Hello and welcome!
This is the new online home of wares infoshop library. If it's your first time landing here, the about page gives a quick overview of the project, while individual pages, linked below with recent blog posts, will delve into specifics of its different aspects.
After restarting activities for a brief period in February 2022, we were forced to close and search for a new space as our lease wasn't renewed. With four months of intense work, we are finally gearing up to welcome visitors to our new space in September. We thank you for your patience, and sincerely apologise for any distress our hiatus has caused, especially with regards to failures at keeping up with the mutual aid initiative. This is something we're still working on, if slowly due to burnout and the isolating, fatiguing conditions of the ongoing pandemic – without forgetting that capitalism is the crisis.
In the meantime, we continue to work on adding more to pages here, refining what we write, and realigning our online presence away from social media platforms. Possibility arises from encounter, and there is much to build. In regaining momentum, we look forward to sharing space with friends, comrades, and fellow travellers again, and hope to meet you soon!
September 2022
How to visit?
Learn more about the infoshop library through the links above, including our community principles, and visit us by making an appointment. Every fortnight, we publish options for visiting based on volunteer availability. Pick a date and time from them and send in a form with your contact info. If you're looking to have an intentional gathering or need more space, booking ahead of time also helps us better plan our schedule.
All are welcome!
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Options for you to visit during the weeks of 10 & 17 March 2025
12 Wednesday
6:30–9pm15 Saturday
2–6pm17 Monday
11am–9pm19 Wednesday
7:30–10pm20 Thursday
6:30–9pm21 Friday
11am–9pm22 Saturday
11am–9pm23 Sunday
3–8pm, commun~ after 5Dates and times may change the further we get from the post date.
We still strongly encourage visitors to wear a mask – we honour requests for all to mask up, which applies for the full day – and suggest doing so during enclosed commutes and in crowded spaces. Disposable masks are available but bring your own for the best fit and quality that you’re already comfortable with.
We’re back! That was a long pause. Well, those of you on Discord know it hasn’t been total stoppage — the space still opened from week to week, albeit on a more informal tempo, though as our availability was reeled in, months have inadvertently passed without much news on here.
What happened was that one of us had a medical emergency, which forced some unexpected and dramatic life adjustments, and also put the brakes on how we’ve done things — to rethink how to continue. We’ve always tried to foreground disability given how a lot of us contend with illness, madness, and an uncaring capitalist world, but this still hit hard.