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!

Looking for Human Books!‏

Hey there,
Has you have notices we have found our location and have a fixed date and time for the project but now we need YOU! we are looking for human books to take part.

 

HUMAN LIBRARY works like a usual library were the readers come and borrow books for a limited period of time. After they read the book the readers return the book and if they want they can borow other books. There are 2 major aspects though: the BOOKs are HUMANS and the readers have the posibility to start a personal dialogue with the HUMAN BOOKS, facilitating comunication between two people which never met.

The books from the HUMAN LIBRARY are people representing social categories which deal or can deal with prejudice, stigmatization (age, gender, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, disability, etc) and which could be victims of discrimination, social exclusion or they can be people with rich life stories which can give to the reader an unique learning experience from diversity and interculturality point of view.

The participation as a Human Books is done as a voluntary basis engament. You can participate as a Human Book for all the duration or just for a few hours (depending on your personal programme).

So if YOU could take part that would be great thanks! 

many thanks 

Esther :)  

Location, Location, Location!!!

Hi Everyone,

In regards to the recent meeting, we decided to run the Human Library event at the beginning of October. This will ensure that we have enough time to prepare the event. The proposed dates are Friday, 7th October to Saturday, 8th October 2011. The proposed times are 4pm-8pm and 12pm-4pm respectively.

 

From the previous meetings, although several proposals for the location were made, the team decided to use the Ilford Central Library. Cristina and Esther managed to visit Ilford Library on Monday (8th Aug) to check all the spaces suggested and got some contact details.

We made enquiries at the library to ensure the availability of the premise for the proposed dates and the price details. We researched into groups of networks that we can join in order to advertise the Human Library event. Also, we wrote a description of the event, which will be posted on the network groups to inform others about the event.

Soon we will have the design for the t-shirt and poster that we will use.

Many thanks to the A.R.T Fusion team which is coordinating this task.

Kind regards,

Jennifer.

 

Steps of Human Library

We decided to share with you some of the things what we learned at our Human Library workshop we did with Cristina.

 

The steps we must follow when organizing the HumanLibrary are:

  

• Identifying the objectives and establishing the advantages of the method

 

• The responsibilities of the project team

 

• Choosing the location for organizing the event 

 

• Selecting the books and organizing the catalogues

 

• Selecting and prepping the librarians

  

• The prep meeting for the books

 

• Promoting the library

  

• Carrying out the actual event

 

• Evaluating the library

by Jennifer.

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

YWAGV Human Library training for volunteers have started!

Training is well underway for some 5 volunteers who have committed to take part in this collaborative project.  Esther, Jennifer, Steve, Selina and Cristina at YWAGV are looking forward to working together in preparation for recruiting human/living books as well as more volunteers.  We will also be doing some publicity to generate interest from beneficiaries that is, the young people who will be using the library by borrowing human books for the purpose of learning about different cultures, backgrounds, achievements that they are otherwise exposed to. 

The training is spread over 3 evenings initially however ongoing support will be available for volunteers and beneficiaries as and when required.  Taking place in the east of London where YWAGV is based, the actual project will be spread across other cities as more volunteers get involved.

We will shortly follow-up with an update on the new learnings for current volunteers.  Watch the space and get involved by writing a comment or sharing your thoughts.

Learn more about Human Library here: http://humanlibrary.org/

A.R.T. Fusion has also started the preparation for the project

Hello,

A.R.T. Fusion, being the partner for the nice project "Don't judge the book by its covers", has also started the preparations. The first step was to organize a meeting between the members of the work team, Roxana, Marina and Ana. So, we met last week, had a nice discussion about our future activities in this project and everyone got something to take care of, a particular part:)

As we have many volunteers who can't wait to get involved in our projects, the next step was, obvious, the meeting with the volunteers:) We presented to them the topic and the purpose of the project and they got very excited about this. So far, we have a number of 10 volunteers who want to be involved in the preparation and also in the implementation of the project. They are already familiarized with the concept of Living Library, as they have already taken part to some editions of Living Library in Romania, as readers, librarians,  books or volunteers.

We managed very quickly to share the responsabilities within the team, so we are proud now that we have our little teams of volunteers that will take care of the logistics, communication or design of the flyers and posters.
Very soon we will also post some photos from our meetings.