Refugee Diaries Living Library

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City of Charles Sturt

A live firsthand retelling of refugee stories in finding freedom and diversity in community and a potluck bring a plate to share dinner.

Findon Community Centre

Community Voices Program

Building cross-cultural understanding and amplifying the voices of communities.

Join us during Refugee Week 2025 for our ‘Refugee Diaries Living Library’ oral stories event followed by a potluck community dinner. Bring a plate to share, come in cultural dress and enjoy a live firsthand retelling of refugee stories in ‘Finding Freedom: Diversity in Community’, from around the world .Witness personal accounts of how people from refugee backgrounds contribute positively to our community. Discover how unfortunate circumstances across the globe have led to situations that deprive these contributions by said individuals from the very contexts from where they once had to flee.Inspired by ‘The Human Library’, an international organisation and movement having its origins in the city of Copenhagen, Denmark, in the year 2000; this event seeks to challenge people's perceptions refugees of the refugee experience by providing the opportunity for open conversation with those having lived experience most of us would not usually encounter except vicariously through mainstream media stereotypes.Using libraries as an analogy, living libraries lend people rather than traditional books with their collections consequently featuring individuals who have "experienced prejudice, social exclusion or stigma", and whereby participants, ‘borrowers’ can interact with ‘books’ to learn about other people and challenge their own presuppositions and unconscious biases.Book your spot today.

<ul><li>Please stay at home if you have or think you may have COVID-19.</li><li>Maintaining social distancing is the responsibility of the individual.</li></ul>

The City of Charles Sturt would like to acknowledge the land we occupy today is the traditional lands of the Kaurna people and that we respect their spiritual relationship with their country. We also acknowledge the Kaurna people as the custodians of the greater Adelaide region and that their cultural and heritage beliefs are still as important to the living Kaurna people today.

Agenda

Acknowledgement of Country, introduction of refugee living library speakers and general housekeeping.

Event Openting

Tales of finding freedom and family. Hear stories and enjoy the opportunity to ask and engage with local community members with lived refugee experiences from different corners all around the world.

Refugee Lived Experience Stories

Community Dinners are an opportunity to gather together to share food, fun and friendship. Bring along a plate of food to share, and enjoy a multicultural dinner with friends, new and old.

 Community Dinner - Potluck - Bring a Plate to Share

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