The Estevan Harry Potter Alliance with Libraries Undertaking the Magic Mentorship of Sorcerers (LUMMOS), announced that they are participating in the seventh annual world wide book drive entitled Accio Books! 2016.
The alliance will be placing book donation boxes around the city from April 15 to May 15.
All books collected will be donated to a charitable organization, yet to be determined. The group is in the process of contacting possible candidates for the donation and that lucky group will be announced once details are finalized.
Anyone with books they might be able to part with that still have a little magic in their pages, should look for the donation boxes in schools, at the library and other public places around Estevan.
The books should be in good condition.
The type of books that cannot be accepted include textbooks, manuals, cookbooks, romance novels or books with explicit sexual content.
The Estevan chapter of the Harry Potter Alliance (HPA) was founded last fall at the Estevan Public Library. It is the first chapter of the alliance in Saskatchewan and only the 10th in Canada.
This will be the first large campaign that the local HPA will be able to participate in, so they are excited about getting involved and look forward to all the exciting events planned in the future. HPA Estevan is organized through the Estevan Public Library and anyone interested in getting involved is welcome.
The HPA turns fans into heroes by changing the world through accessible activism and through the power of story since 2005. Since its founding, HPA has engaged millions of fans through their work for equality, human rights and literacy. Their vision is a creative and collaborative culture that solves world problems.
Some of the projects undertaken have included a partnership with Walk Free, that engaged over 400,000 fans and which resulted in Warner Brothers changing the sourcing of their Harry Potter chocolates to be 100 per cent fair trade. They also raised $123,000 for Partners in Health and sending five cargo planes of life-saving supplies to Haiti.
Donations of over 250,000 books across the world through HPA Accio Books! campaign is another accomplishment.
A partnership with Public Knowledge that brought over 20,000 fans and online video creators together for Net Neutrality, was another recent achievement. The use of broad cultural messaging to link the Hunger Games with real-life inequality, was yet another one of their recent projects.
