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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

Composting: Giving back to the earth

Human Library Event

Age Group 12 and above

Thursday, 5 December 2019

11:30 AM to 2:30 PM

Pearl Cove Library Courtyard

Register Now!

$10 per person

Link to the event

Borrow your favourite book!

Pearl Cove library is hosting a human library event of Composting & Growing!

Human Library® is a library of people who host events where readers can borrow human beings.  Borrowers can have conversations with the Books. It is a community-based organisation run by volunteers.

At this event, human Books or composting gurus will be available for borrowing. You will have the opportunity to borrow them and find out all about Composting & Growing. Come and find out: Can we do community composting? Can we use all our green waste to make compost and grow vegetable, flowers and fruits? Can we make our Pearl Cove community sustainable?

Clarence Slockee

Clarence Slockee is the Education officer at the Sydney Botanic Gardens, where his work involves promoting aboriginal culture and bush tucker. He is from Bundjalung nation from north coast NSW. Growing up in the lush Tweed Valley with a long family history of bushmen, farmers and fishermen, Clarence has combined his love of teaching, culture, music, dance and the bush with his roles at the Sydney Botanic Gardens and on Gardening Australia.

Costa Georgiadis

Costa Georgiadis is is an Australian landscape architect, television presenter, and an Ambassador of ICAW. He has an all-consuming passion for plants and people - he knows how to bring out the best in both and takes great pleasure in bringing them together. He believes in embracing and celebrating Mother Nature’s cycles and seasons and nurturing her balance, beauty and bounty organically. Costa works with schools, TAFEs, universities, industry and community groups to spread the message of creating a permanent self-sustaining culture.

Lachlan Jobbins - President of the Camdenville Paddock Community Garden. He is one of the parents at the Camdenville Public School. He and another sustainably-minded parent Georgina Eldershaw started food scrap Friday at Camdenville Public School. The first day of Food Scrap Friday began on 21 October 2016 with 7 kgs of food scraps, and two years later in December 2018 - they collected a grand total of 9186 kgs. Food Scrap Friday is going strong, making waves in the community and even catching the interest of the Gardening Australia TV show and magazine.

Luke Gregory - GM and Designer at Urban Composter, Sydney, Australia. He designed the Urban Composter while studying Industrial design at University. He is passionate about environment and wanted an easy way to stop food scraps going into landfill.

Event Details

Date: Thursday, 5 December 2019
Time: 11:30 am to 2:30 pm
Venue: Pearl Cove Library courtyard
Cost: $10 per person (includes healthy refreshments)
Age Group: 12 years or over
How to reach there: View map
Note: Bike parking space available
Only 3 minute walk from Pearl Cove station.

Registration

On-line:  click on the Link to the event
Phone: 0888888888 (Abha Sinha)
At Library: reception desk

Share this event with your friends: Facebook, Twitter

To find out more about composting visit these websites
Community Composting (City Of Sydney)
Give your waste a second chance!

Abha Sinha

Many Faces Of Faith

Matthew Fearnley, 2010, Religion Stencil (Edited), retrieved from https://www.flickr.com/photos/58319433@N08/7428617406/

Many Faces Of Faith

Spirituality and Religious Expression in the 21st Century

Pearl Cove Library, in conjunction with Pearl Cove Council and Joint Ministries Group, invites members of the community to attend the Pearl Cove Living Library, a rare opportunity to engage directly with people from varied faiths, from Christianity to Buddhism, Islam to Wicca, by 'borrowing' our volunteer Books for short chats about their beliefs.

This event is being held in celebration of World Interfaith Harmony Week, a United Nations initiative to celebrate contributions to international peace movements by religions and to foster wider ecumenical harmony around the world.

Date: Wednesday 5th February 2020

Time: 1.00 pm - 4.30 pm

Location: Pearl Cove Library Courtyard

Bookings: Through Eventbrite

Water, tea and coffee available

Books

Representatives from the Christian, Islamic, Jewish, Buddhist, Hindu faiths as well as Wiccan and New Age practitioners from the Pearl Cove community who have volunteered to share their experiences and relationships with their faiths.

Posted by Tom Lecky