Brooks Memorial Library - Brattleboro VT

Game Cafe!
2023-04-08 14:00 - 16:45, 2023-04-15 14:00 - 16:45, 2023-04-22 14:00 - 16:45, 2023-04-29 14:00 - 16:45, 2023-05-06 14:00 - 16:45, 2023-05-13 14:00 - 16:45, 2023-05-20 14:00 - 16:45, 2023-05-27 14:00 - 16:45 (America/New_York) and 1 more date | 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!

Library Board of Trustees
2023-04-11 16:30 - 18:00, 2023-05-09 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!
https://bml2.brookslibraryvt.org/about-us/board-of-trustees/

Monday Movie Matinee: The Bad Guys
2023-04-17 13:30 - 15:30 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Join us at 1:30pm for our Spring Break Monday Movie Matinee of “The Bad Guys” (Rated PG).
Based on Aaron Blabey’s acclaimed graphic novel series, “The Bad Guys” tells the story of a criminal group of anthropomorphic animals who, upon being caught, pretend to attempt to reform themselves as model citizens, only for their leader to find himself genuinely drawn to changing his ways for good as a new villain has his own plans.
Masks Welcome 🙂

April Sci-Fi Reading Group Meetup
2023-04-18 19:00 - 20:30 | Brooks Memorial Library, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
The Sci-Fi Reading Group will meet Tuesday, April 18th, in the Quiet Reading Room from 7-8:30 pm to discuss Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer.
From Goodreads:
“Area X has been cut off from the rest of the world for decades. Nature has reclaimed the last vestiges of human civilization. The first expedition returned with reports of a pristine, Edenic landscape; the second expedition ended in mass suicide, the third in a hail of gunfire as its members turned on one another. The members of the eleventh expedition returned as shadows of their former selves, and within weeks, all had died of cancer. In Annihilation, the first volume of Jeff VanderMeer’s Southern Reach Trilogy, we join the twelfth expedition.
The group is made up of four women: an anthropologist; a surveyor; a psychologist, the de facto leader; and our narrator, a biologist. Their mission is to map the terrain, record all observations of their surroundings and of one another, and, above all, avoid being contaminated by Area X itself.
They arrive expecting the unexpected, and Area X delivers—but it’s the surprises that came across the border with them and the secrets the expedition members are keeping from one another that change everything.”
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.

LEGO-Palooza Special Session
2023-04-20 13:00 - 17:00 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Join us for a SPECIAL SPRING BREAK SESSION on Thursday April 20 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

Air Fryer Cooking Demo
2023-04-24 17:00 - 19:00 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Join Edible Brattleboro for a fun, hands on, and interactive cooking experience at Brooks Memorial Library on Monday April 23rd from 5-7pm! Together we will prepare vegan buddha bowls that include: tofu, legumes, veggies, and rice, and homemade tahini dressing. We will finish off the meal with chocolate “nice cream!”
Register by emailing cooking@ediblebrattleboro.org

CANCELLED - CPCC
2023-04-26 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”

Teen Movie Night: "Addams Family"
2023-04-28 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 “The Addams Family” from 1991 – the classic movie which inspired the Netflix show “Wednesday”. The story follows the spooky Addams Family as they try to locate their long-lost uncle Fester. Their shyster lawyer tries to pass off a con man as Fester in an attempt to steal all of their gold.
The movie will start at 7pm and has a run time of 1 hour and 39 minutes. Masks welcome, snacks provided.

Brattleboro Great Books Group
2023-05-01 19:00 - 21:00 | Meeting Room C – Local History
Monthly discussion of “Great Books”
The Brattleboro “Great Books” Group will be discussing Geraldine Brooks’s novel HORSE on Monday, May 1st, 2023, from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. in the mezzanine History Room of the Brooks Memorial Library, Main Street, Brattleboro.

“Told from the perspective of six characters, Horse interweaves the stories of the black equestrians who made their white masters fabulously wealthy with those of contemporary young professionals struggling to form relationships despite racial microaggressions and misunderstandings.”

Mineralogical Society
2023-05-02 18:00 - 20:45, 2023-06-06 18:00 - 20:45 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Study of Minerals and Geological topics

First Wednesdays: We Are All Fast Food Workers Now
2023-05-03 19:00 - 21:00 | Brooks Memorial Library, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Live Event
May 3, 2023: 7:00 pm

Labor historian Annelise Orleck provides a close look at globalization and its costs from the perspective of low-wage workers themselves—berry pickers, fast food servers, garment workers, cashiers, hotel housekeepers, home health care aides, and even adjunct professors—who are fighting for respect, safety, and a living wage.
About Annelise Orleck
Annelise Orleck is professor of history at Dartmouth College and the author of five books on the history of US women, politics, immigration, and activism, including Storming Caesars Palace: How Black Mothers Fought Their Own War on Poverty.
Underwriter: Anne Commire Fund for Women in the Humanities

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
2023-05-04 15:00 - 17:00, 2023-06-01 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!

Book Launch with Ann Braden
2023-05-07 15:00 | Main Reading Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Celebrate the launch of Ann Braden’s newest middle grade book, Opinions and Opossums! Ann is also the author of The Benefits of Being an Octopus, and Flight of the Puffin, and this new story is her most personal story yet. Opinions and Opossums is about finding a way forward when we’re not sure we believe what those around us believe, and it’ll resonate with anyone who has ever questioned the status quo — or simply questioned themselves when they couldn’t find a way to fit in.
Ann will read from the beginning of the book, and will talk about her inspiration and the writing process. You can ask her questions and explore the stories hidden within abandoned shopping carts. (Main character Agnes and her best friend Mo have multiple notebooks worth of stories from the perspective of shopping carts, and it’s amazing what kind of stories emerge when you start asking questions!)

May Sci-Fi Reading Group Meetup
2023-05-16 19:00 - 20:30 | Brooks Memorial Library, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
The Sci-Fi Reading Group will meet Tuesday, May 16th, in the Quiet Reading Room from 7-8:30 pm to discuss Upright Women Wanted by Sarah Gailey.
From Goodreads:
“Esther is a stowaway. She’s hidden herself away in the Librarian’s book wagon in an attempt to escape the marriage her father has arranged for her—a marriage to the man who was previously engaged to her best friend. Her best friend who she was in love with. Her best friend who was just executed for possession of resistance propaganda.

The future American Southwest is full of bandits, fascists, and queer librarian spies on horseback trying to do the right thing. They’ll bring the fight to you.
In Upright Women Wanted, award-winning author Sarah Gailey reinvents the pulp Western with an explicitly antifascist, near-future story of queer identity.”
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.

Novels, Non-Fiction, & Nosh
2023-05-19 18:00 - 20:00 | Brooks Memorial Library, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
The Friends of Brooks Memorial Library invite you to join us for a special after hours fundraiser where guests will enjoy a grand selection of sweet and savory treats and refreshments.
Choose from either novel or non-fiction and take home a wrapped surprise book to add to your collection.
Tickets are $10 a person and are available at the library circulation desk or at the door during the event.
Come and enjoy good food, good fun, and a good read. All for a great cause.

POSTPONED: Teen Writing Games
2023-05-25 19:00 - 21:00 | Spicy Lime Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
This month’s Writing Games event has been postponed due to scheduling conflicts! Please join us instead on Thursday June 1st from 7-9pm

Hello teens of Brattleboro! Are you someone who is interested in writing and/or games?
The Teen Library Board hosts a free writing based event at the Brooks Memorial Library. This event is located in the Teen Room of the library, on the 2nd Floor. It runs from 7 to 9pm. We’ll be making black-out poetry, rolling story-cubes, playing exquisite corpse, and other fun, writing-related games. Feel free to reach out to us at either 1cummia@wsesdvt.org or teens@brookslibraryvt.org if you have any questions.
Pizza and snacks provided. Masks are not required, but we have them if you want them.
Hosted by the Teen Advisory Board. “Teens Only” events are open to people in grades 7-12.

Writing Your College Admissions Essay
2023-05-30 17:00 - 18:00 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
There is not one perfect way to write a college admissions essay, but there are universal principles to writing a strong essay. Collegewise counselor Jessica Nelson will share her strategies that are guaranteed to help students improve their chances of finding and sharing a compelling story with an admissions committee.
For 23+ years Collegewise has been supporting families in experiencing a less stressful and more successful journey to their best fit college. We are on a mission to help students access the transformative power of higher education and share free advice and resources with as many families as possible.

CANCELLED: Teen Writing Games
2023-06-01 19:00 - 21:00 | Spicy Lime Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Cancelled due to high school event scheduling. Will be restarted in September!

Hello teens of Brattleboro! Are you someone who is interested in writing and/or games?
The Teen Library Board hosts a free writing based event at the Brooks Memorial Library. This event is located in the Teen Room of the library, on the 2nd Floor. It runs from 7 to 9pm. We’ll be making black-out poetry, rolling story-cubes, playing exquisite corpse, and other fun, writing-related games. Feel free to reach out to us at either 1cummia@wsesdvt.org or teens@brookslibraryvt.org if you have any questions.
Pizza and snacks provided. Masks are not required, but we have them if you want them.
Hosted by the Teen Advisory Board. “Teens Only” events are open to people in grades 7-12.

Brattleboro Great Books Group
2023-06-05 19:00 - 21:00 | Meeting Room C – Local History
Monthly discussion of “Great Books”
