FREE Summer Lunch
2024-07-17 12:00 - 12:30, 2024-07-16 12:00 - 12:30, 2024-07-15 12:00 - 12:30, 2024-07-12 12:00 - 12:30, 2024-07-11 12:00 - 12:30, 2024-07-10 12:00 - 12:30, 2024-07-09 12:00 - 12:30, 2024-07-08 12:00 - 12:30 (America/New_York) and 1 more date | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Drop by the library every weekday this summer from 12 – 12:30pm for free lunch!
Lunches are available for anyone ages 18 & under and will be handed out in the Community Meeting Room.

Rhyme Time
2024-07-17 10:30 - 11:00, 2024-07-10 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!

"Take a Tromp through the Swamp!" Musical Performance with Tom Sieling
2024-07-16 13:30 - 14:30 | Children’s Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Mark your calendars for “Take a Tromp through the Swamp!” in the Children’s Room on Tuesday July 16th at 1:30 pm. Join performer Tom Sieling for his top 10 lineup of the world’s most fun, participatory kids’ songs in celebration of our “Adventure Begins at Your Library” summer reading program.
Tom has delighted tens of thousands of audience members in over thirty years of performing with his guitar, banjo and drum machine. So stop by the Children’s Room for a rollicking good time! This program is FREE and open to all ages.
“Tromp through the Swamp” is presented by the Children’s Room and sponsored by the Friends of Brooks Memorial Library as part of our “Adventure Begins at Your Library” summer reading program. For more information, please call the Children’s Room at 802-254-5290 ext. 1210.

ON THE COMMONS - Sing & Dance with Robin
2024-07-16 10:30 - 11:30, 2024-07-09 10:30 - 11:30 | Brattleboro Commons, Park Pl, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
For Ages 0-5 and their caregivers, held on the Brattleboro Commons.
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.
On rainy days, Sing & Dance will be held in the BML Community Meeting Room.

Brattleboro Stamp Club
2024-07-15 19:00 - 20:45 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Join the Brattleboro Stamp Club for all sorts of philatelic curios, conversation, and comradery!

July Sci-Fi Reading Group Meetup
2024-07-15 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, July 15th, in the Quiet Reading Room from 7-8:30 pm to discuss Prime Meridian by Silvia Moreno-Garcia.
“Amelia dreams of Mars. The Mars of the movies and the imagination, an endless bastion of opportunities for a colonist with some guts. But she’s trapped in Mexico City, enduring the drudgery of an unkind metropolis, working as a rent-a-friend, selling her blood to old folks with money who hope to rejuvenate themselves with it, enacting a fractured love story. And yet there’s Mars, at the edge of the silver screen, of life. It awaits her.”
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.

Monday Movie Matinee: Migration
2024-07-15 10:30 - 12:30 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Join us at a NEW TIME, 10:30am, for our Monday Movie Matinee. Migration.

Brattleboro in Stitches
2024-07-13 13:00 - 16:00, 2024-07-06 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.

Teen Game Night
2024-07-12 19:00 - 22:00 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Join us on Friday July 12th 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 a Jack Box Party Pack set up. Feel free to bring your own games as well.
We’ll be on the 2nd floor and spread out between the rooms. We will also crank the AC! Pizza and snacks provided.
Hosted by the Teen Advisory Board. “Teens Only” events are open to people in grades 7-12.

LEGO-Palooza Summer Session
2024-07-11 13:00 - 17:00 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Join us for these SPECIAL SUMMER SESSIONS of LEGO-Palooza every Thursday this summer from 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm.
Come build something fun with the library’s LEGOs and get a chance to see them on display. FREE!

LEGO-palooza happens from 3:00 to 5:00 pm on the first Thursday of the month with occasional special sessions during school breaks and the summer.
For more information, call 802-254-5290 ext. 1210

RETREAT FARM - Storytime
2024-07-11 10:30 - 11:00 | Retreat Farm, 45 Farmhouse Sq., Brattleboro, VT, 05301-4801, United States
Join Brooks Memorial Library at Retreat Farm for storytime as part of our Summer Reading Program!
Thursdays at 10:30am, come for the stories, stay for the goats! Free and open to all ages. Bring your own blanket or chair.

Game Cafe!
2024-07-10 18:00 - 20:45, 2024-07-03 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: SUMMER SESSION
2024-07-10 13:30 - 14:30 | Children’s Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
This summer, join in on the fun at Brooks Memorial Library’s Board Gaming Guild!
NOW AT A NEW TIME FOR THE SUMMER!
Every Wednesday at 1:30pm. Stop by to have a great time playing board games in the Children’s Room!
Ages 8 and up. No sign up required!

Library Board of Trustees
2024-07-09 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

Brattleboro Democratic Party Candidates Forum
2024-07-08 18:00 - 20:00 | Main Reading Room
Candidates Mollie Burke WDH 8, David Gardenstein WDH 9, Ian Goodnow WDH 9, Emilie Kornheiser WDH 7, Amanda Ellis Thurber WDH 7, will engage in conversation moderated by Olga Peters.

Monday Movie Matinee: Wreck-It Ralph
2024-07-08 10:30 - 12:30 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Join us at a NEW TIME, 10:30am, for our Monday Movie Matinee. Wreck-It Ralph.

Talking About Taxes: School Funding
2024-07-06 10:30 - 12:00 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Join Representative Emile Kornheiser to talk about our schools and how we fund them.

LIBRARY CLOSED
2024-07-04 10:00 - 18:00 | Brooks Memorial Library, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
The library will be closed on July 4th in observation of Independence Day.
