Slide30
Slide13
Slide26
Slide24
Slide28

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.

Updated by @alivinglibrary

Recent Updates

Apr '21

A Living Library & Bonnie Ora Sherk Featured in United Nations 75th Anniversary Journal

It is with great excitement and honor that we announce A Living Library & Bonnie Ora Sherk’s inclusion in the recently published United Nations 75th Anniversary Commemorative Journal !

In this illustrated interview shown below, Bonnie Ora Sherk discusses her development of A Living Library and highlights the organization’s work with climate change, transforming environments, teaching students of all ages about natural systems and principals, and goal to create place-based Branch Living Library & Think Parks – locally and globally.

Included in Article are Before, During, & After photos of the Ecological Transformation of James Denman Middle School Rear Yard (2017-18). The Rear Yard Transformation expands A.L.L.’s larger OMI/Excelsior Living Library & Think Park, which was designed by Bonnie Ora Sherk and Life Frames, Inc., non-profit sponsor of A Living Library.  This transformative work is maintained in partnership with students from the four adjacent San Francisco Unified School District and community participation.

CENTERPOINT NOW, “Are we there yet?”  Publication commemorating the UN’s 75th anniversary with works and commentary by international artists, activists, innovators, academics, and policy-makers

Now online:  CENTERPOINT NOW, “Are we there yet?”

Limited edition hard copy - Press release attached.  Whole Journal plus Article follows below.

Together, these transformations from gray to green radiate out to the wider neighborhoods, creating vital, diverse, lush, and themed Learning Zones while connecting communities throughout the Islais Creek Watershed, the largest in San Francisco.  Please see Interview in the UN Journal on pages 102-103 in the online journal, linked here.  Press release also linked here.  2 Page Interview is also pasted below.

Posted by Xiaoying Liu in
A.L.L. Pedagogy

0 Comments

Keep Reading →

Jan '21

A.L.L GREEN FUTURES Paid Internships for HS to Age 24 Youth

We are Still RECRUITING !!

High School to AGE 24 Youth for Paid Internships with A.L.L. Green Futures.

Paid Interns can earn up to $1200 STIPEND.

Please Download APPLICATION FORMS in- English & Spanish. 

Program meets on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday after school Plus one Saturday afternoon per month. 

PARTICIPANTS DO NOT HAVE TO ATTEND EVERY SESSION, however stipend will be reduced according to attendance and quality of participation.

Thank you for sharing with your students and networks!

Posted by bonnieora in
Jobs

0 Comments

Keep Reading →

Jan '21

New Year 2021-Pandemic and Beyond

To say 2020 was challenging is an understatement. It was meant to be 2020 CLEAR VISION.  Instead it was 2020 BLURRED VISION and was devastating for so many. Like many other organizations, businesses, and nonprofits, Life Frames, Inc. & A Living Library were affected by the COVID-19 pandemic in ways that proved unimaginable. Where meetings and classes could go virtual, planting and pruning trees could not. 

“The pandemic slowed everybody down,” A.L.L. Founder & Director, Bonnie Ora Sherk, says.

Still, with challenge came opportunities. “So many deaths and lives were disrupted, but, as we all slowed down, our sensitivity, reflections, and appreciation for each other and all of life, as well as certain activities were being felt more deeply.  And, otherwise, we might have missed these qualities and important experiences.”

“With the new year,” Sherk says, “I am optimistic for a better and healthier future for all, bringing new opportunities, as well as nurturing and strengthening our ongoing ecological transformations and integrated hands-on learning programs.”

A.L.L. is carrying this spirit into the new year with both ongoing and emerging projects:

Ongoing projects:

Emerging projects:

  • SF Art Institute Harker Award, Exhibition, Public Talk, Teaching in 2021-2022 plus A.L.L involvement in SFAI Reimagining 
  • Invitation to participate in Liverpool Biennial, March-June 2021
  • Invitation to create one-person exhibition in Huesca, Spain at Centre de Arte y Naturaleza-Fundación Beulas (CDAN)
  • Invitation to join Ecology Arts Team at Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts, Chongching, China
  • Opening of the new Roosevelt Island Public Library adjacent to RI Living Library & Think Park Gardens at the end of January 2021  
  • Development of International Gardens in RI Living Library & Think Park - NYC 

Please stay updated on A.L.L news and project developments by visiting our website and following us on social media----> 

You might also consider making a Donation or Volunteering as a way to show support in the new year. 

Stay tuned, and Happy New Year!

Posted by Gabrielle Coloma in
A.L.L. Pedagogy, Bernal Heights Living Library & Think Park, Bernal Heights Living Library Nature Walk, OMI/Excelsior Living Library & Think Park, Roosevelt Island Living Library & Think Park

0 Comments

Keep Reading →

Sep '20

Zoom with me Saturday, September 19, 11 am PDT

You are invited to join me, Curators - Giulia Lamoni & Vanessa Badagliacca, and Artist, Alexandra do Carpo, in a conversation and presentation from Lisbon, Portugal, Municipal Gallery Quadrum Zoom: Planting Seeds and Weaving Red Lines, TOMORROW, Saturday, September 19, 2020, 11 am PDT as part of Exhibition, Earthkeeping/Earthshaking – Art, Feminisms and Ecology, at Gallery Quadrum: 💖 https://galeriasmunicipais.pt/…/planting-seeds-and-weaving…/

Posted by bonnieora in
Exhibitions

0 Comments

Keep Reading →

May '20

Learn Gardening At Home: Free Living Library Zoom Workshop May 22, 12-1 PM

A Living Library Free Community Organic Gardening Workshop_MAY 2020

Please join us next Friday, May 22, 12 PM-1 PM on Zoom for our next A Living Library Free Community Organic Gardening Workshop: HOW TO START A GARDEN AT HOME.

Please register here to receive Zoom log-in information and workshop materials including A.L.L. Class Lesson, A.L.L. Video Links, and an A.L.L. Powerpoint.

Your participation would make this online workshop a success. We look forward to seeing you on Friday !

Please spread the word to your friends and neighbors.

 

Posted by Pushpanjali Roy in
A.L.L. Pedagogy, OMI/Excelsior Living Library & Think Park

0 Comments

Keep Reading →

© 2024 Life Frames, Inc. & A Living Library

A Living Library, Life Frame, Think Park, & A.L.L. are registered trademarks

 Follow us Facebook Twiter Instagram Flickr YouTube RSS