Learning
As a salon for thought-exchange and learning, library portal also hosts workshops on a weekly basis,we host a range of workshops and learning experiences and welcome the same hosted at Portal.
email us at hellolibraryportal@gmail.com if you would like to host a workshop or learning experience.
Philosophy and Literature reading club
Each Sunday at 5pm, a short text will be read and discussed. An introduction will be given before the reading, so no prior knowledge or pre-reading is needed. This club is open to everybody regardless of "education" or "experience".
Email us at hellolibraryportal@gmail.com to receive weekly emails with the text.
Free for members.
Past weeks:
Frederic Jameson: Metacommentary (1971).
Simone Weil: Prerequisite to Dignity of Labour (1941).
Emily Hodges: ‘The Playfulness of Aesthetic Experience’ (2023).
Fred Moten, Stefano Harney: ‘The University and the Undercommons: Seven Theses’ (2004).
Sylvia Winter's 'Unsettling the coloniality of being'. (2003).
Immanuel Kant’s ‘The Transcendental Doctrine of Elements, First Part: The Transcendental Aesthetic’ (1781).
Immanuel Kant’s ‘Introduction to the Critique of Pure Reason’ (1781).
Guyer & Wood’s Introduction to Immanuel Kant’s ‘Critique of Pure Reason’. (1998)
Yukio Mishima’s ‘Sun & Steel’. (1968).
Hito Steyerl's 'A Thing Like You and Me.' (2010).
Walter Benjamin’s ‘Romanticism: An Undelivered Address to Students’ (1913).

Posture and Flexibility
A pragmatic approach to introducing flexibility, grace and ease into the body, starting Wednesdays evenings in October, 7pm. Feel your lumbar spine extend.
Available to members of the library by donation. Please register your attendance here.

Dream Club
The second iteration of Dream Club occurs in the wake of a super full moon.
Dream Club is, in essence, a study group to collectively record and share dreams, discuss interpretive practices and receive feedback on creative work.
Cost of entry is a dream (and a library membership). Become a member here.

French Conversation Club
A casual conversation club for those looking to reconnect with la langue française. A text is read aloud, conversation follows. All levels welcome.
Please register your attendance here, and email hellolibraryportal@gmail.com if you’d like to know more before coming along.
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