Have an eye-opening conversation with human book: borrow a book, discover a life.
Date/Time: Jan 31 2016, 12:00 am to 4:00 pm
Vancouver, Vancouver Public Library, Central LibraryCost: Free
Fast becoming an annual tradition, Human Library continues to lure Vancouverites with its simple, novel and compelling premise: borrow a book, discover a life.
Ignited by a brutal hate crime perpetrated against a friend, Human Library was the act of healing for four people that spawned a global movement. It’s their commitment to end violence—one person at a time—by narrowing the ideological gaps that divide us. In Human Library we’re invited to borrow a “human book” from a curated collection of 30 topics that range from “Drag King” to “In Recovery” and “Eight-Year-Old Inventor.” It’s a 20-minute one-on-one conversation with a human book that will take you on a personal adventure and open your eyes to the world.
What makes this project so powerful—radical, even—is that we’re asked to face our differences straight on, literally. Here, there’s no turning a blind eye, no resting in apathy. In these fractured global times, Human Library shifts the seat of power to the individual; we’re being summoned to the conversation.
Human Library began in 2000 in Copenhagen by a collective called Stop the Violence, and since then, the hugely popular “open source” project has popped up in over 70 countries. The Vancouver edition of Human Library is produced by Zee Zee Theatre and curated by its associate producer Dave Deveau.
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