Making your community a home - Meet your LGBTQ+ neighbours.

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Have a talk with the folk that are putting an end to homelessness in our LGBTQ+ youth. Meet and check out our "Living Books" who will talk about their experience with LGBTQ+ homelessness and what we can do to reduce it's prevalence in our streets.
Tea and biscuits will be provided while you engage in conversation.

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Meet our books:

Jay McGrath – Indigenous Australian who faced homelessness as a teen due to coming out as gay.

Amy Harper – Counsellor at twenty10, a Sydney based service that provides housing and counselling support for LGBT youth.

Noah White – head of the community homelessness outreach at Pearl Cove Community Centre

Miranda Noel – LGBT activist and volunteer at Pearl Cove Community Centre

Learn more about twenty10.

When: 7/6/2019 from 11:00a.m. - 5:30p.m.

Where: Pearl Cove Council Meeting Room

Please book through the Pearl Cove Library website

Edward Zhou

Dry July - Addiction and it's reach

Picture by Jeff Djevdet

Dry July – Addiction and its Reach

Time: 6pm – 8pm

Date: Wednesday, July 4^th 2018

Location: Pearl Cove Library - Cove Meeting Room

 

Come along to Pearl Cove Library where will be hosting a Human Living Library discussing addiction and also the reaching the effects on friends and family. Speakers will come who will be “living books” allowing people to ask questions and hear about how addiction has affected their life and the lives of those around them.

“The Human Library™ is designed to build a positive framework for conversations that can challenge stereotypes and prejudices through dialogue. The Human Library is a place where real people are on loan to readers. A place where difficult questions are expected, appreciated and answered.”

For more information on substance abuse and addiction: https://www.lifeline.org.au/get-help/topics/substance-abuse-and-addiction

 

Blog by Crystal Williams