Brooks Memorial Library - Brattleboro VT

Library Board of Trustees
2023-02-14 16:30 - 18:00 (America/New_York) | 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
2023-02-15 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. Citizen attendance and commentary is welcome!
Friends of the Library

New Yorker Discussion Group
2023-02-15 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.

Djeli reads poetry and discusses Black History
2023-02-15 19:00 - 20:00 | Main Reading Room
Djeli, formerly William Forchion, will read from his most recent book of poetry The Day after Juneteenth and will lead a discussion about Black history and where we are today “Far too often we discuss opposites in order to find commonality, this presentation is a sharing of new perspectives on recentering community,” says Djeli, a thought leader, life coach, public speaker, lifelong storyteller, and former Cirque du Soleil acrobat who has traveled the world collecting stories. Ki uses oral and written traditions, including poetry, to create an atmosphere of curiosity and dialogue, even around difficult topics and who helps transform overwhelm to overjoy.
Books will be available for sale and signing.

Game Cafe!
2023-02-18 14:00 - 16:45, 2023-03-04 14:00 - 16:45 | 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!

Sing & Dance with Robin
2023-02-21 10:30 - 11:30, 2023-02-28 10:30 - 11:30, 2023-03-07 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 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.

Pajama Storytime
2023-02-21 18:30 - 19:30 | Children’s Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Wear your pajamas and join us for a craft and snack, followed by our favorite bedtime stories and a lullaby or two! Fun for all ages. FREE. In the Children’s Room. Part of the 2023 Brattleboro Winter Carnival. For more information call 802-254-5290 ext. 1210.

Sci-Fi Reading Group February Meetup
2023-02-21 19:00 - 20:30 | Brooks Memorial Library, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
The Sci-Fi Reading Group will meet Tuesday, February 21st in the Quiet Reading Room from 7-8:30 pm to discuss Binti by Nnedi Okorafor.
From Goodreads:
“Her name is Binti, and she is the first of the Himba people ever to be offered a place at Oomza University, the finest institution of higher learning in the galaxy. But to accept the offer will mean giving up her place in her family to travel between the stars among strangers who do not share her ways or respect her customs…If Binti hopes to survive the legacy of a war not of her making, she will need both the the gifts of her people and the wisdom enshrined within the University, itself — but first she has to make it there, alive.”
The Sci-Fi Reading Group meets the third Tuesday of every month and is open to curious minds of all ages, whether or not they’ve read this month’s selection.

SEVT Audubon Society
2023-02-21 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.

Drumming About You
2023-02-22 10:00 - 11:00 | Main Reading Room
The library is going to rock! BOB BLOOM is bringing a colorful cargo of drums for everyone to get their hearts and hands around.
Together with BB, we’ll sparkle with legendary songs that have high-octane melodies and joyous beats.
FREE! Fun for all ages!

Downstairs at Brooks Memorial Library

Presented by the Brattleboro Winter Carnival, the Friends of Brooks Memorial Library and Brooks Memorial Library.
For more information, call 802-254-5290 ext. 1210

Healthcare Resource Info Hours
2023-02-22 14:00 - 16:00 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Do you use Medicaid?
Members of the VT Worker’s Center will be on hand to provide information about the Medicaid re-determinations that will be starting on April 1st. Members of the public are invited to drop in between 2 and 4pm to find out about the re-determinations, how they are impacted, and what you can do if they are cut off.
We will also have resources for other questions about healthcare – not only Medicaid – and the opportunity to participate in a healthcare survey.

CANCELLED - CPCC
2023-02-22 17:00 - 18:00 | 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”
The February 22nd CPCC meeting has been cancelled.

LEGO-Palooza Special Session
2023-02-23 13:00 - 17:00 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Join us for a SPECIAL WINTER BREAK SESSION on Thursday February 23 from 1:00 to 5:00 pm. Come build something fun with the library’s LEGOs. FREE!
LEGO-palooza happens from 3:00 to 5:00 pm on the first Thursday of the month with special sessions during school breaks and the summer.
For more information, call 802-254-5290 ext. 1210

Seniors Solutions Consultation
2023-02-24 11:00 - 13:00 | Main Reading Room
Meet With Senior Solutions’ outreach specialist, Tiffany, to find out if you are eligible for 3SquaresVT food and fuel assistance.

Teen Movie Night: "Whip-It"
2023-02-24 19:00 - 21:00 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
The Teen Advisory Board invites you to join us for a Teens Only INDOOR movie night.
We will watch “Whip-It”, a sports comedy in which Bliss Cavendar (Elliot Page) lives in small-town Texas and yearns to break free of her mother’s world of beauty pageants and conformity. She sees her chance when she meets the Hurl Scouts, a roller-derby team; she tries out for the team and wins a slot, lying to her parents about her new hobby.

The movie will start at 7pm and has a run time of 1 hour and 50 minutes. Masks requested, snacks provided.

Brattleboro Time Trade
2023-02-25 13:00 - 16:30 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Brattleboro Time Trade member greeting and potluck!

Instapot Cooking Demo
2023-02-27 17:00 - 19:00 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Join Edible Brattleboro for a fun and interactive instapot cooking demonstration – including lentil soup, greens, and dessert!
Registration Required! Register HERE or by emailing cooking@ediblebrattleboro.org

Brattleboro Stamp Club
2023-02-27 18:00 - 20:00 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States

Town Arts Committee
2023-02-28 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!

Rhyme Time
2023-03-01 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!

First Wednesdays: Biodiversity, Conservation, and Civic Participation in Paraguay
2023-03-01 19:00 - 21:00 | Brooks Memorial Library, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Digital Event

March 1, 2023: 7:00 pm

South America’s Atlantic Forest is one of the most diverse ecosystems on the planet. Cristian Fretes Ojeda, technical trainer for Peace Corps Paraguay, discusses how civic participation is leading the effort to conserve crucial natural areas like the Atlantic Forest and the Gran Chaco, which span several South American countries.
About Cristhian Fretes Ojeda
Cristhian Fretes Ojeda is a volunteer trainer for Peace Corps Paraguay and an active conservationist working with the nonprofit OPADES on biodiversity conservation and sustainable development across the country.
Register for this free event
Photo by Cristhian Fretes Ojeda
Sponsored by the Friends of Brooks Memorial Library

Statewide Underwriters

Please contact us at info@vermonthumanities.org for information on disability services. To request a specific accommodation, contact us at least three weeks prior to the event. Vermont Humanities strives to provide accommodations whenever possible. All event locations are ADA accessible.

LEGO-Palooza
2023-03-02 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!

Bloom: Artists' Reception
2023-03-03 16:00 - 18:00 | Main Reading Room
Join us for the opening of
BLOOM: bright, bold, watercolor flowers
by Art Among Friends
Opening reception, Friday, March 3rd, 4:00-6:00 pm
Brooks Memorial Library Main Reading Room
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We invite you to enjoy the hope and promise we all share with the coming of spring.
Connie Evans – Alice Freeman – Kathy Greve – Laurie Klenkel – Louise Zak – Lynn Zimmerman
We six artists–called Art Among Friends–gathered online during the pandemic to create, support, and encourage one another on our artistic journeys. Through regular practice painting together, we continue to bloom.
BLOOM will grace the library’s main reading room March 1st – April 27th.

Windham County Genealogy Interest Group: ONLINE
2023-03-04 11:00 - 13:00 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Windham County Genealogy Interest Group Meeting
March 4, 2023
Finding Your Ancestors in Immigration Records

The Windham County Genealogy Interest Group will hold its next meeting on Saturday, March 4, 2023, from 11am to 1pm, ON ZOOM ONLY. ****Please note that this is a change from the original in-person plan, because of the predicted bad weather.****

Please register at this link https://bit.ly/WCGIGMAR4

To join the Zoom session, please use this link http://bit.ly/3Zf19Gl

Jerry Carbone and Wayne Blanchard will explore how to find ancestors in immigration records using ship manifests, border crossings, naturalization records and census records that asked citizenship questions. Except for those of Native American heritage, everyone in the United States had ancestors who arrived from other places.
“Our goal is to assist genealogists and history enthusiasts in finding their ancestors and tracing their journey to the United States,” said Blanchard. “By understanding how to access immigration records, attendees will be able to uncover the stories of their forebears and learn more about their family history.”
The presentations will show attendees how to use websites, such as, stevemorse.org and ancestry.com to find Ellis Island records and other ports of entry to the U.S. to include Boston, Baltimore, Galveston, New Orleans, Philadelphia, and San Francisco. For those with ancestors who immigrated earlier than the Ellis Island era, other methods must be used. Using journals and court records, for example, it is possible in some cases to learn a lot about how English ancestors came to New England during the Great Migration of the 1630s.

The Windham County (Vt.) Genealogy Interest Group is an informal organization whose members are dedicated to genealogy education, research, and best practices. Meetings are held every other month on Zoom. Many of these sessions were recorded and are available on the WCGIG YouTube Channel, which cover topics as: improving your search results in FamilySearch.org and Ancestry.com; using family tree software; navigating the crowd sources cemetery database, Find A Grave; using land records for genealogy research; using AmericanAncestors.org, the database of the New England Historic Genealogical Society; finding people in the newly released 1950 U.S. Census.

For more information please contact windhamcountygig@gmail.com.

Brattleboro Great Books Group
2023-03-06 08:00 - 17:00, 2023-03-06 19:00 - 21:00 | Meeting Room D – Quiet Reading Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Monthly discussion of “Great Books”

Read to a Dog
2023-03-07 15:30 - 17:00 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
This March is “Paws to Read” month! Come read out loud to Kelso the Dog (and his human, Everett) to celebrate. Kelso is specially trained to read with kids and LOVES to be petted and cuddled– give him a treat when you’re done, and you’ll have a buddy for life.
Come to the Children’s Room for a date with Kelso – dates experienced on a first come first serve basis. Bring your own books or come early to pick some of ours! All Ages Welcome.
