NO RHYME TIME
2025-12-24 10:30 - 23:30 (America/New_York) | VT
There will be NO Rhyme Time on Wednesday, December 24, 2025.

Town Arts Committee
2025-12-23 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!

Green Carnation Reading Group
2025-12-22 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.

Brattleboro in Stitches
2025-12-20 13:00 - 16:00, 2025-12-13 13:00 - 16:00, 2025-12-06 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.

Kids Fishing Club
2025-12-20 11:00 - 12:00 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
This is the second meeting of the Kids Fishing Club, bringing together Brattleboro area kids who love or are interested in fishing. We will do several things:
-LEARN about fish and techniques
-SHARE fish stories
-PLAN for the club’s future
Feel free to bring objects or pictures to share (no sharp hooks, please!)

Teen Movie Night!
2025-12-19 18:30 - 20:30 | 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 Winter movie night showing of Home Alone!
The movie will start at 6:30pm. Snacks and comfy chairs provided!
Hosted by the Teen Advisory Board. “Teens Only” events are open to people in grades 7-12.

Introduction to Buddhist Mindfulness Meditation
2025-12-19 16:00 - 17:30, 2025-12-12 16:00 - 17:30, 2025-12-05 16:00 - 17:30 | VT
This offering will be led 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.

Sing & Dance With Robin
2025-12-18 10:30 - 11:30, 2025-12-11 10:30 - 11:30 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Designed for ages under 6- all ages welcome! Free and open to the public.
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.
Sponsored by the Friends of Brooks Memorial Library.

Community Conversation with State Legislators
2025-12-17 18:30 - 20:30 | Main Reading Room
All are invited to a Community Conversation with Brattleboro State Legislators at Brooks Memorial Library. Prior to the start of the 2026 Legislative Session, this is an opportunity to learn about and contribute to our representatives’ priorities for the upcoming year.
We hope you join us and bring your questions and concerns regarding state matters to this community forum. All are welcome.

Game Cafe!
2025-12-17 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!

Friends of the Library
2025-12-17 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. Community attendance and commentary is welcome!
Friends of the Library

Rhyme Time
2025-12-17 10:30 - 11:00, 2025-12-10 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.
Free and open to the public.

SEVT Audubon Society
2025-12-16 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.

Art & Exploration at the Library: Book Group and Art Making for Seniors
2025-12-16 13:30 - 15:00, 2025-12-09 13:30 - 15:00 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Join River Gallery School teaching artist, Kate Milliken, for this free 5-week book exploration and art-making course for learners ages 65+.
Participants will have the opportunity to explore books on a variety of themes including history, food, nature, music, film, and classic novels, and create art in response to those themes through mixed media techniques.
This course is perfect for participants new to creating art and interested in a social book club experience. Supplies are provided. Registration is required. Sign up for one or all sessions in this exciting new offering, in collaboration with River Gallery School and Bradley House.
To register: stop by or call the circulation desk (802)254-5290; or, email: outreach@brookslibraryvt.org.

Brattleboro Stamp Club
2025-12-15 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!

Sci-Fi Reading Group
2025-12-15 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 in the Quiet Reading Room from 7:00pm – 8:30pm to discuss The Scourge Between Stars by Ness Brown!
As acting captain of the starship Calypso, Jacklyn Albright is responsible for keeping the last of humanity alive as they limp back to Earth from their forebears’ failed colony on a distant planet. Faced with constant threats of starvation and destruction in the treacherous minefield of interstellar space, Jacklyn’s crew has reached their breaking point. As unrest begins to spread throughout the ship’s Wards, a new threat emerges, picking off crew members in grim, bloody fashion. Jacklyn and her team must hunt down the ship’s unknown intruder if they have any hope of making it back to their solar system alive.
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.

Windham County Genealogy Interest Group December Meeting
2025-12-13 10:30 - 12:00 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
What We Do: The Windham County (Vt.) Genealogy Interest Group is an informal organization whose members are dedicated to genealogy education, research, and best practices. Meetings are held quarterly on Zoom and in-person at Brooks Memorial Library. New topics are selected before each meeting.
To receive information on topics please send email to windhamcountygig@gmail.com or register at https://bit.ly/WCGIG2025

Vermont Agency of Agriculture and VDOL H-2A Info Session
2025-12-11 16:00 - 18:00 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
The public is invited to this informational session provided by the Vermont Agency of Agriculture and the Vermont Department of Labor for farmers to attend who may be interested in learning more about the H-2A application/certification process.
Note: this December 11 meeting is the rescheduled date, from a postponed session originally scheduled for November 14.

John Van Der Does - Author Event
2025-12-10 19:00 - 20:45 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
John Van Der Does – an author living in Chester, Vermont – will share readings from his autobiographical accounts of his experiences in Vietnam. During the war, John wrote an extensive interview with the author Anton Wilson, an article in a French newspaper chronicling the struggles of people living on the barges on the banks of the Seine, and a book of poetry.
John had been hired to work on a film script with the famous director Jodorosky, but the chaos involved with this eccentric individual caused him to quit.
John is currently writing a novel whose main characters are a doctoral student and a taxi driver who uncover mysterious links between two literary giants in documents discovered in an attic in France.

Library Board of Trustees
2025-12-09 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

Community Dialogue on Political Moment
2025-12-08 17:00 - 19:00 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
A community discussion with Representative Emilie Kornheiser

Make a Mini-Crankie
2025-12-06 10:30 - 12:30 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
What’s A Crankie? Picture a hand-painted scroll that moves through a wooden box while a performer sings, plays music, or tells a story. It’s part folk art, part theater, part magic. Workshop attendees will build a miniature Crankie out of a matchbox and matchsticks with a turning mechanism for the scroll. Each participant will design and create the scroll and render it in four images. In the course of two hours, everyone will create an entire Crankie! This workshop is for participants ages 15 and up. Space is limited, so registration is required. To register, email circ@brookslibraryvt.org or call (802)254-5290 ext. 0. Sponsored by the Friends of Brooks Memorial Library.

Art & Exploration at the Library: Book Group and Art Making for Seniors
2025-12-05 13:30 - 15:00 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Rescheduled from Tuesday, 12/02 to Friday, 12/05: Join River Gallery School teaching artist, Kate Milliken, for this free 5-week book exploration and art-making course for learners ages 65+.
Participants will have the opportunity to explore books on a variety of themes including history, food, nature, music, film, and classic novels, and create art in response to those themes through mixed media techniques.
This course is perfect for participants new to creating art and interested in a social book club experience. Supplies are provided. Registration is required. Sign up for one or all sessions in this exciting new offering, in collaboration with River Gallery School and Bradley House.
To register: stop by or call the circulation desk (802)254-5290; or, email: outreach@brookslibraryvt.org.
