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Hushville Silent Library
Sadly, The Hushville Library as we all know and love it won't be back this year. But, we can all help to keep the tradition of literacy and fuckery alive. This year, with the help of Hushvillians just like you, we're bringing the Hushville Silent Library to the Playa. What can you do to help, you ask? (I know you did, I heard you). We need two things:
- Volunteer librarians (for two-hour shifts)
- Books. Books. Books
First, sign up for a shift on The Hushville Silent Library Shiftboard on the website. You'll have a blast! If not, we'll give you a free book just for trying.
Next, you know those old books you have laying around? The ones you've read a dozen times or the ones you got for gifts and never even opened? Pack them up and bring them to Burning Man with you. You can donate them directly to the library when you get there.
Bring something YOU would like to read—nobody is interested in DOS for Dummies or your old History of the Germanic Languages textbook from college. Think—exciting fiction, gender studies, self-help, those quirky and peculiar books you bought when you were going through that one phase.
I'll be sending down at least one box of books.
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Hi Hushvillians, this is Sherry Huggi-Ma, aka Shits N Giggles (call me whatever is easiest) and Scooter (Shirt Cocking Sparkle Pony), and we are going to help lead the Hushville Silent Library this year…yeee-haw! I hope you’re as excited as we are to get this…shhhh…readable station creation started.
WHAT WE NEED:
- INFRASTRUCTURE: Who here has extra EZ-UPS they can bring to help create shade? We might be set if we can get two more along with Isabel’s (thanks Isabel!). Anyone?
DRY ERASE BOARD & BULLETIN BOARD: Who might have one or both of these? This is for posting notes, schedules, missed connections, some suggested good books to read, etc.
BOOKS BOOKS BOOKS! Any fun, fiction, or fantasy books you’d like Burners to read? Or any “How to’s…” or biography of some kooky person’s life? Please bring those books to the Hushville library (provided you also take home what you bring, as we don’t have room to take items off playa). Thanks a bunch! Reading is underrated these days. 😉
LIBRARY VOLUNTEERS: Thank you for everyone who has signed up so far. This is going to be a great crew. We still have 7 more shifts to fill…any takers?
COSTUMES: We would LOVE it if you chose a librarian character to be during your volunteer time. Here is a great link for 50 fictional librarians to choose from. Sexy librarians are always popular. 😉
DRAG STORY TELLING TIME: If you feel comfy dressing in drag to read to the “kids” in the library, please feel free to do so during your library shift. If you let us know that you'd like to participate, we can try to schedule it and announce the timing on Playa Events (or any other platform where we can publicly share this activity).
FAIRIES READING FAIRY TALES: Similar as being in drag, if you’d like to dress up as a fairy during your shift and have “fairy tale” stories to read to folks, by all means, please do so. Bring on the theatrics!
STRIKE! PLEASE help us take down and take away items from the library. We don’t have storage at our house for said items, so as much help getting things off playa as possible will be great.
Thank you all again…see you in the dust!
I've been having fun filling the box of books I'm sending down.
Good places to wrangle books are garage sales, local library used book tables, rummage sales, etc. To quote Brother Monkey "Bring something YOU would like to read—nobody is interested in DOS for Dummies or your old History of the Germanic Languages textbook from college. Think—exciting fiction, gender studies, self-help, those quirky and peculiar books you bought when you were going through that one phase."
We need your books!!!! We'll have yellow bins in Magic Marty's once it's set up to drop off your books. Please wait until it is set up to drop off the books.
Also remember to come and take back an equivalent quantity of books to what you brought when you leave, as we don't have the capacity in our infrastructure van to haul books back.
Thanks!
Have I mentioned that we really need your books!!!! We'll have yellow bins in Magic Marty's once it's set up to drop off your books. Please wait until it is set up to drop off the books.
Also remember to come and take back an equivalent quantity of books to what you brought when you leave, as we don't have the capacity in our infrastructure van to haul books back.
Thanks!
I'll be pitching my neighbors and scouring our personal library for some good reads. Thanks for the reminder!
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