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A Living Library = A. L. L.

Everyone and everything on Earth and in Space is part of A Living Library of diversity: people, birds, trees, air, water, and all the things we create, such as - parks, gardens, schools, curricula, artworks, networks, communities, celebrations. A Living Library, or, A.L.L., for short, provides a way to understand that culture and technology are part of nature. It’s all nature.

A Living Library provides a powerful systemic framework, multiple methodologies and strategies for creating place-based, ecological change in communities and schools - locally and globally.

A.L.L. integrates local resources - past, present, future - and transforms them with community, to become vibrant, content-rich, art-filled, ecological learning landscapes; each Branch linked to another.

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Mar '18

What Does A Living Library Mean To You ?

A Living Library Farm
  • What do you like about A Living Library ?
  • What is your favorite thing to do in A Living Library  ?
  • Do you think the work A Living Library does is good for the environment and students ?
 

These were some of the questions I asked to a group of enthusiastic middle school students working at the OMI / Excelsior Living Library & Think Park, between San Miguel Early Education School and James Denman Middle School, during one of the after school sessions of A.L.L. Green Futures Paid Internship Program. Every Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday, these A.L.L. ECO-Stewards engage in STEAM + Literacy, get their hands dirty digging up soil, sowing seeds, identifying weeds, working in the greenhouse, cooking, helping mentor younger students, making art from recycled materials, or just having fun with their friends.

OMI/Excelsior Living Library, Lower Garden (more…)

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Mar '18

A Living Library Transforms Grey to Green At James Denman Middle School

Life Frames, Inc. and A Living Library, led by Bonnie Ora Sherk, have been working with teams of enthusiastic students and volunteers from Salesforce to transform the dull, grey, concrete and asphalt Rear Yard of James Denman Middle School into vibrant California Native Learning Zones with trees and understory plants of many colors and textures.

Enjoy this short video documenting the work in progress thus far, and see the drawing showing the new site plan. There is, however, still much to finish, including planting of a Redwood Circle. So stay tuned to see more about the creation of this new ecological wonderland !
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Feb '18

A Living Library Offers A.L.L. STEM + Literacy & Green Skills Job Training For Youth !

A.L.L. STEM + Literacy, Green Skills Job Training Youth Programs Incorporate Common Core Next Generation Science Standards Plus Literacy & Math

We are looking forward to continuing these school and community learning programs and we need YOUR SUPPORT. In advance, THANK YOU for your generous contribution to help support our ground-breaking, evolutionary work !

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Jan '18

A Library Library Goals for 2018

A.L.L.'s Goals for 2018

2017 was another remarkable and productive year for Life Frames, Inc., non-profit sponsor of A Living Library, with relentless efforts to bring ecological greening across many environments of New York City and San Francisco while educating children, youth, and adults about natural systems and the importance of integrated diversity through Learning by Doing. For those who missed our 2017 In Review Enewsletter, click here to know more about all the work we accomplished last year.

As the first month of the brand new 2018 goes by, Bonnie Ora Sherk, Founder & Director of Life Frames, Inc. & A Living Library, shares A.L.L.’s Goals for this year: (more…)

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Jan '18

A Living Library Is Cultivating The Human & Ecological Garden: Bonnie Ora Sherk’s Multimedia Installation at Nevada Museum of Art On View Now Through January 21 !

Bonnie Ora's installation at Unsettled Exhibition

Visit the Nevada Museum of Art in Reno, Nevada to see the Exhibition ‘Unsettled’ and view Bonnie Ora Sherk’s new multimedia installation aligned with color, light and the polar directions — A Living Library Is Cultivating The Human And Ecological Garden.

The ‘Unsettled’ Exhibition (August 26, 2017 – January 21, 2018), curated by Joanne Northrup, Senior Curator from the Nevada Museum of Art, shows work of artists from the Greater West from Alaska to South America.  Please visit to see this futuristic artwork on A Living Library as a planetary genre before it closes on January 21. (more…)

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