Brooks Memorial Library - Brattleboro VT

Brattleboro in Stitches
2025-07-26 13:00 - 16:00, 2025-08-02 13:00 - 16:00, 2025-08-09 13:00 - 16:00, 2025-08-16 13:00 - 16:00, 2025-08-23 13:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | 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.

Monday Movie Matinee-The Wild Robot
2025-07-28 15:00 | VT
Join us at a NEW TIME, 3 pm , for our Monday Movie Matinee: The Wild Robot!

Green Carnation Reading Group
2025-07-28 19:00 - 20:30, 2025-08-25 19:00 - 20:30 | Meeting Room D – Quiet Reading Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Discussions of books by and for queer people. For more information, please visit the Green Carnation Reading Group Facebook page.

Summer Book Club
2025-07-29 15:00 - 16:00 | VT
Share your love for your favorite books at our Summer Reading Program Book Club!
The Book Club will take place over two sessions:
On Tuesday, July 1st, at 3pm, we will hang out, eat snacks and talk about some of the books we love.
On Tuesday, July 29th, at 3pm, we’ll meet to discuss the book “HOLES” by Louis Sachar. Several copies are available to borrow at the library.
Register ahead of time for this event at the Children’s Room circulation desk.

Medicare Educational Seminar
2025-07-29 16:15 - 17:15 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
We inform Vermonters how Medicare works, time frames to sign up, and explain the difference between supplemental plans with the separate PDP and Medicare Advantage products. This is not a sales presentation and we will not – nor cannot – go over any specific products we offer.

Rhyme Time
2025-07-30 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.
Free and open to the public.

Board Gaming Guild: SUMMER SESSION
2025-07-30 15:00 - 16:00 | Children’s Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
This summer, come join the fun as the Board Gaming Guild returns for Summer Reading Program!
Drop in for a rousing hour of gaming! Splendor, Kingdomino, 5-Minute Dungeon, and more! Play the games we have on hand, or bring your own.
Every Wednesday at 3pm. Stop by to have a great time playing board games in the Children’s Room!
Ages 8 and up. No sign up required!

RETREAT FARM- Storytime in the Sun
2025-07-31 10:30 - 11:00 | VT
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.

LEGO-Palooza Summer Session
2025-07-31 13:00 - 17:00, 2025-08-07 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

Outdoor Teen Movie Night - Barbie
2025-08-01 20:00 - 22:00 | Brooks Memorial Library, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
The Teen Advisory Board invites you to the finale of our Teens Only summer programing! Join us Friday, August 1st, for an Outdoor Teen Movie Night showing of Barbie!
Barbie and Ken are having the time of their lives in the colorful and seemingly perfect world of Barbie Land. However, when they get a chance to go to the real world, they soon discover the joys and perils of living among humans.
The movie will start at 8pm. Snacks provided! Bring your own seating!

Monday Movie Matinees--The Super Mario Bros Movie!
2025-08-04 15:00 - 17:00 | VT
Join us at a NEW TIME, 3 PM, for a Monday Movie Matinee encore showing of The Super Mario Bros Movie!

Windham County Democrats - August Meeting
2025-08-04 18:30 - 20:00 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
August meeting of the Windham County Democratic Committee. This meeting is open to the public and anyone interested in the Democratic Party and getting involved locally is welcome. There will be updates from legislators and discussion of other party business.

Brattleboro Great Books Group
2025-08-04 19:00 - 21:00 | Meeting Room D – Quiet Reading Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
In August, the Brattleboro Great Books Group will be discussing Elizabeth Strout’s Pulitzer Award winning novel “Olive Kitteridge” on Monday, August 4th, 7:00 to 9:00 p.m., in the (not-so-quiet) Quiet Reading Room/Room D on the mezzanine of Brooks Memorial Library. Besides the Library’s copies, several copies are available for purchase at Everyone’s Books on Elliott St. (270 pp. plus study questions, $18)
“At times stern, at other times patient, at times perceptive, at other times in sad denial, Olive Kitteridge, a retired schoolteacher, deplores the changes in her little town of Crosby, Maine, and in the world at large, but she doesn’t always recognizes the changes in those around her: a lounge musician…, a former student…,t,.., Olive’s own adult child…and her husband…
As the townspeople grapple with their problems, mild and dire, Olive is brought into a deeper understanding of herself and her life–sometimes painfully, but always with ruthless honesty. “Olive Kitteridge” offers profound insights into the human condition–its conflicts, its tragedies and joys, and the endurance it requires.” (from the back cover blurb)
In September, choose your favorite Emily Dickinson poem (or two or three) and read it aloud; then we will discuss. Emily Dickinson favorite poems are also on reserve at Everyone’s Books.
For further information, call Michael Landis at (802) 257-1851, or email him at emagicmtman@gmail.com

Mineralogical Society
2025-08-05 18:00 - 20:45 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Join the Brattleboro Mineralogical Society to discuss Minerals and other Geological topics!

Monday Movie Matinees--Dog Man!
2025-08-11 15:00 - 17:00 | VT
Join us at a NEW TIME, 3 PM, for a Monday Movie Matinee encore showing of Dog Man!

CANCELLED--Library Board of Trustees
2025-08-12 16:30 - 18:00 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
August meeting of the Brooks Memorial Library Board of Trustees will not take place. Meetings the second Tuesday of every month will resume in September.
Board of Trustees

One Million Rising Resistance Gathering
2025-08-16 10:30 - 12:15 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Join us for a One Million Rising Resistance Gathering. At this local community gathering, attendees will stand in community together, ready to take action. They will participate in a lively discussion addressing the real time threat America is facing as we quickly shift away from our democratic values and into an authoritarian regime. We will talk through ways our local community can take action and help stop this through noncooperation techniques.
**A core principle behind all Indivisible events is a commitment to nonviolent action. We expect all participants to seek to de-escalate any potential confrontation with those who disagree with our values. We expect hosts to ensure all participants in your event uphold this commitment. We recommend all participants review our safety and security resource before your event: https://indivisi.org/safety**

Introduction to Buddhist Mindfulness Meditation
2025-08-18 16:00 - 17:30 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
This offering will be lead by Bhante Rathana, a Buddhist monk originally from Sri Lanka and currently residing at Serenity Central of New England in Jacksonville, Vermont. He has been dedicated to the path of Dhamma since the age of 13, and his journey includes over two decades of monastic training, study, and teaching in Sri Lanka and the United States.

At these sessions, Bhante will be offering practical guidance in breathing meditation (ānāpānasati), loving-kindness meditation (mettā bhāvanā), and walking meditation, rooted in the original teachings of the Buddha as preserved in the Pāli Canon. His approach draws directly from early Buddhist texts, focusing on mindfulness, compassion, and inner peace.

With gentle, step-by-step instruction, Bhante aims to help participants develop calm, clarity, and deeper awareness—whether you are new to meditation or wish to strengthen your practice.

Sci-Fi Reading Group
2025-08-18 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 in the Quiet Reading Room from 7:00pm – 8:30pm to discuss Hammajang Luck by Makana Yamamoto!
Edie is done with crime. Eight years behind bars changes a person—costs them too much time with too many of the people who need them most.
And it’s all Angel’s fault. She sold Edie out in what should have been the greatest moment of their lives. Instead, Edie was shipped off to the icy prison planet spinning far below the soaring skybridges and neon catacombs of Kepler space station—of home—to spend the best part of a decade alone.
But then a chance for early parole appears out of nowhere and Edie steps into the pallid sunlight to find none other than Angel waiting—and she has an offer.
One last job. One last deal. One last target. The trillionaire tech god they failed to bring down last time. There’s just one thing Edie needs to do—trust Angel again—which also happens to be the last thing Edie wants to do. What could possibly go all hammajang about this plan?
The Sci-Fi Reading Group meets the third Monday of every month and is open to curious minds, whether or not they’ve read this month’s selection.

SEVT Audubon Society
2025-08-19 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
2025-08-20 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

Exploring Oaxaca, Mexico - Travel Fever Tours
2025-08-20 19:00 - 20:30 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
A look at the food and culture of Oaxaca, Mexico, with slide show and presentation by long-time Oaxaca resident Mimi Marchev. Mimi is a retired SIT staff member.

Illustration for Science! Workshop III: Local Botanicals
2025-08-23 10:30 - 12:30 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
THIS WORKSHOP IS FULL. PLEASE CONTACT US TO JOIN THE WAITLIST.
Workshop III: Local Botanicals — Saturday, August 23
Explore the fascinating world of plants in this botanical drawing and watercolor workshop, presented in collaboration with The River Gallery School. With an emphasis on observation, participants will learn to study and sketch the details of local plants, understanding their unique characteristics and importance. These drawings may contribute to scientific research, especially in plant identification and conservation efforts.

Illustration for Science!
Summer of Community Science Art Workshop Series
Adult Summer Reading Program
Workshop I: Butterflies + Moths — Saturday, July 19
Workshop II: Birds — Saturday, July 26
Workshop III: Local Botanicals — Saturday, August 23
Join us for a series of three nature-inspired classes designed for adults and youth ages 15 and up. These hour-and-a-half workshops will focus on the skill of close observation, a vital gift of drawing from life, which connects the visual arts with the sciences. Each workshop provides an opportunity to explore the natural world while learning to create detailed illustrations that could contribute to community science projects.
Throughout these workshops, the emphasis is on learning how to see the natural world through a new lens. Drawing from observation will enhance participants’ attention to detail, fostering a deeper connection between art and science while contributing to the understanding of our local environment.
Participants are welcome to attend one or all workshops, and all sessions are free.
Registration is required. Please contact the Circulation Desk (in person, 802-254-5290, circ@brookslibraryvt.org) to register by Monday, August 18.

One Million Rising Resistance Gathering
2025-08-25 18:00 - 20:00 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Join us for a One Million Rising Resistance Gathering. At this local community gathering attendees will stand in community together, ready to take action. They will participate in a lively discussion addressing the real time threat America is facing as we quickly shift away from our democratic values and into an authoritarian regime. We will talk through ways our local community can take action and help stop this through noncooperation techniques.
