It had its debut at the Houses of Parliament back in May last year and now it will be on show at Manchester’s Central Library.
The Homeless Library has been made by local homeless people and opens up previously untold stories of the lives of homeless people through interviews, artworks, poems and handmade books.
The unique and unprecedented history of British homelessness, devised by arts organisation arthur+Martha has also been on display at the tSouthbank Festival of Love.
Many homeless people live and die as ‘invisibles’. When they die their very existence sometimes leaves no mark. This project opens an untold chronicle, that exists off the pages of official history books. Instead, it is a history based on conversations: people’s descriptions of their own lives, as told by contemporary homeless people and also older people who witnessed homelessness from the 1930s onwards.
Along with interviews, there are artworks and poems. Many people involved found that these discussions and making the artworks and poems were a transformative experience:
The exhibition runs from the 31st January until the 31st March
