Rhyme Time: Winter Afternoon Series
2024-02-01 13:30 - 14:00, 2024-01-25 13:30 - 14:00, 2024-01-18 13:30 - 14:00 (America/New_York) | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
This January, join us on Thursday afternoons @ 1:30 pm for 30 minutes of stories, songs, and fun!
(This will be a repeat of the Wednesday Morning Rhyme Time, not a whole new program)
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.

Game Cafe!
2024-01-31 18:00 - 20:45, 2024-01-24 18:00 - 20:45, 2024-01-17 18:00 - 20:45 | Meeting Room D – Quiet Reading 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!

The Board Gaming Guild
2024-01-31 15:15 - 16:45, 2024-01-24 15:15 - 16:15, 2024-01-17 15:15 - 16:15 | Children’s Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Come join in on the fun with the Brooks Memorial Library’s Board Gaming Guild!
Every Wednesday in January at 3:15pm. Stop by to have a great time playing board games in the Children’s Room!
Ages 8 and up. No sign up required!

Rhyme Time
2024-01-31 10:30 - 11:00, 2024-01-24 10:30 - 11:00, 2024-01-17 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!

Game Cafe!
2024-01-27 14:00 - 16:45, 2024-01-20 14:00 - 16:45 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States

Brattleboro in Stitches
2024-01-27 11:00 - 14:00, 2024-01-20 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.

LEGO-Palooza
2024-01-25 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!

VIRTUAL EVENT--Welcome 2 Houston: Hip Hop as Local Heritage
2024-01-24 19:00 | Zoom
VIRTUAL EVENT presented in partnership with Vermont Humanities–Langston Collin Wilkins returns to the city where he grew up to illuminate the complex relationship between place, identity, and music in Houston’s hip hop culture. Interviews with local rap artists, producers, and managers inform an exploration of how artists, audiences, music, and place interact to create a heritage that musicians negotiate in a variety of ways.
Register for the event here.
Sponsored by the Friends of Brooks Memorial Library

Brattleboro Time Trade
2024-01-24 17:45 - 19:15 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Brattleboro Time Trade member greeting and potluck!

CPCC
2024-01-24 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”

Town Arts Committee
2024-01-23 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!

Book Discussion: The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
2024-01-22 19:00 - 20:30 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
As our surroundings become increasingly computerized, a new frontier has emerged: a space where large corporations monitor and collect as much information as they can in order to predict and influence behavior, both on and off-line. Join us for a workshop on Shoshana Zuboff’s book The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the new Frontier of Power, which covers the rise of Google, Facebook, and behavior futures markets–and what we can do to protect ourselves and fight back.

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January Sci-Fi Reading Group Meetup
2024-01-22 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 Monday, January 22nd, in the Quiet Reading Room from 7-8:30 pm to discuss our first novel-length book, Wild Seed by Octavia E. Butler.
“Doro knows no higher authority than himself. An ancient spirit with boundless powers, he possesses humans, killing without remorse as he jumps from body to body to sustain his own life. With a lonely eternity ahead of him, Doro breeds supernaturally gifted humand into empires that obey his every desire. He fears no one — until he meets Anyanwu. Anyanwu is an entity like Doro and yet different. She can heal with a bite and transform her own body, mending injuries and reversing aging. She uses her powers to cure her neighbors and birth entire tribes, surrounding herself with kindred who both fear and respect her. No one poses a true threat to Anyanwu — until she meets Doro. The moment Doro meets Anyanwu, he covets her, and from the villages of seventeenth century Nigeria to nineteenth century United States, their courtship becomes a power struggle that echoes through generatons, irrevocably changing what it means to be human. “
The Sci-Fi Reading Group meets the third Monday of every month and is open to curious minds of all ages, whether or not they’ve read this month’s selection.

LEGO-Palooza
2024-01-18 15:30 - 17:00 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Join us on Thursdays after school to play with LEGOs! This week’s LEGO-Palooza will be held from 3:30-5pm.
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!

Vermont Blue Advantage Member Education - Session 3
2024-01-18 14:30 - 15:30 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Join Vermont Blue Advantage for an overview of benefits and resources for new and existing Vermont Blue Advantage members. Medicare Advantage plans include a number of valuable resources and we want to help our members get full access to all.

Vermont Blue Advantage Member Education - Sessions 1 & 2
2024-01-18 10:00 - 13:00 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States

Stewart Speaks Here -- Praising Calvin Coolidge and Martin Luther King
2024-01-17 18:00 - 19:00 | Hybrid: Community Meeting Room and Online, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Mr. Stewart, who is on the Democratic Party’s Presidential Primary ballot in NH and VT, favorably compares the 20th century’s best U.S. President, Calvin Coolidge, with the 20th Century’s best reformer, Martin Luther King. 20 min talk and 20 min q and a with Candidate Mark Stewart Greenstein, a.k.a. “Stewart For Liberty”.
Join remotely using: https://zoom.us/j/4936106872

Friends of the Library
2024-01-17 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
