Brooks Memorial Library - Brattleboro VT

Game Cafe!
2024-02-03 14:00 - 16:45, 2024-02-17 14:00 - 16:45 (America/New_York) | 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!

Actors Theatre Playhouse - Open Auditions
2024-02-05 18:00 - 21:00, 2024-02-10 10:00 - 13:00, 2024-02-10 14:00 - 17:00, 2024-02-16 14:30 - 16:30 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Open call for actors to read scripts and audition for the 10 Minute Play Festival and following events this season.

Remembering the ancestors
2024-02-05 19:00 - 20:30 | Main Reading Room
To celebrate Black history month, local poet, storyweaver, artist Djeli (formerly William Forchion) will present “Remembering the Ancestors”. The presentation will be a dynamic conversation about our shared history and intentionally stepping into the future. Remembering the ancestors will include recent unpublished writings as well as readings from Djeli’s previously published poems and essays.
Djeli is a story weaver who helps transform overwhelm to overjoy. Ki uses oral and written traditions, including poetry, to create an atmosphere of curiosity and dialogue, even around difficult topics. Ki helps others breathe life into their own stories as part of a healing process by speaking from the heart. *Ki (pronoun) a divine being of love and light.

Brattleboro Great Books Group
2024-02-05 19:00 - 21:00 | Meeting Room D – Quiet Reading Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Monthly discussion of “Great Books”

Vermont Workers Center - Medicaid/Medicare Information & Help
2024-02-06 15:00 - 17:30 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
In advancing our mission of enacting Healthcare for All in Vermont, we are here to listen to your stories on problems you have encountered accessing medical care as well as answer questions on Medicaid/Medicare

Mineralogical Society
2024-02-06 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!

The Board Gaming Guild
2024-02-07 15:15 - 16:45, 2024-02-14 15:15 - 16:45 | Children’s Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Come join in on the fun with the Brooks Memorial Library’s Board Gaming Guild!
Every Wednesday in January at 3:15pm. Stop by to have a great time playing board games in the Children’s Room!
Ages 8 and up. No sign up required!

Game Cafe!
2024-02-07 18:00 - 20:45, 2024-02-10 14:00 - 16:45, 2024-02-14 18:00 - 20:45, 2024-02-21 18:00 - 20:45 | Meeting Room D – Quiet Reading Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States

LEGO-Palooza
2024-02-08 15:00 - 17:00, 2024-02-15 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
2024-02-10 11:00 - 14:00, 2024-02-17 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.

Parenting 4 Social Justice
2024-02-12 18:00 - 20:00 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
This is a facilitated group of parents and caregivers that meets monthly (usually 2nd Mondays) to read and discuss the book, Parenting 4 Social Justice. There will also be a childcare provider with kids in the childrens’ room.

The Street Project: Documentary and Discussion
2024-02-12 19:00 - 20:30 | Main Reading Room
THE STREET PROJECT is the story about humanity’s relationship to the streets and the global citizen-led fight to make communities safer. Watch the trailer here.
Digging deep into the root causes of traffic violence, the filmmakers engage a diverse array of interviews with experts, interwoven with the stories of real people working to make their communities safer.
The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with local leaders.

Library Board of Trustees
2024-02-13 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

LIBRARY CLOSED
2024-02-19 10:00 - 21:00 | Brooks Memorial Library, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
The library will be closed on February 19th in observation of Presidents’ Day.

SEVT Audubon Society Presentation
2024-02-20 18:30 - 19:30 | Main Reading Room
Main Reading Room at the Library.

Life-size Candyland
2024-02-21 10:00 - 17:00, 2024-02-22 10:00 - 17:00 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Take a sweet trip through Candyland! Kids of all ages are invited to play our life-sized Candyland game. The fun begins on Wednesday, February 21 and lasts through Saturday, February 24. Candyland will be open from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm each day. (The library opens at 10:00 am.) Bring some friends and experience the magic as our Community Meeting Room is transformed into a colorful, candy-themed world. Based on the classic Candyland game, players will journey through the Peppermint Stick Forest and Lollipop Woods on their way to Home Sweet Home but be careful- don’t get stuck in the Molasses Swamp or get sent all the way back to the Candy Hearts!
This free event is part of the Brattleboro Winter Carnival and presented by the Children’s Room at Brooks Memorial Library located at 224 Main Street in Brattleboro, Vermont.
For more information visit brookslibraryvt.org or call the Children’s Room at 802-254-5290 ext. 1210.

Friends of the Library
2024-02-21 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

Juggling demonstration and lesson with Tony Duncan
2024-02-21 18:00 - 19:30 | Main Reading Room
Tony Duncan will lead a workshop introducing participants to a variety of different manipulation props that are generally used in circus. This includes traditional juggling balls clubs and rings, but also much easier fare, such as diabolo, and some fun partner stuff called “social siteswap” that can be learned by most anyone over the age of 7 with enough coordination to get food onto a fork or spoon and then into their mouth. Tony has been performing and teaching juggling since 1981.
Tony has performed in venues all over the world and opened for numerous famous celebrities, but he is quite humble and doesn’t like to name drop, (and people under 30 probably wouldn’t recognize most of them). He won the 1982 and 1983 International Jugglers Association (IJA) “numbers” championship, won the 1994 IJA world Championship, as well as other international awards. At the age of 65 he is finally willing to rest on his laurels.
He has been teaching at The New England Center for Circus Arts (NECCA) since 2004, Mostly focused on developing manipulation skills in the Professional Track student program.
