SEVT Audubon Society
2025-12-16 19:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | 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.

Brattleboro in Stitches
2025-12-13 13:00 - 16:00, 2025-12-06 13:00 - 16:00, 2025-11-29 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.

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

Introduction to Buddhist Mindfulness Meditation
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.

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.

Sing & Dance With Robin
2025-12-11 10:30 - 11:30, 2025-12-04 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.

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.

Rhyme Time
2025-12-10 10:30 - 11:00, 2025-12-03 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.

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, 2025-12-02 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.

World AIDS Day and The AIDS Memorial Quilt
2025-12-05 10:00 - 18:00 | Main Reading Room
The AIDS Project of Southern Vermont is honored to host sections of the AIDS Memorial Quilt in honor of World AIDS Day. A 12’ x 12’ section of the iconic Quilt, including a panel for Ron Squires, Vermont’s first openly gay legislator, will be on display in the Main Reading Room at Brooks Memorial Library on Friday, December 5th, from 10:00AM–6:00 PM.
Created in 1985 and first displayed on the National Mall in 1987, the AIDS Memorial Quilt has grown to nearly 50,000 panels honoring more than 110,000 individuals, making it the largest community arts project in history. Panel-making continues today, preserving the stories of those lost and supporting HIV prevention education.
“We are so excited to bring this piece of history to Southern Vermont,” says Heather Cutler, Case Manager at the AIDS Project of Southern Vermont. “It’s important to honor this history and celebrate advances in HIV detection and treatment.”
Partners in this event include community members impacted by HIV/AIDS; educational resources will be available. All are welcome to come and view the panel, up close.
For more information, contact the AIDS Project at (802) 254-4444.

LEGO-Palooza
2025-12-04 15:00 - 17:00 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Join us on the first Thursday of every month 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!

A Lifeline for Difficult Times: The Taking Solace Series
2025-12-03 18:00 - 20:00 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Starting this November, Center for Solace (formerly Brattleboro Area Hospice) & Brooks Memorial Library
have begun an 8-month collaboration on the first Wednesday of each month, from 6-8 pm.
Come join us for a wide range of conversations
on tender topics, from Death Cafes, to film & discussion nights,
speaker panels, a climate-grief dialogue, and more.
Together we’ll explore some of the challenges of being alive in our time.
For instance, how might we navigate illness, caregiving, or loss?
Or beyond that, face a much broader anguish for our fragile planet itself?
Because we know that at least one form of solace
stems from staying connected.
To quote poet David Whyte, “Solace is not meant to be
an answer, but an invitation, through the door of pain and difficulty,
to the depth of suffering and simultaneous beauty in the world
that the strategic mind by itself cannot grasp or make sense of.”
For this second session on 12/03, the topic of exploration is Navigating Grief During Holidays
(& anytime).

Come join us to explore this universal topic: whatever we may celebrate,
losing or missing a loved one at holidays (or birthdays & other milestones) can certainly
compound our grief. How do we hold space for that added emotion, as well as honor
the lives of those we’ve lost?

To find out about further topics, please follow
Center for Solace or Brooks Memorial Library on Facebook:
centerforsolace.org, or brookslibraryvt.org.

Flower Pot Saucer Gardens, for Fairy Folk or other tiny beings
2025-12-03 16:00 - 17:30 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Create a habitat for your favorite miniatures in a flower pot saucer. Open to all ages. Materials will be provided, but feel free to bring your own additions. Participants will take their creations home.

Mineralogical Society
2025-12-02 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!

Brattleboro Great Books Group
2025-12-01 19:00 - 21:00 | Meeting Room D – Quiet Reading Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Monthly discussion of “Great Books”

District 9 Forum
2025-12-01 18:30 - 20:30 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Discussion of the FY27 Town budget and other Town matters.

Friends of the Library Book Sale Kick Off
2025-11-29 10:00 - 17:00 | Brooks Memorial Library, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
The Friends of the Library’s Annual Book Sale will begin on Friday, November 28th and Saturday, November 29th. Remainders will be available through the end of the year during regular library hours.
Most items will be $2 or less and you will have the opportunity to purchase raffle tickets for some fabulous literary-themed gift baskets.
Proceeds from the sale support the patrons of the Brooks Memorial Library by funding programming, museum passes, and much much more!
