The Orange Library

Let’s gooooooooooo!!

Next poetry night is on the 4th of April. 4/4!
Bring your friends. As usual there will be snacks and drinks and as usual and always always always

Welcome to the January edition of Poetry Nights with The Orange Library. Hosted by none other than the legendary Poetess Immortal!❤️‍🔥

We’re sooooo excited to see you all, listen to your poems, eat pies made by Mimi & drink wonjo with waaaaaay too much sugar in it.

As per usual, everyone is welcome
As per usual, everting is free
As per usual, we do this til we free us

Saturday 31st January
𝐁𝐞𝐭𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝟒𝐩𝐦 & 𝟔𝐩𝐦 (don’t be late!)
At The Orange Library

There will be poems and friends and snacks and drinks and a good time!🥳

See you there!🧡🧡🧡

Do you like writing?
Do you want to meet other people who enjoy writing?
Join our writing workshops!

WHEN: Saturday 20th December, 3pm -4.30pm

WHERE: At The Orange Library

WHAT & HOW: we’ll meet up at the library, read each others’ stories, help each other out, learn, grow, have fun, eat some snacks and let our imaginations run wild!

Questions? DM us.

Welcome to the December edition of Poetry Nights with The Orange Library. Hosted by none other than the legendary Poetess Immortal!❤️‍🔥

We’re sooooo excited to see you all, listen to your poems, eat pies made by Fatou’s mom & drink wonjo with waaaaaay too much sugar in it.

As per usual, everyone is welcome
As per usual, everting is free
As per usual, we do this til we free us

Thursday 18th December
𝐁𝐞𝐭𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝟒𝐩𝐦 & 𝟔𝐩𝐦 (don’t be late!)
At The Orange Library

There will be poems and friends and snacks and drinks and a good time!🥳

See you there!🧡🧡🧡

This week at The Orange Library, the kids made a Bluetooth speaker! Swipe to hear which song we listened to first🧡

Thank you Soma for reading us stories in English and in Wolof. We gulped up every word🧡

We love our current space, it’s the perfect little library we dreamt it would be. But with kids sprawling across the floor so you can’t get through, the older teenagers hoarding the sofas, and anyone wanting privacy kicking out whoever’s in the office (that said, the office doesn’t even have a door!).
It is time for us to move on to a bigger space.

Fundamentally, no matter where we are located, The Orange Library is a space where people are cared for and loved. We work so that this love and this care doesn’t only happen at the library but becomes a practice that we take into the world outside. We trust that this will lead to a more care-full and caring world, a world where freedom is for everyone.

Help us do this work by donating, by sharing, send our fundraiser to your friends, to your local libraries, send our fundraiser to your local newspapers, to your parents, send our fundraiser to everybody you know who cares about community and about creating safe spaces for each other. Spread the word far and near, we need all the help we can get.

Let’s do this!!! I have all the faith in us.
If the library is forced to shut down, it shouldn’t be because of money issues.

All the love,
Ben

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⚠️Alert!⚠️UPDATE!⚠️

Now you have a little extra time to send in your texts for our writing workshop this autumn!
Send them in send them in!🧡

Do you like writing? Join The Orange Library Writing Workshops! An initiative by Siaka and Nabou, who love writing and want to share a space with others like you.

To start us off, write a short story under 2000 words this summer. Send it to the library by August 28th. We will send you back a story by someone else.
At our first workshop in September, we’ll have some snacks, talk, let our imaginations run wild, and discuss all the stories together 🧡

Questions? Comment here or send us a DM.
Talk soon🧡