Living Library: What’s the Story?

  EVENT   Living Library: Everyone Belongs

  WHEN   Thursday, 21 March 2019, 10.00am-12.00 midday

  WHERE   Pearl Room, Pearl Cove Library, 52 Main Street, Pearl Cove

  BOOKINGS   Registration essential via Eventbrite. Borrowing rules apply.

  CONTACT   Loretta Biblio, Pearl Cove Living Library Coordinator on 0411 111 111

   MORE LIVING LIBRARY INFO    Human Library  +  Griffith Uni video  +  Sydney Uni video

At Pearl Cove Library, our members love to read: to learn, understand and engage with the books in our collection. We’re staying true to that idea with our monthly Living Library events, except the "books" just happen to be real people, thoughtfully sharing their insights, experiences and perspectives with "readers".

During March, in recognition of Harmony Week and the United Nations International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, the theme of Pearl Cove's Living Library will be Everyone Belongs. This theme embraces Pearl Cove’s cultural and religious diversity, inclusive of First Nations peoples and multicultural migrant heritage. 

Check your preconceptions! Have a conversation with someone you think you know. Willing to share their stories with readers, 12 living books will be available to book for sessions of 20 minutes. Join us at this special event where you borrow a person instead of a book. Bookings essential.

Book titles include:

• One of the stolen generations

• Community elder

• First Nations young person… and proud

• New arrival: a recent migrant

• Overseas-born Australian

• First-generation Australian

• Seeking asylum 1970s: Vietnamese

• Seeking asylum 2000s: Sudanese

• Hijabi Muslim

• Hindu

• Jewish community member  

This post created by: Nicola d’Alpuget