Locations Archive - Human Libraries

Everyone is welcome and everything is free

About

Human Libraries is a programme of artist-led workshops, projects, commissions and happenings in community libraries in Bootle and Crosby. We believe that everyone has “gifts of the heart, the head and the hand” to offer to their community. Through artist-led activity, the Human Library creates ways for people to share these gifts.

We aim to make a new civic and cultural role for Sefton’s libraries, offering new experiences, new meeting points, new reasons to gather and ways to spend time together. Everyone is welcome and everything is free.

Over the past three years, artists and library-users have co-created projects – a collaborative press archive, a Bootle tapestry, a new wallpaper, community-wide skill shares, podcasts, feasts and library-cooked lunches, and a green oasis in Bootle Library.

To take part in the Human Libraries you can speak to one of the librarians in any of our Libraries, see the current programme on this website, or click through to find us on facebook, twitter or Instagram. Volunteers are always welcome.

We have worked with artists including Ciara Phillips, Harun Morrison, Jenny Steele, Jayne Lawless, Sumuyya Khader, Sean Roy Parker, Fairland Collective, Frances Disley and Bella Milroy, alongside local historians, gardeners, community organisations and educators. You can read more about some of these projects here.

The Human Libraries is curated and produced by Rule of Threes Arts in partnership with Sefton Libraries with funding from Arts Council England and the National Lottery Community Fund.

Contact

Bootle Library
220 Stanley Road
Bootle
L20 3EN
0151 934 5781

Crosby Library
Crosby Road North
Waterloo
L22 0LQ
0151 257 6400

email us: humanlibraries@gmail.com
twitter @humanlibraries
instagram @human_libraries
facebook @humanlibraries

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Get Involved

Do you want to be part of the Human Library?

Contact us or pop in to Bootle or Crosby Libraries to find out more. Everyone is welcome at our events and everything is free. You can come along and see what you think. You can play as big, or as small a role as you like.

If you know someone who you think might want to be part of the Human Library, bring them too. The more the merrier.

All of our projects are open for your feedback and ideas. Is there a story you want to tell, skill you need or want to share? This is your project and your library, feel free to shape it as much as you wish.

Thanks

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