Bring Harmony to the World

 

Pearl Cove Library invites you to join us in celebrating Australia’s cultural diversity event

Bring Harmony to the World

A Human Living Library event where you can “borrow” our living books - a married couple of diverse backgrounds, Aboriginal elders, experts and artists, listen to their stories and ask questions!

HUMAN LIVING LIBRARY

Human Living Libraries are a play on the concept of regular libraries where people can be “rented” instead of books. Unlike regular books, Human Living Libraries have the ability to create a personal connection with the “reader” which can never be achieved by simply reading a static book, as well written as it may be. This is extremely beneficial in challenging stereotypes and deeply rooted beliefs on a certain topic, such as in interracial marriage, where interracial couples can discuss their personal experiences with the “reader”.

HARMONY DAY

This event is a celebration of Harmony Day, a day to celebrate racial and cultural diversity in Australia. At our event “Bring Harmony to the World” we are celebrating this diversity with a particular focus on marriages in the community, especially as 19.4% of the Pearl Cove Community were born overseas.

 See more about Harmony Day at https://www.harmony.gov.au/.

Human Living Library Australia: https://www.humanlibraryaus.org/

 

 

THE BOOKS:

Nakkiuh Lui, Gamilaroi and Torres Strait Islander – writer, actress, and activist, author & performer in Sydney Theatre Company box office sensation - “Black is the New White”

Ann McGrath – Author and Professor at ANU research with a focus on Aboriginal History, Gender and Marriage

Debby and Shannon – Pearl Cove local Indian / Chinese couple

Indigenous Elder from the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultural Committee – bringing story about Aboriginal community living in the area, their traditional family structure, values and aspirations

March 21, 12:30-3pm at Pearl Room, Pearl Cove Library

04XX XXX XXX

info@pearlcovelibrary.com.au

$6 for Adults, Free for Children

Light refreshment would be provided

Book at www.eventbrite.com.au before spaces run out!

Margaretta Koncar

 

 

 

Job Well Done: The Way We Worked.

 

Vanishing jobs, skills and crafts.   

A Human Living Library Event for the New South Wales Seniors Festival

They are serious for the camera, but what did they get up to in their off times?  

Photo credit: Metro Transportation Library and Archive   ( 1958)"LAMTA - PBX Switchboard MTA_0067" by is licensed with CC BY-NC-SA 2.0.

Did you ever wonder what it was like to be a dunny man?  What did telephone operators get up to when the phones weren’t ringing?  Where did spice sellers in Iran get their stock?

Or, are you fascinated by Vietnamese or Persian traditional craft? Are you interested in learning some traditional Indigenous Australian life skills?

If you said 'yes', then this is the event for you!  

Come along to our Human Living Library and be a “Reader” of some of our “Books” in a listen about past jobs and cultural crafts that you might have never thought about. 

Human Living Libraries are a phenomenon that originated in Denmark in 2000 and have been staged by libraries around the world. Their goals are to promote social change by challenging stereotypes and reducing social stigmas.  This works by opening up a dialogue between people to allow conversations that normally don't happen.  Having these conversations promotes a wider understanding of human diversity and a realization that our similarities are greater than our differences.

During our Pearl Cove Library Human Living Library event the "Books" are our local community members who act as interactive "books" in short one-on-one sessions who are "checked out" by "readers" for an in-depth conversation around specific themes.

The theme of this session will be a lighter one with a look at social changes via a focus on jobs and skills that have been left behind through the stories of the people who worked them.  These people are both the older members of the community, but also those who now call Australia "home" and have had to leave much of their physical culture behind.  Learning their stories will build bridges to our past.

Click here to learn more about the Living Human Library

 Saturday, 2 April 2022

10:00 am to 3:30 pm
The Pearl Room, Pearl Cove Main Library
$10.00 per participant

Contact details for further questions: Catherine Gilbert: 2137 8694

or email the Pearl Cove Library Pearlcovelibrary@nsw.gov.au

 Bookings Open 15 March Online at: the Pearl Cove Human Library Eventbrite or on the day (depending on availability) but book early to avoid disappointment!

Our line-up includes an
·         Indigenous Australian with knowledge of cultural                                 practices
·         Switchboard operator
·         Dunny man
·         Movie projectionist
·         Drover
·         Calculator (Human!)
·         Hmong weaver,
·         Vietnamese duck shell lacquer-ware artisan
·        ( Former) Iranian spice seller
·        Persian miniature painter

Are you interested in reading more about jobs that no longer exist?    24 Jobs That No Longer Exist | Mental Floss 

Tradtional Crafts of Vetnam?

Traditional handicrafts of Vietnam

Crafts of Iran?

CRAFTS – Encyclopaedia Iranica (iranicaonline.org) 

Catherine Gilbert