Brooks Memorial Library - Brattleboro VT

Teen Movie Night: "Little Shop of Horrors"
2023-08-04 20:30 - 22:30 (America/New_York) | Parking Lot, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Join us in the library parking lot for a Teens Only outdoor movie night.
We will watch “Little Shop of Horrors”.
Meek flower shop assistant Seymour pines for co-worker Audrey. During a total eclipse, he discovers an unusual plant he names Audrey II, which feeds only on human flesh and blood. The growing plant attracts a great deal of business for the previously struggling store. After Seymour feeds Audrey’s boyfriend to the plant after his accidental death, he must come up with more bodies for the increasingly bloodthirsty plant. Runtime 1 hr and 33 minutes.
Snacks provided, BYO seating!
Hosted by the Teen Advisory Board.
“Teens Only” events are open to people in grades 7-12.

Brattleboro in Stitches
2023-08-05 11:00 - 14:00, 2023-08-12 11:00 - 14:00, 2023-08-19 11:00 - 14:00, 2023-08-26 11:00 - 14:00, 2023-09-09 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.

Game Cafe!
2023-08-05 14:00 - 16:45, 2023-08-12 14:00 - 16:45, 2023-08-19 14:00 - 16:45, 2023-08-26 14:00 - 16:45, 2023-09-02 14:00 - 16:45, 2023-09-09 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!

Friends of the Library Garden Party
2023-08-06 14:00 - 17:00 | 744 Meadowbrook Rd., 744 Meadowbrook Rd., Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Life Imitates art at this year’s Friends of the Library Garden Party. Enjoy a fine art inspired repast of light refreshments and fun. Your ticket price includes an array of desserts, drinks, a free raffle ticket for a chance to win a plant or gift certificate from area garden centers, and best of all, goes to support all the great things The Friends of the Library provide!

Tickets are $25 or two for $40, and are available at the library ahead of time, or upon arrival at the party (follow the signage on Meadowbrook Road).

Proceeds from the event will help make possible the support of a wide array of programs and services offered by the library. These include museum passes, the Children and Adult Summer Reading program, Sing and Dance with Robin for pre-schoolers, food for the very popular Teen Nights, co-sponsorship of the First Wednesday lecture series, and computer access to free resources such as Kanopy (films) and Mango and Pronunciator (language study programs).

Advance ticket purchases are appreciated. There is no rain date; if cancelled due to weather, advance ticket purchases will be considered a donation.

Brattleboro Great Books Group
2023-08-07 19:00 - 21:00 | Meeting Room D – Quiet Reading Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Monthly discussion of “Great Books”

Library Board of Trustees
2023-08-08 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

Altar to an Erupting Sun: Chuck Collins in Conversation with Frida Berrigan
2023-08-14 19:00 | 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Monday Aug 14, 7pm

Brooks Memorial Library First Floor Reading Room

Come celebrate the publication of the novel, Altar to an Erupting Sun, by Chuck Collins, in conversation with Frida Berrigan.
About the Book
Rae Kelliher is a veteran environmental activist and pioneer in the death-with-dignity movement. Her husband Reggie calls her “party in a box” and “a weaver of people and movements.” Facing a diagnosis of terminal illness, Rae engages in a shocking suicide-murder, taking the life of an oil company CEO for his complicity in delaying responses to climate catastrophe. Seven years later, Rae’s friends and family gather at her Vermont farm to try to understand her violent exit and the rapid social transformations triggered by her desperate act.
Speakers
Frida Berrigan is activist, urban farmer, and columnist who lives in New London, CT, and author It Runs In The Family: On Being Raised By Radicals And Growing Into Rebellious Motherhood”
Chuck Collins from Guilford is a campaigner and storyteller and author of Altar to an Erupting Sun (Green Writer Press). His books include: Born on Third Base, The Wealth Hoarders, Wealth and Our Commonwealth (with Bill Gates Sr.), and Economic Apartheid in America. Collins directs the Program on Inequality and the Common Good at the Institute for Policy Studies where he co-edits Inequality.org.

4-H Science Fun - CANCELLED
2023-08-15 13:00 - 16:00 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

Come explore with UVM 4-H as we test, build, and create!
Activities will include:

Everyday Engineering
Renewable Plastics
Hurricane Proof Housing

This FREE workshop is for youth in grades 3-6 and will be led by the UVM STEM Ambassadors. Space is limited to 30 participants.
Join us for an afternoon of fun! Register no later than August 12. Click here.
To request language interpretation/translation assistance and/or a disability-related accommodation to participate in this program, please contact the Lauren Traister at 802-656-7565 or email lauren.traister@uvm.edu, by July 28, 2023 so they may assist you.

August Sci-Fi Reading Group Meetup
2023-08-15 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 Tuesday, August 15th, in the Quiet Reading Room from 7-8:30 pm to discuss Finna by Nino Cipri.
From Goodreads:
“When an elderly customer at a Swedish big box furniture store — but not that one — slips through a portal to another dimension, it’s up to two minimum-wage employees to track her across the multiverse and protect their company’s bottom line. Multi-dimensional swashbuckling would be hard enough, but those two unfortunate souls broke up a week ago. To find the missing granny, Ava and Jules will brave carnivorous furniture, swarms of identical furniture spokespeople, and the deep resentment simmering between them. Can friendship blossom from the ashes of their relationship? In infinite dimensions, all things are possible.”
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
2023-08-15 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
2023-08-16 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

Brattleboro Stamp Club
2023-08-21 19:00 - 20:45 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States

Town Arts Committee
2023-08-22 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!

Brattleboro Conservation Commission
2023-08-22 17:15 - 19:30 | Main Reading Room
Meeting and panel discussion
in the Main Reading Room

This panel discussion is part of a public engagement process hosted by the Brattleboro Conservation Commission after a recent timber harvest at the Brattleboro’s Watershed Forest: Pleasant Valley Reservoir (PVR). It started with an excellent tour by Dan Healey, the consulting forester for PVR’s Forest Management Plan, which went into detail discussing the silvicultural treatments used in the most recent harvest and the goals they were meant to fulfill.

Here, with a panel consisting of consulting foresters, Dan Healey and Andrew Morrison, and consulting ecologist Daniel Dubie, we zoom out to a broader view of forestry and forest ecology for a discussion of the landscape-scale benefits of – and threats to – our regional forests, and how forestry can maximize those benefits and address those threats, and (to a lesser degree) how management of PVR fits into that.

CPCC
2023-08-23 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”

Commemoration of the March on Washington
2023-08-28 19:00 - 20:30 | Main Reading Room
Sixty years after Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his iconic “I Have a Dream” speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on August 28, 1963, poet and performer David Mills will present an hour-long dramatic presentation, portraying Dr. King’s transformation from his early uncertainties about Civil Rights into the iconic figure he became. The show highlights Dr. King’s, “Letter from a Birmingham Jail,” “I Have a Dream” “Promised Land” “If I had Sneezed,” and “Early Days.” Mr. Mills’ stirring presentation looks at the public figure and the private man.
Community members who were present at the original event sixty years ago are encouraged to share their stories by sending them to starr@brookslibraryvt.org

Brattleboro in Stitches
2023-09-02 11:00 - 14:00 | Meeting Room D – Quiet Reading Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States

Mineralogical Society
2023-09-05 18:00 - 20:45 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Study of Minerals and Geological topics

Rhyme Time
2023-09-06 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!

Can we protect religious liberties and LGBTQ+ rights? Discussion series with Meg Mott
2023-09-06 19:00 - 21:00 | Main Reading Room
Constitution Wrangler Meg Mott will lead a three-part series on the contentious issue of school vouchers. Following a 2021 Supreme Court decision, Vermont may no longer exclude religious schools from the voucher program. Some argue that this program will legitimize religious beliefs that discriminate against sexual minorities. Others argue that if parents can send their kids to private schools, why shouldn’t they be able to send their kids to parochial schools? Under the laws of polarization, those two positions are mutually exclusive. But under the pleasures of complex understanding, there are myriad arguments to explore.
September 6: What the Court Said: The Supreme Court case that forced Vermont’s hand is Carson v. Makin. Besides considering the arguments of the Court and the dissent, we’ll look at the practical implications of this decision and how activists on both sides are using it to increase polarization.
September 13: What We Could Say: Makin maps out the tension between religious liberties and non-discrimination, but that is just the tip of the iceberg. We will explore a rhetorical ecosystem using the ideals of progressives, libertarians, and conservatives to consider both points of view. What would a conservative argument against the voucher program sound like? What about a progressive argument for the voucher program.
September 20: What We Need to Say: In this final class, we’ll consider productive reframes to decrease polarization. What sort of language might convince progressives that school choice is in their best interests? What sort of language might convince conservatives that non-discrimination concerns are important to their cause? If persuasion is more pleasurable than polarization, maybe we can kick this self-destructive habit!

LEGO-Palooza
2023-09-07 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!
