Final results of „Don’t judge a book by its covers” Project!

„Don’t judge a book by its covers” is a project initiated and implemented by A.R.T. Fusion Association and Youth with a Global Vision Organisation (UK). We sadly announce you that this project came to an end, but with good results and especially with a more strong partnership.

The project was implemented during May – November 2011 in Romania and in UK. The working method of this project was Human Library. During the project 2 Human Library events were organised and we invite you to discover in the following the results.

Human Library in Romania:
-    Location: Octopus Lounge, Bucharest
-    Date: 14 – 15 October 2011
-    Number of books: 21
-    Number of readers: 60
-    The most read books: „fear of speaking in public”, „balerina”, „couchsurfer” and „jongleur”
-    Number of people who received information about this project: 3000

Human Library in UK:
-    Location: South Park Chapel, London
-    Date: 7 October 2011
-    Number of books: 9
-    Number of readers: 21
-    The most read books: „retired person”, „east european musician”, „midwife”
-    Number of people who received information about the project: 2000

One of the most important outcomes of this project was the Human Library Toolkit, the main dissemination instrument used to promote the project. We were able to print 100 pieces and so far more than 50 local and national NGOs received it.

The toolkit is available in electronical version SALTO platform and in print you can request it for free from Youth with a Global Vision (you will just have to cover the post expenses).

Also we want to thank our teams of volunteers involved in this project, more than 20 volunteers involved!

What can a Human Library do to you?

Hello to all!

We found this great video from TEDx Conferences about Human Library. Enjoy it!

Human Library in Bucharest, Romania

The second Human Library event was held in Bucharest, Romania on 14^th and 15^th of October between 16:00 – 21:00 at Octopus Lounge, City Centre. The Human Library was organised by A.R.T. Fusion’s Association team of volunteers and had 21 books and almost 60 readers. The most popular books were “The fear of speaking in public”, “Prisoner” and “Ballerina”.

YWAGV's team had 2 representants at Bucharest, Esther and Jennifer which were able to see how the method is being implement by our partner in the project.

Enjoy some photos from the event :)

The poster

The poster for our Human Library is finally finished and printed with the help of our partners A.R.T. Fusion Association. Thank Ana Gradinariu for creating this nice poster for us! The streets of Ilford will be soon filled with this poster :)

Facebook is our friend

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ALAS! Soon our Human Library 7th of October

The moment you all were waiting for! It was a long process to choose from all the possibilities we checked but finally we made our decision!

Our Human Library will take place on 

7th of October 2011 at South Park Chapel (51 Ripley Road, Ilford) between 17 - 20 pm.

Be there!

Human Library Workshop in images

Hey there,
As you can see over the 3 days in the past week we have been doing our training for the Human Library which as been a fun and educational time. Still got alot of plannig and deliberation to do but i can really see how this project is going to shine cant wait and happy to be apart of it. :)

Enjoy the pics below!

Yours, Esther