Brooks Memorial Library

Summer reading challenge underway, butterfly atlas workshop coming up

BRATTLEBORO - Brooks Memorial Library’s adult summer reading challenge is now underway. Adults can participate by enjoying the library, learning about community science, and completing the challenge card to win prizes. Pick up a challenge card at the circulation desk; complete five squares by...

“Sundown,” gouache and pastel on paper, by Jeremy Aldridge, of Brattleboro.

Art show by people with dementia

BRATTLEBORO - “Moments in Time,” an exhibit of works by Vermonters with dementia, is on display through Tuesday, June 24, at Brooks Memorial Library. There will be a reception on Friday, June 6, at 3:30 pm. For more information go to brookslibraryvt.org.

Windham World Affairs Council talks

BRATTLEBORO - The Windham World Affairs Council announces its April events.
April 23 at 6 pm, Brooks Memorial Library: “Examining American Identity and Leadership in a Changing World.”
As our country becomes increasingly divided, we are committed to creating opportunities to meet...

Tool cottage expanded

BRATTLEBORO - Need a rake or a shovel? Want to try making pasta? Thanks to a grant from the Vermont Foodbank and in partnership with town sustainability coordinator Stephen Dotson, Brattleboro Time Trade, and Edible Brattleboro, the Brooks Memorial Library has expanded its tool cottage to include...

Classic drag-queen movie to be shown outdoors for teens

BRATTLEBORO - Join the Brooks Memorial Library Teen Advisory Board in the library parking lot for a teens-only outdoor movie night on Friday, August 5, from 8 to10 pm, to watch “To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar.”
Elite NYC drag queens Vida Boheme and Noxeema Jackson are...

Susan O’Hara and Ray Mahoney at the 2019 Ten-Minute Play Festival.

Ten-Minute Play Fest auditions this weekend

BRATTLEBORO - The Actors Theatre Playhouse in West Chesterfield, NH, will host open auditions for its Ten-Minute Play Festival at the Brooks Memorial Library community room on Saturday, April 23, from 10 am to 3 pm; and Tuesday, April 26, from 6 to 8 pm.
At the audition, actors will be...

This quilt tells a story.

“Story” quilt combines autobiography and magic

BRATTLEBORO - Brooks Memorial Library is hosting the rare exhibition of a quilt from the Woman on a Bridge series by distinguished artist and dedicated activist Faith Ringgold.
This powerful and stunning story quilt stitches together elements of autobiography, magical thinking, African-...

Libraries host talks on poetry

SOUTHERN VERMONT - On Wednesday, February 2, at 7 pm, the Brooks Memorial Library is hosting the free public talk “Boneyarn: New York Slavery Poems” with actor and poet David Mills, as part of Vermont Humanities First Wednesdays’ series.
The oldest and largest slave cemetery in the United...

Statues at the Cancún Underwater Museum of Art, which is in the Atlantic Ocean. The transatlantic slave trade will be discussed in a public talk on Wednesday.

Online talks offered on slave trade, eugenics

SOUTHERN VERMONT - On Wednesday, January 5, at 7 pm, the Brooks Memorial Library is hosting the free public talk “Atlantic is a Sea of Bones” with Jarvis Green, as part of Vermont Humanities First Wednesdays’ series.
Green, founder of the Black theater company JAG Productions, invites...

Plates, authors, history at Brooks

BRATTLEBORO - The Brooks Memorial Library is hosting events this week.
The library will begin the 40th annual Design-A-Plate workshop. It will be a take-home project again this year. Pickup starts Friday, October 1. Drop off plates by Wednesday, October 13.
On Saturday, October 2,...