Brooks Memorial Library - Brattleboro VT

LIBRARY CLOSED
2025-01-01 10:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | Brooks Memorial Library, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
The library will be closed on January 1st in observation of New Year’s Day.

LEGO-Palooza
2025-01-02 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
2025-01-04 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)

Brattleboro in Stitches
2025-01-04 13:00 - 16:00, 2025-01-11 13:00 - 16:00, 2025-01-18 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.

Brattleboro Great Books Group
2025-01-06 19:00 - 21:00 | Meeting Room D – Quiet Reading Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Monthly discussion of “Great Books”

Mineralogical Society
2025-01-07 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
2025-01-08 10:30 - 11:00, 2025-01-15 10:30 - 11:00, 2025-01-22 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.

Sing & Dance With Robin
2025-01-09 11:00 - 12:00, 2025-01-16 11:00 - 12:00, 2025-01-23 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!
2025-01-09 15:00 - 17:00, 2025-01-16 15:00 - 17:00 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States

Actors Theatre Open Auditions
2025-01-13 18:30 - 20:30, 2025-01-14 19:00 - 21:00 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Auditions for the 10 Minute Play Festival

Library Board of Trustees
2025-01-14 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

Friends of the Library
2025-01-15 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's Civic Health Index
2025-01-15 17:30 - 19:30 | Main Reading Room
Join us for a community conversation!
Join Secretary of State, Sarah Copeland Hanzas, partners who contributed to the report, and fellow community members to learn about the new report detailing what civic health looks like across Vermont and in our community.
Participants will be asked to share feedback and engage in these important conversations.
Registration for this event can be done on this form, HERE.

America 250: Brainstorming Session
2025-01-16 18:00 - 19:30 | American Legion Hall, 32 Linden Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
America 250: How will Brattleboro commemorate the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States in 2026?
You are invited to a brainstorming session to explore the ways Brattleboro and surrounding towns can creatively make a mark on the national stage expressing thoughts and feelings about our country’s past and future and what it means to be an American in the world today?
Bring your ideas! Join us on January 16 at American Legion Hall from 6 to 7:30 PM. Light refreshments will be provided.
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‘Examining American Identity and Leadership in a Changing World’ is a collaboration of Brooks Memorial Library, Vermont Independent Media (The Commons) and Windham World Affairs Council, with support from the Vermont Humanities Council. We 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.

Windham County Local Work Group
2025-01-17 13:00 - 15:00 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Local Workgroups are subcommittees of the State Technical Committee (STC) and provide recommendations to USDA on local and state natural resource priorities and criteria for conservation activities and programs. This process can be valuable to local and state leaders in the development of priorities, programs and policies. The STC is an advisory group to the State Conservationist, Travis Thomason (Vermont) The State Conservationist is the ultimate decision maker for the state’s USDA Natural Resource Conservation Service practices. Who makes up a Local Work Group? You!! Community Members: Agricultural Producers, Land owners, Land stewards, Non-profits Local Partners : Municipalities, Extension State Partners: Forest Service, Wildlife Resource Commission, Agency of Agriculture Food and Markets (VAAFM), Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) Federal: Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS), Farm Service Agency (FSA),United States Forest Service (USFA), Army Corp of Engineers How do you join our Local Workgroup? Email Heather Blunk, blunk.wcnrcd@gmail.com, with a letter of interest and your qualifications (e.g you’re a local farmer, you own a home in Windham County, you are stewarding a forest!).

Brattleboro Sings Together
2025-01-17 18:30 - 20:30 | VT
Come together with friends and neighbors to raise your voice and raise your spirit by singing a wide variety of favorite songs. As with past and popular World Singing Day events at Brooks Memorial Library, the talented Rich Grumbine and George Carvill will lead this engaging community sing-along and project lyrics on a big screen, so all participants will know the words. Live guitar accompaniment will be provided by Rich. We hope you join us.

Windham County Genealogy Interest Group
2025-01-18 10:30 - 12:30 | Hybrid: Community Meeting Room and Online, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Presentations on genealogy topics TBA that will be done as a hybrid meeting. Please register at https://forms.gle/aBkMB96jAxbyYWEv5

LIBRARY CLOSED
2025-01-20 10:00 - 21:00 | Brooks Memorial Library, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
The library will be closed in observation of the Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Birthday.

Community Watershed Environmental Education Activity
2025-01-21 14:00 - 16:00 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Come to the library for hands-on, fun, and interactive demonstrations on the sources and effects of water pollution. What is a watershed? How does pollution get in our water? Vermont River Conservancy will run demonstrations and activities on how storm water runoff carries pollutants through the watershed to a pond, lake, river, bay, or ocean – and the best management practices to prevent this type of pollution from occurring. The overall watershed/stormwater concept is effectively communicated to all ages (children to adults)!
Check out the Connecticut River Conservancy website for more information about this educational resource:
https://www.ctriver.org/post/enviroscape-connecticut-river-conservancy

SEVT Audubon Society
2025-01-21 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.

SEVT Audubon Society
2025-01-21 19:00 - 21:00 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
This event has been canceled

Please join South Eastern Vermont’s Audubon Society next month for another program featuring nature and the environment.

NOFA Community Action Workshop
2025-01-22 12:30 - 14:00 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
As climate emergencies continue, farms needs reliable and sustainable state-based support. Just as they greatly effect farms, these climate emergencies also will have a ripple effect on food security for all Vermonters. Our legislature can take an important step toward agricultural resilience by creating a climate impact recovery fund for farms.
Attendees are encouraged to register at the link, HERE.
