Brooks Memorial Library - Brattleboro VT

LEGO-Palooza
2025-03-06 15:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | 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, 2025-03-22 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)

Brattleboro in Stitches
2025-03-08 13:00 - 16:00, 2025-03-15 13:00 - 16:00, 2025-03-22 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.

Family Game Night for Preschoolers hosted by Windham Southeast Supervisory Union and Early Education Services
2025-03-10 16:30 - 17:30 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Family game night with families and children 3-5 years old. Simple games and rhymes.

Silent Book Club of Windham County
2025-03-10 18:30 - 20:00 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Silent Book Club is a global community of readers and introverts, with more than 500 chapters around the world led by local volunteers. SBC is about community. Everyone is welcome, and anyone can join. Silent Book Club of Windham County is a casual, monthly gathering where book lovers can meet fellow bibliophiles and enjoy dedicated reading time. There are no assigned books—just bring whatever you’re currently reading and settle in for a quiet, cozy evening. Whether you’re looking to make new literary-minded friends or simply carve out space in your month for uninterrupted reading, we’d love to have you join us!

Library Board of Trustees
2025-03-11 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

Rhyme Time
2025-03-12 10:30 - 11:00, 2025-03-19 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.
Free and open to the public.

Lifelong Learning - Families First
2025-03-12 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!

The Nelson Legacy Project presents "Eyes on Freedom" an audio documentary about nonviolent activists Wally and Juanita Nelson
2025-03-12 19:00 - 20:45
The Nelson Legacy project invites you to a listening event “Eyes on Freedom”, a one-hour audio documentary about Wally & Juanita Nelson produced by Carrie and Michael Kline of “Talking Across the Lines”.
“Eyes on Freedom” is an audio tapestry that weaves together voices of people who knew and were influenced by the Nelsons. The audio documentary also includes vintage recordings of the Nelsons themselves.
After decades of involvement in the civil rights and antiwar movements, Wally and Juanita Nelson lived just south of the Vermont border in Franklin County, Massachusetts starting in 1974. They lived there until Wally died in 2002 and Juanita in 2015. They had a significant impact on our region through their advocacy of local agriculture, land trusts, war tax refusal, and simple living.
Nonviolence was the umbrella concept that underscored everything they did. For the Nelsons, nonviolence represented so much more than a tactic to be used in a conflict situation. While it could include freedom rides, boycotts, lunch counter sit-ins, war tax refusal, and other forms of noncooperation, it was also a way of life, a way of being in the world, a way of relating to people and to all of nature. It was a measuring stick they used to evaluate their actions and choices. Nonviolence encompassed dignity, humanity, truth, justice, and freedom and it was a lens through which to view the violence of our modern-day economic system.
For more information, contact Bob Bady at: bobbady@gmail.com.

Sing & Dance With Robin
2025-03-13 11:00 - 12:00, 2025-03-20 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!
2025-03-13 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!

A Literary Cocktail Hour – The Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism
2025-03-14 17:00 - 19:00
The March Cocktail Hour is a collaborative ONLINE event with our host, the Windham World Affairs Council, and partner organizations: Vermont Independent Media, the Vermont Humanities, The Latchis, and Everyone’s Books, along with Brooks Memorial Library.
The book to be discussed is a Times UK #1 bestseller, “The Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism” with authors George Monbiot & Peter Hutchison.
George Monbiot and filmmaker Peter Hutchison show how a fringe philosophy in the 1930s—championing competition as the defining feature of humankind—was systematically hijacked by a group of wealthy elites, determined to guard their fortunes and power. Think tanks, corporations, the media, university departments and politicians were all deployed to promote the idea that people are consumers, rather than citizens.
A community screening of The Invisible Doctrine documentary followed by a Q & A with filmmaker Peter Hutchison is scheduled the next day, 3/15, at 5 PM at the Latchis.
To register and receive the Zoom link for the 3/14 Literary Cocktail Hour, please visit: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN__FJqLOn_TgOzySUxytRurw#/registration

Windham County Genealogy Interest Group
2025-03-15 10:30 - 12:30 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Genealogical research and presentation

A Community Screening of "The Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism"
2025-03-16 17:00 - 20:00 | The Latchis Theatre, 50 Main Street, Brattleboro, Vermont, 05301, United States
Through a partnership of Windham World Affairs, Vermont Independent Media, the Vermont Humanities, the Brattleboro Lit Fest, The Latchis, Everyone’s Books, and Brooks Memorial Library, we are pleased to offer this community screening of “The Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism”, followed by a Q & A with filmmaker Peter Hutchison, on Sunday, March 16 from 5 – 8 PM at The Latchis.
“Imagine that the people of the Soviet Union had never heard of Communism. That’s more or less where we find ourselves today. The dominant ideology of our times – which affects nearly every aspect of our lives – for most of us has no name.”
The Invisible Doctrine does more than merely provide a critique of neoliberalism and the forces that have come to guide our lives, it provides a way forward – proposing avenues for the revitalization of community, the commons, democratic participation, and reclamation of government (in particular on the local & community level) – thereby planting the seeds for systemic, long-term change.
For a preview, visit: https://youtu.be/OeLNRzqCpCE

Multigenerational Civics Class
2025-03-17 10:15 - 11:30, 2025-03-24 10:15 - 11:30 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Who has power over us? What power do we have to create the world around us? The Vermont Village School welcomes villagers of all ages to participate in a people’s Civics class with us this spring at Brooks Memorial Library. We will be untangling the different institutions that exert power over us, past and present, official and unofficial, and brainstorming how we move forward together.

Join us Monday at 10:15am @ Brooks Memorial Library, Brattleboro. This will be the first of a series–we will plan future gatherings based on collective interest and energy.

SEVCA's Volunteer Tax Prep Assistance (VITA) Program
2025-03-17 11:30 - 19:00 | 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.

Sci-Fi Reading Group
2025-03-17 19:00 - 20:30 | Meeting Room B – Mezzanine Room, Main Street 224, Brattleboro, Vermont, 05301, United States
Join the Sci-Fi Reading Group in the Quiet Reading Room from 7:00pm – 8:30pm to discuss Tentacle by Rita Indiana:
Plucked from her life on the streets of post-apocalyptic Santo Domingo, young maid Acilde Figueroa finds herself at the heart of a Santería prophecy: only she can travel back in time and save the ocean – and humanity – from disaster. But first she must become the man she always was – with the help of a sacred anemone. Tentacle is an electric novel with a big appetite and a brave vision, plunging headfirst into questions of climate change, technology, Yoruba ritual, queer politics, poverty, sex, colonialism and contemporary art. Bursting with punk energy and lyricism, it’s a restless, addictive trip: The Tempest meets the telenovela.
The Sci-Fi Reading Group meets the third Monday of every month and is open to curious minds, whether or not they’ve read this month’s selection.

SEVT Audubon Society
2025-03-18 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.

Lifelong Learning - Families First
2025-03-19 13:30 - 14:30 | Mezzanine Conference Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States

Friends of the Library
2025-03-19 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 Public's "Join or Die" Film Screening and Community-Building Mixer
2025-03-19 18:00 - 20:00 | Main Reading Room
Join us as we welcome Vermont Public to Brooks Memorial Library for a mini film screening and social hour! First, dive into a 45-minute excerpt of the highly acclaimed 2023 documentary Join or Die by Pete and Rebecca Davis. Join or Die is a film about why you should join a club—and why the fate of America depends on it. Joined by Hillary Clinton, Priya Parker, and others, Robert Putnam, author of Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community, will explore three urgent civic questions: What makes democracy work? Why is American democracy in crisis? And, most importantly… What can we do about it?
Following the screening, join us for a social hour to practice what we’ve learned. Whether you’re passionate about your favorite pastime and want to connect with others or just looking to meet new people in your community, we’ll have prompts and icebreakers to help spark authentic connections.
This event is part of a series of Join or Die screenings and community-building mixers throughout Vermont this winter.
Registration is required. More information can be found on VP’s website, HERE.

Brattleboro District 9 Forum
2025-03-19 18:30 - 20:30 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Brattleboro residents of District 9 are invited to attend a District 9 forum where we will hear your questions and concerns in advance of Brattleboro’s Representative Town Meeting; District 9 RTM members are encouraged to attend to hear from their constituents. The forum, organized by Robert Oeser and David Levenbach, will be held in the Community Room of Brooks Memorial Library at 6:30 pm on Wednesday 19 March. (The Community Room is on the third, top floor of the library, near the Children’s Reading Room. There is an entrance to that area from the Municipal Building parking lot and attendees might find that a more convenient way in light of another event to be held in the Main Reading Room that evening.)
For more information, write fideladelphia@gmail.com or call 413.559.1533.

LEGO-Palooza Special Session!
2025-03-20 13:00 - 17:00 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Join us on Thursdays after school from 1-5pm for a special session of LEGOpalooza!
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!

Teen Game Night!
2025-03-21 19:00 - 22:00
Join us on Friday, March 21st, 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 a Jack Box Party Pack set up. Feel free to bring your own games as well.
We’ll be spread out across the whole 2nd floor. Pizza and snacks provided!
Hosted by the Teen Advisory Board. “Teens Only” events are open to people in grades 7-12.
