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SUMMARY:Anxious Nation Film Screening with NAMI Vermont
DESCRIPTION:Anxious Nation explores and captures the many faces and facets of anxiety. This feature length documentary takes a deep look into the crisis of anxiety and mental health in America\, especially it’s impact on youth and their families. \n  \nPresented by the National Alliance on Mental Illness of Vermont. This event is open to the public and free of charge.
URL:https://staging.brookslibraryvt.org/event/anxious-nation-film-screening-with-nami-vermont/
LOCATION:Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room\, 224 Main Street\, Brattleboro\, VT\, 05301\, United States
CATEGORIES:Adults
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231004T190000
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SUMMARY:The Joy of Lex with the Co-Host of “A Way with Words”
DESCRIPTION:Revel in surprising word histories\, regional dialects\, ancient linguistic roots\, and modern slang with Martha Barnette\, co-host of public radio’s popular “A Way with Words.” Barnette\, a writer in love with so-called dead languages\, co-hosts the radio show which The New Yorker called “Car Talk for Lexiphiles” with Grant Barrett\, a linguist and lexicographer. \nMartha Barnette is co-host of the public-radio show A Way with Words\, heard each week by listeners on National Public Radio affiliates across North America\, and worldwide by podcast. The show’s about words and how we use them — word and phrase origins\, slang\, regional dialects\, writing well\, books and reading\, and that weird thing Grandma used to say. \nRegister to attend this event \nYou can also watch the live stream here at 7:00 pm on Wednesday\, October 5: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ou7Xu2drEk.  \nSponsored by Vermont Humanities and the Friends of Brooks Memorial Library
URL:https://staging.brookslibraryvt.org/event/the-joy-of-lex-with-the-co-host-of-a-way-with-words/
LOCATION:Main Reading Room\, 224 Main Street\, Brattleboro\, VT\, 05301\, United States
CATEGORIES:Adults
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230921T163000
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SUMMARY:Compassion Towards Non-Human Animals
DESCRIPTION:Ask your questions about veganism\, check out books and information on animal rights\, and learn about how sharing compassion with animals can help with the climate crisis. Take home some tasty vegan goodies by an award winning baker.
URL:https://staging.brookslibraryvt.org/event/compassion-towards-non-human-animals/
LOCATION:Mezzanine Conference Room\, 224 Main Street\, Brattleboro\, VT\, 05301\, United States
CATEGORIES:Adults
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230921T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230921T163000
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SUMMARY:War Tax Resistance Office Hour
DESCRIPTION:Hosted by Taxes for Peace New England this hour is a time to come ask questions about war tax resistance\, learn about its role in creating a peaceful world\, and get practical guidance about how to be less complicit in violent systems and the climate crisis.\n \n  \n 
URL:https://staging.brookslibraryvt.org/event/war-tax-resistance-office-hour/
LOCATION:Mezzanine Conference Room\, 224 Main Street\, Brattleboro\, VT\, 05301\, United States
CATEGORIES:Adults
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230912T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230912T193000
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SUMMARY:Public Forum on Fire-EMS
DESCRIPTION:The Town of Brattleboro is in the process of developing alternatives for how it provides Fire and EMS services. Town staff is gathering information and analyzing costs and risks. Staff will review in detail any viable EMS alternatives\, compare them\, and invite the public to ask clarifying questions and otherwise express their opinion at this public forum.
URL:https://staging.brookslibraryvt.org/event/public-forum-on-fire-ems-alternatives/
LOCATION:Main Reading Room\, 224 Main Street\, Brattleboro\, VT\, 05301\, United States
CATEGORIES:Adults
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230911T190000
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SUMMARY:Author Talk - Susan Avery on Addicted
DESCRIPTION:Susan Avery will conduct an author talk on Addicted: Our Strength Under the Influence. (Due to the personal nature of her story\, Susan wrote under a pen name to protect family members who are all so important to her.)  “Life’s experiences can offer a meaningful journey. What you will read therein was life happening in real time\, family members struggling\, often just to survive.”\n \nChapter One\, excerpt. “The tail of the heroin dragon is uncontrollable. Visualize a gnarled\, spiked weapon\, swiftly and viciously impaling the vulnerable and afflicted while taking down families in it’s path of destruction. This is the true nature of addiction—and how this powerful “brain disease” can turn a once beautiful\, intelligent viable child into prey.” \n  \n 
URL:https://staging.brookslibraryvt.org/event/author-talk-susan-avery-on-addicted/
LOCATION:Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room\, 224 Main Street\, Brattleboro\, VT\, 05301\, United States
CATEGORIES:Adults
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230828T190000
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SUMMARY:Commemoration of the March on Washington
DESCRIPTION:Sixty years after Dr. Martin Luther King\, Jr. delivered his iconic “I Have a Dream” speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on August 28\, 1963\, poet and performer David Mills will present an hour-long dramatic presentation\, portraying Dr. King’s transformation from his early uncertainties about Civil Rights into the iconic figure he became.  The show highlights Dr. King’s\, “Letter from a Birmingham Jail\,” “I Have a Dream” “Promised Land” “If I had Sneezed\,” and “Early Days.”  Mr. Mills’ stirring presentation looks at the public figure and the private man. \nCommunity members who were present at the original event sixty years ago are encouraged to share their stories by sending them to starr@brookslibraryvt.org \n 
URL:https://staging.brookslibraryvt.org/event/commemoration-of-the-march-on-washington/
LOCATION:Main Reading Room\, 224 Main Street\, Brattleboro\, VT\, 05301\, United States
CATEGORIES:Adults,General
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230822T171500
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SUMMARY:Brattleboro Conservation Commission
DESCRIPTION:Meeting and panel discussion\nin the Main Reading Room\n\nThis panel discussion is part of a public engagement process hosted by the Brattleboro Conservation Commission after a recent timber harvest at the Brattleboro’s Watershed Forest: Pleasant Valley Reservoir (PVR). It started with an excellent tour by Dan Healey\, the consulting forester for PVR’s Forest Management Plan\, which went into detail discussing the silvicultural treatments used in the most recent harvest and the goals they were meant to fulfill.\n\nHere\, with a panel consisting of consulting foresters\, Dan Healey and Andrew Morrison\, and consulting ecologist Daniel Dubie\, we zoom out to a broader view of forestry and forest ecology for a discussion of the landscape-scale benefits of – and threats to – our regional forests\, and how forestry can maximize those benefits and address those threats\, and (to a lesser degree) how management of PVR fits into that.
URL:https://staging.brookslibraryvt.org/event/brattleboro-conservation-commission/
LOCATION:Main Reading Room\, 224 Main Street\, Brattleboro\, VT\, 05301\, United States
CATEGORIES:Adults
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230814T190000
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SUMMARY:Altar to an Erupting Sun: Chuck Collins in Conversation with Frida Berrigan
DESCRIPTION:Monday Aug 14\, 7pm\n \nBrooks Memorial Library First Floor Reading Room\n \nCome celebrate the publication of the novel\, Altar to an Erupting Sun\, by Chuck Collins\, in conversation with Frida Berrigan. \nAbout the Book \nRae Kelliher is a veteran environmental activist and pioneer in the death-with-dignity movement. Her husband Reggie calls her “party in a box” and “a weaver of people and movements.” Facing a diagnosis of terminal illness\, Rae engages in a shocking suicide-murder\, taking the life of an oil company CEO for his complicity in delaying responses to climate catastrophe. Seven years later\, Rae’s friends and family gather at her Vermont farm to try to understand her violent exit and the rapid social transformations triggered by her desperate act. \nSpeakers \nFrida Berrigan is activist\, urban farmer\, and columnist who lives in New London\, CT\, and author It Runs In The Family: On Being Raised By Radicals And Growing Into Rebellious Motherhood” \nChuck Collins from Guilford is a campaigner and storyteller and author of Altar to an Erupting Sun (Green Writer Press). His books include: Born on Third Base\, The Wealth Hoarders\, Wealth and Our Commonwealth (with Bill Gates Sr.)\, and Economic Apartheid in America. Collins directs the Program on Inequality and the Common Good at the Institute for Policy Studies where he co-edits Inequality.org.
URL:https://staging.brookslibraryvt.org/event/altar-to-an-erupting-sun-chuck-collins-in-conversation-with-frida-berrigan/
LOCATION:224 Main Street\, Brattleboro\, VT\, 05301\, United States
CATEGORIES:Adults,Teens
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230719T183000
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SUMMARY:Create in Community: Writing Workshop for All Ages
DESCRIPTION:A creative writing workshop with prompts\, discussions\, and games led by Anna Cummings and Diana Whitney
URL:https://staging.brookslibraryvt.org/event/create-in-community-writing-workshop-for-all-ages-2/
LOCATION:Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room\, 224 Main Street\, Brattleboro\, VT\, 05301\, United States
CATEGORIES:Adults,Children & Families,General,Teens
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ORGANIZER;CN="Teen Advisory Board":MAILTO:teens@brookslibraryvt.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230719T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230719T190000
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SUMMARY:All Ages Paper Airplane Derby
DESCRIPTION:Get ready to show off your engineering skills and soar through the library at our first ever All Ages Paper Airplane Derby. Sign up and build starts at 6 o clock and we’ll be launching our planes from the mezzanine starting at 6:30. Planes must be built on site with the materials provided. \nCome and enjoy fun for all ages and compete for bragging rights and cool prizes. This event is part of our All Together Now summer program. \nNo pre-registration required. In the Main Reading Room.
URL:https://staging.brookslibraryvt.org/event/all-ages-paper-airplane-derby/
LOCATION:Brooks Memorial Library\, 224 Main Street\, Brattleboro\, VT\, 05301\, United States
CATEGORIES:Adults,Children & Families,General,Teens
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230628T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230628T200000
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SUMMARY:Brattleboro Community Mapping Project
DESCRIPTION:As part of our All Together Now summer program\, we’re celebrating the theme of community with a group map making project. \nJoin us Wednesday\, June 28th\, at 6:30 PM for an all ages interactive map making activity where you can get out of your seat\, share your story\, and help contribute to an art project that tells the story of the people who make up our community. \nCome share your origin story\, talk about what makes a community great\, and celebrate Brattleboro! \nIn the Main Reading Room. \nBrought to you by Windham Arts Council and The Friends of Brooks Memorial Library.
URL:https://staging.brookslibraryvt.org/event/brattleboro-community-mapping-project/
LOCATION:224 Main Street\, Brattleboro\, VT\, 05301\, United States
CATEGORIES:Adults,Children & Families,General,Teens
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ORGANIZER;CN="Windham Arts Council":MAILTO:contactus@windhamrac.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230621T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230621T203000
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LAST-MODIFIED:20230621T212302Z
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SUMMARY:POSTPONED: Democracy Forum--"The American Way: Profits Over People. A History"
DESCRIPTION:POSTPONED \nThe presentation will trace the historical roots of money’s role in the relationships of power through the early development of representative democracy into the present.  The analysis identifies central dynamics in contemporary America as having germinated in the 1640s and developed with consistent logic from that point forward.  By shedding light on this continuum we can better understand persistent tendencies in our world that don’t seem to go away but should.  Specifically there are two.  The first is the social priority to protect\, value and honor money over people.  The second is the unrelenting societal default that protects\, values and honors white people over all others; in a word\, racism
URL:https://staging.brookslibraryvt.org/event/democracy-forum/
LOCATION:Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room\, 224 Main Street\, Brattleboro\, VT\, 05301\, United States
CATEGORIES:Adults
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