Brooks Memorial Library - Brattleboro VT

Friends of the Library
2024-02-21 16:30 - 18:00 (America/New_York) | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Monthly meeting of the Friends of the Library. Citizen attendance and commentary is welcome!
https://bml2.brookslibraryvt.org/about-us/friends-of-the-library/

Juggling demonstration and lesson with Tony Duncan
2024-02-21 18:00 - 19:30 | 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 | 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!

Life-size Candyland
2024-02-22 10:00 - 17:00, 2024-02-23 10:00 - 17:00, 2024-02-24 10:00 - 17:00 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Take a sweet trip through Candyland! Kids of all ages are invited to play our life-sized Candyland game. The fun begins on Wednesday, February 21 and lasts through Saturday, February 24. Candyland will be open from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm each day. (The library opens at 10:00 am.) Bring some friends and experience the magic as our Community Meeting Room is transformed into a colorful, candy-themed world. Based on the classic Candyland game, players will journey through the Peppermint Stick Forest and Lollipop Woods on their way to Home Sweet Home but be careful- don’t get stuck in the Molasses Swamp or get sent all the way back to the Candy Hearts!
This free event is part of the Brattleboro Winter Carnival and presented by the Children’s Room at Brooks Memorial Library located at 224 Main Street in Brattleboro, Vermont.
For more information visit brookslibraryvt.org or call the Children’s Room at 802-254-5290 ext. 1210.

Brattleboro in Stitches
2024-02-24 11:00 - 14:00, 2024-03-02 11:00 - 14:00 | Meeting Room D – Quiet Reading Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Bring a work in progress to sew, knit, crochet, embroider, or mend. Sewing machines, irons, and companionship will be provided.

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.

Town Arts Committee
2024-02-27 17:00 - 19:00 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
The monthly meeting of the Town Arts Committee members invites guests and the public to discuss town arts!

The Board Gaming Guild
2024-02-28 15:15 - 16:45, 2024-03-06 15:15 - 16:45 | Children’s Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Come join in on the fun with the Brooks Memorial Library’s Board Gaming Guild!
Every Wednesday in January at 3:15pm. Stop by to have a great time playing board games in the Children’s Room!
Ages 8 and up. No sign up required!

CPCC
2024-02-28 17:30 - 18:30 | 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”

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

Art Among Friends Exhibit Opening
2024-03-01 16:00 - 18:00 | Main Reading Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
During the months of March and April, Brooks Memorial Library hosts “YUM!,” a feast of bright, bold watercolors depicting a variety of foods by Art Among Friends, a group of six local artists — Connie Evans, Alice Freeman, Kathy Greve, Laurie Klenkel, Louise Zak, and Lynn Zimmerman.
The 15 pieces on display in this show celebrate edible delights – from mousse to macarons, paella to potato chips, shortcake to strawberries. The paintings were scanned and enlarged before printing large posters that will be displayed on panels above the Main Reading Room. These posters as well as original paintings, prints and cards are available for purchase. Contact the artists at ArtAmongFriends6@gmail.com.
A reception will be held at the library on Friday, March 1, at 4 p.m.

Legislative Forum
2024-03-02 10:30 - 14:00 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
State elected officials will be on hand to discuss local, regional and state issues.

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 | 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!

Rhyme Time
2024-03-06 10:30 - 11:00 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
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.
Here is a handout featuring some of the different songs, fingerplays, and movement games we use!

Compassion Conversation on Non-Human Animals
2024-03-06 18:00 - 19:30 | Main Reading Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Compassionate Brattleboro’s Compassion Conversation on Non-Human Animals will feature panelists pattrice jones of VINE Sanctuary, Dr. Sue Kelly of Spruce Mountain Veterinary Acupuncture, Lisa Jablow of Protect Our Wildlife, and Bella O’Connor of Vermont Law School. This event is co-sponsored by the Windham County Humane Society.
Panelists will discuss a wide range of issues–from farming to the law to hunting–related to the idea of compassion and non-human animals and how compassion might play a role in our everyday lives. There will be time for questions and conversation with the audience.

Sing & Dance with Robin
2024-03-07 10:30 - 11:30 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
For Ages 0-5 and their caregivers, held in the BML Community Meeting Room.
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 be encouraged to fully sing and participate with their child in the class.

Brattleboro in Stitches
2024-03-09 11:00 - 14:00 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States

Parenting 4 Social Justice
2024-03-11 18:00 - 20:00 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
This is a facilitated group of parents and caregivers that meets monthly (usually 2nd Mondays) to read and discuss the book, Parenting 4 Social Justice. There will also be a childcare provider with kids in the childrens’ room.
