Buku Jalanan Collective

Buku Jalanan is a network of community-based libraries and a cultural literacy movement focusing on the subversion of public spaces. It has been run autonomously in more than 80 different locations worldwide by hundreds of cultural activists began in 2011 at Shah Alam, Malaysia. The initiative runs on the principle of B.A.C.A (meaning ‘read’ in Malay) which is the acronym for Books, Arts, Culture & Activism, in cultivating dialogical artistic and discursive tactics for grassroots engagement strategies.