Community Library @ Footscray Community Arts Centre
Archiving the Present has developed a collection of Náhuat, Spanish, English and Spanglish collection of texts for all ages focusing on Central American stories, themes, voices, authors, thinkers and artists. There are also seminal texts related to the region. The collection looks to build Central America consencia, or consciousness.
More about the Program:
SHELF is a community library and learning site that supports the gathering of communities through a series of co-curated collections. Collections include new and existing cultural resources (books, magazines, podcasts, games ect) that promote creativity and health and wellbeing, as well as original resources created by communities.
Through collective-curatorship SHELF looks to support multilingual approaches to community health by creating sites outside of the home that encourage the circulation of stories, health messaging and information more widely.
Arts Gen worked with collectives of local community members and artists to establish the collections, create resources, and host public programming in culturally specific and responsive ways.
SHELF is a site for intergenerational and intercultural expression and learning through conversation, knowledge-sharing, and artmaking for community by community.
Community Library @ Footscray Community Arts Centre
Archiving the Present has developed a collection of Náhuat, Spanish, English and Spanglish collection of texts for all ages focusing on Central American stories, themes, voices, authors, thinkers and artists. There are also seminal texts related to the region. The collection looks to build Central America consencia, or consciousness.
More about the Program:
SHELF is a community library and learning site that supports the gathering of communities through a series of co-curated collections. Collections include new and existing cultural resources (books, magazines, podcasts, games ect) that promote creativity and health and wellbeing, as well as original resources created by communities.
Through collective-curatorship SHELF looks to support multilingual approaches to community health by creating sites outside of the home that encourage the circulation of stories, health messaging and information more widely.
Arts Gen worked with collectives of local community members and artists to establish the collections, create resources, and host public programming in culturally specific and responsive ways.
SHELF is a site for intergenerational and intercultural expression and learning through conversation, knowledge-sharing, and artmaking for community by community.
