Hop on the STEM train! Women in STEM

A Human Living Library Event

Interested in Science?

Enjoy Mathematics?

Unsure what electives to choose?

See yourself in a lab coat?

Join us for an evening with women accomplished in

Science Technology Engineering Mathematics.

Borrow a ‘book’ and discuss their interesting careers in the STEM field. 

Get insights into the excitement and rewards of pursing a STEM career. 

* When:  Wednesday 11^th February 2020

* Time:   6pm - 8pm

* Where: Pearl Cove Library (Pearl Room) 55 Book St Pearl Cove

* Cost:   $5 per person

* Bookings: Eventbrite https://www.eventbrite.com.au/

Light refreshments created by Pearl Cove High School Food Tech students will be provided.

Our guest speakers (books) are:

Karlie Noon
Karlie is a Gamilaraay woman and is the first
Aboriginal person on the East Coast of Australia to graduate
with a combined Bachelor of Mathematics and Science.

Yassmin Abdel-Magied
Yassmin was born in Sudan and migrated to Australia 
at the age of two. She holds a Bachelor of
Mechanical Engineering with First Class Honours.

Dharmica Mistry
Dharmica was born in England to Indian parents 
and moved to Australia when she was six. 
She holds a Bachelor of Science with Honours
and has completed a PhD in Medicine. 

Emma Johnston
Emma is the Dean of Science at UNSW and 
President of Science & Technology Australia. 
She is an authority in marine biology and 
a former Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research) at UNSW. 

More information about the UNSW Women in STEM program can be found here: https://www.science.unsw.edu.au/engagement/women-stem-ambassador-program

For further information please contact Loubna Khalil on 9553-1525

Dying to be Free: Understanding & Preventing Suicide

Suicide is the leading cause of death for men and women between the afes of 14-44. Every year aroiund the world we fight against suicide and today is no different. Every year on the 10th of Septmeber we come together help and fight towards a common goal of preventing sucide and opening up about it.

Theis September 10th Pearl Cove Library is hosting a Human Living Book event, come down and meet our living library books, people who have gone through the horrors and lived throught them ot tell their stories to you and listen to you.

What is a Human Library?

Also known as Living Library are libraries that allow you to read and borrow real people know as human books instand of physical books. these boooks share their stories and expreiences with you. The living library seeks to challenge prejudice and discrimination. The living library works just like a normal library would you browse the catalogue and choose a book you want and borrow it for a limtied time and instead of the traditional book you get a person.

Event Details:

Event: "The Fight Against Suicide"

Location: Pearl Cove Library Courtyard

Time: 12:30pm - 7:00pm

Day:  Thursday 10th of September 2020

*Refreshments at the venue, Cafe is in the library*

Bookings:

Booking is required to use our huiman books.

Books can be found here:

http://peralcovelibrary.com.au/events or phone 02 9568 3589

everyone is welcome to come and is open to the public

Further Information:

https://www.suicidepreventionaust.org/

More Information on Human Library visit:

https://humanlibrary.org/

image source:

https://www.iasp.info/wspd2020/wspd-banners/

By: Lester Hilario

Supercharge your future with STEM!

February 11 is the International Day of Women and Girls in Science. Join us at Pearl Cove Library for a special Human Living Libraries event.

Human Living Libraries give you the chance to speak to people you wouldn't otherwise meet about topics that don't often come up. 

Women have made great strides in the fields of science, technology and engineering in recent years and perceptions of women’s contributions to science changing. But there is still a long way ahead. 

According to the Department of Industry, Science, Energy and Resources, in 2016, only 14% of STEM professors were women and only 12% of engineers were women.

Our “books” will help you understand the challenges women and girls face in trying to enter and advance careers in the fields of science and engineering. 

Come pick a book and have a chance to ask all the questions you have about women in STEM.

Our books:

• Annie Slattery, the co-founder and CEO of ConX, a company that makes software to bring tradies online
• Taylah Griffin, an indigenous Gangulu STEM student and Boeing Defence Australia STEM ambassador
• Professor Renae Ryan, the academic director of Science in Australia Gender Equity
• Karlie Noon, an indigenous Gomeroi astrophysicist

Details

Tuesday, 11 February

5:30 for 6 PM

The Pearl Room at Pearl Cove Library

RSVP on Eventbrite by 4 February.

For further enquiries, call the library's front desk at 029 555 555.

(Faranaaz Parker)

See What's On The Menu at the Library!

Image credit: Louis Hansel, Unsplash

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

Understanding Digestive Diseases

A Human Library Event on Colitis and Crohn's Disease

Understanding Digestive Diseases is a Human Living Library event where people can learn about two of the digestive diseases Ulcerative Colitis and Crohn's Disease.

Event Details

When: Wednesday 12th of May 2021

Time: 12pm to 2pm

Where: Pearl Cove Library in the Library Courtyard

Charge: Free

To book, please contact Pearl Cove Library on (02) 9525 0973 or book online at the Pearl Cove Library website at www.pearlcovelibraryevents.gov.au

About the event

Join us at Pearl Cove Library to learn more about two digestive diseases Ulcerative Colitis and Crohn's Disease and how they can affect those who have these diseases. For this event, there will be four living books, three of whom who will explain how they live day to day with the disease and about the different mediactions that they take. The final living book will explain the more medical side of these two disease including current treatments and future treatments.

Who will be the Living Books

Harrison Ward, a young adult in his 20s with Ulcerative Colitis

Vanessa Greene, a mother with a child with Crohn's disease

Kirra Dunn, an Indigenous Australian with Crohn's disease

Professor Thomas Borody, a well-known sydney gastroenterologist.

Links for more information

For more about the Human Living Library: https://humanlibrary.org/

For more information about Colitis and Crohn's Disease: https://www.crohnsandcolitis.com.au/

Image attribution: https://lyfebotanicals.com/health/turmeric-for-ibd/

Aleesha Mullan

Discover Our Heritage & Our Future

Join Pearl Cove Library as we hold our community’s first ever
Human Library where the books are alive and the stories are real. 

On Saturday 21 May 2020, you can borrow books just for the morning, but this time the books are humans.  Following the practice of Denmark’s renowned Human Library, each one of the books at this event will be a living Pearl Cove community member who represents our multicultural heritage and our future. 

We’ll have Living Books from our indigenous, refugee and migrant communities, as well as a Book whose great, great, great grandfather was among the original Pearl Cove founders. They'll tell stories of a community's struggles brought by racial, cultural, physical and religious difference to live a life of peace and equality in our beautiful town. 

Our Human Library will take place over a delicious morning tea designed by our own Heritage Committee to reflect the diversity of our community. We’ll invite attendees to borrow the Living Books for open discussions in small groups.

This is a FREE event to unite and celebrate community so we can grow the future together.

 

Bookings are essential as this is a limited number event. 

Click here to book through Eventbrite.

Saturday 21 May 2020

10.30am – 12.30pm

Pearl Cove Room

Together We Are Pearl Cove - Celebrating Our Evolving History is a part of the National Trust of Australia’s annual Australian Heritage Festival.

Mums! Fed up?!! You are not alone!!!

Challenges of Working Mums 

 

Human Library Event

Image source: https://www.vecteezy.com/vector-art/126700-super-mom-vector

About the Event

Challenges of Working Mums Event is a human library event where you can borrow a human book and ask the questions you want. Are you a working mother and you feel that all the problems are coming on top of each other? You are not alone! Come and join our event that you can ask questions that you could not ask before. You can borrow a book for 30 minutes. Light refreshments will be provided. More information about event at http://humanlibrary.org/

Meet the Books

Cathy Hurley (lawyer)

Emily Watson (nurse)

Hayley Smith (teacher)

Cheryl Love (journalist)

Kathy Perr (librarian)

Sue Boyle (stay at home mother)

Event Details 

Date: 09 May 2020

Time: 02.00 pm – 5.00 pm

Place: Pearl room, Pearl Cove Library

Cost: Free but bookings essential by Eventbrite

Contact

 Candy Deemer (library technician)

0414234987

Selda Kaya

Issues of the past effecting the future - Human Living Library

(Flickr, 2020)

Pearl Cove Library is hosting our annual Human Living Library, this years topic is Trauma. Here is an opportunity to meet and listen to people who have lived with trauma throughout their lives. Lets help squash stigma surrounding trauma and mental illness.

Our guests:

Michelle - A  woman who sufferers from trauma due to being held up at her first ever job at gun point, luckily she had taken 45,000 dollars to the bank an hour earlier and so the robbery was unsuccessful. Now however she has residual trauma from this and it even continues to have nightmares even now twenty years later.

Jeremy - Served in the defence force, since he was 18 years old. He was discharged from duty two years ago, and since then has struggled with civilian life, unable to find a suitable job or any kind of assistance from the defence to help him cope with his PTSD.

Kate - A child abuse survivor by the hand of her mother, emotional neglected and now estranged from her step-father. She has no contact with her birth-father or half sisters who live in another country. Kate was kicked out of home at 17 and has been homeless on and off for years, she now has extreme anxiety that has caused her to become physically ill.

Amy - An indigenous woman who is a psychologist who specialised in trauma, grief and loss, she has worked as a psychologist for almost 15 years, and found inspiration to get into that line of work because of her father who was taken as a part of the stolen generation.

Date: 28th of October 2020

Time: 1 pm - 3 pm

Location: Pearl Cove Library Courtyard

Book Tickets here at Eventbrite, only 40 tickets available 

Further information can be found on trauma at Blue Knot Foundation

Please call lifeline at 13 11 14 if you feel you are at risk

Claire Bullen

Public Art and Social Diversity

Public Art and Social Diversity

A Celebration of the Pearl Cove Cultural Community

Date: Tuesday, March 15th, 2020

Time: 11:30 am to 9:00 pm

Location: Pearl Room, Pearl Cove Public Library

Photograph: Andre Grossman/Copyright of Christo

In celebration of Art Month Sydney, which runs from the 6th to the 29th of March, 2020, the Pearl Cove Public Library will present the Living Human Library event An Appreciation of Public Art and Diverse Social Identities. The Human Living Library event will bring together some of the most exciting international and local public artists under a single roof for one evening. The Human Living Books will include international public artist Christo Vladimirov Javacheff and Australian artist Dale Harding.

The admission for the Pearl Cove Human Living Library is free and open to all ages. The event will catered and demonstrations of the artists work will be open to the public all day. Along with Christo and Dale Harding, the guest Living Books will include John Kennedy Toole, Lucius Annaeus Seneca, and Reko Rennie.

Bookings for the Pearl Cove Library Human Living Library event can be made through Evenbrite.

For additional information about the Human Living Library Event visit the Pearl Cove Library website. 

Your Perfume… My Poison

Your Perfume…

My Poison

Human Living Libraries Present:

Multiple Chemical Sensitivity Awareness

What is Multiple Chemical Sensitivity?

1 in 3 people have this sensitivity and it cannot be cured. Anyone at any age or background can get it. It is a chronic, physical illness. Usually if someone has long-term exposure to a lot of chemicals, then they can become sensitive to them.

Some examples of items that can cause these issues include:

• Perfume
• Cosmetics
• Deodorants
• Cologne
• Aftershave
• Detergent
• Soap
• Shampoo / conditioner
• Toiletries
• Cleaning products
• Air fresheners
• There are even some airborne, odourless irritants.
• Fragrances are often made from artificial ingredients.

Symptoms include:

• Rashes
• Headache
• Asthma
• Migraines
• Watery eyes
• Respiratory issues
• Dizzy
• Weak

The only treatment is avoiding fragrances and chemicals that set you off. Many people with the illness become isolated, as they cannot go out. People can help by stop wearing chemical based products, working in well-ventilated areas, using natural products and having a fragrance free policy for public spaces and workplaces.

What is a human library?

A Human Living Library is where you borrow a person who is the 'book' and ask them questions. They will talk about their experiences with Multiple Chemical Sensitivity.

Our books:
 

Kate Grenville –  author: the case against fragrance.

Keith Fell - formally from the fragrance industry: talking about what they are made from and chemicals involved.

An Elder of the traditional custodians of this land: taking about natural fragrances and what they should be made from.

Nicole from the MCS awareness charity: talking about the allergy and what people can do to help.

Georgia Jelly: sharing her allergy story.

Bart Green: sharing his allergy story.

For more information visit these websites:

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

MCS Aware: https://www.mcs-aware.org/

Event Details:

Where: Pearl Cove Library, Cove Meeting Room

When: 2pm to 4pm, Saturday 15th May 2021

Bookings: via EventBrite as there is limited spaces available.

Cost: $10 per person

Light refreshments supplied.

Contact Details:

Pearl Cove Library Events Team

Phone: 02 9554 3526

Email: libraryevents@pearlcove.com.au

Image: 
Enviroklenz. (2015). How to create a fragrance-free zone in your home. Retrieved 22 June 2020 from https://enviroklenz.com/how-to-create-a-fragrance-free-zone/

Mia Lloyd-Jones