Compassion Conversation on Non-Human Animals
2024-03-06 18:00 - 19:30 (America/New_York) | Main Reading Room
Compassionate Brattleboro’s Compassion Conversation on Non-Human Animals will feature panelists pattrice jones of VINE Sanctuary, Dr. Sue Kelly of Spruce Mountain Veterinary Acupuncture, Lisa Jablow of Protect Our Wildlife, and Bella O’Connor of Vermont Law School. This event is co-sponsored by the Windham County Humane Society.
Panelists will discuss a wide range of issues–from farming to the law to hunting–related to the idea of compassion and non-human animals and how compassion might play a role in our everyday lives. There will be time for questions and conversation with the audience.

Game Cafe!
2024-03-06 18:00 - 20:45, 2024-03-13 18:00 - 20:45, 2024-03-20 18:00 - 20:45, 2024-03-27 18:00 - 20:45 | Meeting Room D – Quiet Reading 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!

Sing & Dance with Robin
2024-03-07 10:30 - 11:30, 2024-03-14 10:30 - 11:30, 2024-03-21 10:30 - 11:30 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
For Ages 0-5 and their caregivers, held in the BML Community Meeting Room.
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.

LEGO-Palooza
2024-03-07 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
2024-03-09 11:00 - 14:00, 2024-03-16 11:00 - 14:00, 2024-03-23 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.

Game Cafe!
2024-03-09 14:00 - 16:45 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States

Parenting 4 Social Justice
2024-03-11 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.

Pagan, Jewish and Christian Women in the Roman Empire: Literary and Archaeological Evidence
2024-03-11 19:00 - 20:30 | Main Reading Room
In honor of Women’s History Month, Dr. Valerie A. Abrahamsen will present recent scholarly research, which clearly shows that women had much larger roles in the early Roman Empire than previously acknowledged. In this slide presentation we will explore women in antiquity using literary and archaeological evidence. Women in Graeco-Roman cults, Judaism, and the early Jesus groups served as priestesses, synagogue leaders, missionaries, apostles, and possibly even bishops. Contrary to traditions that still impact us in the West, we will see how ancient texts have been misinterpreted for centuries and how archaeology can not only expand our knowledge of the ancient world but also help promote justice and equality in our own society.
Valerie A. Abrahamsen holds the Master of Theological Studies and Doctor of Theology degrees in New Testament and Early Christian Origins from Harvard Divinity School. She is the author of over 100 articles, reviews and book chapters in New Testament archaeology, early church history, women in antiquity, and ancient goddess religion, and she has published two books in these fields: Women and Worship at Philippi (1995) and Goddess and God: A Holy Tension in the First Christian Centuries (2006).

Library Board of Trustees
2024-03-12 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
2024-03-13 10:30 - 11:00, 2024-03-20 10:30 - 11:00, 2024-03-27 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!

The Board Gaming Guild
2024-03-13 15:15 - 16:45, 2024-03-20 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!

March Sci-Fi Reading Group Meetup
2024-03-18 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 Monday, March 18th, in the Quiet Reading Room from 7-8:30 pm to discuss Pet by Akwaeke Emezi.
“There are no monsters anymore, or so the children in the city of Lucille are taught. Jam and her best friend, Redemption, have grown up with this lesson all their life. But when Jam meets Pet, a creature made of horns and colors and claws, who emerges from one of her mother’s paintings and a drop of Jam’s blood, she must reconsider what she’s been told. Pet has come to hunt a monster–and the shadow of something grim lurks in Redemption’s house. Jam must fight not only to protect her best friend, but also uncover the truth, and the answer to the question How do you save the world from monsters if no one will admit they exist?“
The Sci-Fi Reading Group 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.

Brattleboro Stamp Club
2024-03-18 19:00 - 20:45 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Join the Brattleboro Stamp Club for all sorts of philatelic curios, conversation, and comradery!

SEVT Audubon Society
2024-03-19 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
2024-03-20 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

Trout Unlimited w/ guest speaker Ken Sprankle
2024-03-25 17:00 - 19:00 | VT
The Connecticut River Valley Chapter of Trout Unlimited #450 (CRVTU) will host a public meeting and presentation by Ken Sprankle, Project Leader for the Connecticut River Fish and Wildlife Conservation Office – USFWS.
The CRVTU public meeting will begin at 5pm, with Ken Sprankle’s talk titled, “Migratory Fish Restoration in the Connecticut River Basin: Fish population status and trends; monitoring, management and research; and regulatory activities” to begin at 6pm. All are welcome – Refreshments will be provided.

Vermont River Conservancy Poetry Workshop
2024-03-26 12:00 - 14:00 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Join Vermont River Conservancy for a free river-themed poetry workshop. Participants will read and discuss river-poems by regional poets and from a range of cultures, time periods, and styles. As we reflect on the ideas and emotions that the poems provoke, we will also discuss how the poet builds or unlocks those ideas and emotions through poetic craft. Developing into a community of writers as well as readers, we will write our own river poetry and share in a supportive space.
The first hour is a workshop and discussion, BYO lunch. The optional second hour is an opportunity to write, revise, and check in with the instructor about your work.
Walk-ins Welcome! But if you register, you will receive the poetry in advance: vermontriverconservancy.org/south

Town Arts Committee
2024-03-26 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!

The Board Gaming Guild
2024-03-27 15:15 - 16:30 | 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 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!

CPCC
2024-03-27 17:30 - 18:30 | Meeting Room D – Quiet Reading Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Monthly Town CPCC meeting please see https://www.ibrattleboro.com/ and Town of Brattleboro website under “Committees”
