Brooks Memorial Library - Brattleboro VT

Rhyme Time
2023-05-24 10:30 - 11:00, 2023-05-31 10:30 - 11:00, 2023-06-07 10:30 - 11:00, 2023-06-14 10:30 - 11:00, 2023-06-21 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.
Here is a handout featuring some of the different songs, fingerplays, and movement games we use!

CPCC
2023-05-24 17:30 - 18:30 | Meeting Room D – Quiet Reading Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Monthly Town CPCC meeting please see https://www.ibrattleboro.com/ and Town of Brattleboro website under “Committees”

The Power of Dignity: A community conversation on substance use
2023-05-24 18:00 - 19:30 | Main Reading Room
A panel of CSUR (Community Substance Use Response) members will participate in the conversation but their principal interest is to hear the diverse experiences and insights of other community members. CSUR does not have answers to the many problems, including overdose deaths, related to substance use, but we believe that solutions can emerge from community conversations grounded in mutual respect. We encourage everyone who joins us to exercise the “power of dignity” throughout the event.
Topics to explore together:

Substance Use
Substance Use Disorders
Addiction
Prevention
Treatment
Harm Reduction
Youth, seniors, & everyone else
Experiencing crime
Experiencing homelessness
Accountability with compassion & non-judgment

Sponsored by: Voices of Hope; Turning Point; AIDS project of Southern VT; Building a Positive Community; and Meetinghouse Solutions

Community Conversation with Brattleboro State Representatives
2023-05-24 18:00 - 21:00 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Representatives Emilie Kornheiser, Mollie Burke, and Tristan Toleno, along with State Senators Wendy Harrison and Nader Hashim, discuss legislative opportunities and community priorities. All are welcome to come join the conversation.

POSTPONED: Teen Writing Games
2023-05-25 19:00 - 21:00 | Spicy Lime Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
This month’s Writing Games event has been postponed due to scheduling conflicts! Please join us instead on Thursday June 1st from 7-9pm

Hello teens of Brattleboro! Are you someone who is interested in writing and/or games?
The Teen Library Board hosts a free writing based event at the Brooks Memorial Library. This event is located in the Teen Room of the library, on the 2nd Floor. It runs from 7 to 9pm. We’ll be making black-out poetry, rolling story-cubes, playing exquisite corpse, and other fun, writing-related games. Feel free to reach out to us at either 1cummia@wsesdvt.org or teens@brookslibraryvt.org if you have any questions.
Pizza and snacks provided. Masks are not required, but we have them if you want them.
Hosted by the Teen Advisory Board. “Teens Only” events are open to people in grades 7-12.

Fall Prevention Tai Chi
2023-05-26 15:00 - 16:00 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
A beginner level Tai Chi for Fall Prevention class, as taught by Tai Chi Vermont, in partnership with Senior Solutions Brattleboro.

Game Cafe!
2023-05-27 14:00 - 16:45, 2023-06-03 14:00 - 16:45, 2023-06-10 14:00 - 16:45, 2023-06-17 14:00 - 16:45 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting 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!

Writing Your College Admissions Essay
2023-05-30 17:00 - 18:00 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
There is not one perfect way to write a college admissions essay, but there are universal principles to writing a strong essay. Collegewise counselor Jessica Nelson will share her strategies that are guaranteed to help students improve their chances of finding and sharing a compelling story with an admissions committee.
For 23+ years Collegewise has been supporting families in experiencing a less stressful and more successful journey to their best fit college. We are on a mission to help students access the transformative power of higher education and share free advice and resources with as many families as possible.

Book Launch for Green Mountain Stories
2023-05-30 19:00 | 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Celebrate the newly released edition of 28 short stories by Brattleboro author Mary E. Wilkins Freeman with the initially intended title Green Mountain Stories. Published originally in 1887 as A Humble Romance and Other Stories, this new edition features an introduction and critical commentary by Freeman scholar Brent Kendrick.
Mary E. Wilkins Freeman (1852-1930) enjoyed distinguished accolades throughout her career as a short story writer and novelist. At the start of the Twentieth Century—when her career was at its height—she and Mark Twain were considered America’s most beloved writers. The bronze doors at the American Academy of Arts and Letters in New York (installed at its West 155 Street Administration Building in 1938) bear the inscription, “Dedicated to the Memory of Mary E. Wilkins Freeman and the Women Writers of America.”
Books will be available for sale and signing at the event.

LEGO-Palooza
2023-06-01 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!

CANCELLED: Teen Writing Games
2023-06-01 19:00 - 21:00 | Spicy Lime Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Cancelled due to high school event scheduling. Will be restarted in September!

Hello teens of Brattleboro! Are you someone who is interested in writing and/or games?
The Teen Library Board hosts a free writing based event at the Brooks Memorial Library. This event is located in the Teen Room of the library, on the 2nd Floor. It runs from 7 to 9pm. We’ll be making black-out poetry, rolling story-cubes, playing exquisite corpse, and other fun, writing-related games. Feel free to reach out to us at either 1cummia@wsesdvt.org or teens@brookslibraryvt.org if you have any questions.
Pizza and snacks provided. Masks are not required, but we have them if you want them.
Hosted by the Teen Advisory Board. “Teens Only” events are open to people in grades 7-12.

Brattleboro in Stitches
2023-06-03 11:00 - 14:00, 2023-06-10 11:00 - 14:00, 2023-06-17 11:00 - 14:00, 2023-06-24 11:00 - 14:00 | 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
2023-06-05 19:00 - 21:00 | Meeting Room C – Local History
Monthly discussion of “Great Books”

Mineralogical Society
2023-06-06 18:00 - 20:45 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Study of Minerals and Geological topics

Library Board of Trustees
2023-06-13 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

State of Vermont/VCBB Public Listening Session on Internet for All
2023-06-14 18:30 - 19:30 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
The Vermont Community Broadband Board (VCBB) wants to hear from you. VCBB is holding two virtual listening sessions next week to hear input on the current state of internet service; problems Vermonters have accessing, affording, or using it; and what can be done to improve it. This event is to get a sense of the lived experience of residents of Brattleboro and other surrounding communities, which will inform plans VCBB is currently drafting to address issues currently facing Vermonters

June Sci-Fi Reading Group Meetup
2023-06-20 19:00 - 20:30 | Brooks Memorial Library, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
The Sci-Fi Reading Group will meet Tuesday, June 20th, in the Quiet Reading Room from 7-8:30 pm to discuss In the Watchful City by S. Qiouyi Lu.
From Goodreads:
“The city of Ora uses a complex living network called the Gleaming to surveil its inhabitants and maintain harmony. Anima is one of the cloistered extrasensory humans tasked with watching over Ora’s citizens. Although ær world is restricted to what æ can see and experience through the Gleaming, Anima takes pride and comfort in keeping Ora safe from all harm.
All that changes when a mysterious visitor enters the city carrying a cabinet of curiosities from around the world, with a story attached to each item. As Anima’s world expands beyond the borders of Ora to places—and possibilities—æ never before imagined to exist, æ finds ærself asking a question that throws into doubt ær entire purpose: What good is a city if it can’t protect its people?
The Sci-Fi Reading Group meets the third Tuesday of every month and is open to curious minds of all ages, whether or not they’ve read this month’s selection.

SEVT Audubon Society
2023-06-20 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
2023-06-21 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. Citizen attendance and commentary is welcome!
Friends of the Library

POSTPONED: Democracy Forum--"The American Way: Profits Over People. A History"
2023-06-21 19:00 - 20:30 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
POSTPONED
The presentation will trace the historical roots of money’s role in the relationships of power through the early development of representative democracy into the present. The analysis identifies central dynamics in contemporary America as having germinated in the 1640s and developed with consistent logic from that point forward. By shedding light on this continuum we can better understand persistent tendencies in our world that don’t seem to go away but should. Specifically there are two. The first is the social priority to protect, value and honor money over people. The second is the unrelenting societal default that protects, values and honors white people over all others; in a word, racism
