Colonial Infrastructures #6:
Resisting Knowledge Erasure
PALESTINE 
SHADOW 
LIBRARY
with Learning Palestine

Date: Saturday, 18 April 2026
Time: 17:00 - 19:00 CET
Location: Varia (Gouwstraat 3, Rotterdam)
Access: Free entrance. Registration at the door.

As part of the Colonial Infrastructures series, this 6th edition will focus on knowledge under duress and its circulation in times of repression. How do we gather to disseminate knowledge that was erased and dispersed? Considering destruction and censorship as acts of colonial force, Resisting Knowledge Erasure will focus on efforts of circulating knowledge via shadow libraries, fugitive archives, infoshop repositories, and other unsanctioned collections.

This event closes a chapter of labor that began in our 2023 programme, in collaboration with the BAK Community Portal in Utrecht, with the LIBRARIAN SWARM: Fuzzy Mirror Solidarity Network for Palestine. From hereon out, we will continue devising strategies for circulating this shadow library, assembled with many anonymous volunteers and in consultation with many shadow librarians, whom we thank. 

Learning Palestine will join us for this session. They are a group of artists, academics, intellectuals and community members, who aim to disseminate knowledge on the history of the ongoing struggle for justice, liberation, and freedom of Palestine and the Palestinian People. They wish to practice new and old ways of disseminating this knowledge, that function out with the constrains of social media and corporate controlled networks.

This event falls within Varia’s Counter-Coloniality Seed research thread and is supported by the Creative Industries Fund NL. Graphic design by G1ngG1ng on dirty freeware [ Meme Generator 4 Android ].