"We Care!" A Pearl Cove Library Community Event

We Care! – NSW Carers Week Living Library

A Pearl Cove Library Community Event

Where and When:
Date 13^th October, 2020 @7PM – Pearl Cove Library, Option 2 Room

Refreshments provided. Accessible event for people with all types of abilities.

What:
This month, Pearl Cove Library will have the honor of hosting Human Living Libraries for the event “We Care! – NSW Carers Week Living Library.” Human Living Libraries are a free community resource that educate the public on marginalised populations. 

The Human Living Library has a collection of people who offer their expertise in various areas of the human experience. These people are called “books” at the Human Living Library. The purpose of people “checking out” the “books” at the Human Living Library is to expand knowledge on these subjects. 

This year, as part of Pearl Cove Library's Human Living Library Event, we will be honoring and  hosting NSW Carers. This is a NSW Carers Week event. Pearl Cove Library is honored to host a variety of carers with varying experiences they will share with the community. 

 Why:

This event provides the opportunity for attendees to meet with these carers on an individual basis. Attendees will be able to ask questions and learn about what they do. The aim of this is to lead communities into being a more educated, empathetic and understanding society through the power of stories. 

 Who:

The following carers will be participating in this rare event:

1. A single mother and Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) carer who cares for her physically disabled toddler aged-son.
2. An unemployed person who provides 24 hour around the clock care for her parent that suffers from a terminal illness.
3. A non-profit worker that works with carers in the community
4. Dianne Brooks, an indigenous carer who looks after her elderly parent

Carers are an important group that give their time and energy to caring for loved ones. These loved ones in which hey care for can have physical and mental disabilities, chronic or temporary disease and challenges with older age. 

How:

It should be noted that this service is free and is provided in conjunction with the Human Living LibraryAustralia non-profit organization. 

Other groups involved in the event are the Pearl Cove Council Event Unit, the Department of Families and Community services and the Pearl Cove Neighborhood Centre.

To Register for this event please visit the event link at Eventbrite

More information about Carers

 Who are carers?  

About Carers - Statistics

More information about Human Living Libraries 

HumanLiving Libraries Australia

About the HumanLiving Library Organisation

 This post was created by Jewel Hancock

Photo sources:

https://unsplash.com/photos/8SwpPqFeoR4 woman and child

https://unsplash.com/photos/J3Xjyg5m8kY boy and man

Human Living Library: don’t judge a book by its cover

Shining a light on Endometriosis

What is a Human Living Library? Human Living Library gives you the chance to talk to Human Books" (real people), ask questions and find out about other peoples lives in ways you never thought possible.

This event is shining a light on Endometriosis. More than 830,000 (more than 10%) of Australian women suffer from endometriosis at some point in their life with the disease often starting in teenagers. There is a 7 to 12-year delay in diagnosis. The “books” have all experienced endometriosis in different ways and this human library gives you the chance to “borrow a human book” and join in respectful conversation about difference and diversity; where difficult questions are expected, encouraged and answered.

This event will be held on 28th March. March is world EndoMarch month, which campaigns to raise money for research and awareness of endometriosis.

You can find out more about Human Living Library project within Australia here. Subscribe here to be the first to know about our future events and exhibitions.

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Event Details

When:

        - Wednesday, 28^th March 2020, 2:30pm – 4:30pm

Where:

-            - The Library, Ground floor
           Pearl Cove Library

How to book:

        - To register please email: events@pearlcovelibrary.com.au

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There are three simple rules for a reading:

1. Readers may raise any topic or ask absolutely any question.
    Be curious. Be respectful.

2. It is a conversation - the human book can ask questions in return.

3. Either party can decline to answer or end the reading at any time.

Bookings are required and each session runs for 20 minutes.

 

Books
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Bridget Hustwaite
Triple J Radio Presenter
Sufferer of Endometriosis

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Emma Watkins
Wiggles performer
Sufferer of Endometriosis

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Jenny King
High School Student
Sufferer of Endometriosis

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Chiara Phillips
Emergency Department Nurse
Pearl Cove Public Hospital

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Joyce Payne
Gynaecologist

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Kristin Scarfe
Safe Work Australia

 

 

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Contact event organiser

Contact Phone: (02) 9254 8745
Contact Email: pcl@pearlcovelibrary.com.au

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Michelle Johnson