Meet Your Future

 

Pearl Cove Library is hosting a Living Library!
Thursday, 12th August 2021 ✦ 5pm - 7pm

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To celebrate this year's International Youth Day Pearl Cove Library is going to be hosting a free Living Library event so come along and meet the range of youths who live in our community!

What exactly is a Living Library?

A living library is an event that allows people from all walks of life the opportunity to meet and have a chat, to ask questions and broaden their understandings about others.

These events began as a means to overcome discrimination and stigma within communities. They work by having a selection of people volunteer to be "books" to be "borrowed" for a period of time to answer questions about their lives and to chat about their experiences. 

For more information on living libraries see : The Human Library Organization

Our Event

We have a great group of 15 volunteers from a range of backgrounds; from early school leavers, to youth activists, people who were your age 30 years ago and prospective employers who have all agreed to talk about their experiences and answer your questions.

Each "book" can be borrowed for a period of 20 minutes, to see the full list of titles and to book a session visit our Eventbrite.

Come along, have a chat, ask some burning questions and enjoy yourself!

When and Where?

When : Thursday 12th August, 2021

5pm - 7pm

Where: The courtyard of the Pearl Cove Central Library

This event is for teenagers and young adults but anyone is welcome to come along. Children under 12 will need to be accompanied by a parent/guardian.

Light snacks, tea, coffee and juice will be provided.

Bookings are essential so make sure you grab your free ticket from our Eventbrite page or contact the library on (02) 1234 5678 or visit our website for more information.

More Questions?

If you have any further questions about the event please feel free to contact:

Georgia Matthews, Programs Coordinator

EMAIL: library.programs@pearlcove.com

PHONE: (02) 1234 9876

The day the books come to life

Did you ever find yourself wondering what life in another country might look like? Or how other cultures view local customs? Here’s your chance: “Hear their story” is a human library event where you can talk to real individuals with various backgrounds and amazing experiences to share.

At its core, a human library is an event where people can borrow “living books”, usually volunteers with various backgrounds or representatives of certain groups and, as such, very interesting stories to tell. Human books can be interacted with and present the “reader” with an opportunity to ask specific questions or engage in meaningful conversation.

“Hear their story” focuses on diversity and inclusiveness and is an amazing opportunity to engage with a rich, growing cultural community.

The event is part of Harmony Week, a celebration of Australia’s multiculturalism which promotes respect and belonging for everyone, regardless of their background.

Another part of this event is the “Common Grounds” exhibition, which showcases paintings and photographs presented and explained by the artists themselves. It's a chance to get a peek inside an artist’s mindset and get a better understanding of their art and its meaning.

There will be 10 “living books” available at the event, from official NSW Government and Community representatives to refugees and artists. Here are some of them

• Omar Al Kassab - a Syrian refugee, activist and humanitarian campaigner
• Annette Webb - an Aboriginal Dunghetti artist born in Sydney
• Nasim Nasr - an Iranian artist and photographer
• Iman Shirinia -  an Iranian refugee, now member of the ACT Parks Rural Fire Brigade.

Just book your slot below, show up, pick a “book” and listen. It’s as easy as talking to any other person, no previous experience required but a certain amount of curiosity is encouraged 😉

Each person that signs up will have a dedicated 30 minute slot with a human book of their choosing. The number of available slots is limited so bookings are essential.

See you then!

Alis-Iuliana Jitarescu

⏰When: Monday, March 22, 2022, 12pm - 3pm

🗺 Where: Pearl Cove Library, The Pearl Rom

👉 Bookings: contact@pearlcovelibrary.com.au

📭 Contact:

Event manager

Maria Smith

Tel: 0423 654 789

Email: m.smith@pearlcovelibrary.com.au

Pearl Cove in Harmony

 

PEARL COVE IN HARMONY

Pearl Cove Library would like to invite you to our event, PEARL COVE IN HARMONY, on Harmony Day to celebrate inclusiveness, diversity, and belonging in the Pearl Cove community.

Harmony Day is an annual event in Australia held on 21st March with the central message and slogan, Everyone Belongs.

PEARL COVE IN HARMONY is the first Human Living Library event to be held in Pearl Cove. A Human Library event works like this: the "book" is a person with personal experience in a particular topic, and the "reader" may "read" the book i.e. ask questions and have conversations relating to that topic.

Come and "read" 4 living books from the following communities:

• LGBTQ        
• Person with Disability         
• Refugee         
• Indigenous Australian
  

These volunteer books will share their stories and answer your questions. Each "reading" will last 20 minutes.

EVENT DETAILS

Date: Saturday, 21st March, 2020

Time: 2:00pm to 5:00pm

Place: Pearl Room, Pearl Cove Library.

Price: FREE

Bookings: Places are limited and bookings are essential. Bookings can be made via Eventbrite here.

Enquiries: Call 9222 2222 or email events@pearlcovelibrary.org.au

Please note this event is wheelchair accessible.

 

WANT TO KNOW MORE?

Curious about Harmony Day?

Curious about Human Library and Human Library Australia?

 

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Queenie Chau

See What's On The Menu at the Library!

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See what's on the menu this Harmony Day at Pearl Cove Library!

Join us from 10:00am to 3:00pm on Saturday 21st of March, 2020 and find out what's on the plates of Australians new and old.

Pearl Cove Library will be hosting our very own Human Living Library event where you can ask questions you've always wondered about food but never wanted to ask. Where does bush tucker come from? Do Indigenous Australians still eat it? What do refugees eat when they arrive in Australia? What did they eat before? How is it any different to your home cooking? Our living books can answer these questions and more at the Pearl Cove Library Courtyard.

Tea and coffee will be available for attendees.

Speakers:

David Smith - an Aboriginal Australian of the Eora nation.

Yousef Khalil Hamed - a Syrian refugee. Former head chef of a Michelin Star restaurant. Settled in Australia in 2017.

Hala Al-Ghol - an Israeli asylum seeker. Single mother of one child in Pearl Cove. Entered Australia in 2019.

Yasmeen Abdul-Aziz - a Middle Eastern refugee. Separated from family, entered Australia 1982.

Bookings are essential for guaranteed sessions.

Event Details:

Date: 21 March 2020

Time: 10:00 am - 3:00 pm (Lunch break at 1:00-1:30)

Location: Pearl Cove Library Courtyard

Cost: Free

Bookings: email or call Pearl Cove Library, or talk to any of the friendly library staff.

Contact:

Pearl Cove Library

123 Smith Rd

Pearl Cove 2446

(02) 6586 1743

events@pearlcovelibrary.com

Further Information:

Human Living Libraries: https://www.humanlibrary.org

Harmony Day: https://www.harmony.gov.au/

Refugee Quick Guide: https://www.refugeecouncil.org.au/quick-guide/

by Victoria Zhao

The Bigger Picture! Dyslexia Awareness Month. Human Living Library.

Pearl Cove Library is proud to present the Human Living Libraries event for Dyslexia awareness month this October 2020.

 Stock image photo taken by Amador Loreiro (@amadorloreiroblanco), from Unsplash website. Photo published September 6th, 2014. https://unsplash.com/photos/BVyNlchWqzs

WHAT IS A HUMAN LIVING LIBRARY?
A Human Living Library is where you can borrow a person, or 'living book', and ask them questions about their life to understand them more and break down stereotypes.

Out living books are incredible people with dyslexia from all walks of life, from an artist to a doctor.

Our event is called The Bigger Picture, as scholarly research has shown that many people with dyslexia have a talent for thinking, learning and understanding things in pictures to see the overall big picture.

We hope to see you there!

HUMAN LIVING LIBRARY EVENT - DETAILS:
The Bigger Picture
3 Silver Street, Pearl Cove Library NSW Australia

Where: Pearl Cove room. Ramp, disabled toilet, and signage with braille provided.
When: 15th October 2020
Hours: 11am to 5pm.

Cost: $10 per adult. $5 for students and retirees. Children can come in for free. We can accept up to 50 attendees for this event. 

Age limit for visitors: 16 years old and older. 

Sessions normally last for up to thirty minutes with each living book, but you can leave earlier for appointments if needed.


Safety: Safety is our first priority so our living books reserve the right to accept or reject a booking from someone for their own safety.

For more information about dyslexia, please feel free to visit the other websites listed below. :)

Website URL for the Dyslexia Association of Australia: https://dyslexiaassociation.org.au/

Website URL for SPELD New South Wales (Supporting People with Educational Learning Disabilities): https://www.speldnsw.org.au/

Post written by: Tina Le

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

Celebrate Pearl Cove's extra-ordinary women

Join us for a special Human Library event at the Pearl Cove Library, in collaboration with International Women's Day 2019 #LiftUp, for a chance to chat to a human "book". Broaden your knowledge and challenge your perspectives. The "books" are familiar members of the community however their experiences make them extraordinary. Celebrate women and diversity with us!

Important Information
 

Saturday 9th March 2019

10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

Pearl Room, Pearl Cove Library

 

Bookings free but essential 
 

Reserve by 2nd March here.

Click through to find out more about our "books" and more information on the Human Library concept and the ever-growing International Women's Day.


Contact us
Phone: 91234567
Email: pearlcove@library.com.au

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By Nicole Luo

Sustainable Communities: The Australian Aboriginal Example

Sustainable Communities: The Australian Aboriginal Example

A special day to acknowledge the relationship between human needs and the natural environment

A Living Library Event

Where everyone has a story to share

Just like any normal library, books will be available to borrow, engage with and learn from. 

Except the Books, in this instance, will be real people with a unique personal experience or perspective that they will generously share with Readers. 

Aboriginal societies have continuously survived for some five millennia, without destroying their resource base and while maintaining their cultural traditions. This is certainly a testimony of their sustainability. It doesn’t mean that we should all adopt their way of life, but we can learnt much about the management of the land and its coastlines from them. Lessons of sustainability learn ed and honed through thousands of years of cultural evolution on the Australian continent are available for us.

To celebrate World Environment Day 2019, Pearl Cove library is hosting a human living library event, featuring human books from different cultures that you can choose to talk with. Just like a book, these humans will be available to be borrowed for a 15 minute session and you as a “reader” have the opportunity to share their life experience and stories, ask questions freely, get honest answers in return, and learn lots from them.

On the day, expect to see as a living books special guest Anita Heiss, Australian author, presenter and commentator, known as “destroyer of stereotypes, Dr Evelin Tiralongo a pharmacist and expert in complementary medicine from Griffith University in Queensland, A fire planner specialist and an indigenous ranger specialist in native wildlife knowledge of the land and aboriginal knowledge about using water sustainability.

Come with family and friends, check out a living book and learn more about the aboriginal sustainable example! Enjoy also a tea/coffee break and an array of indulging appetisers at the end of the sessions.

When: June 5th, 2019 - Coinciding with the World Environment Day Celebration

Where: Pearl Cove Library - Pearl Room - Located adjacent to the library

Time: 0:9am-11:00pm

Cost: FREE

Dress code: Please come in your cultural attire.



Bookings are Essential

Look out for staff in orange uniform on the day for any enquires.

For more information please visit:

http://humanlibrary.org/
https://mahb.stanford.edu/blog/sustainable-societies/

During the last week of September the Pearl cove library is hosting a human library in honor of banned book week.

there will be events running throughout the week, with a special book club running the month leading up.

so keep an eye out for.

SUNDAY 23RD OF SEPTEMBER

LAUNCH OF BANNED BOOK WEEK

THE HUMAN LIBRARY

location

pearl cove library

time

5:30pm start

booking

eventbrite.com.au/whywouldyoubanabook

WEDNESDAY 26TH OF SEPTEMBER

DOUBLE SCREENING OF 

FAHRENHEIT 451

TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD

location

pearl cove library

time

5:30pm start

booking

eventbrite.com.au/thisissomerealimprotentmoniesrighthere

29TH OF SEPTEMBER

READING OF THE CHOCOLATE WARS

BANNED BOOK MASQUERADE BALL

location

pearl cove library

time

5:30pm start

booking

eventbrite.com.au/wheregettinrealfancyrighthere

for more information regarding banned books, local or international events or to keep informed please visit 

http://www.bannedbooksweek.org/

published by Benson O'Donnell

Harmonise on Harmony Day

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Check out a living book and learn more about different cultures!

When: March 21^st

Where: Inside Pearl Cove Library (Pearl Cove Room)

Time: 11:00am-1:00pm

Cost: FREE

Dress code: Please come in your cultural attire.

To celebrate harmony day, Pearl cove library is hosting a human living library event featuring human books from different cultures that you can register to talk with. Just like a book, these humans will be available to be borrowed for a 15 minute session, engaged with and learned from. 

On the day, expect to see special guest Ahn Do as a living book, aboriginal elder Jenny Munro, talks about the significance of diversity in Australia, book stands dedicated to travel and culture and performances from different cultural youth groups. There will also be an array of indulging canapés and finger food from around the world for you to enjoy. Get dressed up and celebrate diversity by sharing this experience with family and friends.

Look out for staff in orange uniform on the day for any enquires. 

Spaces are limited so BOOK HERE and register by March 11^th.

For more information about harmony day, visit:

https://www.harmony.gov.au/

Other related links:

www.humanlibrary.org

https://www.lonelyplanet.com/

Darin Khuth