Library Lovers' Day, Valentine's Day and World Pride 2023
Beamafilm
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14/02/2023
Love is in the air today. It's not only Valentine’s Day, a day for celebrating romantic love, but it is also Library Lovers’ Day, an international day for celebrating book lovers, library lovers and lovers of movies based on books. And it's also a time to ramp up for World Pride 2023, a time when communities around the world acknowledge that love is love.
Library Lovers' Day is a time for celebrating libraries across the globe and all the great work they do to enrich and inspire the lives of their communities and the individuals within them through books and electronic resources. And who knew that International Library Lovers’ Day began in Australia in 2006 by the State Library of New South Wales? The Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) also joined their campaign in 2007 and now it's an internationally recognised holiday. Initially, the aim was to raise awareness for all the great services offered by libraries, but it has blossomed into a day for celebrating a love of libraries as a way to augment Valentine’s Day celebrations. The #LibraryLoversDay hashtag is a trending tag on Twitter with a new theme celebrated every year. Annual themes have ranged from ‘Library Love Stories' writing contests to ‘Matchmaking’ events where library staff match readers with books and authors they might fall in love with based on their personality types. ALIA’s theme for Library Lovers Day 2023 is ‘Only YOU’, a day for talking about ways that libraries have enriched your life and for sharing those stories with your library and your networks!
And if that's not enough, today is also a day to ramp up for World Pride (Feb 17-23) a time when the entire world stops to recognise that 'love is love'. This year, for the first time ever, global World Pride Day celebrations are being headquartered in Sydney, Australia on Sat Feb 18 with special activities throughout the entire week ahead.
There's no doubt that love is in the air today, so why not stream from our watchlists of romance stories and movies based on a book below? Enjoy!
Watch for FREE with a participating library card or on a 30-day trial. Also, you can rent a film for 48 hours.
In Ancient Egypt, an astronomer and her disciples fight to save the Library of Alexandria.
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After losing his wife, widower Jack escapes to his cabin in Alaska and meets Ruby.
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Six great Harlequin romances lined up: 'Love, Alaska', 'Art of Falling in Love', 'After the Storm', 'Love by Accident', 'A Very Country Wedding' & 'Love in Harmony Valley'.
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How the novel that is widely considered the greatest work of modern fiction was created and the toll it took on James Joyce's family.
England 1959. In a small East Anglian town, Florence Green decides, against polite but ruthless local opposition, to open a bookshop.
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In the court of King Louis, the designer of the gardens of Versailles finds love and inspiration in a bright young woman with ideas of her own.
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As a war rages on in the province of Bougainville in Papua New Guinea, a young girl becomes transfixed by the Charles Dickens novel Great Expectations, which is being read at school by the only white man in the village.
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Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin is a teenage dreamer determined to make her mark on the world when she meets the dashing and brilliant poet Percy Shelley.
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Allen Ginsberg and the poetry that rocked a nation.
In 1938, an Englishman emigrates to Australia and becomes a cane-cutter. Sisters Kate and Dusty fall for him.
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An Englishwoman and an Australian prisoner of war meet in Malaya, then reunite after World War II.
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In one of a traditional South Pacific tribe, a young girl falls in love with her chief’s grandson, although she is betrothed to another. Running away, they are pursued by enemy warriors desperate to enforce tribal law.
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1940, London, the Blitz; with the country’s morale at stake, Catrin, an untried screenwriter, and a makeshift cast and crew, work to make a film to lift the nation’s spirits – and inspire America to join the war.
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In 1950s small town Britain, a doctor develops a relationship with her young patient's mother.
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A man quits his job and moves from New York to Pennsylvania to manage his favourite hometown rock band.
Tim and John fell in love while teenagers at their all-boys high school. Their romance lasted 15 years to laugh in the face of everything life threw at it - separations, discrimination, temptations, jealousies and losses.
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With the impending election of an extreme-right wing president in Brazil, trans activist and politician Indianara Siqueira fights to defend the LGBT homeless shelter she founded called CasaNem.
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