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Yankalilla Library – An exciting new project!
Recently the Library received the news that they had been successful in applying for Libraries Board Innovation Funding. The funding was open to all South Australian Libraries and while there were quite a few submissions, Yankalilla’s was one of 14 projects to receive a grant.
The Grant’s brief asked libraries to think a little differently about how to meet their community’s needs and to collaborate to come up with an innovative project.
The Library’s project is called Common Threads: Celebrate and connect with your Yankalilla Library and community.
Common Threads is an innovative audio-visual project fulfilling the Library’s mission to connect and serve our local community. The Library invites our community to curate, create and connect with a series of filmed portraits of local personalities representing our district’s diverse history, culture and talent. The project will broaden the Library’s digital outreach and provide a wonderful chance to showcase Yankalilla’s new Library facilities and services.
Uniquely, we will involve our community from the conception of each portrait by collaborating with local government and community organisations to seek untold stories from our backyard. Community members—from students to retirees—are invited to nominate interviewees, conduct interviews and help in the production/editing of each film. The Yankalilla Library will host a public launch screening to celebrate our participants’ achievements.
By integrating our community members in each phase of the creative process, we will maximise community connections, digital literacy and the potential for learning for life.
The Common Threads collection of short films will be hosted by the Library across digital and physical platforms.
So look out for more information coming soon!