Brooks Memorial Library - Brattleboro VT

Brattleboro Great Books Group
2024-11-04 19:00 - 21:00, 2024-12-02 19:00 - 21:00, 2025-01-06 19:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | Meeting Room D – Quiet Reading Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Monthly discussion of “Great Books”

Mineralogical Society
2024-11-05 18:00 - 20:45, 2025-01-07 18:00 - 20:45 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Join the Brattleboro Mineralogical Society to discuss Minerals and other Geological topics!

Game Cafe!
2024-11-06 18:00 - 20:45, 2024-11-13 18:00 - 20:45, 2024-11-20 18:00 - 20:45, 2024-12-04 18:00 - 20:45, 2024-12-11 18:00 - 20:45, 2024-12-18 18:00 - 20:45 | Meeting Room D – Quiet Reading 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!

LEGO-Palooza
2024-11-07 13:00 - 17:00 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Join us on Thursdays after school from 1-5pm 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!

Library Board of Trustees--Cancelled
2024-11-12 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 is cancelled this month to accommodate the Town of Brattleboro Budget Open House. The Board will reconvene for its regular meeting December 10, 2024
https://bml2.brookslibraryvt.org/about-us/board-of-trustees/

November Sci-Fi Reading Group Meetup
2024-11-18 19:00 - 20:30 | Meeting Room B – Mezzanine Room, Main Street 224, Brattleboro, Vermont, 05301, United States
The Sci-Fi Reading Group will meet Monday, November 18th, in the Mezzanine Room from 7-8:30 pm to discuss Sisters of the Vast Black by Lina Rather.
Years ago, Old Earth sent forth sisters and brothers into the vast dark of the prodigal colonies armed only with crucifixes and iron faith. Now, the sisters of the Order of Saint Rita are on an interstellar mission of mercy aboard Our Lady of Impossible Constellations, a living, breathing ship which seems determined to develop a will of its own.
When the order receives a distress call from a newly-formed colony, the sisters discover that the bodies and souls in their care—and that of the galactic diaspora—are in danger. And not from void beyond, but from the nascent Central Governance and the Church itself.
The Sci-Fi Reading Group meets the third Monday of every month and is open to curious minds of all ages, whether or not they’ve read this month’s selection.

Teen Movie Night: LABYRINTH
2024-11-22 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 showing of Labyrinth!.
Sixteen-year-old Sarah is given thirteen hours to solve a labyrinth and rescue her baby brother Toby when her wish for him to be taken away is granted by the Goblin King Jareth (David Bowie).
The movie will start at 7pm. Snacks and comfy chairs provided!

Green Carnation Reading Group
2024-11-25 19:00 - 20:30, 2024-12-23 19:00 - 20:30 | Meeting Room D – Quiet Reading Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Discussions of books by and for queer people. For more information, please visit the Green Carnation Reading Group Facebook page.

LEGO-Palooza
2024-12-05 15:00 - 17:00, 2025-01-02 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!

Library Board of Trustees
2024-12-10 16:30 - 18:00, 2025-01-14 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/

December Sci-Fi Reading Group Meetup
2024-12-16 19:00 - 20:30 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
The Sci-Fi Reading Group will meet Monday, December 16th, in the Quiet Reading Room from 7-8:30 pm to discuss Babel-17 by Samuel R. Delany.
Humanity, which has spread throughout the universe, is involved in a war with the Invaders, who have been covertly assassinating officials and sabotaging spaceships. The only clues humanity has to go on are strange alien messages that have been intercepted in space. Poet and linguist Rydra Wong is determined to understand the language and stop the alien threat.
The Sci-Fi Reading Group meets the third Monday of every month and is open to curious minds of all ages, whether or not they’ve read this month’s selection.

Teen Writing Games
2024-12-20 16:00 - 17:30 | Spicy Lime Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Attention aspiring teen authors of Brattleboro!
The Teen Advisory Board invites you to a free writing event at the Brooks Memorial Library. Join us for an afternoon of creating black-out poetry, exquisite corpse stories, and other fun writing games!
This event is located in the Teen Room, on the 2nd Floor and runs from 4pm to 5:30pm. Snacks provided.
Hosted by the Teen Advisory Board. “Teens Only” events are open to people in grades 7-12.

LEGO-Palooza Winter Session!
2025-01-09 15:00 - 17:00, 2025-01-16 15:00 - 17:00, 2025-01-23 15:00 - 17:00, 2025-01-30 15:00 - 17:00 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States

Teen Game Night!
2025-01-24 19:00 - 22:00 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Join us on Friday, January 24th, from 7pm-10pm to play games with the Teen Advisory Board!
We will have a selection of board and card games to play with as well as a Jack Box Party Pack set up. Feel free to bring your own games as well.
We’ll be spread out across the whole 2nd floor. Pizza and snacks provided!
Hosted by the Teen Advisory Board. “Teens Only” events are open to people in grades 7-12.

January Sci-Fi Reading Group Meetup
2025-01-27 19:00 - 20:30 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
The Sci-Fi Reading Group will meet Monday, January 27th, in the Quiet Reading Room from 7-8:30 pm to discuss The Vanished Birds by Simon Jimenez.
A ship captain, unfettered from time. A mute child, burdened with unimaginable power. A millennia-old woman, haunted by lifetimes of mistakes. In this captivating debut of connection across space and time, these outsiders will find in each other the things they lack: a place of love and belonging. A safe haven. A new beginning.
But the past hungers for them, and when it catches up, it threatens to tear this makeshift family apart.
“the best of what science fiction can be: a thought-provoking, heartrending story about the choices that define our lives” (Kirkus Reviews)
Please note that this SFRG will be meeting on the fourth Monday of the month! The Sci-Fi Reading Group typically meets the third Monday of every month and is open to curious minds of all ages, whether or not they’ve read this month’s selection.

Green Carnation Reading Group
2025-01-27 19:00 - 20:30 | Meeting Room B – Mezzanine Room, Main Street 224, Brattleboro, Vermont, 05301, United States
