Brooks Memorial Library - Brattleboro VT

Teen Movie Night: "Whip-It"
2023-02-24 19:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | 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 INDOOR movie night.
We will watch “Whip-It”, a sports comedy in which Bliss Cavendar (Elliot Page) lives in small-town Texas and yearns to break free of her mother’s world of beauty pageants and conformity. She sees her chance when she meets the Hurl Scouts, a roller-derby team; she tries out for the team and wins a slot, lying to her parents about her new hobby.

The movie will start at 7pm and has a run time of 1 hour and 50 minutes. Masks requested, snacks provided.

Brattleboro Time Trade
2023-02-25 13:00 - 16:30 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Brattleboro Time Trade member greeting and potluck!

Instapot Cooking Demo
2023-02-27 17:00 - 19:00 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Join Edible Brattleboro for a fun and interactive instapot cooking demonstration – including lentil soup, greens, and dessert!
Registration Required! Register HERE or by emailing cooking@ediblebrattleboro.org

Brattleboro Stamp Club
2023-02-27 18:00 - 20:00 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States

Sing & Dance with Robin
2023-02-28 10:30 - 11:30, 2023-03-07 10:30 - 11:30 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
For Ages 0-5 and their caregivers, held in the Community Meeting Room.
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.

Town Arts Committee
2023-02-28 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!

Rhyme Time
2023-03-01 10:30 - 11:00, 2023-03-08 10:30 - 11:00, 2023-03-15 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!

First Wednesdays: Biodiversity, Conservation, and Civic Participation in Paraguay
2023-03-01 19:00 - 21:00 | Brooks Memorial Library, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Digital Event

March 1, 2023: 7:00 pm

South America’s Atlantic Forest is one of the most diverse ecosystems on the planet. Cristian Fretes Ojeda, technical trainer for Peace Corps Paraguay, discusses how civic participation is leading the effort to conserve crucial natural areas like the Atlantic Forest and the Gran Chaco, which span several South American countries.
About Cristhian Fretes Ojeda
Cristhian Fretes Ojeda is a volunteer trainer for Peace Corps Paraguay and an active conservationist working with the nonprofit OPADES on biodiversity conservation and sustainable development across the country.
Register for this free event
Photo by Cristhian Fretes Ojeda
Sponsored by the Friends of Brooks Memorial Library

Statewide Underwriters

Please contact us at info@vermonthumanities.org for information on disability services. To request a specific accommodation, contact us at least three weeks prior to the event. Vermont Humanities strives to provide accommodations whenever possible. All event locations are ADA accessible.

LEGO-Palooza
2023-03-02 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!

Bloom: Artists' Reception
2023-03-03 16:00 - 18:00 | Main Reading Room
Join us for the opening of
BLOOM: bright, bold, watercolor flowers
by Art Among Friends
Opening reception, Friday, March 3rd, 4:00-6:00 pm
Brooks Memorial Library Main Reading Room
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We invite you to enjoy the hope and promise we all share with the coming of spring.
Connie Evans – Alice Freeman – Kathy Greve – Laurie Klenkel – Louise Zak – Lynn Zimmerman
We six artists–called Art Among Friends–gathered online during the pandemic to create, support, and encourage one another on our artistic journeys. Through regular practice painting together, we continue to bloom.
BLOOM will grace the library’s main reading room March 1st – April 27th.

Windham County Genealogy Interest Group: ONLINE
2023-03-04 11:00 - 13:00 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Windham County Genealogy Interest Group Meeting
March 4, 2023
Finding Your Ancestors in Immigration Records

The Windham County Genealogy Interest Group will hold its next meeting on Saturday, March 4, 2023, from 11am to 1pm, ON ZOOM ONLY. ****Please note that this is a change from the original in-person plan, because of the predicted bad weather.****

Please register at this link https://bit.ly/WCGIGMAR4

To join the Zoom session, please use this link http://bit.ly/3Zf19Gl

Jerry Carbone and Wayne Blanchard will explore how to find ancestors in immigration records using ship manifests, border crossings, naturalization records and census records that asked citizenship questions. Except for those of Native American heritage, everyone in the United States had ancestors who arrived from other places.
“Our goal is to assist genealogists and history enthusiasts in finding their ancestors and tracing their journey to the United States,” said Blanchard. “By understanding how to access immigration records, attendees will be able to uncover the stories of their forebears and learn more about their family history.”
The presentations will show attendees how to use websites, such as, stevemorse.org and ancestry.com to find Ellis Island records and other ports of entry to the U.S. to include Boston, Baltimore, Galveston, New Orleans, Philadelphia, and San Francisco. For those with ancestors who immigrated earlier than the Ellis Island era, other methods must be used. Using journals and court records, for example, it is possible in some cases to learn a lot about how English ancestors came to New England during the Great Migration of the 1630s.

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 every other month on Zoom. Many of these sessions were recorded and are available on the WCGIG YouTube Channel, which cover topics as: improving your search results in FamilySearch.org and Ancestry.com; using family tree software; navigating the crowd sources cemetery database, Find A Grave; using land records for genealogy research; using AmericanAncestors.org, the database of the New England Historic Genealogical Society; finding people in the newly released 1950 U.S. Census.

For more information please contact windhamcountygig@gmail.com.

Game Cafe!
2023-03-04 14:00 - 16:45, 2023-03-11 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!

Brattleboro Great Books Group
2023-03-06 08:00 - 17:00, 2023-03-06 19:00 - 21:00 | Meeting Room D – Quiet Reading Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Monthly discussion of “Great Books”

Read to a Dog
2023-03-07 15:30 - 17:00 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
This March is “Paws to Read” month! Come read out loud to Kelso the Dog (and his human, Everett) to celebrate. Kelso is specially trained to read with kids and LOVES to be petted and cuddled– give him a treat when you’re done, and you’ll have a buddy for life.
Come to the Children’s Room for a date with Kelso – dates experienced on a first come first serve basis. Bring your own books or come early to pick some of ours! All Ages Welcome.

Mineralogical Society
2023-03-07 18:00 - 20:45 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Study of Minerals and Geological topics

Healthcare Resource Info Hours
2023-03-08 14:00 - 16:00 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Do you use Medicaid?
Members of the VT Worker’s Center will be on hand to provide information about the Medicaid re-determinations that will be starting on April 1st. Members of the public are invited to drop in between 2 and 4pm to find out about the re-determinations, how they are impacted, and what you can do if they are cut off.
We will also have resources for other questions about healthcare – not only Medicaid – and the opportunity to participate in a healthcare survey.

Parenting 4 Social Justice Reading-Discussion Group
2023-03-08 18:00 - 20:00 | Brooks Memorial Library, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
We are sorry, the current session of this monthly book group is filled to capacity. We hope to offer future opportunities to discuss this pivotal work. Please check back in late May.

Teen Game Night
2023-03-10 19:00 - 22:00 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Join us on Friday March 10th 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 an Oculus VR headset to try out.
We’ll be on the 2nd floor and spread out between the rooms. Pizza and snacks provided!
Hosted by the Teen Advisory Board. “Teens Only” events are open to people in grades 7-12.

Community Conversation with Brattleboro State Representatives
2023-03-11 10:30 - 11:30 | 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.

Democracy Forum: "Our Slow Motion Judicial Coup"
2023-03-13 18:00 - 20:00 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Tim Kipp will present the fifty-year history of corporate, social, and political strategy to fill the American judiciary with ultra-conservative judges. The strategy and its goals were published in August 1973 and have been fulfilled patiently ever since. The results are plain to see, from Dobbs vs. Jackson to gerrymandering, voter suppression and anti-immigration decisions in federal courts at all levels.

POSTPONED: Meet the Native Bees of New England
2023-03-13 19:00 - 20:00 | Main Reading Room
Due to stormy weather, this program that was scheduled for March 13th has been re-scheduled for March 27th:
Read the full program description on its new calendar date, March 27th.

CANCELLED: Sing & Dance with Robin
2023-03-14 10:30 - 11:30 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
****Cancelled Due to Big Weather**** Join us next week Tuesday March 21 for Robin’s next visit!
For Ages 0-5 and their caregivers, held in the Community Meeting Room.
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.

CANCELLED: Read to a Dog
2023-03-14 15:30 - 17:00 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
****CANCELED due to Big Weather**** Please join us next week Tuesday March 21st for Kelso’s next visit!
This March is “Paws to Read” month! Come read out loud to Kelso the Dog (and his human, Everett) to celebrate. Kelso is specially trained to read with kids and LOVES to be petted and cuddled– give him a treat when you’re done, and you’ll have a buddy for life.
Come to the Children’s Room for a date with Kelso – dates experienced on a first come first serve basis. Bring your own books or come early to pick some of ours! All Ages Welcome.

Library Board of Trustees
2023-03-14 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

Friends of the Library
2023-03-15 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
