a mobile living library is a live storytelling project where the books are people and the reading sessions are events where others get to listen to their stories.
The project was one of the Multiplier projects, part of the African Futures Festival by the Goethe-Institut Johannesburg. During October 2015, we shared 4 books with different reading audiences around Johannesburg, South Africa. You can listen to recordings of the stories here.
The methodology of a mobile living library has its roots in a storytelling project called a human library that was run by a group of young people at a Danish music festival in 1993. Though it has been adapted for this context, it shares at its core the idea that storytelling is a powerful means…
These are our books. Click on a cover to listen to the live recordings from our events.
Our books were shared at reading events around Johannesburg. At: St. Mary’s School in Waverley; Trackside Creative in Orlando West, Soweto; Afrikan Freedom Station in Westdene and with the Ekurhuleni Environmental Organisation (EEO), Women’s Group in Kwa Thema.
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