Week of Events
Sunday, November 30, 2025
No events on this day.
Monday, December 1, 2025
Tuesday, December 2, 2025
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Featured December 2, 2025 -Postponed Featured Art & Exploration at the Library: Book Group and Art Making for Seniors
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December 2, 2025 -Mineralogical Society
Postponed Art & Exploration at the Library: Book Group and Art Making for Seniors
Rescheduled from Tuesday, 12/02 to Friday, 12/05: Join River Gallery School teaching artist, Kate Milliken, for this free 5-week book exploration and art-making course for learners ages 65+. Participants will have the opportunity to explore books on a variety of themes including history, food, nature, music, film, and classic novels, and create art in response […]
Mineralogical Society
Join the Brattleboro Mineralogical Society to discuss Minerals and other Geological topics!
Wednesday, December 3, 2025
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Featured December 3, 2025 -Featured Rhyme Time
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Featured December 3, 2025 -Featured Flower Pot Saucer Gardens, for Fairy Folk or other tiny beings
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Featured December 3, 2025 -Featured A Lifeline for Difficult Times: The Taking Solace Series
Rhyme Time
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.
Flower Pot Saucer Gardens, for Fairy Folk or other tiny beings
Create a habitat for your favorite miniatures in a flower pot saucer. Open to all ages. Materials will be provided, but feel free to bring your own additions. Participants will take their creations home.
A Lifeline for Difficult Times: The Taking Solace Series
Starting this November, Center for Solace (formerly Brattleboro Area Hospice) & Brooks Memorial Library have begun an 8-month collaboration on the first Wednesday of each month, from 6-8 pm. Come join us for a wide range of conversations on tender topics, from Death Cafes, to film & discussion nights, speaker panels, a climate-grief dialogue, and more. Together we'll […]
Thursday, December 4, 2025
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Featured December 4, 2025 -Featured Sing & Dance With Robin
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Featured December 4, 2025 -Featured LEGO-Palooza
Sing & Dance With Robin
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 […]
LEGO-Palooza
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!
Friday, December 5, 2025
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Featured December 5, 2025 -Featured World AIDS Day and The AIDS Memorial Quilt
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Featured December 5, 2025 -Featured Art & Exploration at the Library: Book Group and Art Making for Seniors
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December 5, 2025 -Introduction to Buddhist Mindfulness Meditation
World AIDS Day and The AIDS Memorial Quilt
The AIDS Project of Southern Vermont is honored to host sections of the AIDS Memorial Quilt in honor of World AIDS Day. A 12’ x 12’ section of the iconic Quilt, including a panel for Ron Squires, Vermont’s first openly gay legislator, will be on display in the Main Reading Room at Brooks Memorial Library […]
Art & Exploration at the Library: Book Group and Art Making for Seniors
Rescheduled from Tuesday, 12/02 to Friday, 12/05: Join River Gallery School teaching artist, Kate Milliken, for this free 5-week book exploration and art-making course for learners ages 65+. Participants will have the opportunity to explore books on a variety of themes including history, food, nature, music, film, and classic novels, and create art in response […]
Introduction to Buddhist Mindfulness Meditation
This offering will be led by Bhante Rathana, a Buddhist monk originally from Sri Lanka and currently residing at Serenity Central of New England in Jacksonville, Vermont. He has been dedicated to the path of Dhamma since the age of 13, and his journey includes over two decades of monastic training, study, and teaching in […]
Saturday, December 6, 2025
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Featured December 6, 2025 -Featured Make a Mini-Crankie
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Featured December 6, 2025 -Featured Brattleboro in Stitches
Make a Mini-Crankie
What's A Crankie? Picture a hand-painted scroll that moves through a wooden box while a performer sings, plays music, or tells a story. It's part folk art, part theater, part magic. Workshop attendees will build a miniature Crankie out of a matchbox and matchsticks with a turning mechanism for the scroll. Each participant will design […]
Brattleboro in Stitches
Bring a work in progress to sew, knit, crochet, embroider, or mend. Sewing machines, irons, and companionship will be provided.