this April 11th Statement on EMS Services from the Town Manager’s office.

Citizen Police Communications Committee
2022-04-25 17:30 - 18:00, 2022-03-28 17:30 - 18:00, 2022-02-28 17:30 - 18:00, 2022-01-24 17:30 - 18:00 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Monthly CPCC town meeting

10 Minute Play Festival Auditions
2022-04-23 10:00 - 15:00 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Actors Theatre Playhouse presents open auditions for plays to be performed July 2022.

Teen Movie Night: "10 Things I Hate About You"
2022-04-21 20:00 - 22:00 | Main Reading Room
The Teen Advisory Board invites you to join us for a Teens Only (Indoor) movie night.
We will watch “10 Things I Hate About You” (PG-13). The movie will start at 8pm and has a 1 hour and 40 minute run time. Masks welcome, snacks provided.

Hosted by the Teen Advisory Board.
“Teens Only” events are open to people in grades 7-12.

Movie Matinee: Soul
2022-04-21 13:30 - 15:30 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Spring Break is here!
Please join us at 1:30pm for a matinee showing of “Soul” (Rated PG)
Masks Welcome 🙂

New Yorker Discussion Group
2022-04-20 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.

New Yorker Discussion Group
2022-04-20 19:00 - 20:00, 2022-03-16 19:00 - 20:00, 2022-02-16 19:00 - 20:00, 2022-01-19 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.

Movie Matinee: Encanto
2022-04-20 13:30 - 15:30 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Spring Break is here!
Please join us at 1:30pm for a matinee showing of “Encanto” (Rated PG)
Masks Welcome 🙂

Welcome Spring! Chalk Mural
2022-04-19 13:30 - 15:30 | Parking Lot, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Join us at 1:30pm BEHIND the library to help create a chalk mural. Let’s Welcome Spring together 🙂
Chalk provided!

Movie Matinee: Sing 2
2022-04-18 13:30 - 15:30 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Spring Break is here!
Please join us at 1:30pm for a matinee showing of “Sing 2” (Rated PG)
Masks Welcome 🙂

Real Democracy: Tim Kipp and Friends
2022-04-12 18:30 - 20:00 | Hybrid: Community Meeting Room and Online, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
REAL DEMOCRACY
with Tim Kipp and friends
Brattleboro Democracy Forum
at Brooks Memorial Library
and on Zoom
6:30 pm, Tuesday, April 12th, 2022,
The meeting will be recorded and will air on BCTV and WVEW-FM

The meeting at the library will be in the Community Meeting Room located on the 2nd floor, just inside the rear entrance from the Municipal Center parking lot.
To join the Zoom meeting click on this URL on the 12th:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84518553496?pwd=[REDACTED]

Tim says:
The United States is in a crisis of two nations. Economic instability, racial reckoning, a lingering pandemic and rising authoritarianism divide Americans by a gulf not experienced since the Civil War.
Underlying this disunion are conflicting concepts of what democracy actually is or should be. The old consensus is crumbling. Today for some, physically attacking the nation’s capitol makes sense, for others, making it harder for people to vote is a democratic act.
On the other hand many still believe in citizen responsibility in the political process. For these people government and community organizing for social justice is what democracy looks like.
Our future can and will be charted by how we conceptualize democracy itself. Understanding, expanding and sustaining democracy can perhaps lead to a bridging of this not so grand canyon of national divide.
This presentation focuses on the nature of democracy and offers a re conceptualization of this greatest of human inventions.

Tim Kipp is a retired history and political science teacher of 39 years and a political activist since the 1960s.

Marlboro Resident and musician Jesse Lepkoff will sing the marching song “We Are Marching For Democracy” to open the meeting.
The WE CELEBRATE DEMOCRACY CIVIL RIGHTS FOR ALL Main Street banner will be hung at the library

wecelebratedemocracycivilrightsforall.org–
Positive Nonviolent public action for democracy and civil rights
for all people- 802 258 7045

Building Our Welcoming Skills with Literature
2022-04-09 14:00 - 15:30 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Brattleboro native Kirsten Cappy and Maine librarian Kate Cutko will share how the Welcoming Library, a picture book collection now housed at Brooks Memorial Library, can change the conversation on immigration and create an environment of welcoming and belonging through the sharing of stories. Using the picture book The Suitcase, Cappy and Cutko will show how these books break down intergroup anxiety and foster a welcoming environment.

Teen Writing Workshop
2022-04-07 18:30 - 20:30 | Spicy Lime Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
The Teen Advisory Board invites you to join us on Thursday April 7th from 6:30-8:30pm for a (in person!) writing workshop. Teen Writing Workshops will occur month on First Thursdays. We’ll conduct a rotating selection of writing games and exercises (both collaborative and solo). Sharing is encouraged but not mandatory. Beginners welcome!
Pizza and snacks provided.
Hosted by the Teen Advisory Board. “Teens Only” events are open to people in grades 7-12.

First Wednesdays : The Poetics of Girlhood and Womanhood in America
2022-04-06 19:00 | Brooks Memorial Library, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Poets and writers Diana Whitney and Shanta Lee Gander join Christal Brown, associate professor of Dance at Middlebury College, in a conversation that explores how girlhood and womanhood in America are manifested across the boundaries of poetry, dance, and lived experience.
About the Presenters
Diana Whitney’s edited work, You Don’t Have to Be Everything: Poems for Girls Becoming Themselves, ranges across intersectional, intergenerational, and gender-fluid voices.
In GHETTOCLAUSTROPHOBIA: Dreamin of Mama While Trying to Speak Woman in Woke Tongues, Shanta Lee Gander navigates between formal and vernacular styles to examine butterflies and female sexuality, vulnerability, classical Greek myths, and more.
Christal Brown’s original dance piece “The Opulence of Integrity” was inspired by the public life and inner searching of Muhammad Ali, boxing’s outspoken superstar.
Partner: Middlebury College and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Underwriter: Anne Commire Fund for Women in the Humanities
Sponsored by The Friends of the Brooks Memorial Library.
To learn more, please visit:
The Poetics of Girlhood and Womanhood in America

Mineralogical Society of Brattleboro
2022-04-05 18:00 - 19:45, 2022-03-01 18:00 - 19:45, 2022-02-01 18:00 - 19:45 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Study of Rocks & Minerals

WCGIG: Finding Your Ancestors (or even yourself!) in the 1950 Census
2022-04-02 10:00 - 11:30 | 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
It’s here and we ain’t April Fool’n. 1950 United States Census to be released on April 1!

The April meeting of the Windham County Genealogy Interest Group will be held via Zoom on Saturday, April 2, at 10 AM. It is free and open to the public.

Register for the meeting at https://bit.ly/WindhamGenApr

We know the 1950 census counted over150 million people living in the United States and its territories. Because of the 72-year privacy law protecting personal data, information about these people was not available to those searching their family history. But all that changes on April 1, 2022. No, it is not an April fool’s joke; that date marks the official release of the 1950 census data by the National Archives and Records Administration.

We will be able to see the names and additional information about our ancestors to help add to the stories of their lives, at least for those who were alive in 1950. Of course, the release of the data doesn’t mean it will be instantly searchable. However, Ancestry is planning to use sophisticated artificial intelligence and handwriting recognition technology to create an initial index from digital census images. This change will speed up the availability of the census to researchers. Volunteers with FamilySearch will review the automated index to ensure that every name is included and indexed correctly. The human review will help refine the index to ensure that everyone included in the census can be found.

So join us on Saturday, April 2, to get more information on how to find yourself, your family, friends, and relatives in the 1950 United States Census.

The Windham County (Vt.) Genealogy Interest Group is an informal organization whose members are dedicated to genealogy education, research, and best practices. Meetings are held every other month on Zoom.

For more information please contact windhamcountygig@gmail.com.

Hope to see you there,

Wayne and JerryWayne Blanchard & Jerry CarboneWindham County Genealogy Interest Groupwindhamcountygig@gmail.com

Stuffed Animal Slumber Party
2022-03-24 10:00 - 18:00 | Children’s Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
On Thursday, March 24th, your Stuffed Animal is invited to spend the night at the library! We’ll have special activities for all the stuffed animals. When you pick up your stuffed animal the next day, you’ll receive a booklet with pictures of all the fun.
Drop off your Stuffed animal before 6pm on Thursday March 24th. Pick them up again on Friday March 25th.
PARENTS: Please do not bring the stuffed animal your child needs to fall asleep!
REGISTRATION REQUIRED! Please Sign Up in the Children’s Room or call 254-5290 x.1210 to register.

Teen Game Night
2022-03-18 19:00 - 22:00 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Join us on Friday March 18th from 7pm-10pm to play games with the Teen Advisory Board!
We will have a selection of board and card games to play with as well as an Oculus to try out.
We’ll be on the 2nd floor and spread out between the rooms. Pizza and snacks provided!
Hosted by the Teen Advisory Board. “Teens Only” events are open to people in grades 7-12.

First Wednesdays: Boneyarn: New York Slavery Poems (Online)
2022-02-02 19:00 | Online, VT
The oldest and largest slave cemetery in the United States is located in the shadow of Wall Street. Actor and poet David Mills reads from and discusses his award-winning poetry collection, Boneyarn, featuring groundbreaking poems about slavery in New York City, a topic rarely addressed.
About David Mills
David Mills holds MFAs from both New York University and Warren Wilson College and is a cum laude graduate of Yale University. He’s published two full-length poetry collections in addition to Boneyarn: The Dream Detective and The Sudden Country, a book prize finalist.

Sponsored by The Friends of the Brooks Memorial Library.

Registration Required.

To Learn More and to Register, please visit:
Boneyarn: New York Slavery Poems

POSTPONED Drawdown Brattleboro: Community Climate Solutions
2022-01-26 18:30 - 20:00 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
This Event has been Postponed and will now start on Wednesday, February 23rd.
Join the Brattleboro Office of Sustainability for a series of community conversations on climate change solutions for Brattleboro using Project Drawdown “the most comprehensive plan to reverse global warming.” All are welcome!

CANCELLED Global Campus Brattleboro
2022-01-24 14:00 - 15:30 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Peer to peer teaching and learning for adults with intellectual disability.

CANCELLED Teen Game Night
2022-01-21 18:00 - 22:00 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
This Event (and all other January Teen Events) has been Cancelled. Check back in February for our Writing Workshop and a rescheduled Game Night.
Join us on Friday January 21th from 6pm-10pm to play games with the Teen Advisory Board!
We will have a selection of board and card games to play with as well as an Oculus to try out.
Pizza and snacks provided! We’ll be in the Community Meeting Room.
Hosted by the Teen Advisory Board. “Teens Only” events are open to people in grades 7-12.
