Brooks Memorial Library - Brattleboro VT

Teen Movie Night: "Addams Family"
2023-04-28 19:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
The Teen Advisory Board invites you to join us for a Teens Only INDOOR movie night.
We will watch “The Addams Family” from 1991 – the classic movie which inspired the Netflix show “Wednesday”. The story follows the spooky Addams Family as they try to locate their long-lost uncle Fester. Their shyster lawyer tries to pass off a con man as Fester in an attempt to steal all of their gold.
The movie will start at 7pm and has a run time of 1 hour and 39 minutes. Masks welcome, snacks provided.

Brattleboro in Stitches
2023-04-29 11:00 - 14:00 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting 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.

Young Childrens’ Art Exhibit Closing Reception
2023-04-29 14:00 - 16:00 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Come view art and enjoy snacks and refreshments and a little story time with Ms. Lindsay

Game Cafe!
2023-04-29 14:00 - 16:45, 2023-05-06 14:00 - 16:45, 2023-05-13 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 Great Books Group
2023-05-01 19:00 - 21:00 | Meeting Room C – Local History
Monthly discussion of “Great Books”
The Brattleboro “Great Books” Group will be discussing Geraldine Brooks’s novel HORSE on Monday, May 1st, 2023, from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. in the mezzanine History Room of the Brooks Memorial Library, Main Street, Brattleboro.

“Told from the perspective of six characters, Horse interweaves the stories of the black equestrians who made their white masters fabulously wealthy with those of contemporary young professionals struggling to form relationships despite racial microaggressions and misunderstandings.”

Mineralogical Society
2023-05-02 18:00 - 20:45 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Study of Minerals and Geological topics

Rhyme Time
2023-05-03 10:30 - 11:00, 2023-05-10 10:30 - 11:00, 2023-05-17 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!

First Wednesdays: We Are All Fast Food Workers Now
2023-05-03 19:00 - 21:00 | Brooks Memorial Library, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Live Event
May 3, 2023: 7:00 pm

Labor historian Annelise Orleck provides a close look at globalization and its costs from the perspective of low-wage workers themselves—berry pickers, fast food servers, garment workers, cashiers, hotel housekeepers, home health care aides, and even adjunct professors—who are fighting for respect, safety, and a living wage.
About Annelise Orleck
Annelise Orleck is professor of history at Dartmouth College and the author of five books on the history of US women, politics, immigration, and activism, including Storming Caesars Palace: How Black Mothers Fought Their Own War on Poverty.
Underwriter: Anne Commire Fund for Women in the Humanities

Sponsored by the Friends of Brooks Memorial Library

Statewide Underwriters

Please contact us at info@vermonthumanities.org for information on disability services. To request a specific accommodation, contact us at least three weeks prior to the event. Vermont Humanities strives to provide accommodations whenever possible. All event locations are ADA accessible.

Community College of Vermont
2023-05-04 12:00 - 15:00 | Brooks Memorial Library, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
The final presentations for the CCV’s “Effective Speaking” course.

LEGO-Palooza
2023-05-04 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!

Fall Prevention Tai Chi
2023-05-05 15:00 - 16:00, 2023-05-12 15:00 - 16:00, 2023-05-19 15:00 - 16:00 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
A beginner level Tai Chi for Fall Prevention class, as taught by Tai Chi Vermont, in partnership with Senior Solutions Brattleboro.

Windham County Genealogy Interest Group Meeting
2023-05-06 11:00 - 13:00 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Genealogical research and presentation

Book Launch with Ann Braden
2023-05-07 15:00 | Main Reading Room
Celebrate the launch of Ann Braden’s newest middle grade book, Opinions and Opossums! Ann is also the author of The Benefits of Being an Octopus, and Flight of the Puffin, and this new story is her most personal story yet. Opinions and Opossums is about finding a way forward when we’re not sure we believe what those around us believe, and it’ll resonate with anyone who has ever questioned the status quo — or simply questioned themselves when they couldn’t find a way to fit in.
Ann will read from the beginning of the book, and will talk about her inspiration and the writing process. You can ask her questions and explore the stories hidden within abandoned shopping carts. (Main character Agnes and her best friend Mo have multiple notebooks worth of stories from the perspective of shopping carts, and it’s amazing what kind of stories emerge when you start asking questions!)

Welcoming New Neighbors: The Ethiopian Community Development Center (ECDC)
2023-05-08 17:00 - 19:00 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
The event is intended to encourage community engagement in welcoming and supporting new arrivals to southern Vermont by way of introducing participants to respective areas’ recent histories (Yemen, Central Africa, Eritrea and Latin America/Guatemala). Discussion will focus on human rights abuses that have led to out migration.

Library Board of Trustees
2023-05-09 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

Parenting 4 Social Justice Reading-Discussion Group
2023-05-10 18:00 - 20:00 | Brooks Memorial Library, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
We are sorry, the current session of this monthly book group is filled to capacity. We hope to offer future opportunities to discuss this pivotal work. Please check back in late May.

Nethercott Duet
2023-05-10 19:00 | Main Reading Room
Local writers Michael Nethercott and GennaRose Nethercott will share their views on storytelling, offer readings, and engage in lively literary banter.
GennaRose Nethercott’s recent novel Thistlefoot has received numerous accolades from such sources as NPR, Wall Street Journal, and Book of the Month. Her first book, The Lumberjack’s Dove, a story in verse, won the National Poetry Series. Whether authoring novels, poems, ballads, or even fold-up paper cootie catchers, her projects are all rooted in myth and folklore—and what our stories reveal about who we are. She tours nationally and internationally performing strange tales (sometimes with puppets in tow), and writes/researches for the supernatural podcast Lore.
Michael Nethercott’s new novel The Ballad of Black Powder is his first foray into writing westerns. He’s the author of two mystery novels, The Séance Society and The Haunting Ballad and has won several literary awards. His short stories have appeared in numerous periodicals and anthologies including Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, and Best Crime and Mystery Stories of the Year. As a playwright and director he has helmed numerous local productions and was the originator of the Forest of Mystery theatrical tour, which has become an annual tradition.
Books will be available for purchase, and a signing will follow the event.

Getting Started with Native Plants
2023-05-15 19:00 | Main Reading Room
Native plants can bring beauty, butterflies, birds, and bees to your yard. Learn about the benefits and how to avoid some of the pitfalls of planting native perennials and grasses in your garden, where to start, and how to build on your success. Practical suggestions for plants that will thrive in the Vermont climate will be included. It’s both easier and more rewarding than you imagine. No space is too small to make a difference. Workshop is presented Jocelyn Demuth, proprietor of the native plant nursery, Checkerspot Farm in Colrain MA

Brattleboro Stamp Club
2023-05-15 19:00 - 20:45 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States

May Sci-Fi Reading Group Meetup
2023-05-16 19:00 - 20:30 | Brooks Memorial Library, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
The Sci-Fi Reading Group will meet Tuesday, May 16th, in the Quiet Reading Room from 7-8:30 pm to discuss Upright Women Wanted by Sarah Gailey.
From Goodreads:
“Esther is a stowaway. She’s hidden herself away in the Librarian’s book wagon in an attempt to escape the marriage her father has arranged for her—a marriage to the man who was previously engaged to her best friend. Her best friend who she was in love with. Her best friend who was just executed for possession of resistance propaganda.

The future American Southwest is full of bandits, fascists, and queer librarian spies on horseback trying to do the right thing. They’ll bring the fight to you.
In Upright Women Wanted, award-winning author Sarah Gailey reinvents the pulp Western with an explicitly antifascist, near-future story of queer identity.”
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.

SEVT Audubon Society
2023-05-16 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.

Friends of the Library
2023-05-17 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

New Yorker Discussion Group
2023-05-17 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.

Novels, Non-Fiction, & Nosh
2023-05-19 18:00 - 20:00 | Brooks Memorial Library, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
The Friends of Brooks Memorial Library invite you to join us for a special after hours fundraiser where guests will enjoy a grand selection of sweet and savory treats and refreshments.
Choose from either novel or non-fiction and take home a wrapped surprise book to add to your collection.
Tickets are $10 a person and are available at the library circulation desk or at the door during the event.
Come and enjoy good food, good fun, and a good read. All for a great cause.
