MONROE COUNTY — People judge each other. People need more human connection. Those beliefs motivated three local women to bring the Human Library to Monroe. Started 25 years ago in Denmark, the Human ...

Volunteers at a “human library” share their stories through conversations— sort of like a live, human memoir. The event’s organizer, Prairie Markussen, stands with Alejandro Joleanis, a volunteer who ...

People volunteering as books spoke to readers at the Human Library event held at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Palo Alto, on Sunday, May 5, 2024. Photo by Leslie Schipa The lawn area at the ...

There will be books, and there will be readers. Certainly stories to follow with lessons to learn, just waiting to be checked out. But this library doesn’t deal in text. Next Saturday, April 20, the ...

Every avid reader has probably wished at some point that they could sit down and have a conversation with a character from their favorite book. The Human Library tries to do that by having “human ...

PETOSKEY — Patrons can stop by the Petoskey District Library on Aug. 3 to check out a "human book," or people who have volunteered to offer their stories and perspectives. According to a press release ...

West Bloomfield Township — Avid readers got to check out a different kind of storytelling on Saturday at West Bloomfield Township’s Human Library. Taking a page from Denmark-based not for profit, The ...

"We organize our lives through story," said Richard Width. "It's one of the reasons art exists in all its forms -- theater, song, dance, film, visual art. Art presents existence ordered into story." ...

A Human Library is a library of human beings, each representing a group in the community that may be exposed to stigma, prejudice and/or discrimination. Its purpose is to provide a safe conversational ...

Harvard Library says it has removed a book that's been in its collection for nearly a century that is partially made with human skin that was taken from a deceased hospital patient without consent.