Preserving the Past, Opening the Future
A Human Library Event
ANZAC Day
4pm - 8pm, 24th April 2024
Venue: Azure Beach Library
Human Library Events allow attendees to speak face-to-face with those who they would normally meet. The attendees will borrow a "human library book" to converse with for 20 minutes, allowing for dialogue where topics are discussed openly between our human books and their readers. The purpose of a Human Library event is to challenge prejudices and stereotypes in a safe space, while also educating and broadening an individual's perspective. To read more about the Human Library Organisation, please follow this link: https://humanlibrary.org/ The 25th of April marks ANZAC
Day in all Australian calendars. ANZAC stands for Australian and New Zealand
Army Corps. It is an important date that ignited Australia’s cultural
independence. It marks the anniversary of the sacrifice our people gave during
the first World War. To honor our veterans who may have experienced “shell
shock” (PTSD) and the horrors of war, the attendees will speak one on one with four
veterans, that are our “Human Books”, who will relate their observations of the
time and convey their unique experiences. The Human Books Event will represent
as broad a spectrum of human experience as possible, including nurses, women,
and indigenous people, who participated in wars including the Vietnam War and the
1999 East Timorese crisis. We are holding this Human Library Event to share,
preserve and to remember the stories of human sacrifice in the time of war. We
are inviting everyone, but especially those aged between 15 – 24 to engage and
converse with our four “Human Books” to develop and preserve local cultural and
historic knowledge.
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Contact the Azure Beach Public Library:
Phone: (02) 9592 1111
Email: staff@azurebeachlibrary.com.au
For further reading, see: The Human Library Organisation, Australian War Memorial, The Anzac Day Tradition, Anzac Day
By Uma Doric
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