Brooks Memorial Library - Brattleboro VT

SEVCA's Volunteer Tax Prep Assistance (VITA) Program
2025-04-14 11:30 - 19:00, 2025-03-17 11:30 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | Brooks Memorial Library, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
The IRS’s Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program offers free basic tax return preparation to qualified individuals.
The VITA program has operated for over 50 years. VITA sites offer free tax help to people who need assistance in preparing their own tax returns, including:
-People who generally make $67,000 or less
-Persons with disabilities, and
-Limited English-speaking taxpayers
SEVCA’s VITA program also assists Vermont homeowners and renters with Homestead Declarations, Property Tax Credit Claims, and Renter Rebate Claims, even if they are not required to file a tax return.
VITA services are not only free, they are also a reliable and trusted source for preparing tax returns.
Services are by appointment only. Click HERE to request an appointment.
If you would like more information, visit sevca.org/tax services, email estrasser@sevca.org, or call or text 802-428-3032.

Brattleboro in Stitches
2025-04-12 13:00 - 16:00, 2025-04-05 13:00 - 16:00, 2025-03-29 13:00 - 16:00, 2025-03-22 13:00 - 16:00, 2025-03-15 13:00 - 16:00 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting 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.

Functional Play! For Older Adults with Marissa Peck
2025-04-12 11:00 - 12:00, 2025-03-22 11:00 - 12:00 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Join us for a functional movement workshop series where we will move, shake, strengthen, stretch, and connect. Designed for adults 50+ of all abilities and mobility levels.
Sessions are on the 2nd & 4th Saturdays in March and April (03/08, 03/22, 04/12 & 04/26)
(From the creator of SilverCircus)

Rhyme Time
2025-04-09 10:30 - 11:00, 2025-04-02 10:30 - 11:00, 2025-03-26 10:30 - 11:00, 2025-03-19 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.

Library Board of Trustees
2025-04-08 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/

Brattleboro Great Books Group
2025-04-07 19:00 - 21:00 | Meeting Room D – Quiet Reading Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Monthly discussion of “Great Books”

LEGO-Palooza
2025-04-03 15:00 - 17:00 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Join us on the first Thursday of every month 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!

Mineralogical Society
2025-04-01 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!

Brattleboro Charter Revision Commission - Public Meeting
2025-03-31 18:00 - 20:00 | Main Reading Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Join us for this meeting of Brattleboro’s Charter Revision Commission – they want to hear from you!
The topic of discussion is the form of Brattleboro’s annual town meeting.
This public meeting is happening in the Main Reading Room from 6 – 8 PM.
The organizer is Brattleboro Charter Revision Commission
Email: charter@brattleboro.gov

Brattleboro 250 Planning Sessions
2025-03-26 18:00 - 20:00 | VT
Come and connect with others who are interested in working on plans to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States in 2026.
This monthly meeting space on the 4th Wednesdays is dedicated for those who would like the opportunity to connect, collaborate, and work on projects that align with Vermont’s 250th Anniversary Commission’s mission to “…inspire all Vermonters to learn from the history, legacy, and context of the past to build strong Vermont communities for the future.”
The space is being hosted by Brooks Memorial Library, Vermont Independent Media (The Commons) and Windham World Affairs Council, with support from the Vermont Humanities Council. We are already working together on a collaboration entitled, ‘Examining American Identity and Leadership in a Changing World – and have have joined America 250, a national initiative asking communities to plan for how to commemorate the 250th year of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Its mission is to provide opportunities for all Americans to pause and reflect on our nation’s past & present, honor the contributions of all Americans, and look to the future we want to create for the next generation and beyond.

Town Arts Committee
2025-03-25 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!

Green Carnation Reading Group
2025-03-24 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.

Financial Empowerment
2025-03-24 18:00 - 19:30 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Kick off 2025 with insight into starting your personal or family finances fresh. Discuss creating a 12-month plan, planning and starting savings, and looking for ways to save money in the New Year – with Mascoma Bank and SEVCA.
These sessions are being held on the 4th Mondays of the month throughout 2025, with different topics for each session and peer support encouraged throughout. A light meal will be served.
Registration is required. To sign-up, you can call (802-254-5290), stop by the circulation desk, or email us at circ@brookslibraryvt.org

Vermont Public's "Join or Die" Film Screening and Community-Building Mixer
2025-03-19 18:00 - 20:00 | Main Reading Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Join us as we welcome Vermont Public to Brooks Memorial Library for a mini film screening and social hour! First, dive into a 45-minute excerpt of the highly acclaimed 2023 documentary Join or Die by Pete and Rebecca Davis. Join or Die is a film about why you should join a club—and why the fate of America depends on it. Joined by Hillary Clinton, Priya Parker, and others, Robert Putnam, author of Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community, will explore three urgent civic questions: What makes democracy work? Why is American democracy in crisis? And, most importantly… What can we do about it?
Following the screening, join us for a social hour to practice what we’ve learned. Whether you’re passionate about your favorite pastime and want to connect with others or just looking to meet new people in your community, we’ll have prompts and icebreakers to help spark authentic connections.
This event is part of a series of Join or Die screenings and community-building mixers throughout Vermont this winter.
Registration is required. More information can be found on VP’s website, HERE.

Friends of the Library
2025-03-19 16:30 - 18:00 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Monthly meeting of the Friends of the Library. Community attendance and commentary is welcome!
https://bml2.brookslibraryvt.org/about-us/friends-of-the-library/

SEVT Audubon Society
2025-03-18 19:00 - 21:00 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Join South Eastern Vermont’s Audubon Society on for a monthly program featuring nature and the environment.

Sci-Fi Reading Group
2025-03-17 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 in the Quiet Reading Room from 7:00pm – 8:30pm to discuss another awesome Sci-Fi book! Title TBA!
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.

A Community Screening of "The Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism"
2025-03-16 17:00 - 20:00 | The Latchis, 50 Main Street, Brattleboro, Vermont, 05301, United States
Through a partnership of Windham World Affairs, Vermont Independent Media, the Vermont Humanities, the Brattleboro Lit Fest, The Latchis, Everyone’s Books, and Brooks Memorial Library, we are pleased to offer this community screening of “The Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism”, followed by a Q & A with filmmaker Peter Hutchison, on Sunday, March 16 from 5 – 8 PM at The Latchis.
“Imagine that the people of the Soviet Union had never heard of Communism. That’s more or less where we find ourselves today. The dominant ideology of our times – which affects nearly every aspect of our lives – for most of us has no name.”
The Invisible Doctrine does more than merely provide a critique of neoliberalism and the forces that have come to guide our lives, it provides a way forward – proposing avenues for the revitalization of community, the commons, democratic participation, and reclamation of government (in particular on the local & community level) – thereby planting the seeds for systemic, long-term change.
For a preview, visit: https://youtu.be/OeLNRzqCpCE

Windham County Genealogy Interest Group
2025-03-15 10:30 - 12:30 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Genealogical research and presentation

A Literary Cocktail Hour – The Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism
2025-03-14 17:00 - 19:00 | VT
The March Cocktail Hour is a collaborative ONLINE event with our host, the Windham World Affairs Council, and partner organizations: Vermont Independent Media, the Vermont Humanities, The Latchis, and Everyone’s Books, along with Brooks Memorial Library.
The book to be discussed is a Times UK #1 bestseller, “The Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism” with authors George Monbiot & Peter Hutchison.
George Monbiot and filmmaker Peter Hutchison show how a fringe philosophy in the 1930s—championing competition as the defining feature of humankind—was systematically hijacked by a group of wealthy elites, determined to guard their fortunes and power. Think tanks, corporations, the media, university departments and politicians were all deployed to promote the idea that people are consumers, rather than citizens.
A community screening of The Invisible Doctrine documentary followed by a Q & A with filmmaker Peter Hutchison is scheduled the next day, 3/15, at 5 PM at the Latchis.
To register and receive the Zoom link for the 3/14 Literary Cocktail Hour, please visit: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN__FJqLOn_TgOzySUxytRurw#/registration

The Nelson Legacy Project presents "Eyes on Freedom" an audio documentary about nonviolent activists Wally and Juanita Nelson
2025-03-12 19:00 - 20:45 | VT
The Nelson Legacy project invites you to a listening event “Eyes on Freedom”, a one-hour audio documentary about Wally & Juanita Nelson produced by Carrie and Michael Kline of “Talking Across the Lines”.
“Eyes on Freedom” is an audio tapestry that weaves together voices of people who knew and were influenced by the Nelsons. The audio documentary also includes vintage recordings of the Nelsons themselves.
After decades of involvement in the civil rights and antiwar movements, Wally and Juanita Nelson lived just south of the Vermont border in Franklin County, Massachusetts starting in 1974. They lived there until Wally died in 2002 and Juanita in 2015. They had a significant impact on our region through their advocacy of local agriculture, land trusts, war tax refusal, and simple living.
Nonviolence was the umbrella concept that underscored everything they did. For the Nelsons, nonviolence represented so much more than a tactic to be used in a conflict situation. While it could include freedom rides, boycotts, lunch counter sit-ins, war tax refusal, and other forms of noncooperation, it was also a way of life, a way of being in the world, a way of relating to people and to all of nature. It was a measuring stick they used to evaluate their actions and choices. Nonviolence encompassed dignity, humanity, truth, justice, and freedom and it was a lens through which to view the violence of our modern-day economic system.
For more information, contact Bob Bady at: bobbady@gmail.com.
