🎉 Reception at Iffy Books
We're doing First Friday a week late! Vox Populi and a few other galleries in our building are have shows opening on September 9th this month, to avoid Labor Day […]
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We're doing First Friday a week late! Vox Populi and a few other galleries in our building are have shows opening on September 9th this month, to avoid Labor Day […]
Want to get some writing done? Come co-work with other writers from 5–8 p.m. at Iffy Books. Writers and projects of any type are welcome. The session will be organized […]
Learn how to gather, clean and store seeds from your favorite plants so you can grow them again next season! We’ll cover introductory info about what’s interesting and important to […]
Our September permacomputing meetup is on Sunday, 9/18 at 1:00 PM EDT. Join us in person at Iffy Books (319 N. 11th St. #3E, PHL) or via Jitsi audio stream. […]
We're postponing the reading group until next month. We apologize for the inconvenience! ➡️ Link to the new event page On Wednesday, September 21st, October 19th, we'll discuss our first […]
Presented by Philadelphia SRA, Bleeding Control Basics will go over first aid as it applies to severe bleeding. We will cover scene safety, injury assessment, basic bleeding control, and tourniquet […]
On Saturday, September 24th at 2 p.m., Mike Dank will give a presentation on the hidden internet infrastructure that surrounds us in Philly. Hope to see you there! ➡️ Link […]
Want to get some writing done? Come co-work with other writers from 5–8 p.m. at Iffy Books. Writers and projects of any type are welcome. The session will be organized […]
At this workshop we’ll discuss strategies for maintaining privacy when working on activist projects. We’ll focus on ways location data from your phone can be used against you, and how […]
Want to get some writing done? Come co-work with other writers from 5–8 p.m. at Iffy Books. Writers and projects of any type are welcome. The session will be organized […]
The next Philly 2600 meetup is Friday, October 7th at Iffy Books, starting around 6:00 p.m. See you then! The Philly 2600 meeting is a monthly gathering of local hackers, […]
On Saturday, October 8th at 2 p.m. EDT, Nelson Chu Pavlosky will give a presentation on how he moved from one house to another entirely by bike. It was a […]
Want to get some writing done? Come co-work with other writers from 5–8 p.m. at Iffy Books. Writers and projects of any type are welcome. The session will be organized […]
At this workshop you'll learn about VisiData, a lightweight command-line tool that can help you explore just about any kind of dataset, from spreadsheets to databases. Led by Dave Slinger. […]
Found-document fiction can be dismissed as a gimmick, but Tenacity Plys’s new novella Family Curse - Field Notebooks (1880-2020) proves that when the form fits the content, that’s when the […]
Our next permacomputing meetup is on Sunday, October 16th at 1:00 PM EDT. You can join us in person at Iffy Books (319 N. 11th St. #3E, PHL) or via […]
"Selective Attention: Interventions into the Computational Gaze" Featuring the work of Kelsey Halliday Johnson, Lisa Marie Patzer and Roopa Vasudevan Opening reception: October 18, 2022 5:15pm – 7:00pm Annenberg School […]
On Wednesday, October 19th, we'll discuss our first collection of short stories, Multispecies Cities, which gathers work from writers across Asia and the Pacific to imagine futures that emphasize the […]
Iffy Books will be tabling at WOPR Summit 0x01 on Friday, October 21st. We'll be there roughly 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. That means our shop at 319 N. 11th […]
On Sunday, October 23rd at 2:00 p.m. we'll meet outdoors at The Rail Park to build tiny solar-powered musical instruments. Each participant will receive a free kit with a breadboard, […]
Want to get some writing done? Come co-work with other writers from 5–8 p.m. at Iffy Books. Writers and projects of any type are welcome. The session will be organized […]
On Saturday, October 29th at 2 p.m. EDT, Emily Boda will give a talk on how to make a heat map visualization that shows commute times to a specific location. […]
➡️ Video Stream Link ➡️ Donate to @PHLRUA on Venmo What can sex workers' labor organizing teach the contemporary labor movement? Join Kim Kelly (author of Fight Like Hell: The Untold […]
Want to get some writing done? Come co-work with other writers from 5–8 p.m. at Iffy Books. Writers and projects of any type are welcome. The session will be organized […]
THE DEGROWTH OF SOCIAL MEDIA a short film by KC Legacion Based on their master’s research, KC Legacion has produced a short film that reimagines social media in ways that […]
Virtual Zine Swap & IFFY Books November 5–6, 2022 12:00–20:00 Also this year the Virtual Zine Swap is active again. This is a program which can accessed both at the […]
We'll be tabling at Philly Zine Fest! (And the shop will be open 12–8 p.m. as usual.) The Philly Zine Fest returns live and in person! Saturday, November 5, 2022 […]
Want to get some writing done? Come co-work with other writers from 5–8 p.m. at Iffy Books. Writers and projects of any type are welcome. The session will be organized […]
On Thursday, November 10th at 7:00 p.m. we'll host a free workshop on FFmpeg, an essential command-line tool for transcoding audio and video files (i.e., converting them from one format […]
On Saturday, November 12th from noon to 2 p.m. we're running our Solar Circuit Bending Workshop at The Chocolate Factory (2201 Margaret St., PHL). It's part of a music & […]
On Sunday, November 13th at 1:00 p.m. we'll host a darning workshop and mending session. Total beginners welcome! Register:
Want to get some writing done? Come co-work with other writers from 5–8 p.m. at Iffy Books. Writers and projects of any type are welcome. The session will be organized […]
Presented by Philadelphia SRA, Bleeding Control Basics will go over first aid as it applies to severe bleeding. We will cover scene safety, injury assessment, basic bleeding control, and tourniquet […]