Brooks Memorial Library - Brattleboro VT

Eclipse Folklore as Inspiration: A Creative Writing Workshop with GennaRose Nethercott
2024-04-02 19:00 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | 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.

Rhyme Time
2024-04-03 10:30 - 11:00, 2024-04-10 10:30 - 11:00, 2024-04-17 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!

The Board Gaming Guild
2024-04-03 15:15 - 16:30, 2024-04-10 15:15 - 16:30, 2024-04-17 15:15 - 16:30 | 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 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!

Game Cafe!
2024-04-03 18:00 - 20:45, 2024-04-10 18:00 - 20:45, 2024-04-17 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!

CANCELLED: Sing & Dance with Robin
2024-04-04 10:30 - 11:30 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Cancelled due to weather
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.

LEGO-Palooza
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!

Legislative Forum
2024-04-06 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.

Brattleboro in Stitches
2024-04-06 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.

Parenting 4 Social Justice
2024-04-08 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.

Vermont River Conservancy Poetry Workshop
2024-04-09 12:00 - 14:00, 2024-04-16 12:00 - 14:00 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Join Vermont River Conservancy for a free river-themed poetry workshop. Participants will read and discuss river-poems by regional poets and from a range of cultures, time periods, and styles. As we reflect on the ideas and emotions that the poems provoke, we will also discuss how the poet builds or unlocks those ideas and emotions through poetic craft. Developing into a community of writers as well as readers, we will write our own river poetry and share in a supportive space.
The first hour is a workshop and discussion, BYO lunch. The optional second hour is an opportunity to write, revise, and check in with the instructor about your work.
Walk-ins Welcome! But if you register, you will receive the poetry in advance: vermontriverconservancy.org/south

Library Board of Trustees
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/

Sing & Dance with Robin
2024-04-11 10:30 - 11:30, 2024-04-18 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.

Community Sing Along
2024-04-12 19:00 - 20:30 | Main Reading Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
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!

Brattleboro in Stitches
2024-04-13 11:00 - 14:00, 2024-04-20 11:00 - 14:00 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States

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.

Brattleboro Stamp Club
2024-04-15 19:00 - 20:45 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Join the Brattleboro Stamp Club for all sorts of philatelic curios, conversation, and comradery!

SEVT Audubon Society
2024-04-16 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.

Friends of the Library
2024-04-17 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/

Brattleboro Area Hospice - Video Presentation
2024-04-18 16:00 - 17:30 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
BAH will provide refreshments, screen a Youtube video of a presentation on Voluntary Stopping of Eating and Drinking, and offer additional resources.

Everywhere Philosophy Presents: The Twilight Zone Examined
2024-04-20 15:30 - 16:45 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Join Everywhere Philosophy for their The Twilight Zone Examined series featuring facilitated, interactive explorations of philosophical themes that appear in episodes of the original Twilight Zone series.
Artificial Intelligence has become a ubiquitous feature of daily life, leaving our intelligent machines and their algorithms to rust in the places we inhabit…and in the Twilight Zone. Join Everywhere Philosophy’s Dr. Mike & Bethany for an interactive viewing and exploration of The Lonely – Rod Serling’s brilliant dramatic study at the intersection of AI and Personhood.

What Vermonters Are Doing for Climate Action, Adaptation and Resilience
2024-04-22 19:00 - 20:30 | Main Reading Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
State legislators Mollie Burke and Wendy Harrison will discuss environmental legislation that has been passed at the state level in the current session, and legislation that is still pending. They will be joined by John Woodland of Third Act Vermont, an organization of seniors, started by Bill McKibben, to promote environmental stewardship and address climate change.
