Juggling demonstration and lesson with Tony Duncan
2024-02-21 18:00 - 19:30 (America/New_York) | Main Reading Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Tony Duncan will lead a workshop introducing participants to a variety of different manipulation props that are generally used in circus. This includes traditional juggling balls clubs and rings, but also much easier fare, such as diabolo, and some fun partner stuff called “social siteswap” that can be learned by most anyone over the age of 7 with enough coordination to get food onto a fork or spoon and then into their mouth. Tony has been performing and teaching juggling since 1981.
Tony has performed in venues all over the world and opened for numerous famous celebrities, but he is quite humble and doesn’t like to name drop, (and people under 30 probably wouldn’t recognize most of them). He won the 1982 and 1983 International Jugglers Association (IJA) “numbers” championship, won the 1994 IJA world Championship, as well as other international awards. At the age of 65 he is finally willing to rest on his laurels.
He has been teaching at The New England Center for Circus Arts (NECCA) since 2004, Mostly focused on developing manipulation skills in the Professional Track student program.

Game Cafe!
2024-02-21 18:00 - 20:45, 2024-02-24 14:00 - 16:45, 2024-02-28 18:00 - 20:45, 2024-03-06 18:00 - 20:45, 2024-03-13 18:00 - 20:45, 2024-03-20 18:00 - 20:45, 2024-03-27 18:00 - 20:45, 2024-04-03 18:00 - 20:45 and 3 more dates | 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!

February Sci-Fi Reading Group Meetup
2024-02-26 19:00 - 20:30 | Meeting Room D – Quiet Reading Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
The Sci-Fi Reading Group will meet Monday, February 26th, in the Quiet Reading Room from 7-8:30 pm to discuss The Membranes by Chi Ta-Wei.
“It is the late twenty-first century, and Momo is the most celebrated dermal care technician in all of T City. Humanity has migrated to domes at the bottom of the sea to escape devastating climate change. The world is dominated by powerful media conglomerates and runs on exploited cyborg labor. Momo prefers to keep to herself, and anyway she’s too busy for other relationships: her clients include some of the city’s best-known media personalities. But after meeting her estranged mother, she begins to explore her true identity, a journey that leads to questioning the bounds of gender, memory, self, and reality.”
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.

LEGO-Palooza
2024-02-29 15:00 - 17:00, 2024-03-07 15:00 - 17:00, 2024-04-04 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!

Game Cafe!
2024-03-02 14:00 - 16:45, 2024-03-09 14:00 - 16:45 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States

Brattleboro Great Books Group
2024-03-04 19:00 - 21:00, 2024-04-01 19:00 - 21:00 | Meeting Room D – Quiet Reading Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Monthly discussion of “Great Books”

Library Board of Trustees - Special Meeting
2024-03-05 16:30 - 17:15 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Special meeting of the Brooks Memorial Library Board of Trustees. Citizen attendance and commentary welcome!
https://bml2.brookslibraryvt.org/about-us/board-of-trustees/

Mineralogical Society
2024-03-05 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!

Library Board of Trustees
2024-03-12 16:30 - 18:00, 2024-04-09 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/

March Sci-Fi Reading Group Meetup
2024-03-18 19:00 - 20:30 | Meeting Room D – Quiet Reading Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
The Sci-Fi Reading Group will meet Monday, March 18th, in the Quiet Reading Room from 7-8:30 pm to discuss Pet by Akwaeke Emezi.
“There are no monsters anymore, or so the children in the city of Lucille are taught. Jam and her best friend, Redemption, have grown up with this lesson all their life. But when Jam meets Pet, a creature made of horns and colors and claws, who emerges from one of her mother’s paintings and a drop of Jam’s blood, she must reconsider what she’s been told. Pet has come to hunt a monster–and the shadow of something grim lurks in Redemption’s house. Jam must fight not only to protect her best friend, but also uncover the truth, and the answer to the question How do you save the world from monsters if no one will admit they exist?“
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: "Spaceballs"
2024-03-29 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 “Spaceballs”
A spoof of Star Wars (with elements from various other classic sci-fi films):
In a distant galaxy, planet Spaceball has depleted its air supply, leaving its citizens reliant on a product called “Perri-Air.” In desperation, Spaceball’s leader President Skroob (Mel Brooks) orders the evil Dark Helmet to kidnap Princess Vespa of oxygen-rich Druidia and hold her hostage in exchange for air. But help arrives for the Princess in the form of renegade space pilot Lone Starr and his half-man, half-dog partner, Barf.
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RK0yd4LtLdg
The movie will start at 7pm and has a run time of 1 hour and 36 minutes. Masks welcome, snacks provided.

Mineralogical Society
2024-04-02 18:00 - 20:45 | Meeting Room D – Quiet Reading Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States

Eclipse Folklore as Inspiration: A Creative Writing Workshop with GennaRose Nethercott
2024-04-02 19:00 - 20:30 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Unleash your creativity under the shadow of the upcoming solar eclipse. Eclipses have meant many things to many people throughout history–from end times omens to cosmic messages. In this workshop, we’ll take a world tour through eclipse folklore, myths, and superstitions, and then re-imagine these old stories to create new ones of our own. Open to all levels of writing experience, this is a generative workshop; walk in with a blank page, and walk out with new writing!
Ages 14 and up. Please register in advance by sending an email to info@brookslibraryvt.org or in person at the library.
GENNAROSE NETHERCOTT is the author of a novel, Thistlefoot, and a book-length poem, The Lumberjack’s Dove, which was selected by Louise Glück as a winner of the National Poetry Series. Fifty Beasts to Break Your Heart –– her latest book — marks her debut into short fiction. As a folklorist, she helps create the podcasts Lore and Harlots, the latter of which she also hosts, and she tours nationally and internationally performing strange tales (sometimes with puppets in tow). She lives in the woodlands of Vermont, beside an old cemetery.

April Sci-Fi Reading Group Meetup
2024-04-15 19:00 - 20:30 | Meeting Room D – Quiet Reading Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
The Sci-Fi Reading Group will meet Monday, April 15th, in the Quiet Reading Room from 7-8:30 pm to discuss Rosebud by Paul Cornell.
“When five sentient digital beings—condemned for over three hundred years to crew the small survey ship by the all-powerful Company—encounter a mysterious black sphere, their course of action is clear: obtain the object, inform the Company, earn lots of praise. But the ship malfunctions, and the crew has no choice but to approach the sphere and survey it themselves. They have no idea that this object—and the transcendent truth hidden within—will change the fate of all existence, the Company, and themselves.”
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.

My 1st Job Workshop for Teens
2024-04-24 13:30 - 15:00 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
The Vermont Dept of Labor in Partnership with Brooks Memorial Library proudly presents a Teen focused My 1st Job Workshop.
Join us to learn about:

job opportunities for teens
how to write a resume
acing the interview
completing tedious onboarding paperwork
what to do with your 1st paycheck
and other topics related to obtaining your 1st job and setting the stage for future success.

Resume and job search assistance after the workshop. Please bring your Chromebook or a laptop if you have one!
