December Book Club: Ways With Words

This small, book-club-style gathering at Treo House will explore how books and libraries can act as tools for local, in-person connection, conversation, and collaboration.

Across the evening, we’ll weave together reading and collective reflection around two guiding questions:

1) What do physical books make possible that screens can’t?

2) How might we rediscover and reimagine the library as a critical space for civic life? As a form of social technology for meeting, thinking, and organising together?

Guided by passages from writers such as Jenny Odell (How to Do Nothing), Carl Jung, Wendell Berry and others, participants will be invited into a lightly facilitated conversation about attention, place, and the radical potential of paper.

Pre-reading: Rather than reading one book before the event, we will read a shorter selection of a few passages. We will send these across before the event for you to read in your own time, and also provide time at the start of the event for you to read the passages in peace and quiet.

Timings: Doors open at 6:30pm for a 6:45pm start.

Refreshments: Light food will be provided, and Treo House bar will be open serving a selection of wines, beer and soft drinks for purchase.

This event is being hosted in partnership with Ways with Words – a creative communications studio working in service of regenerative cultures and communities, led by Will Brown.

Will is a writer, curator, and community strategist who has lent a portion of his personal library to Treo House, making it available as a shared reading resource within the co-working space. This is forming part of a wider inquiry into resource-sharing, and the role of analogue reading, writing, and thinking in the digital age.