Kwinana Book Club: Community Connections & Creating Change

Kwinana Public Library is bringing together curious minds to read, watch, and listen to authors, poets, artists, and creatives to advance our understanding and actions for a better world.

These sessions are suitable for adults and youth comfortable in adult environments.

This is the fifth of six sessions, with the book club spanning the course of a year. You do not need to attend every session, you are welcome to attend as many of the sessions as you wish.

Each session will be facilitated by the Climate Justice Union and have a different theme to align with each of the Nyoongar seasons. 

Unlike some book clubs and reading groups we will approach these gatherings similar to a meal with friends. There are starters, mains, and dessert to choose from. You can read/watch/listen to one resource, but you are welcome to consume them all, as well as make your own suggestions for content to include.

The Djilba session theme is 'Hope and healing'

Suggested materials to choose from include:

Starters

• ABC video - Noongar seasons Djilba (2 minute video)
• 30 days of comics / 2019 : on climate crisis, by Madeleine Jubilee Saito (comic, 2 minute read)

Mains

• The Wrong Canoe chapter from Right Story, Wrong Story by Tyson Yunkaporta (15 minute read, also available as eAudiobook)
• Prelude: Falling Together, and Epilogue from Paradise Built in Hell by Rebecca Solnit (15 minute read)

Dessert

• Marr Moorditj from Noongar Man by Clive Morrison (poem)
• The Art of Non-Violence, from Zen and the Art of Saving the Planet (page 1-5), by Thich Nhat Hanh
• Cripping the Apocalypse: Some of my Wild Disability Justice Dreams, from Care Work, Dreaming Disability Justice by Leah Laskhmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (chapter, 14 pages, 15 minute read)
• Imagination is a muscle: a conversation with adrienne maree brown from Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility (chapter, 10 min read)

These sessions are suitable for adults and youth comfortable in adult environments.

Register online, or call or email us for help with registrations. Walk-ins welcome. 

Kwinana Public Library
Wednesday 19 August
5.30pm to 7pm