We are so excited to announce our March Book Club, the amazing and necessary book Conversations from Calais. Edited by Mathilda Della Torre, this book is a collection of essays and posters sharing the refugee experience. Mathilde started @conversationsfromcalais by collecting and posting snippets of conversations and encounters between volunteers and migrants/refugees in Calais. With these posters, CfC aims to re-humanise the refugee experience and give a platform to voices marginalized and stigmatized in our media and political debates. The essays contributions are by Osman Yousefzada, Gulwali Passarlay, Nish Kumar, Joudie Kalla, Waad Al-Kateab, Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, Ai Weiwei and Inua Ellams. Reflecting on themes of home and belonging, loss and longing, and so much more, these powerful voices resonate with the experience of so many worldwide.
We will be meeting on March 10th and 24th and 6:30 pm GMT, please sign up using the link below. @mathildadellatorre will also be joining us for a Q&A and final discussion, the date is to be confirmed!
Head on over to the website and check out this amazing and necessary project. You can easily download the posters and paste them up in your own city!
March 2024
The InBetween Book Club
We want to build a sense of community through reading and sharing ideas. Here you can find previous books we have read - drop us an email if you’d like to suggest a book!
All About Love by Bell Hooks - Our last book club
In the first chapter of ‘All About Love: New Visions’, Bell Hooks questions why there is not a public policy on love - guidance we can live by to better understand healthy love and nurture it in our lives. Off the back of that, in our first book club meeting and our last, at the beginning and the end of reading the book, we all wrote our ‘public policy on love’. Here you can find both copies - what do you think we have missed?
