Brooks Memorial Library - Brattleboro VT

Storytime at Retreat Farm
2023-06-29 10:30 - 11:00, 2023-07-06 10:30 - 11:00, 2023-07-13 10:30 - 11:00 (America/New_York) | 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Join Brooks Memorial Library at Retreat Farm for storytime as part of our Summer Reading Program! Thursdays at 10:30am, come for the stories, stay for the goats! Free and open to all ages. Bring your own blanket or chair.

Outdoor Movie Night: "The Birdcage"
2023-06-30 20:30 - 22:30 | Parking Lot, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Join us in the library parking lot for a Teens Only outdoor movie night to kick off Summer Reading Program. Bring your own seating!
In honor of Pride Month, we will watch “The Birdcage”. “The Birdcage” is a campy, funny, queer cult classic about an openly gay drag club owner and his drag queen partner putting up a false straight front so that their son can introduce them to his fiancée’s right-wing moralistic parents. The movie will start at 8pm and has a 1 hour and 57 minute run time.
RATING INFORMATION:
“The Birdcage” is a fun, comedic romp set in a South Beach nightclub with a drag show. There’s some strong language. Characters are frequently seen drinking, usually with a meal or in celebration, and two characters are occasionally depicted smoking. A lot of extras in the background are scantily clad, and some phallic home-decor items are seen.
Please check out Common Sense Media for more content details from both children and adults: https://www.commonsensemedia.org/movie-reviews/the-birdcage

Hosted by the Teen Advisory Board.
“Teens Only” events are open to people in grades 7-12.

Brattleboro in Stitches
2023-07-01 11:00 - 14:00 | Meeting Room D – Quiet Reading 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!
2023-07-01 14:00 - 16:45, 2023-07-15 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!

Movie Matinee: Matilda
2023-07-03 13:30 - 15:30 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Join us at 1:30pm for our Monday Movie Matinee showing of “Matilda” (Rated PG).
A girl gifted with a keen intellect and psychic powers uses both to deal with her crude, distant family and free her kind teacher from their sadistic headmistress.

Brattleboro Great Books Group
2023-07-03 19:00 - 21:00 | Meeting Room D – Quiet Reading Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Monthly discussion of “Great Books”

Rhyme Time
2023-07-05 10:30 - 11:00, 2023-07-12 10:30 - 11:00, 2023-07-19 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!

Support the Pollinators
2023-07-05 13:30 - 14:30 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Learn about our local pollinators, featuring bees, bats, hummingbirds, beetles, dragonflies, and butterflies with this fun, educational program! Free and open to all ages.
Registration is required! Call (802) 254-5290 X.1210 or sign-up in person at the Children’s Room.

Teen Zine-Making Workshop
2023-07-05 17:30 - 19:00 | Spicy Lime Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Ever wanted to make a zine? Local teen Anna Cummings will teach us how to make them easy, affordable, and quick to reproduce!
All materials will be provided, but participants are welcome to bring additional supplies.

Hosted by the Teen Advisory Board.
“Teens Only” events are open to people in grades 7-12.

LEGO-Palooza
2023-07-06 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!

Brattleboro in Stitches
2023-07-08 11:00 - 14:00, 2023-07-15 11:00 - 14:00 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States

Movie Matinee: The Princess Bride
2023-07-10 13:30 - 15:30 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Join us at 1:30pm for our Monday Movie Matinee showing of “The Princess Bride” (Rated PG).
A kindly grandfather sits down with his reluctant grandson and reads him the story of a farmboy-turned-pirate who encounters numerous obstacles, enemies and allies in his quest to be reunited with his true love. It’s a tale of fencing, fighting, torture, revenge, giants, monsters, chases, escapes, true love, and miracles, but will Grandpa be able to tell the story without any of the yucky kissing?

Sing & Dance with Robin
2023-07-11 10:30 - 11:30, 2023-07-18 10:30 - 11:30 | Brattleboro Commons, Park Pl, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
For Ages 0-5 and their caregivers, held on the Brattleboro Commons.
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.
On rainy days, Sing & Dance will be held in the BML Community Meeting Room.

Cooking with Kids: Green Smoothie Magic
2023-07-11 13:30 - 14:30 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Join us for “Cooking With Kids: Green Smoothie Magic” with Jamie Champney!
We will listen to “Green Smoothie Magic” by Victoria Boutenko. Together, we will make summer smoothies to turn into “nice” cream and “nice” cream popsicles! You will go home with the snack recipe of the day as well as fun ideas for more nutritious, delicious, and simple snacks to make after school, on the go, or any time you feel inspired to create in the kitchen! All recipes can be adapted to meet food allergies, intolerances, and sensitivities.
Registration Required! Register by calling the Children’s Room at (802) 254-5290 x.1210, dropping by the Children’s Room in person, or emailing cr@brookslibraryvt.org

Library Board of Trustees
2023-07-11 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

Movie Matinee: Treasure Planet
2023-07-17 13:30 - 15:30 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Join us at 1:30pm for our Monday Movie Matinee showing of “Treasure Planet” (Rated PG).
In this science fiction retelling of the classic novel “Treasure Island”, Jim Hawkins is a young slacker, eager for adventure but stuck working as a busboy at his mother’s restaurant. After he receives a map from a dying pirate, he embarks on an odyssey across the universe to find the legendary Treasure Planet.

Brattleboro Stamp Club
2023-07-17 19:00 - 20:45 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States

Pajama Storytime
2023-07-18 18:30 - 19:30 | Children’s Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Wear your pajamas and join us for a craft and snack, followed by our favorite bedtime stories and a lullaby or two!
In the Children’s Room. Fun for all ages! FREE

July Sci-Fi Reading Group Meetup
2023-07-18 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, June 18th, in the Quiet Reading Room from 7-8:30 pm to discuss The Haunting of Tram Car 015 by P. Djèlí Clark.
From Goodreads:
“The Haunting of Tram Car 015 returns to the alternate Cairo of Clark’s short fiction, where humans live and work alongside otherworldly beings; the Ministry of Alchemy, Enchantments and Supernatural Entities handles the issues that can arise between the magical and the mundane. Senior Agent Hamed al-Nasr shows his new partner Agent Onsi the ropes of investigation when they are called to subdue a dangerous, possessed tram car. What starts off as a simple matter of exorcism, however, becomes more complicated as the origins of the demon inside are revealed.”
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
2023-07-18 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
2023-07-19 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

All Ages Paper Airplane Derby
2023-07-19 18:00 - 19:00 | Brooks Memorial Library, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Get ready to show off your engineering skills and soar through the library at our first ever All Ages Paper Airplane Derby. Sign up and build starts at 6 o clock and we’ll be launching our planes from the mezzanine starting at 6:30. Planes must be built on site with the materials provided.
Come and enjoy fun for all ages and compete for bragging rights and cool prizes. This event is part of our All Together Now summer program.
No pre-registration required. In the Main Reading Room.

Create in Community: Writing Workshop for All Ages
2023-07-19 18:30 - 20:30 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
A creative writing workshop with prompts, discussions, and games led by Anna Cummings and Diana Whitney
