I Dream Library

Our year end call to action!! 100 to gift $100 to keep open one of Canada’s most dynamic independent libraries amplifying 2SQTI/BIPoC stories.

I Dream Library offers accessible ways to find, share, and teach diverse stories through print, art, film, and interview/lecture from 2SQTI/BIPoC storytellers across place and time.

We are not funded by grants, loans, or government contracts, banks or foundations, venture capitalists or angel investors, tech, literary or post secondary institutions. This library survives by the will of its founders, and YOU!

❤️Get in touch / Give today @ the link in our bio
❤️Share + Tag an in the comments
❤️Help us reach our GoFundMe goal by December 31st
❤️Add your name to our Wall of Thanks

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I Dream Library is an award winning contemporary education platform creating access to diverse stories in schools, galleries and museums around the world. Founded in Vancouver, Canada in 2019 by Aisha Kiani and their son Rakim as a response to banned books, the organization’s first offering was a globally accessible digital archive and teaching resource for K-12 classrooms. Today, along with the digital library, our education center serves as a research and reference library supporting archival practice, workshops, exhibits, and community-building initiatives.

Building in public, with the public, shows the transformative power of libraries anywhere and everywhere. We believe the library is a cultural touchstone for liberation: a space where ideas are constantly being rediscovered, reimagined, and reinterpreted. In partnership with organizations and advocates, we amplify the role of libraries and archives in social justice movements, public education, and cultural (re)formation.

Recent library projects have been commissioned by, and exhibited in, the Vancouver Art Gallery, Museum of Vancouver, Arts Umbrella, Museum and Archives of North Vancouver, Richmond Art Gallery, Artspeak Gallery, Vancouver Public Library, CUPE BC, Bentall Gallery, and more. With your support we can continue offering self-directed and collaborative opportunities for critical education, creative exchange and collective imagination.

This end of the year fundraising push invites 100 artists to gift $100 toward one of Canada’s most dynamic independent libraries amplifying 2SQTI/BIPoC stories.

I Dream Library offers and accessible way to find, share, and teach diverse stories through print, art, film, and interview/lecture from 2SQTI/BIPoC storytellers across place and time.

❤️Get in touch / Give today @ the link in our bio
❤️Share + Tag an in the comments
❤️Help us reach our GoFundMe goal by December 31st
❤️Add your name to our Wall of Thanks

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I Dream Library is an award winning contemporary education platform creating access to diverse stories in schools, galleries and museums around the world. Founded in Vancouver, Canada in 2019 by Aisha Kiani and their son Rakim as a response to banned books, the organization’s first offering was a globally accessible digital archive and teaching resource for K-12 classrooms. Today, along with the digital library, our education center serves as a research and reference library supporting archival practice, workshops, exhibits, and community-building initiatives.

Building in public, with the public, shows the transformative power of libraries anywhere and everywhere. We believe the library is a cultural touchstone for liberation: a space where ideas are constantly being rediscovered, reimagined, and reinterpreted. In partnership with organizations and advocates, we amplify the role of libraries and archives in social justice movements, public education, and cultural (re)formation.

Recent library projects have been commissioned by, and exhibited in, the Vancouver Art Gallery, Museum of Vancouver, Arts Umbrella, Museum and Archives of North Vancouver, Richmond Art Gallery, Artspeak Gallery, Vancouver Public Library, CUPE BC, Bentall Gallery, and more. With your support we can continue offering self-directed and collaborative opportunities for critical education, creative exchange and collective imagination.