read and contemplate karl marx’s ‘kapital’ volume 1, each sunday at 3pm.

entry by donation for library card holders. join to receive a library card here, register your attendance here.

Each Sunday at 4pm, a short text is read and discussed. An introduction is 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. Register your attendance here.

Past weeks:

Thomas Moynihan: Spinal Catastrophism (2019)

Georges Bataille: The Accursed Share (1949)

David Graeber: Debt: The First 5000 Years (2011)

Byung Chul Han: The Expulsion of the Other (2016)

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 Wynter'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).

a pragmatic approach to introducing flexibility, grace and ease into the body. 

each wednesday, 6:30pm.

available to library card holders by donation.

join to receive a library card here. please register your attendance here.

improvised music performances, every saturday, at portal.

always free.

read and contemplate karl marx’s ‘kapital’ volume 1, each sunday at 3pm.

entry by donation for library card holders. join to receive a library card here, register your attendance here.

Each Sunday at 4pm, a short text is read and discussed. An introduction is 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. Register your attendance here.

Past weeks:

Thomas Moynihan: Spinal Catastrophism (2019)

Georges Bataille: The Accursed Share (1949)

David Graeber: Debt: The First 5000 Years (2011)

Byung Chul Han: The Expulsion of the Other (2016)

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 Wynter'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).

a pragmatic approach to introducing flexibility, grace and ease into the body. 

each wednesday, 6:30pm.

available to library card holders by donation.

join to receive a library card here. please register your attendance here.

nowhere (adverb, UK): not in or to any place; not anywhere. 

Nowhere Film Club is a space for films that don't belong. As a monthly screening series, NFC seeks to share overlooked and underseen films which highlight the joy, majesty, tragedy and romance of human life. We encourage robust engagement with cinema as an art form and resist elitism and obfuscation. Film is about enjoyment and love, so come along, bring your friends and open your hearts. Everybody knows this is nowhere, but nobody knows what you might find.

Come down from 7:00, 7:30 pre-show/film starts

$5 for library card-holders, $10 for guests. registration and tickets here.

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Sept 18: Join us for a screening of His Motorbike, Her Island. From 'House' Director Nobuhiko Obayashi!

Runtime: 90 mins

Obayashi's overlooked masterwork His Motorbike, Her Island (1986). Despite the cultural ubiquity of Obayashi's 1977 horror-comedy classic House, almost all of the director's other work remains mired in obscurity. His Motorbike is a stunning testament to love, as visually inventive as it is swooningly romantic. A robust exploration of gender, freedom and desire, His Motorbike follows the romance between Ko, a motorbike enthusiast, and Miyo, the woman he teaches to ride whose inevitable crash Ko cannot help but imagine. The ensuing film is among Obayashi's most revered and most moving works.

Come down early to grab a great spot, and stay after the film to chat film.

@nowherefilmclub

improvised music performances, every saturday, at portal.

always free.

a fortnightly reading group for anyone (with a library card, no experience necessary) interested in the history, theory, research, and experiences of how people think, feel and behave. a text will be read together, then discussed as a group. no prior reading needed.

fortnightly on saturdays at 2pm (1.5hrs).

join to receive a library card here. please register your attendance here.

Past texts:

Daniel Schachter: Searching for Memory (1996)

Mara Sidoli: When the Body Speaks (2000)

Heidi Keller: The Myth of Attachment Theory (2021)

read and contemplate karl marx’s ‘kapital’ volume 1, each sunday at 3pm.

entry by donation for library card holders. join to receive a library card here, register your attendance here.

Each Sunday at 4pm, a short text is read and discussed. An introduction is 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. Register your attendance here.

Past weeks:

Thomas Moynihan: Spinal Catastrophism (2019)

Georges Bataille: The Accursed Share (1949)

David Graeber: Debt: The First 5000 Years (2011)

Byung Chul Han: The Expulsion of the Other (2016)

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 Wynter'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).

a pragmatic approach to introducing flexibility, grace and ease into the body. 

each wednesday, 6:30pm.

available to library card holders by donation.

join to receive a library card here. please register your attendance here.

Keyword is a monthly screening event that activates the literature of the Library Portal bookshelves through moving images. On the last Thursday of every month we project a selection of a short doco and a feature length film that builds a dialogue with ideas, concepts, and theories we’ve rummaged up from the collection. Keyword is a co-curated event, organised by a core team in collaboration with the audience.

Entry is by donation that goes directly towards library portal’s rent ($10 is suggested). Please register your attendance here. We will have decaf dandelion chai available for purchase, and will provide cushions and pillows, byo blankets, get cozy.

S1.2025_Keyword: Errancy

Season 1 of Keyword is themed Errancy. We will be interrogating the idea of errancy as a behaviour, a choice, a body, and an emotion. In film, errancy is explored through a broad range of techniques—A plot refusing a trope, a director refusing a tradition; a character who makes the same mistake more than once, and the director that chooses to make that a part of their story. Errancy is deviant and playful, intentional and incidental; it’s a plea to hesitate when faced with the status quo. To err means to choose a path of friction, erring towards the otherwise.

Each month we will hint at the feature film by sharing the title of the short doco we will be screening. Season 1 shorts will highlight the work of German experimental documentary filmmaker Harun Farocki. But the feature film will remain a secret until the event itself. 

improvised music performances, every saturday, at portal.

always free.

read and contemplate karl marx’s ‘kapital’ volume 1, each sunday at 3pm.

entry by donation for library card holders. join to receive a library card here, register your attendance here.

Each Sunday at 4pm, a short text is read and discussed. An introduction is 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. Register your attendance here.

Past weeks:

George Bataille: “The Accursed Share” (1949)

Thomas Moynihan: Spinal Catastrophism (2019)

Georges Bataille: The Accursed Share (1949)

David Graeber: Debt: The First 5000 Years (2011)

Byung Chul Han: The Expulsion of the Other (2016)

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 Wynter'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).

The experimental cartography group is a monthly workshop aimed at knowledge sharing and the creative practice of mapping. Anchored by a volunteer group with experience in spatial, architectural, psychological, artistic and systems mapping, it is open to anyone with a interest or curiosity in using cartography to understand the world around them.

Workshop activities include collective mapping, individual drawing and discussions, with an emphasis on using alternative tools to map unconventional subjects and ideas. No preparation needed, turn up as you are on the first Saturday of each month at 12pm.

Dream Club occurs monthly, in the wake of a 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 card).  Join to receive a library card here.

Register your attendance here.

Keyword is a monthly screening event that activates the literature of the Library Portal bookshelves through moving images. On the last Thursday of every month we project a selection of a short doco and a feature length film that builds a dialogue with ideas, concepts, and theories we’ve rummaged up from the collection. Keyword is a co-curated event, organised by a core team in collaboration with the audience.

Entry is by donation that goes directly towards library portal’s rent ($10 is suggested). Please register your attendance here. We will have decaf dandelion chai available for purchase, and will provide cushions and pillows, byo blankets, get cozy.

S1.2025_Keyword: Errancy

Season 1 of Keyword is themed Errancy. We will be interrogating the idea of errancy as a behaviour, a choice, a body, and an emotion. In film, errancy is explored through a broad range of techniques—A plot refusing a trope, a director refusing a tradition; a character who makes the same mistake more than once, and the director that chooses to make that a part of their story. Errancy is deviant and playful, intentional and incidental; it’s a plea to hesitate when faced with the status quo. To err means to choose a path of friction, erring towards the otherwise.

Each month we will hint at the feature film by sharing the title of the short doco we will be screening. Season 1 shorts will highlight the work of German experimental documentary filmmaker Harun Farocki. But the feature film will remain a secret until the event itself. 

Keyword is a monthly screening event that activates the literature of the Library Portal bookshelves through moving images. On the last Thursday of every month we project a selection of a short doco and a feature length film that builds a dialogue with ideas, concepts, and theories we’ve rummaged up from the collection. Keyword is a co-curated event, organised by a core team in collaboration with the audience.

Entry is by donation that goes directly towards library portal’s rent ($10 is suggested). Please register your attendance here. We will have decaf dandelion chai available for purchase, and will provide cushions and pillows, byo blankets, get cozy.

S1.2025_Keyword: Errancy

Season 1 of Keyword is themed Errancy. We will be interrogating the idea of errancy as a behaviour, a choice, a body, and an emotion. In film, errancy is explored through a broad range of techniques—A plot refusing a trope, a director refusing a tradition; a character who makes the same mistake more than once, and the director that chooses to make that a part of their story. Errancy is deviant and playful, intentional and incidental; it’s a plea to hesitate when faced with the status quo. To err means to choose a path of friction, erring towards the otherwise.

Each month we will hint at the feature film by sharing the title of the short doco we will be screening. Season 1 shorts will highlight the work of German experimental documentary filmmaker Harun Farocki. But the feature film will remain a secret until the event itself.