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Prikbord.page walk-in hour
Wednesday, September 16, 2026
Prikbord.page is a collective calendar for artistic and cultural events in Rotterdam, organised by cultural free spaces and other idiosyncratic places. Would you like your events to be shared on prikbord.page, come by! If you've been using the calendar and noticed some bugs, come by! If you have some fun ideas for the calendar, come by! If you'd like to join the team in some way, come by!
How to Organise ... and Unionise?!
Sunday, August 30, 2026
How to Organise ... and Unionise?! is a slow moving reading group beginning this summer and running into autumn, hosted in three venues in Rotterdam; A Tale of A Tub, Extra Practice and KIOSK, with a final gathering in Utrecht with Four Siblings.
Calm Coding
Monday, July 27, 2026
A lowkey social hangout for those who like to write computer programs in the company of other people.
Self-medicated practices: self-diagnosis
Friday, July 24, 2026
The third session of Self-medicated Practices looks at self-diagnosis.
Rat King: on Migration of the Brown Rat
Saturday, July 18, 2026
During this game session we will take a look at the movements of the brown rat and explore how their migration intersect with climate change, colonial navigation, human expansion, global trade, and ongoing efforts to eradicate them.
Homemade Computer Club #04: What is a Network?
Friday, July 17, 2026
The Homemade Computer Club is a gathering of people curious about what a homemade computer can be.
Repair café
Sunday, June 14, 2026
Our repair cafe is a moment to hang out together and learn how to repair our own small electronic equipment, such as computers, audio equipment, printers, etc.
Data Walk (Testing) CameraSpotter
Sunday, April 26, 2026
For anyone interested in surveillance tech in public space and discussions around the topic
Common Knowledge x Varia
Wednesday, April 15, 2026
Join us for an informal conversation between members of Common Knowledge and Varia.
Geographies of Return and Death Cafe
Thursday, December 4, 2025
Geographies of Return brings together two practices that trace the contours of memory, loss and landscape; mapping spaces where the personal meets the historical, outlining the processing of grief.
Homemade Computer Club – What is a File?
Friday, November 14, 2025
The Homemade Computer Club is a gathering of people curious about what a homemade computer can be.
Queer Bar Night
Thursday, November 13, 2025
The 🔮 Queer Bar Night in Varia 🔮 is a sibling queer bar of the Vereniging Poortgebouw. This one will be run by some queer Feministas and Varia neighbours who are joining forces for more queer bars in the city to come together 💜
Caregivers Unite
Saturday, September 13, 2025
A series of semi-public meetings of cultural workers who are also caregivers.
How to Organise? Open Call
Friday, September 5, 2025
Are you in a collective based in or around the Netherlands? We would love to host you for a learning session around 'How to Organise?'.
Poetics of Computing Open Call
Saturday, June 21, 2025
An Open Call to join an intimate collective exploration group to meet and practice together three times, each 3h long --on Saturday 21 June, Saturday 12 July, Saturday 13 September-- with refreshments being served.
Cozy Writing Jam
Monday, April 21, 2025
Join us for a relaxed evening where musicians and writers create side by side. The idea is simple
Game & Watch: Indigenous representation in Videogames
Friday, December 6, 2024
During this Game & Watch we will collectively play two contrasting videogames to consider how Indigenous narratives are shared and considered in gamified realms. We will examine the representation of Indigenous peoples as well as the roles they are cast in the videogames 'Never Alone' and 'Sid Meier's Colonization'.
Solidarity Network(ing)
Sunday, December 1, 2024
We want Varia to be used by people who live in the neighbourhood. Is it already happening but we've never met you all together, we'd love to have a moment to formalise how this can work for everyone. With conversation and food we want to set up ways to organise and coordinate the access for Varia. How can we help each other across our extended solidarity networks? What are our responsibilities to one another and how can we communicate clearly? This is a gathering to share our expectations and needs for this space that we (can) all use.
Game & Watch: Cold War Ideologies
Friday, November 29, 2024
The times of Cold War seem long gone, yet they significantly impact present cultural ideologies that repeat and evolve in contemporary creative production. This evening gathering is the starting point of a series that tries to expose the influence of the Cold War across present day narratives, technologies and geopolitics.
Whine, Dine and Decline
Thursday, November 28, 2024
Whine, Dine and Decline is a dinner and conversation around the local foodscape of the Netherlands and it's potential future in the context of climate change.
Homemade Computer Club - Session #02
Friday, November 15, 2024
The Homemade Computer Club is a gathering space for those curious about computers.
Poetic Calm Coding
Monday, November 11, 2024
The first Calm Coding session in November will be dedicated to poetic gestures in computing which have the potential to reconfigure these controlled operational spaces. Through conversation and experiments, this session will softly start a research thread around this topic, for which we welcome you to bring ideas and experiments of what poetic computing could mean, what it could do and undo.
Common Dirt (Autumn Edition)
Sunday, November 10, 2024
Get to know the shared land of Charlois; from the neglected patches of land around the town squares to the communally managed street gardens. During this autumn walk, we'll explore together how nature finds its way into Rotterdam's urban landscape.
De Beweging 010 Launch
Sunday, October 20, 2024
On October 20 from 10:30 to 14:00 in the Gemaal op Zuid we will come together in Rotterdam for the first meeting of the 010 movement. The goal of the meeting is to get to know each other and discuss how we can work together to reclaim our city.
Homemade Computer Club - Session #01
Friday, October 18, 2024
The Homemade Computer Club is a gathering space for those curious about computers.
Calm Coding x PrePostPrint Local Meetup
Monday, October 14, 2024
F/LOSS publishing tool users, unite! If you're curious to explore Free/Libre and Open Source Software to make publications and layouts with, or have already worked with these tools and are looking for ways to exchange with others, please join us!
Common Dirt (Seedy Friday)
Friday, October 11, 2024
Common Dirt is an ongoing series of events organized by Varia, in which we take a critical look at the cross-connections between biology and technology in Rotterdam.
Semi-True Interpretation of Fictionality Part III: The Fun-DING Body-ody-ody led by Toon Fibbe
Saturday, October 5, 2024
For the last session in our Fictionality Series we invited artist Toon Fibbe, who proposed to turn our professional selves into (drag)characters, with Anna Delvey serving as our guide and teacher, but not without looking at the (fictional) performativity of funding bodies first...
Calm Coding x PrePostPrint Local Meetup
Monday, September 23, 2024
F/LOSS publishing tool users, unite! If you're curious to explore Free/Libre and Open Source Software to make publications and layouts with, or have already worked with these tools and are looking for ways to exchange with others, please join us!
Common Dirt (Summer Edition)
Sunday, June 30, 2024
Common Dirt is an ongoing series of events organized by Varia, in which we take a critical look at the cross-connections between biology and technology in Rotterdam. During this summer excursion we will investigate the workings behind identification apps, such as ObsIdentify and Pl@ntNet. We will start in the garden of het O'tje, next to Attent.
^ x Varia
Tuesday, June 25, 2024
The ^ collective will be visiting Varia at the end of June. This visit is a follow-up from last November, when a few Varia members visited ^ in Ireland to take part in the Irish Design Week, and get to know the collective and their local network. During their time in Rotterdam, we aim to re-explore our local landscape, infrastructure and networks informed by our different migration backgrounds, focusing on our solidarity network, paths of access to local resources and the support structures that sustain the cultural sector in Rotterdam. On Tuesday the 25th, we will have a day of collective reflection and a chance to get to know ^, where everyone is invited to discuss and have a drink.
Semi-True Interpretation of Fictionality (Series)
Thursday, June 20, 2024
This is the second of three installments wherein we collectively would love to further explore 'fictionality' in its various critical potentials to tell alternative/yet untold stories. This time we want to focus on **NEOLOGISMS**
Common Dirt (Spring Edition)
Friday, May 17, 2024
Common Dirt is an ongoing series of events organized by Varia, in which we take a critical look at the cross-connections between biology and technology in Rotterdam.
Queer Bar Night - Special Edition: Queer Workers' Karaoke
Thursday, May 2, 2024
The 🔮 Queer Bar Night in Varia 🔮 is a sibling queer bar of the Vereniging Poortgebouw.
Queer Bar Night
Thursday, April 4, 2024
🔮 Queer Bar Night Varia 🔮 starting in April as sibling queer bar of Vereniging Poortgebouw
Semi-True Interpretation of Fictionality (Series)
Saturday, March 23, 2024
This is the first of three installments wherein we would love to collectively explore 'fictionality'. Coming from fiction, becoming adjective and then noun again, what could fictionality mean? Why and how does this notion continue to be relevant in our contemporary times of post-truth, post-facts and widespread anecdotal questioning of scientific knowledge? What kind of imaginary power does fictionality have? And how could engaging with the porous space between fiction and non-fiction help to envision other kinds of presents and futures?
8m Counter Cloud Gathering
Friday, March 8, 2024
On the 8th of March, Varia will open its doors for the 8M Counter Cloud Gathering as part of the [Transnational, Anti-Colonial, Trans*Feminist Counter Cloud Action Day](https://varia.zone/8m/).
Anti-colonial tech: a conversation
Friday, February 16, 2024
During the event, participants will share modest proposals for moving networks and political engagement away from toxic cloud environments. From Counter Cloud Action to Digital Discomfort and trans*feminist servers, the techno-disobedient practices they share will unsettle computationally mediated depletion, activating paths towards anti-colonial tech.
Digital Discomfort: Read-Write-Chaos
Friday, January 19, 2024
The Digital Discomfort Working Group proposes a one-day gathering to collectivelly engage with the questions and praxis of discomfort aesthetics as a potential form of contemporary (techno)political resistance.
LIBRARIAN SWARM (Fuzzy Mirror Solidarity Network for Palestine)
Sunday, December 10, 2023
Calling all amateur, professional, and aspiring librarians (or anyone who wants to help out)! Librarian Swarm is a collective effort to turn a bibliography spreadsheet on Palestine into a free digital library for public self-education. This digital harvest will be hosted with open source software on several shadow libraries.
Doing the Dishes and then Revolution
Saturday, December 9, 2023
Doing the Dishes and then Revolution is an event in two parts on doing things collectively.
Biotope Charlois: Winter Walk
Sunday, December 3, 2023
Get to know the Biotope of Charlois; from the rats in the Maas to the bats in your cavity walls. Together we will investigate how nature makes good use of Rotterdam's urban planning and technological infrastructure to make the city their home. Ecologist André de Baerdemaeker will guide us through Charlois and its surrounding area, from the derelict Wielewaal to the docks of the Waalhaven, to see what thrives between the asphalt and concrete.
Sometimes Not Available feat. Transfeminist Digital Care Network
Thursday, November 30, 2023
Sometimes Not Available considers the need for interrelation and support for existing feminist server efforts, and for connecting around collective practices of developing, hosting and implementing tools and methods that reflect local needs, interests and conditions. On the 30th of November we will be joined by The Transfeminist Digital Care Network who will share their work.
PrePostPrint Local Meetup
Friday, November 24, 2023
F/LOSS publishing tool users unite! On Friday 24 + Saturday 25 of November we're organising a gathering in Varia.
Sometimes Not Available feat. la_bekka
Thursday, November 23, 2023
Sometimes Not Available considers the need for interrelation and support for existing feminist server efforts, and for connecting around collective practices of developing, hosting and implementing tools and methods that reflect local needs, interests and conditions. On the 23rd of November, Inés and Martu from la_bekka will join us in discussing these matters.
Varia Afhaal: Stock Exchange
Friday, September 15, 2023
Varia Afhaal are thematic gatherings based around the common experiences, everyday technologies and home economics of food preparation.
Varia Afhaal: Chip Shortage or Chips on Demand
Thursday, July 6, 2023
Varia Afhaal are thematic gatherings based around the common experiences, everyday technologies and home economics of food preparation.
Calm Coding
Monday, May 22, 2023
A lowkey social hangout for those who like to write computer programs in the company of other people.
Clothes Swap
Thursday, May 11, 2023
B.Y.O.Clothes, shoes, accessories, all garments you want to exchange are welcome in our clothes swap evening! There will be mirrors and concealing curtains to try on your possible new wardrobe.
South Explorer 2023 Varia Radio Relay
Saturday, April 22, 2023
Varia joins south explorer for the 2023 edition Varia will fill the ether on the PMR Band with reports on neighborhood activities, random chatter and South Explorer updates. Experimental loempias, kombucha fizzzzes and cocktails will also be served
International Trans★Feminist Counter-Cloud Strike: Dancing in the ruins of Big Tech
Wednesday, March 8, 2023
On March 8th join us in dreaming and dancing in the ruins of Big Tech! On this day, we will be having conversations on how to minimize our use of cloud-based applications, discussions on the implications of the cloud regime, reading, streaming, broadcasting, sharing food, and dreaming up alternative methods of otherwise exuberant joyful survival, while connecting to other transnational striking networks.
Sensible World Of Soccer - Varia Cup 2024
Thursday, March 2, 2023
After 4 years of waiting, Varia will finally host the 2024 Cup of the classic football game, Sensible World of Soccer. Become a goal scoring superstar hero!
Push to Talk Partyline
Thursday, December 8, 2022
During a 3-day hands-on workshop we'll investigate license-free radio as a low-tech and low-power medium for keeping in touch with each other. We want to look at radio as a medium that you can participate in instead of consuming it. We'll explore the aspects of locality and community present in radio.
Feminist Hack Meetings #7 - FHM sits & eats around Mutual Aid
Thursday, November 24, 2022
For our last meeting of this year FHM is hosting a dinner party! We will be hanging out, eating together and connecting with local feminist/LGBTQAI+/community-oriented groups and persons in Rotterdam.....
Ex Machina: Auto-magically
Tuesday, November 15, 2022
Technology and magic, two words that at first seem to clash with each other. However, they share some common ground. On December 16th at Varia become a technomancer and use your phone as a magic wand to explore our cyborg publication.
Zine camp 2022
Saturday, November 5, 2022
Come hang out and check out our publications at Zine camp 2022!
Publishing Partyline
Friday, October 14, 2022
Join us for the Publishing Partyline on the 14th and 15th of October, to dive into the dependency relations that are being formed when working with web-to-print techniques, between designers-and-tools and between tools-and-standards.
Plaintext Protocol Partyline
Friday, September 16, 2022
On the Friday the 16th and Saturday the 17th of September 2022, we are hosting the Plaintext Protocol Partyline, in which we will explore and experience plaintext protocols as a communication medium.
Walk of Fame - The Return
Friday, July 8, 2022
On April 4, 2022, after 32 years of existence, the Rotterdam [Walk of Fame](https://www.walkoffame.nl/) came to [an end](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzB803YeGWc). The last sixty tiles of this well-known star sidewalk near the Metroplein and Ahoy were dismantled. Since then, Rotterdam has been missing one of its most noticeable landmarks. Fortunately, we managed to retrieve one of these special tiles. On July 8, at the start of the summer holidays, the tile of none other than Shrek will be reinstalled on the corner of Gouwstraat and Wolphaertstraat. Everyone is welcome at the green unveiling at 7 p.m. sharp. There will be snacks, drinks and music.
Varia x d12n LIMITS hub
Tuesday, June 21, 2022
We're delighted to invite you to our LIMITS-hub, an open and informal gathering moment taking place during the [Eighth Workshop on Computing within Limits](https://computingwithinlimits.org/2022/) this June 21st/22nd. As this year's LIMITS will be taking place online, we are setting up a hub, to have a physical space to meet. Come along to watch the conference together!
Hold & Release Partyline
Friday, June 10, 2022
Calibre remains to be popular among amateur librarians and digital libraries. Over time, the software was supplemented by many new features and plugins. Now, we want to revisit the digital library as an extensible space, and step back into the imagination of the library as a generative and social environment.
Graanschuur tarwewijk: documenta 15 pre-pre-preview
Friday, June 3, 2022
As you may already know, a number of Rotterdam-based artists & hackers are busy working on projects related to documenta 15. These projects are happening in collaboration with ruangrupa, the artist collective from Jakarta Indonesia who are running the artistic direction of documenta this year. As documenta 15 approaches, we'd like to have a moment to eat together, share what we're up to and discuss over some drinks. It can also be a moment to focus on our local ekosistem.
Infraschool Open Day
Wednesday, May 25, 2022
You are warmly invited to the launch of the Infraschool, an experimental peer-to-peer learning project that aims to explore local community infrastructure, co-operative organisation and digital tools.
A Traversal Network of Feminist Servers (radio broadcast)
Saturday, March 26, 2022
*A Traversal Network of Feminist Servers* (ATNOFS) is a collaborative project of Varia, LURK, Constant, HYPHA, Feminist Hack Meetings and ESC formed around intersectional feminist, ecological servers. In the first session at Varia during the weekend of March 26 and 27, we will focus on tools and methods to make space for understanding what feminist publishing infrastructures could be.
Feminist Hack Meetings #4 - One family plenty connections
Saturday, December 18, 2021
With Sofia Boschat-Thorez. Do you have regular conversations with family and friends outside the Netherlands using intant messaging, like Whatsapp, or Facebook groups or an other application? Have voice messages, stickers and video calls become your main mode of communication with them? Come for a tea and a discussion about how we all use these apps, how they have changed the way we interact with each other, what we find useful about them and what more we wish they could do. All together we will make a small publication with everyone's contribution.
Ch◉re◉graph◦ng C◉d◦ng ↭ ↝ tales from real-time collaborative audio-visual coding ↜
Sunday, December 5, 2021
An event dedicated to sharing experiences and on-going projects that explore different modes of collaborative live coding with a focus on audio-visual composition.
Read & Repair - Community Memory feat. Elodie Mugrefya and Amy Suo Wu
Sunday, November 28, 2021
Every last Sunday of the month the Varia library and Rotterdam Electronics Depot are open. In 2021 our Read & Repair sessions will be paired, we will take two months to explore one theme. During October and November 2021, we will be exploring the theme Community Memory. For November, the Read will be guided by Elodie Mugrefya and the Repair by Amy Suo Wu.
Read & Repair - Community Memory feat. Sofia Boschat-Thorez
Sunday, October 31, 2021
Every last Sunday of the month the Varia library and Rotterdam Electronics Depot are open. In 2021 our Read & Repair sessions will be paired, we will take two months to explore one theme. During October and November 2021, we will be exploring the theme Community Memory. For October, the READ will be guided by Sofia Boschat-Thorez.
Relearn 2021 curved
Thursday, July 22, 2021
This year's edition will take place in and focus on Rotterdam. We aim to explore the importance of self-organisation and the use of experimental tools to build alternative systems and economies within the urban fabric of Rotterdam.
Read & Repair - The Automated Body feat. Katarina Jazbec and MELT (Loren Britton + Isabel Paehr)
Sunday, June 27, 2021
Every last Sunday of the month the Varia library and Rotterdam Electronics Depot are open. In 2021 our Read & Repair sessions will be paired, we will take two months to explore one theme. During May and June 2021, we will be exploring the theme The Automated Body. The text selection for Read in June was made by Katarina Jazbec and the Repair is hosted by MELT.
Read & Repair - The Automated Body feat. Angeliki Diakrousi
Sunday, May 30, 2021
Every last Sunday of the month the Varia library and Rotterdam Electronics Depot are open. In 2021 our Read & Repair sessions will be paired, we will take two months to explore one theme. During May and June 2021, we will be exploring the theme The Automated Body. The text selection for Read in May was made by Angeliki Diakrousi.
Read & Repair - Sense-full Pedagogy feat. K MacBride and Yun Lee
Sunday, April 25, 2021
Every last Sunday of the month the Varia library and Rotterdam Electronics Depot are open. In 2021 our Read & Repair sessions will be paired, we will take two months to explore one theme. During March and April 2021, we will be exploring the theme Sense-full Pedagogy. The Read session for April is hosted by K MacBride and the Repair session is led by Yun Lee.
Read & Repair - Sense-full Pedagogy feat. Supreme Connections
Sunday, March 28, 2021
Every last Sunday of the month the Varia library and Rotterdam Electronics Depot are open. In 2021 our Read & Repair sessions will be paired, we will take two months to explore one theme. During March and April 2021, we will be exploring the theme Sense-full Pedagogy. The text selection for March was made by Varia Library group member amy pickles.
Read & Repair - Wireless Imagination feat. Agustina Woodgate and Dennis de Bel
Sunday, February 28, 2021
Every last Sunday of the month the Varia library and Rotterdam Electronics Depot are open. In 2021 our Read & Repair sessions will be paired, we will take two months to explore one theme. During January and February 2021, we will be exploring the theme Wireless Imagination. The Read session for February is hosted by Agustina Woodgate and the Repair session is led by Varia group member Dennis de Bel.
Read & Repair - Wireless Imagination feat. Danny van der Kleij
Sunday, January 31, 2021
Every last Sunday of the month the Varia library and Rotterdam Electronics Depot are open. In 2021 our Read & Repair sessions will be paired, we will take two months to explore one theme. During January and February 2021, we will be exploring the theme Wireless Imagination. The text selection for January was made by Varia Library group member Danny van der Kleij.
Read & Repair feat. Minimal Viable Learning
Sunday, December 13, 2020
How can minimal technologies maximise a learning experience? What could 'minimum' 'viable' 'learning' be? During this Read & Repair, we will explore minimal viable forms of learning with **Etherpad**. Etherpad is a collaborative text editor that is often used within the practices of Varia members and their peer networks.
Read & Repair feat. Christina Karagianni and Anita Hrnić
Sunday, October 25, 2020
Every last Sunday of the month the Varia library and Rotterdam Electronics Depot are open. Each session of Read & Repair is looking at a different text, sometimes guided by a guest. The guests for this edition are Christina Karagianni and Anita Hrnić.
Read & Repair - Neoliberalism with Dutch Characteristics: The Big Fix Up of the Netherlands and the Practice of Embedded Cultural Activism
Sunday, September 27, 2020
Every last Sunday of the month the Varia library and Rotterdam Electronics Depot are open. In this next edition we are reading the text *Neoliberalism with Dutch Characteristics
Magiun magazine & Fizz club launch
Saturday, September 19, 2020
Join us for an afternoon of food! Alice Strete presents the new food magazine Magiun and Varia announces the start of a new open membership food and fermentation club. Expect Kombucha, sourdough bread, ASCII art and other tasty treats.
BPW Rotterdam Woonspreekuur
Tuesday, September 1, 2020
Please feel welcome to join us for an evening of discussion, co-learning and reflection on the housing situation in Rotterdam, our rights as tenants and how we can support each other to work towards solutions for more safe, secure and affordable housing.
Read & Repair - The Means of Communication as a Means of Production
Sunday, August 30, 2020
Every last Sunday of the month the Varia library and Rotterdam Electronics Depot are open. This Sunday we will dive into a text written by Raymond Williams in 1978, called *The Means of Communication as the Means of Production*.
Dat Conference stream - solarpunk, the decentralised web and peer-to-peer technology
Thursday, July 30, 2020
We're streaming talks from DatConf at Varia for a little while. Feel welcome!
Read & Repair feat. stone throw - session 2
Sunday, July 26, 2020
Every last Sunday of the month, the Varia Library and Rotterdam Electronics Depot are open. Varia is hosting a special edition of *Read & Repair* that will be split into two(!) collective reading and conversation sessions. One will be online and one will be in our physical space, as a series of events to discuss matters of abolitionist technology & community-driven systems of accountability, while generating anonymous, consensual debris for *stone throw*, a temporary online work to share our resources and reflections.
Read & Repair feat. stone throw - session 1
Thursday, July 23, 2020
Every last Sunday of the month, the Varia Library and Rotterdam Electronics Depot are open. Varia is hosting a special edition of *Read & Repair* that will be split into two(!) collective reading and conversation sessions. One will be online and one will be in our physical space, as a series of events to discuss matters of abolitionist technology & community-driven systems of accountability, while generating anonymous, consensual debris for *stone throw*, a temporary online work to share our resources and reflections.
Read & Repair feat. Digital Solidarity Networks
Sunday, June 28, 2020
Every last Sunday of the month, the Varia Library and Rotterdam Electronics Depot are open. This Sunday, we will turn to Digital Solidarity Networks, a recent ongoing collective initiative around digital tools that don't follow an exploitative business model.
Read & Repair feat. Deaf Republic Reading
Sunday, April 26, 2020
Every last Sunday of the month, the Varia Library and Rotterdam Electronics Depot are open. This Sunday, Amy Pickles is organising some loose exercises and scores for reading and discussing collectively an excerpt from Ilya Kaminsky's Deaf Republic.
Feminist Hack Meetings: Servers
Saturday, February 29, 2020
The Feminist Hack Meetings are a series of informal research meetings and workshops that aim to explore the suggestions, urgencies and potentials of feminist hack & tech initiatives.
Read & Repair feat. readings & listings: open licenses edition
Sunday, February 23, 2020
Every last Sunday of the month, the Varia Library and Rotterdam Electronics Depot are open. This Sunday, we are joined by Manetta Berends, who will host the first edition of a *readings & listings* session around open licenses.
Ctrl-Alt-Save
Friday, February 21, 2020
Ever had a hard-drive crash? lost data? cloud back did not really backup? Time Machine did not have a past do go back to? Many questions around backup and data storage exist and many issues need to be resolved. From large database to a small personal collection, data storage affects everyone and many so-called solutions exist but are they really solutions?
Read & Repair feat. The Bootleg Library
Sunday, January 26, 2020
The Varia Library and Rotterdam Electronics Depot are open every last Sunday of the month. This Sunday, we're joined by The Bootleg Library, a shared digital and physical library of bootlegged texts.
BPW Rotterdam Huurdersspreekuur + Meet and greet
Monday, November 25, 2019
Bond Precaire Woonvormen (BPW) organizes another round of their *tenant consultation* plus *meet and greet* at Varia on Monday the 25th of November. You are welcome to join us for an afternoon and evening of discussion, co-learning, reflection on the housing situation in Rotterdam, our rights as tenants and how we can support each other to work towards solutions for more safe, secure and affordable housing.
THE SOCIAL IN THE MEDIA: On Digital Interdependencies (Varia Visits ODD)
Monday, October 21, 2019
A report of Varia visiting ODD in Bucharest
BPW Rotterdam Tenant Consultation Hours + Meet & Greet
Monday, September 23, 2019
Join us on Monday the 23rd of September for an afternoon or evening of discussion, co-learning and reflection on the housing situation in Rotterdam, our rights as tenants and how we can support each other to work towards solutions for more safe, secure and affordable housing.
BPW Rotterdam Tenant Consultation & Introduction
Monday, May 6, 2019
Please feel welcome to join us for a day of discussion, co-learning and reflection on the housing situation in Rotterdam, our rights as tenants and how we can support each other to work towards solutions for more safe, secure and affordable housing.
Open Day @ Varia
Saturday, April 13, 2019
During the next edition of [South Explorer](http://southexplorer.nl/) Varia will host its second annual open day.
Conversas at varia
Wednesday, February 6, 2019
In February, Varia has the pleasure to host one of the nomadic Conversas evenings. Conversas is a series of bi-weekly informal meetings made so that we can get to know each other, share projects, stories or interests.
Welcome to the � Federation - Mastodon and The Fediverse
Saturday, December 8, 2018
What could community-owned social media look like? A public Wtt�F discussion on Mastodon, the Fediverse and translations.
What Remains - Final Playtest
Friday, June 22, 2018
*It is 1986. You just came home from a skate session when a Nintendo game cartridge falls into your hands. Excited to find out what kind of game is on the cartridge, you visit your friend who just bought a brand new Nintendo console two weeks ago. You plug in the cartridge and …*
Open Day @ Varia
Saturday, May 12, 2018
On the 12th of May, varia opens her doors and invites you to join an afternoon of informal conversations, workshops and demos. There will be free coffee, tea and software!
Solutions and problems in Extratonality
Friday, February 16, 2018
The 4th International Conference on the solutions and problems in extratonality titled 'Extratonality - Opening Doors Is Not Enough' focuses on an evaluation of practices in the field of extratonality.
homebrewserver.club: calendars session 2
Thursday, November 30, 2017
A second gathering around self-hosted calendars.
homebrewserver.club: calendars session 1
Thursday, November 16, 2017
A first gathering around self-hosted calendars.
homebrewserver.club
Saturday, October 14, 2017
A monthly gathering for those who (wish to) host their own online services from home, rather than using commercial and privacy unfriendly alternatives.