More Than a Number

Event Details

Sunday, 22^nd March 2020

11am – 2pm

Pearl Room,431 Gem Road, Pearl Cove, NSW
Free Event

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This event is fully accessible to wheelchairs.

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Labels are for tinned food not people. Refugees in Australian society are given a number, a label and then promptly forgotten. You can change this. Come and have a conversation with our newest community members and understand the human behind the label.

These conversations will take place as a Human Living Library. Like a normal library, our “books” will be available to be borrowed. But, our “books” will be real people. You might converse with a recently settled refugee; a university student with a refugee background; a journalist studying refugee migration; or an elder from the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultural Committee.

The event carries on the Council’s commitment to making Pearl Cove a Refugee Welcome Zone.  We hope these conversations will begin to breakdown stigmas and create a more inclusive community.

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Interested in this event? We recommend these books from our catalogue for further reading:

• Helen Fielding, Cause celeb
• Jean E. Calder, Where the road leads
• Peter Mares, Borderline: Australia's treatment of refugees and asylum seekers
• Kooshyar Karimi, Journey of a thousand storms
• David Nyuol Vincent, The boy who wouldn't die
• John Dale, Plenty
• Judy Nuun, Heritage
• Leah Chishugi, A long way from paradise
• Frank Brennan, Tampering with asylum

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Any questions or inquiries, please contact Wai Ki Raymond Mak by email at: raymak@pearlcove.gov.au  or call 0421 321 121

This event is presented in partnership with Harmony Week.

Image credit: Harmony Week 

Wai Ki Raymond Mak