Rhyme Time
2024-10-02 10:30 - 11:00, 2024-10-09 10:30 - 11:00, 2024-10-16 10:30 - 11:00 (America/New_York) | 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.

Game Cafe!
2024-10-02 18:00 - 20:45, 2024-10-09 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!

Express Fluency - Border Diaries: What is Really Happening at the US/Mexico Border?
2024-10-02 18:30 - 19:30 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Putney residents, Elissa McLean and Andy Winter, will share their experiences providing humanitarian aid to asylum seekers at the southern border in 2023 and 2024.
Learn about how the situation has changed there since Biden’s executive order in June and what aid groups are doing to offer support to those in need.

43rd Annual (Take Home) Design-a-Plate Workshop
2024-10-03, 2024-10-04, 2024-10-05, 2024-10-07, 2024-10-08 | Children’s Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Welcome to the 43rd Annual (Take Home) Design-a-Plate Workshop!
You can pick up your packet in the Children’s Room any time between Tuesday, September 24th and Wednesday, October 16th. You can return your packet and payment to the library at any point up to 8pm on Wednesday, October 16th.
Design-a-Plate this year has a cost of $7 per item.

Sing & Dance with Robin
2024-10-03 11:00 - 12:00, 2024-10-10 11:00 - 12:00 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
For Ages 0-5 and their caregivers, held in the BML Community Meeting Room.
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 be encouraged to fully sing and participate with their child in the class.

LEGO-Palooza
2024-10-03 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!

The Board Gaming Guild
2024-10-04 15:30 - 16:30, 2024-10-11 15:30 - 16:30 | 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!
Now every Friday at 3:30pm. Stop by to have a great time playing board games in the Children’s Room!
Ages 8 and up. No sign up required!

Brattleboro in Stitches
2024-10-05 13:00 - 16:00, 2024-10-12 13:00 - 16:00 | 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.

Brattleboro Great Books Group
2024-10-07 19:00 - 21:00 | Meeting Room D – Quiet Reading Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Monthly discussion of “Great Books”

Library Board of Trustees
2024-10-08 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

LAST CHANCE - 43rd Annual (Take Home) Design-a-Plate Workshop
2024-10-09 10:00 - 21:00, 2024-10-10 10:00 - 18:00, 2024-10-11 10:00 - 18:00, 2024-10-12 10:00 - 17:00, 2024-10-15 10:00 - 21:00 | Children’s Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
The 43rd Annual (Take Home) Design-a-Plate Workshop is coming to a close!
Packets can be picked up in the Children’s Room any time before Wednesday, October 16th and must be returned with payment to the library by 8pm on Wednesday, October 16th.
Design-a-Plate this year has a cost of $7 per item.

SilverCircus by NECCA
2024-10-12 11:00 - 12:00 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Strengthen balance and build social connection, all while playing and connecting to your inner child with SilverCircus by the New England Center for Circus Arts. These circus classes are designed for older adults and are welcome to all mobility and cognitive levels. We will work with each student where they are at, while fostering a supportive and playful group dynamic. Activities will challenge the brain and the body, and will be scaled up and down to be the perfect challenge for each participant.

It is not too late to join the circus! Join us at the Brattleboro Memorial Library at 11am on the 2nd and 4th Saturdays of October and November (10/12, 10/26, 11/09, 11/23).

LIBRARY CLOSED
2024-10-14 10:00 - 21:00 | Brooks Memorial Library, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
The library will be closed on October 14th in observation of Indigenous Peoples’ Day.

Basin 12 - Public Comment Session
2024-10-15 16:30 - 18:00 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Join Windham NRCD and the Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation to learn about the tactical basin planning process for Basin 12. This meeting provides an opportunity for the public to comment on the proposed basin plan for protection and restoration of water quality in the basin. Basin 12 includes the Deerfield, Green, and North Rivers and Fall River, and Whetstone, Broad, and Newton Brooks.

DUE TODAY!- 43rd Annual (Take Home) Design-a-Plate Workshop
2024-10-16 10:00 - 20:00 | Children’s Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Today is the last day of the 43rd Annual (Take Home) Design-a-Plate Workshop!
Packets can be picked up in the Children’s Room any time today, but must be returned with payment to the library by 8pm on Wednesday, October 16th.
Design-a-Plate this year has a cost of $7 per item.

Friends of the Library
2024-10-16 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. Community attendance and commentary is welcome!
Friends of the Library
