Brooks Memorial Library - Brattleboro VT

SEVT Audubon Society
2025-02-18 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.

SEVT Audubon Society
2025-02-18 19:00 - 21:00 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
This meeting of South Eastern Vermont’s Audubon Society has been canceled. Please join them again this time next month!

Friends of the Library
2025-02-19 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. Community attendance and commentary is welcome!
Friends of the Library

Vermont Humanities Snapshot Series: Finding a Voice in the Arts
2025-02-19 19:00 - 20:30 | https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_RXt7oYMuTEK1QI3AOU3VQg?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR19aIAJg7TrCM7WCQQ7gQRt3TEsfb7-JyBJcoEXGJ7q4-4CAriU-aR2NNc_aem_N1zM5klZjF6sk260iKKclA#/registration
Join Brooks Memorial Library – ONLINE – as we host Vermont Humanities Snapshot Series with James Lockridge.
Almost 20 years ago, Lockridge co-founded the nonprofit organization Big Heavy World to archive and promote original Vermont-made music. In this talk, he shares historic and current examples of how the arts can invite changemaking and community building for those who are still finding their voice.
About the presenter: James Lockridge has been directing Big Heavy World as a volunteer since co-founding the organization in 1996. He has guided its growth into a recognized music office, archive, and media center. His roles include development, volunteer oversight, and project management. James graduated with a BA from the University of Vermont in 1991. He participates on several cultural heritage and arts-related boards and is a longtime advocate for equity and transparency in government, especially in relation to the arts. He enjoys motorcycle riding and lives in Tucson with his wife, daughter and a house full of cats and dogs.
Registration for this online program is required through this link, HERE.

SEVCA's Volunteer Tax Prep Assistance (VITA) Program
2025-02-20 10:00 - 18:00 | Brooks Memorial Library, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
The IRS’s Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program offers free basic tax return preparation to qualified individuals.
The VITA program has operated for over 50 years. VITA sites offer free tax help to people who need assistance in preparing their own tax returns, including:
-People who generally make $67,000 or less
-Persons with disabilities, and
-Limited English-speaking taxpayers
SEVCA’s VITA program also assists Vermont homeowners and renters with Homestead Declarations, Property Tax Credit Claims, and Renter Rebate Claims, even if they are not required to file a tax return.
VITA services are not only free, they are also a reliable and trusted source for preparing tax returns.
Services are by appointment only. Click HERE to request an appointment.
If you would like more information, visit sevca.org/tax services, email estrasser@sevca.org, or call or text 802-428-3032.

DINOMAN DINOSAURS
2025-02-20 10:30 - 11:30 | Main Reading Room
How do we know dinosaurs were here? What is a fossil? How are they made?
Find out the answer to these questions and more when Dinoman visits Brooks Memorial Library on Thursday, February 20 at 10:30 am.
Accompanied by huge inflatable dinosaurs, Dinoman brings his fun and informative show to the Main Reading Room of the library. Doors open at 10:00 am, the show begins at 10:30 am. FREE and fun for all ages.
Dinoman is presented by the Children’s Room and Brattleboro Winter Carnival Committee and is sponsored by the Friends of Brooks Memorial Library. The library is located at 224 Main Street, Brattleboro. For more information call the Children’s Room at 802-254-5290 ext. 1210.

Lego-Palooza Special Session!
2025-02-20 13:00 - 17:00 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Join us on Thursday, February 20th from 1-5pm for a Special Session of LEGO-Palooza!
We provide the LEGOs. You build to your imagination’s content! Do not bring your own LEGOs.
Children cannot keep LEGOs, but if there is enough room, we will display them in the library.
Free and open to the public!

Teen Movie Night - MEAN GIRLS
2025-02-21 19:00 - 21:00 | 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 movie night showing of MEAN GIRLS!
Teenage Cady Heron (Lindsay Lohan) was home schooled abroad by her scientist parents. When her family moves to the suburbs of Illinois, Cady finally gets to experience public school and gets a quick primer on the cruel, tacit laws of popularity that divide her fellow students into tightly knit cliques. She unwittingly finds herself in the good graces of an elite group of cool students dubbed “the Plastics,” but Cady soon realizes how her shallow group of new friends earned this nickname.
The movie will start at 7pm. Snacks and comfy chairs provided!

Actors Theatre Playhouse Public Reading
2025-02-22 10:15 - 12:30 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Staged reading of “Untethered” by Carol Mark

Brattleboro in Stitches
2025-02-22 13:00 - 16:00, 2025-03-01 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.

Financial Empowerment
2025-02-24 18:00 - 19:30 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Financial Q & A with SEVCA and Mascoma Bank
This month’s group conversation will be an open discussion to answer questions in the areas of personal finance, insurance, savings and whatever else may be helpful. This discussion will help form future monthly financial coaching/classes held at Brooks Memorial Library.
Sessions are being held on the 4th Mondays of the month throughout 2025, with different topics for each session and peer support encouraged throughout. A light meal will be served at 6 PM; the discussion starts at 6:30 PM.
Registration is required. To sign-up, you can call (802-254-5290), stop by the circulation desk, or email us at circ@brookslibraryvt.org

Green Carnation Reading Group
2025-02-24 19:00 - 20:30 | Meeting Room D – Quiet Reading Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Discussions of books by and for queer people. For more information, please visit the Green Carnation Reading Group Facebook page.

Green Carnation Reading Group
2025-02-24 19:00 - 20:30 | Meeting Room B – Mezzanine Room, Main Street 224, Brattleboro, Vermont, 05301, United States

Sci-Fi Reading Group
2025-02-24 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 7-8:30 pm to discuss Blindsight by Peter Watts.
Two months since the stars fell.
Two months ago, innumerable alien objects surrounded Earth, screaming as they burned their way into our atmosphere. The heavens have been silent since. Now, though, a derelict space probe has heard whispers from a distant comet. Something talks out there–but not to us.
Who should be sent to find out?
Send a linguist with multiple personality disorder, and a cyborg biologist who can’t feel his own flesh. Send a pacifist warrior, and a vampire resurrected by the voodoo of paleogenetics. Send a man missing half his mind since childhood. And pray they can be trusted with the fate of a world. Because they may be more alien than the thing they’ve been sent to find.
Please note that this SFRG will be meeting on the fourth Monday of the month! The Sci-Fi Reading Group typically meets the third Monday of every month and is open to curious minds of all ages, whether or not they’ve read this month’s selection.

Town Arts Committee
2025-02-25 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!

Vermont Pastel Society Monthly Meeting
2025-02-26 16:00 - 17:30 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
The Southeast hub of the Vermont pastel Society will meet and critique work that people bring with them in a supportive and friendly atmosphere.

Brattleboro 250 Planning Sessions
2025-02-26 18:00 - 20:00 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Come and connect with others who are interested in working on plans to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States in 2026.
This monthly meeting space on the 4th Wednesdays is dedicated for those who would like the opportunity to connect, collaborate, and work on projects that align with Vermont’s 250th Anniversary Commission’s mission to “…inspire all Vermonters to learn from the history, legacy, and context of the past to build strong Vermont communities for the future.”
The space is being hosted by Brooks Memorial Library, Vermont Independent Media (The Commons) and Windham World Affairs Council, with support from the Vermont Humanities Council. We are already working together on a collaboration entitled, ‘Examining American Identity and Leadership in a Changing World – and have joined America 250, a national initiative asking communities to plan for how to commemorate the 250th year of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Its mission is to provide opportunities for all Americans to pause and reflect on our nation’s past & present, honor the contributions of all Americans, and look to the future we want to create for the next generation and beyond.

Sing & Dance With Robin
2025-02-27 11:00 - 12:00, 2025-03-06 11:00 - 12:00 | 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.

LEGO-Palooza Winter Session!
2025-02-27 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!

Community Conversations with Brattleboro State Legislators
2025-03-01 10:30 - 12:00 | VT
As the Brattleboro Legislative Delegation gears up for the start of a new biennium in January, these monthly sessions are an opportunity to meet the Brattleboro Representatives and discuss issues that matter to you. Topics will include healthcare, education, climate change, and housing. All are welcome to join your Vermont Legislators, hear from experts, and share your experiences.
These conversations are initially happening on the 1st Saturdays from 10:30 AM – 12 PM. (1/4, 2/1 and more dates to come)

BEEC Mud Season Speaker Series: Celebrating Community Science
2025-03-03 18:30 - 20:00 | VT
Spring in Vermont means one thing: mud season! It’s also a perfect time to discover how you can meaningfully contribute to science and conservation in our community. Join Bonnyvale Environmental Education Center for this second session in an inspiring Mud Season Speaker Series featuring experts and enthusiasts who will share stories, tips, and inspiration for getting involved in community science.
This second session brings James S. Andrews, Vermont’s only full-time herpetologist, to Brooks Memorial Library to offer an engaging presentation: “Vernal Pool Reptiles and Amphibians and How You Can Help Document Them.”
Jim will show us a variety of frogs, salamanders, snakes, and turtles (herptiles) in our area that depend on vernal pools or similar habitat. The southeastern corner of Vermont supports some very rare pool-associated reptiles and amphibians that we should be looking and listening for and reporting any time they are observed. He will also identify some fairly common amphibians that need to be reported from certain towns in our area (Spring Peeper in Marlboro). He will introduce us to these herptiles and encourage us to help document the herptiles that we see.
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Be sure to mark your calendar for the last session on April 15th, when we close out this series with another special presenter.

Brattleboro Great Books Group
2025-03-03 19:00 - 21:00 | Meeting Room D – Quiet Reading Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Monthly discussion of “Great Books”

Vermont Farm Show - Revisioning Community Gathering
2025-03-04 13:30 - 15:30 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
The Vermont Farm Show has been one of Vermont’s longest standing events in support of agricultural and land-based enterprises. The last Farm Show was held in 2020 and the Vermont Farm Show Board of Trustees are looking for community input to help define a farm show that can successfully serve Vermont’s needs while also being financially viable. Everyone is invited to participate in the information gathering process on the Vermont Farm Show’s future. Folks from across the state and beyond are being asked to engage and all ideas are welcome.
In addition to in-person gatherings, virtual focus groups have been held and a survey has been widely disbursed. The Vermont Farm Show Board is calling on farmers of all scales & types, farm workers, agricultural students, educators, and professionals, farm service providers, and anyone who supports Vermont’s food system and working landscape to join in conversation about the future of the Vermont Farm Show. This gathering is one of five occurring across the state this winter. Attendees will connect with others, engage in facilitated conversation, and offer their input on what kind of Farm Show can best serve Vermont’s changing agricultural needs. Snacks will be provided.
For more information visit, www.vtfarmshow.com.

Mineralogical Society
2025-03-04 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!

Rhyme Time
2025-03-05 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.

Lifelong Learning - Families First
2025-03-05 13:30 - 14:30 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Lifelong Learning provides ongoing educational opportunities for adults with developmental disabilities. Participants become experts in areas of interest and share their knowledge with peers!

LEGO-Palooza
2025-03-06 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!

Functional Play! For Older Adults with Marissa Peck
2025-03-08 11:00 - 12:00 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Join us for a functional movement workshop series where we will move, shake, strengthen, stretch, and connect. Designed for adults 50+ of all abilities and mobility levels.
Sessions are on the 2nd & 4th Saturdays in March and April (03/08, 03/22, 04/12 & 04/26)
(From the creator of SilverCircus)
