Brooks Memorial Library - Brattleboro VT

Game Cafe!
2023-10-21 14:00 - 16:45, 2023-10-07 14:00 - 16:45 (America/New_York) | 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
2023-10-21 11:00 - 14:00, 2023-10-07 11:00 - 14:00 | 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.

Filipino Storytime
2023-10-21 10:30 - 11:00 | Children’s Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Join us for a special bilingual storytime to celebrate Filipino American Heritage Month!
Anna Gail Caunca will regale us with a Tagalog/English reading of “Who Turned on the Sky?”
Celebrate the magic and beauty of pre-colonial Filipino stories, practice a bit of Tagalog language, and end with a craft activity.
This is a free event. All kids are welcome!

World Singing Day!
2023-10-20 19:00 - 20:30 | VT
Come together with friends and neighbors to raise your voice and raise your spirit by singing a wide variety of favorite songs. Lyrics will be projected on a big screen, so we will all know the words. Live guitar accompaniment will be provided by Rich Grumbine. All ages are encouraged to attend–the more, the merrier!

Film Screening: Regenerating Life (part 1)
2023-10-18 19:00 - 20:45 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
The first portion of this lengthy documentary will be watched, with discussion to follow

Friends of the Library
2023-10-18 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. Citizen attendance and commentary is welcome!
https://bml2.brookslibraryvt.org/about-us/friends-of-the-library/

Rhyme Time
2023-10-18 10:30 - 11:00, 2023-10-11 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!

SEVT Audubon Society
2023-10-17 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.

Brattleboro Farm and Food System Assessment: Focus Group
2023-10-17 16:00 - 18:00 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Facilitated by Emma Bliss and Carissa Brewton, this focus group is an open discussion for eaters/consumers to share their experience living and eating in the Brattleboro Food System. All are welcome– bring an openness and willingness to share your experience. Snacks provided.

Design-a-Plate DUE TODAY
2023-10-17 10:00 - 20:00 | Children’s Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
You can return your packet and payment to the library at any time up to 8pm on Tuesday, October 17th.
Design-A-Plate is a Pay-What-You-Can event; Suggested cost is $6 per item.

See our FAQ for more information

Brattleboro Stamp Club
2023-10-16 19:00 - 20:45 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States

October Sci-Fi Reading Group Meetup
2023-10-16 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, October 16th, in the Quiet Reading Room from 7-8:30 pm to discuss Gods, Monsters, and the Lucky Peach by Kelly Robson.
“In 2267, Earth has just begun to recover from worldwide ecological disasters. Minh is part of the generation that first moved back up to the surface of the Earth from the underground hells, to reclaim humanity’s ancestral habitat. She’s spent her entire life restoring river ecosystems, but lately the kind of long-term restoration projects Minh works on have been stalled due to the invention of time travel. When she gets the opportunity take a team to 2000 BC to survey the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, she jumps at the chance to uncover the secrets of the shadowy think tank that controls time travel technology.”
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.

Brattleboro Farm and Food System Assessment: Focus Group
2023-10-16 16:30 - 18:30 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Facilitated by Emma Bliss and Carissa Brewton, this focus group will be an open discussion of the eater/consumer experience living and eating within the Brattleboro Food System. Open to all who have an interest and openness to share. Snacks provided

Peter Orner & Pam Petro: Brattleboro LitFest
2023-10-15 16:00 - 17:30 | Main Reading Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Peter Orner is the author of the novels The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo and Love and Shame and Love and the story collections Esther Stories, Last Car Over the Sagamore Bridge, and Maggie Brown & Others, two collections of essays, Still No Word From You and Am I Alone Here?: Notes on Living to Read and Reading to Live, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism. A three-time recipient of the Pushcart Prize, Orner’s work has appeared in The Best American Short Stories, The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Paris Review, Granta, McSweeney’s, and has been translated into eight languages. He has been awarded the Rome Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a two-year Lannan Foundation Literary Fellowship, the California Book Award for fiction, the Edward Lewis Wallant Award for Jewish fiction, as well as a Fulbright in Namibia. He is the director of creative writing at Dartmouth College and lives with his family in Norwich, Vermont.
Pam Petro is an author, artist and educator living in Northampton. She has written three place-based creative nonfiction books as well as articles and essays for many publications, including The New York Times, The Atlantic, Granta and The Paris Review. She was made an honorary fellow of the University of Wales and has received both literary and visual arts residencies and fellowships from Grand Canyon National Park, the MacDowell Colony, the Spring Creek Project and the Black Rock Arts Foundation. Petro is on the creative nonfiction faculty of the Lesley University master of fine arts program in creative writing. She is also a cofounder of the Dylan Thomas International Summer School at the University of Wales. Her new book is The Long Field, a memoir of Wales.

Jeff Sharlet: Brattleboro LitFest
2023-10-15 14:30 - 16:00 | Main Reading Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Jeff Sharlet is the New York Times best-selling author or editor of nine books, including his new instant bestseller The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War, and The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power, which was adapted into a Netflix documentary series. His reporting on LGBTIQ+ rights around the world has received the National Magazine Award, the Molly Ivins Prize, and Outright International’s Outspoken Award. His writing and photography have appeared in many publications, including Vanity Fair, for which he is a contributing editor; the New York Times Magazine; GQ; Esquire; Harper’s; and VQR, for which he is an editor at large. He is the Frederick Sessions Beebe ’35 Professor in the Art of Writing at Dartmouth College and lives in Vermont in the woods with many animals.

David Gessner & Bill Roorbach: Brattleboro LitFest
2023-10-15 13:00 - 14:30 | Main Reading Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
David Gessner is the author of thirteen books that blend a love of nature, humor, memoir, and environmentalism, including the New York Times bestselling All the Wild That Remains, Return of the Osprey, Sick of Nature and Leave It As It Is: A Journey Through Theodore Roosevelt’s American Wilderness. His new book is A Traveler’s Guide to the End of the World. Gessner is a professor at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, where he is also the founder and Editor-in-Chief of the literary magazine, Ecotone. He is married to the novelist Nina de Gramont, whose latest book is The Christie Affair.

Bill Roorbach is an American novelist, short story and nature writer, memoirist, journalist, blogger and critic. His fiction includes Lucky Turtle, The Girl of the Lake, the Kirkus Prize finalist The Remedy for Love, the bestselling Life Among Giants, and the Flannery O’Connor Award–winning collection Big Bend. Roorbach has received fellowships from the Civitella Ranieri Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. His craft book, Writing Life Stories, has been in print for twenty-five years. His writing has appeared in Harper’s, the New York Times Magazine, the Atlantic, The New York Times Book Review, Ploughshares, Granta, Ecotone, New York magazine, and other publications. He lives in Maine with his family.

Martha McPhee & Robin MacArthur: Brattleboro LitFest
2023-10-15 11:00 - 12:30 | Main Reading Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Martha McPhee is the author of the forthcoming memoir, Omega Farm. Her novels include An Elegant Woman, Dear Money, L’America, Gorgeous Lies, and Bright Angel Time. Her work has been honored with fellowships from the National Endowment of the Arts and The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and in 2002, she was nominated for a National Book Award. McPhee’s novels have been Best Books of The Year on The New York Times, Washington Post and Chicago Tribune lists and her essays and reviews have appeared in numerous magazines and newspapers including The New York Times, The Chicago Tribune, Vogue, More, Harper’s Bazaar, Self, Traveler, and Travel & Leisure, among many others. McPhee is a tenured member of the English Department at Hofstra University, where she teaches fiction. She lives in New York City with her children and husband, the poet and writer Mark Svenvold.

Robin Marie MacArthur lives on the hillside farm where she was born in southern Vermont. Her debut collection of short stories, HALF WILD, won the 2017 PEN New England award for fiction and was a finalist for both the New England Book Award and the Vermont Book Award. Her novel, HEART SPRING MOUNTAIN, was an IndieNext Selection and a finalist for the New England Book Award. Both of her books have been translated into French and published by Albin Michel. Her essays and stories have appeared in Orion Magazine, LitHub, Hunger Mountain, The Washington Post, Shenandoah, Alaska Quarterly, and on NPR. Robin is also the editor of CONTEMPORARY VERMONT FICTION: AN ANTHOLOGY, and the recipient of two Creation Grants from the Vermont Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts. She teaches at Vermont College of Fine Arts’ MFA in Writing program and has taught in many non-traditional settings throughout the US including the Bread Loaf Environmental Writers’ Conference and Orion Magazine. She is also the founder and director of WORD HOUSE, an emerging writing space in southern Vermont.

Game Cafe!
2023-10-14 15:00 - 16:45 | Meeting Room D – Quiet Reading Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States

Kyle Lukoff: Brattleboro LitFest
2023-10-14 15:00 - 16:00 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Kyle Lukoff is the author of many books for young readers. His debut middle-grade novel, Too Bright To See, received a Newbery honor, the Stonewall award, and was a National Book Award finalist. His picture book When Aidan Became A Brother also won the Stonewall. He has forthcoming books about mermaids, babies, apologies, and lots of other topics. Before becoming a full-time writer, Kyle worked at five bookstores, in four libraries, for three schools, as two genders, through one intersection: people, and books.

Coyotes, Cockroaches, & Justice: Building a book for young people (Brattleboro LitFest)
2023-10-14 11:00 - 12:00 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Charlene Allen (author of “Play the Game”) and Dayna Lorentz (author of “Wayward Creatures”) will talk about taking real world concepts of and turning them into fiction. Both “Play the Game” and “Wayward Creatures” introduce audiences to Restorative Justice Circles and how they work in two different contexts – while also telling the riveting stories of young people navigating harm within their respective communities. We’ll have readings from the books, some fun activities, snacks, and a sample restorative justice circle.

Charlene Allen works with community organizations to heal trauma and fight injustice, especially the beast called mass incarceration. She received her MFA from The New School, her JD from Northeastern University, and her BA from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. She lives in Brooklyn with her fabulous family and their very silly dog. Play the Game is her debut novel. You can visit her at www.charleneallen.com.

Dayna Lorentz is the author of the middle grade novels Wayward Creatures and Of a Feather (Clarion Books/HarperCollins Children’s), the No Safety in Numbers trilogy (Speak/Penguin Random House) and the Dogs of the Drowned City series (Scholastic). She holds an MFA in Creative Writing and Literature from Bennington College. Dayna is a staff attorney with the Vermont Judiciary and lives with her husband, two kids, and two cats in Vermont. If you ask nicely, she will show you the proper way to eat a cupcake. Visit her at www.daynalorentz.com and NoSafetyinNumbersBooks.com.

Teen Writing Games
2023-10-12 19:00 - 21:00 | Spicy Lime Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Hello teens of Brattleboro! Are you someone who is interested in writing and/or games?
The Teen Library Board hosts a free writing based event at the Brooks Memorial Library. This event is located in the Teen Room of the library, on the 2nd Floor. It runs from 7 to 9pm. We’ll be making black-out poetry, rolling story-cubes, playing exquisite corpse, and other fun, writing-related games. Feel free to reach out to us at teens@brookslibraryvt.org if you have any questions.
Pizza and snacks provided. Masks are not required, but we have them if you want them.
Hosted by the Teen Advisory Board. “Teens Only” events are open to people in grades 7-12.

42nd Annual (Take Home!) Design-a-Plate Workshop This Week
2023-10-12 10:00 - 21:00, 2023-10-06 10:00 - 21:00 | Children’s Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
The 42nd Annual (Take Home) Design-a-Plate Workshop is happening NOW!
You can pick up your packet any time between Monday, October 2nd and Tuesday October 17th. You can return your packet and payment to the library at any point up to 8pm on Tuesday, October 17th.
Design-A-Plate is a Pay-What-You-Can event; Suggested cost is $6 per item.
See our FAQ for details

Anxious Nation Film Screening with NAMI Vermont
2023-10-11 18:00 - 20:00 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Anxious Nation explores and captures the many faces and facets of anxiety. This feature length documentary takes a deep look into the crisis of anxiety and mental health in America, especially it’s impact on youth and their families.

Presented by the National Alliance on Mental Illness of Vermont. This event is open to the public and free of charge.

Telecommunications Facility Siting: Public Input Session with VT Public Service Department
2023-10-10 19:00 - 20:30 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
The Public Service Department will host an in-person listening session to gain public input on telecommunications facility siting, in accordance with the 30 V.S.A. § 248a bill. Members of the community can express their concerns and the Public Service Department will answer questions. The session will be audio-recorded for PSD internal notetaking purposes. Recordings will not be made public.

Library Board of Trustees
2023-10-10 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/

CLOSED FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLE'S DAY
2023-10-09 08:00 - 21:00 | VT
