Brooks Memorial Library - Brattleboro VT

Brattleboro Great Books Group
2024-02-05 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”

Remembering the ancestors
2024-02-05 19:00 - 20:30 | Main Reading Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
To celebrate Black history month, local poet, storyweaver, artist Djeli (formerly William Forchion) will present “Remembering the Ancestors”. The presentation will be a dynamic conversation about our shared history and intentionally stepping into the future. Remembering the ancestors will include recent unpublished writings as well as readings from Djeli’s previously published poems and essays.
Djeli is a story weaver who helps transform overwhelm to overjoy. Ki uses oral and written traditions, including poetry, to create an atmosphere of curiosity and dialogue, even around difficult topics. Ki helps others breathe life into their own stories as part of a healing process by speaking from the heart. *Ki (pronoun) a divine being of love and light.

Actors Theatre Playhouse - Open Auditions
2024-02-05 18:00 - 21:00 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Open call for actors to read scripts and audition for the 10 Minute Play Festival and following events this season.

Game Cafe!
2024-02-03 14:00 - 16:45, 2024-01-27 14:00 - 16:45, 2024-01-20 14:00 - 16:45 | 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!

Brattleboro in Stitches
2024-02-03 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.

Legislative Forum
2024-02-03 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.

Teen Game Night
2024-02-02 19:00 - 22:00 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Join us on Friday February 2nd 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 on the 2nd floor and spread out between the rooms. Pizza and snacks provided!
Hosted by the Teen Advisory Board. “Teens Only” events are open to people in grades 7-12.

LEGO-Palooza
2024-02-01 15:00 - 17:00, 2024-01-25 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!

Rhyme Time: Winter Afternoon Series
2024-02-01 13:30 - 14:00, 2024-01-25 13:30 - 14:00 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
This January, join us on Thursday afternoons @ 1:30 pm for 30 minutes of stories, songs, and fun!
(This will be a repeat of the Wednesday Morning Rhyme Time, not a whole new program)
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.

Game Cafe!
2024-01-31 18:00 - 20:45, 2024-01-24 18:00 - 20:45 | Meeting Room D – Quiet Reading Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States

The Board Gaming Guild
2024-01-31 15:15 - 16:45, 2024-01-24 15:15 - 16:15 | 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!

Rhyme Time
2024-01-31 10:30 - 11:00, 2024-01-24 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!

Brattleboro in Stitches
2024-01-27 11:00 - 14:00, 2024-01-20 11:00 - 14:00 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States

VIRTUAL EVENT--Welcome 2 Houston: Hip Hop as Local Heritage
2024-01-24 19:00 | Zoom
VIRTUAL EVENT presented in partnership with Vermont Humanities–Langston Collin Wilkins returns to the city where he grew up to illuminate the complex relationship between place, identity, and music in Houston’s hip hop culture. Interviews with local rap artists, producers, and managers inform an exploration of how artists, audiences, music, and place interact to create a heritage that musicians negotiate in a variety of ways.
Register for the event here.
Sponsored by the Friends of Brooks Memorial Library

Brattleboro Time Trade
2024-01-24 17:45 - 19:15 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Brattleboro Time Trade member greeting and potluck!

CPCC
2024-01-24 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”

Town Arts Committee
2024-01-23 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!

Book Discussion: The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
2024-01-22 19:00 - 20:30 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
As our surroundings become increasingly computerized, a new frontier has emerged: a space where large corporations monitor and collect as much information as they can in order to predict and influence behavior, both on and off-line. Join us for a workshop on Shoshana Zuboff’s book The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the new Frontier of Power, which covers the rise of Google, Facebook, and behavior futures markets–and what we can do to protect ourselves and fight back.

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January Sci-Fi Reading Group Meetup
2024-01-22 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, January 22nd, in the Quiet Reading Room from 7-8:30 pm to discuss our first novel-length book, Wild Seed by Octavia E. Butler.
“Doro knows no higher authority than himself. An ancient spirit with boundless powers, he possesses humans, killing without remorse as he jumps from body to body to sustain his own life. With a lonely eternity ahead of him, Doro breeds supernaturally gifted humand into empires that obey his every desire. He fears no one — until he meets Anyanwu. Anyanwu is an entity like Doro and yet different. She can heal with a bite and transform her own body, mending injuries and reversing aging. She uses her powers to cure her neighbors and birth entire tribes, surrounding herself with kindred who both fear and respect her. No one poses a true threat to Anyanwu — until she meets Doro. The moment Doro meets Anyanwu, he covets her, and from the villages of seventeenth century Nigeria to nineteenth century United States, their courtship becomes a power struggle that echoes through generatons, irrevocably changing what it means to be human. “
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.
