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​📚 Human Library Saigon is BACK! And this time, we're keeping it beautifully simple!! ✈️🌍

​No theme. No labels. Just life.

​This August, our Human Books have one thing in common: they've lived. Internationally, fully, and with plenty of stories to prove it. They are the kind of people you sit next to at a dinner party and realise two hours have passed without noticing.

​Come spend an afternoon in great company 💛

​=== 📚 HUMAN BOOKS 📚 ===

​📗 Sean O'Cillin 🇮🇪 Ireland "I'm not stopping until I've seen it all" Some people collect passport stamps. Sean collects countries, all tattooed on his skin. A lifelong traveller who hit the road young and never really stopped, Sean carries his entire journey with him, literally. Come ask him which stamp was the hardest to earn.

​📘 David Watts Barton 🇺🇸 USA "International Renaissance Man of Mystery" David Watts Barton began writing at 16, travelling at 19, and writing songs at 22. In the half-century since, he's continued to do all three: working as a journalist, radio personality and blogger, living across California, New York City, Berlin, Italy and Saigon, and releasing two albums of music. And other stuff, too.

​📕 Hanlie Wilson 🇿🇦 South Africa "[Book title coming soon]" Hanlie Wilson is a South African music teacher based in Ho Chi Minh City, where she teaches at the International German School and has become a cherished part of the CHANCE Charity Shop community. Her chapters: life across continents, music as a universal language, and what it means to build a home far from where you started.

​=== 📖 ABOUT HUMAN LIBRARY SAIGON ===

​Inspired by The Human Library initiative from Denmark, Human Library Saigon brings together extraordinary people as "Human Books" for intimate small-group conversations called "reading sessions." Readers sit with a Human Book for 30 minutes, ask questions, hear stories, and walk away seeing the world a little differently.

​Real people. Real stories. Warm, unhurried conversations.

​=== 📚 HUMAN LIBRARY SAIGON #17 ===
📅 Saturday, 29 August 2026 · 3pm–6pm
📍 Impact Hub Saigon (Entrance Mr Tuoi)
📌 99 Nguyễn Cửu Vân, Bình Thạnh, HCMC
🔗 Open in Google Maps

​🎟 Entry: 200,000 VND online | 250,000 VND on the day
Pay via bank transfer to secure your ticket!
Bank: MB - Account Number: 6496 (only 4 digits!) or SCMcharity

​👉 Sign up as a reader: https://luma.com/ztnnfh5z
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Impact Hub Saigon
99 Nguyễn Cửu Vân, Gia Định, Hồ Chí Minh 70000, Vietnam
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