Brooks Memorial Library - Brattleboro VT

First Wednesdays : The Poetics of Girlhood and Womanhood in America
2022-04-06 19:00 (America/New_York) | Brooks Memorial Library, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Poets and writers Diana Whitney and Shanta Lee Gander join Christal Brown, associate professor of Dance at Middlebury College, in a conversation that explores how girlhood and womanhood in America are manifested across the boundaries of poetry, dance, and lived experience.
About the Presenters
Diana Whitney’s edited work, You Don’t Have to Be Everything: Poems for Girls Becoming Themselves, ranges across intersectional, intergenerational, and gender-fluid voices.
In GHETTOCLAUSTROPHOBIA: Dreamin of Mama While Trying to Speak Woman in Woke Tongues, Shanta Lee Gander navigates between formal and vernacular styles to examine butterflies and female sexuality, vulnerability, classical Greek myths, and more.
Christal Brown’s original dance piece “The Opulence of Integrity” was inspired by the public life and inner searching of Muhammad Ali, boxing’s outspoken superstar.
Partner: Middlebury College and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Underwriter: Anne Commire Fund for Women in the Humanities
Sponsored by The Friends of the Brooks Memorial Library.
To learn more, please visit:
https://www.vermonthumanities.org/event/the-poetics-of-girlhood-and-womanhood-in-america/

Teen Writing Workshop
2022-04-07 18:30 - 20:30 | Spicy Lime Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
The Teen Advisory Board invites you to join us on Thursday April 7th from 6:30-8:30pm for a (in person!) writing workshop. Teen Writing Workshops will occur month on First Thursdays. We’ll conduct a rotating selection of writing games and exercises (both collaborative and solo). Sharing is encouraged but not mandatory. Beginners welcome!
Pizza and snacks provided.
Hosted by the Teen Advisory Board. “Teens Only” events are open to people in grades 7-12.

Building Our Welcoming Skills with Literature
2022-04-09 14:00 - 15:30 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Brattleboro native Kirsten Cappy and Maine librarian Kate Cutko will share how the Welcoming Library, a picture book collection now housed at Brooks Memorial Library, can change the conversation on immigration and create an environment of welcoming and belonging through the sharing of stories. Using the picture book The Suitcase, Cappy and Cutko will show how these books break down intergroup anxiety and foster a welcoming environment.

Real Democracy: Tim Kipp and Friends
2022-04-12 18:30 - 20:00 | Hybrid: Community Meeting Room and Online, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
REAL DEMOCRACY
with Tim Kipp and friends
Brattleboro Democracy Forum
at Brooks Memorial Library
and on Zoom
6:30 pm, Tuesday, April 12th, 2022,
The meeting will be recorded and will air on BCTV and WVEW-FM

The meeting at the library will be in the Community Meeting Room located on the 2nd floor, just inside the rear entrance from the Municipal Center parking lot.
To join the Zoom meeting click on this URL on the 12th:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84518553496?pwd=[REDACTED]

Tim says:
The United States is in a crisis of two nations. Economic instability, racial reckoning, a lingering pandemic and rising authoritarianism divide Americans by a gulf not experienced since the Civil War.
Underlying this disunion are conflicting concepts of what democracy actually is or should be. The old consensus is crumbling. Today for some, physically attacking the nation’s capitol makes sense, for others, making it harder for people to vote is a democratic act.
On the other hand many still believe in citizen responsibility in the political process. For these people government and community organizing for social justice is what democracy looks like.
Our future can and will be charted by how we conceptualize democracy itself. Understanding, expanding and sustaining democracy can perhaps lead to a bridging of this not so grand canyon of national divide.
This presentation focuses on the nature of democracy and offers a re conceptualization of this greatest of human inventions.

Tim Kipp is a retired history and political science teacher of 39 years and a political activist since the 1960s.

Marlboro Resident and musician Jesse Lepkoff will sing the marching song “We Are Marching For Democracy” to open the meeting.
The WE CELEBRATE DEMOCRACY CIVIL RIGHTS FOR ALL Main Street banner will be hung at the library

wecelebratedemocracycivilrightsforall.org–
Positive Nonviolent public action for democracy and civil rights
for all people- 802 258 7045

Movie Matinee: Sing 2
2022-04-18 13:30 - 15:30 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Spring Break is here!
Please join us at 1:30pm for a matinee showing of “Sing 2” (Rated PG)
Masks Welcome 🙂

Welcome Spring! Chalk Mural
2022-04-19 13:30 - 15:30 | Parking Lot, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Join us at 1:30pm BEHIND the library to help create a chalk mural. Let’s Welcome Spring together 🙂
Chalk provided!

Movie Matinee: Encanto
2022-04-20 13:30 - 15:30 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Spring Break is here!
Please join us at 1:30pm for a matinee showing of “Encanto” (Rated PG)
Masks Welcome 🙂

New Yorker Discussion Group
2022-04-20 19:00 - 20:00, 2022-05-18 19:00 - 20:00 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Do you read The New Yorker magazine regularly? Would you like to discuss recent articles with fellow readers? The New Yorker discussion group gathers on the third Wednesday of each month at 7pm in the Community Meeting Room on the second floor. Similar to a book group, participants bring their favorite articles in the magazine every month for comments and discussion.
The program is free, open to the public and accessible to people in wheelchairs. Because it will be held indoors, all attendees are required to wear masks by order of the Town. For more information call (802) 254-5290.

New Yorker Discussion Group
2022-04-20 19:00 - 20:00, 2022-05-18 19:00 - 20:00 | Brooks Memorial Library, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Do you read The New Yorker magazine regularly? Would you like to discuss recent articles with fellow readers? The New Yorker discussion group gathers on the third Wednesday of each month at 7pm in the Community Meeting Room on the second floor. Similar to a book group, participants bring their favorite articles in the magazine every month for comments and discussion.
The program is free, open to the public and accessible to people in wheelchairs.
Call the Library at 254-5290 for more information.

Movie Matinee: Soul
2022-04-21 13:30 - 15:30 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Spring Break is here!
Please join us at 1:30pm for a matinee showing of “Soul” (Rated PG)
Masks Welcome 🙂

Teen Movie Night: "10 Things I Hate About You"
2022-04-21 20:00 - 22:00 | Main Reading Room
The Teen Advisory Board invites you to join us for a Teens Only (Indoor) movie night.
We will watch “10 Things I Hate About You” (PG-13). The movie will start at 8pm and has a 1 hour and 40 minute run time. Masks welcome, snacks provided.

Hosted by the Teen Advisory Board.
“Teens Only” events are open to people in grades 7-12.

10 Minute Play Festival Auditions
2022-04-23 10:00 - 15:00, 2022-04-26 18:00 - 20:00 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Actors Theatre Playhouse presents open auditions for plays to be performed July 2022.

Citizen Police Communications Committee
2022-04-25 17:30 - 18:00, 2022-05-23 17:30 - 18:00 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Monthly CPCC town meeting

EMS Services: Community Forum
2022-04-26 18:00 - 19:30 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
The Brattleboro Fire Department and Golden Cross will be hosting community forums to answer any questions you may have on thepending change in EMS services in Brattleboro. They will be on the following dates and times:

Monday, April 18th @ 6:00 pm at Central Fire Station
Saturday, April 23 @ 1:00 pm at Central Fire Station
Tuesday, April 26 @ 6:00 pm at Brooks Memorial Library

More information is available in this April 11th Statement on EMS Services from the Town Manager’s office.

Chrysalis: Poetry by Michael Carignan
2022-04-30 14:00 - 15:00 | Brooks Memorial Library, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Join local poet Michael John Carignan for an afternoon program featuring selections from Chrysalis, his recently-published collection from Austin Macauley Publishers.
“Immerse yourself in a ride of the authors imagination. Traveling diverse roads from keen observation, exploring the growth from boyhood to manhood, from exhilaration to the pinnacles of deep despair. Themes of nature protrude their heads spanning all four seasons. Curl up to browse the pages in a quiet room and let your mind wander the corridors of imagination that come to life in this book a collection gathered by my muse of a flawed utopia,viewed by many perspectives of a world shining bright. This is the hatching of ideas.”
Michael Carignan published his first collection, Quintessence, in 1992, and has since published several individual pieces in local magazines, newspapers and anthologies including Oyez Review at Roosevelt University in Chicago. He has worked in a local school with the fourth grade class, culminating in a collection of every child’s poem. He has worked with area artists in the impression of his poems through music and visual art. Mike has performed in several coffeehouses in the past both reading his work and doing improv poetry.

Mineralogical Society of Brattleboro
2022-05-03 18:00 - 19:45 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Study of Rocks & Minerals

First Wednesdays: The Force of a Story in Parts: Star Wars, Fandom, and Seriality
2022-05-04 19:00 | Brooks Memorial Library, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
From Dickens to Game of Thrones, stories told in piecemeal style have shown their power to command a reader’s attention. In this apt talk for “Star Wars Day,” author Anne Moore examines how Star Wars’ serialized structure encourages readers to fill the gaps between installments with their own imaginative play.
About Anne Moore
Anne Moore is the author of After the Break: Serials, Fandom, and the Feeling of Reading, slated for publication by MacFarland Press in 2022.
Underwriter: Peter Gilbert Endowment Fund
Sponsored by The Friends of Brooks Memorial Library.
To learn more, please visit:
https://www.vermonthumanities.org/event/the-force-of-a-story-in-parts-star-wars-fandom-and-seriality/

Teen Writing Workshop
2022-05-05 19:00 - 21:00 | Spicy Lime Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
The Teen Advisory Board invites you to join us on Thursday May 5th from 7-9pm for a (in person!) writing workshop. Teen Writing Workshops will occur month on First Thursdays. We’ll conduct a rotating selection of writing games and exercises (both collaborative and solo). Sharing is encouraged but not mandatory. Beginners welcome!
Pizza and snacks provided.
Hosted by the Teen Advisory Board. “Teens Only” events are open to people in grades 7-12.

Fair Housing & Tenant Know-Your-Rights Workshop
2022-05-07 11:00 - 13:00 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
This workshop includes the fundamentals of tenant rights and responsibilities, leases, security deposits, repairs, health code violations, terminations, evictions, fair housing and disability law. Interpreted in Dari and Pashto

Scrabble
2022-05-11 18:00 - 20:00, 2022-05-18 18:00 - 20:00, 2022-05-25 18:00 - 20:00, 2022-06-01 18:00 - 20:00 | 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Scrabble is back! Join the fun on Wednesday evenings, 6-8pm in the Quiet Reading Room on the mezzanine.

The Osaka Adventures of Phillip and Lenny: a Reading with Daniel Guerra
2022-05-11 19:00 - 20:30 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Author Daniel Guerra will be reading selections from The Osaka Adventures of Phillip and Lenny. Two free-spirited feline friends steal a credit card so they can have an adventure in Osaka, Japan. The story, based on two real cats who live in Vermont and Italy, is illustrated by Sofie Engstrom von Alten. Copies will be available for purchase.

In-Person Presentation by Rare Book Specialist Ken Gloss--registration required
2022-05-24 18:30 | Main Reading Room
Kenneth Gloss, proprietor of the internationally known Brattle Book Shop in Boston, will give an in-person presentation to discuss the value of old and rare books.
Ken, a rare book specialist and appraiser who is frequently seen on national TV, will talk in part about the history of his historic bookshop (www.brattlebookshop.com/about), which goes back to circa 1825. He is a second-generation owner. Ken will discuss growing up in the book business, show some of his favorite finds while enjoying “the thrill of the hunt,” and explain how he appraises books and manuscripts. He has many fascinating anecdotes to share about private and institutional collecting as well as guidelines for building and maintaining a significant collection. There is also a Q&A session at the conclusion of his talk. Following the talk and question-and-answer session, Ken will give free verbal appraisals of books participants have on hand or will do so at his shop in Boston at a later scheduled date.
Please register in advance here or in person at the library.
Yankee Magazine Editor’s Choice Award for Best of New England, the Brattle Book Shop is one of America’s oldest and largest antiquarian bookstores. 2022 is the 73rd year of Gloss family ownership. Kenneth Gloss succeeded his late father, George Gloss, a well-known figure both in Boston and national antiquarian circles. He had worked in the store since childhood and became the sole proprietor upon his father’s death in 1985. “I found that books were in my blood and that I would never be really happy if I abandoned the business.” To hear about some of Ken’s more fun and unique finds, listen to Brattlecast, his new podcast: http://www.brattlebookshop.com/brattlecast (also available on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/brattlecast/id1295728623?mt=2).

Tool Cottage Grand Opening Garden Party
2022-06-04 10:00 - 12:00 | Brooks Memorial Library, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Brooks Memorial Library unveils its new collection of gardening and food preparation and preservation tools available for loan to cardholders.
Located behind the library in the municipal parking lot.

Opening day events
· 10 am—Ribbon cutting
· 10-noon—Tours of the tool inventory and an introduction to the reservation system, chalk flower garden mural project, demonstration of papermaking with embedded seeds, seed bookmark decoration activity (while supplies last).
· 10-11—Garden songs with Andy Davis on accordion
· 11-12—Sing and Dance with Robin Morgan
Families can follow a story walk featuring Lola Plants a Garden and Lola Loves Stories, by Anna McQuinn between Brooks Memorial Library and the Edible Brattleboro plant giveaway event occurring simultaneously at the Retreat Farm.

Made possible by a grant from the Vermont Foodbank
