Co-organised by Simon BrowneVaria prints SomeTimes 7 & 8
Thursday, January 15, 2026
Varia prints all the news that can fit in *SomeTimes*.
B(r)oilerplates for Fictionality
Saturday, October 11, 2025
In this session, we will talk about the human-centered specificities and differences between initiatives doing stuff with technology (gossip, folklore, craft, aesthetics, scenes). In order to discuss them we propose a plastic-fictional etymology of these 5 words as a game to explore and map the multiple natures of 'doing things with technology'.
Pibliothèque workshops
Saturday, September 20, 2025
For 2 days, Lionel Maes and the research group Les nouveaux habits du colportage (Alexia de Visscher, Alice Néron, Léonard Mabille) will be running a workshop on an offline, local and collaborative tool of sharing digital books
Declarations Pen Pals
Friday, December 6, 2024
Dear CSS writers, web-artisans and declarative artists, Declarations is organising its first meetup at Varia in Rotterdam. Declarations is an ongoing artistic research project into the poetic materiality of the CSS web-standard and its echoes on design and artistic practices. For that occasion we decided to focus two days on CSS inside emails.
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!
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!
Dead Web Club Presents: Sunrise With Sea Monsters
Thursday, March 21, 2024
Dead Web Club invites you to join the first of our Dead Web Cinema Club events, where we put the glowing beam of the projector on the topic of data, servers, hard drives, online forums, and virtual worlds.
Varia prints SomeTimes 4
Tuesday, December 12, 2023
Varia prints all the news that can fit in *SomeTimes*
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.
Varia prints SomeTimes 3
Thursday, October 12, 2023
Varia prints all the news that can fit in *SomeTimes*
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.
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
Varia prints SomeTimes2
Saturday, April 22, 2023
Varia prints all the news that can fit in *SomeTimes*
Book launch: Cyberfeminism Index
Sunday, February 12, 2023
On February 12 at 5 p.m., Varia will host the book launch for designer and editor Mindy Seu’s Cyberfeminism Index. The event will feature a performative reading by Seu, a casual conversation with audience members, and light refreshments.
Toward a Minor Tech
Thursday, February 2, 2023
Varia has been invited to work on the production of the 12th edition of this *Peer-reviewed Newspaper*, a publication series of research/PhD workshops investigating contemporary digital culture. The newspaper is made within a wiki-to-print environment and will be presented during the Transmediale festival on Thursday 2nd of February.
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.
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.
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.
Varia prints SomeTimes
Friday, April 22, 2022
Starting from today, Varia will print all the news that can fit in *SomeTimes*
pad-publishing @ zine camp
Sunday, November 7, 2021
During this workshop we will experiment with models of resonant publishing using Etherpad and web2print techniques, in which actions of writing, processing and lay-out making continuously cross each other.
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.
Varia prints SomeTimes 7 & 8
Thursday, January 15, 2026
Varia prints all the news that can fit in *SomeTimes*.
B(r)oilerplates for Fictionality
Saturday, October 11, 2025
In this session, we will talk about the human-centered specificities and differences between initiatives doing stuff with technology (gossip, folklore, craft, aesthetics, scenes). In order to discuss them we propose a plastic-fictional etymology of these 5 words as a game to explore and map the multiple natures of 'doing things with technology'.
Pibliothèque workshops
Saturday, September 20, 2025
For 2 days, Lionel Maes and the research group Les nouveaux habits du colportage (Alexia de Visscher, Alice Néron, Léonard Mabille) will be running a workshop on an offline, local and collaborative tool of sharing digital books
Declarations Pen Pals
Friday, December 6, 2024
Dear CSS writers, web-artisans and declarative artists, Declarations is organising its first meetup at Varia in Rotterdam. Declarations is an ongoing artistic research project into the poetic materiality of the CSS web-standard and its echoes on design and artistic practices. For that occasion we decided to focus two days on CSS inside emails.
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!
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!
Dead Web Club Presents: Sunrise With Sea Monsters
Thursday, March 21, 2024
Dead Web Club invites you to join the first of our Dead Web Cinema Club events, where we put the glowing beam of the projector on the topic of data, servers, hard drives, online forums, and virtual worlds.
Varia prints SomeTimes 4
Tuesday, December 12, 2023
Varia prints all the news that can fit in *SomeTimes*
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.
Varia prints SomeTimes 3
Thursday, October 12, 2023
Varia prints all the news that can fit in *SomeTimes*
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.
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
Varia prints SomeTimes2
Saturday, April 22, 2023
Varia prints all the news that can fit in *SomeTimes*
Book launch: Cyberfeminism Index
Sunday, February 12, 2023
On February 12 at 5 p.m., Varia will host the book launch for designer and editor Mindy Seu’s Cyberfeminism Index. The event will feature a performative reading by Seu, a casual conversation with audience members, and light refreshments.
Toward a Minor Tech
Thursday, February 2, 2023
Varia has been invited to work on the production of the 12th edition of this *Peer-reviewed Newspaper*, a publication series of research/PhD workshops investigating contemporary digital culture. The newspaper is made within a wiki-to-print environment and will be presented during the Transmediale festival on Thursday 2nd of February.
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.
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.
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.
Varia prints SomeTimes
Friday, April 22, 2022
Starting from today, Varia will print all the news that can fit in *SomeTimes*
pad-publishing @ zine camp
Sunday, November 7, 2021
During this workshop we will experiment with models of resonant publishing using Etherpad and web2print techniques, in which actions of writing, processing and lay-out making continuously cross each other.
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.