Seventh is thrilled to be currently working on creating our first Community Library and Reading Room with generous support from City of Yarra project grant funding for 2024.
The Community Library and Reading Room will be a shared community resource, focussing on community participation through fostering connectedness and promoting the power and preservation of place.
Libraries are crucial places for knowledge and information access. Increasingly, they also offer other critical social and civic services. Throughout 2024 we are hoping to establish a new library in our flexible studio space, which will also act as a Reading Room open to all visitors.
The establishment of the Library and Reading Room fulfils an important part of our Community Engagement and Audience Development strategies. To ensure that the library reflects the needs and interests of our diverse community, we plan to involve our community members in its creation, ensuring a sense of ownership and representation. As part of this approach, we will invite various stakeholders, including exhibiting artists, residency artists, cinema artists, community program participants, board members, and volunteers, to nominate resources that they believe should be included in the Library's collection. By adopting this iterative and decentralised curation process, we will foster a diverse representation of materials that reflects our community's interests.
Seventh is thrilled to be currently working on creating our first Community Library and Reading Room with generous support from City of Yarra project grant funding for 2024.
The Community Library and Reading Room will be a shared community resource, focussing on community participation through fostering connectedness and promoting the power and preservation of place.
Libraries are crucial places for knowledge and information access. Increasingly, they also offer other critical social and civic services. Throughout 2024 we are hoping to establish a new library in our flexible studio space, which will also act as a Reading Room open to all visitors.
The establishment of the Library and Reading Room fulfils an important part of our Community Engagement and Audience Development strategies. To ensure that the library reflects the needs and interests of our diverse community, we plan to involve our community members in its creation, ensuring a sense of ownership and representation. As part of this approach, we will invite various stakeholders, including exhibiting artists, residency artists, cinema artists, community program participants, board members, and volunteers, to nominate resources that they believe should be included in the Library's collection. By adopting this iterative and decentralised curation process, we will foster a diverse representation of materials that reflects our community's interests.