Let's Celebrate Deaf Culture and Correct Misperceptions
A human living library event
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| Image Credit: Kent State University |
Please join us to see if this cultural shift in awareness has been reflected in Australian children’s literature, over the pages of children’s picture books, and more importantly in Australian deaf people’s lives. Let’s Listen to Deaf books from human living library and increase our community’s understanding of Deaf people, their culture, their language and the literature which represents them.
Our Precious Books to Borrow:
- Deaf books from human living library
- Deaf books from our local library (Deaf members of Pearl Cove community)
- An Indigenous Australian storyteller
- A Deaf culture Activist
- Australian children’s authors, namely Phil Cummings and Bruce Whatley whose books centralize deaf characters and represents them in a positive way.
Event details
Where: Pearl Cove library premise, ( Pearl Room)
Cost: $10, Allergen- free pizza & juice will be provided
How to Book: Online here or in person at Pearl Cove Library Desk
Human Library: What is the Concept?
Human Library is a non- profit learning organization which uses the library analogy of lending living people and creates a space for safe interactive dialogues between those human books and their readers. The library aims to break down the dominant stigmas and stereotypes which societies hold about certain groups of people and attempts to create more inclusive communities.
Please take time to read more about human living library here.
Behnaz Eskandari
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