Check Out A Human Book: The Human Library at PVCC
People read for more reasons than can be contained in a single blog post: to expand their horizons, increase their knowledge, go on adventures, gain experience, or take a walk in another person's shoes. Reading makes us more empathetic, more able to see the world through eyes not our own. Books can be honest with readers in a way it's difficult to be in real life -- but this doesn't always have to be the case.
The Human Library is a project that allows people to be honest with other people in the same ways books are honest with their readers -- by providing space for open conversations about life experiences readers may not have the chance to otherwise experience. How does it work? People with life experiences to share "lend" themselves out to people with time to listen and learn -- a library in which the books are humans. The Human Library began in 2000 in Copenhagen, Denmark and has since become a global movement. And now, it's coming to PVCC and a library classroom near you.
Join us in the Betty Sue Jessup Library classroom for PVCC's Human Library project on the following days:
- Monday, September 24, 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.
- Wednesday, September 26, noon to 2 p.m.
- Thursday, September 27, 3 p.m. to 5 p.m.