About
Very Offline Club is a critical leftist, holistic, and playful approach to addressing the impacts of Big Tech on our individual, interpersonal, and collective health. Founded in 2023 in Toronto.
The Four Core Elements
Infodump
The Infodump is an accessible and interactive lecture that distills skills and knowledge from leading cybersecurity & privacy institutions into political analysis grounded in leftist organizing.
Tech-Care | Skillshare
The Tech-Care | Skillshare session is a space to implement cybersecurity and privacy focused tools, guides, and open-source technologies in a horizontal-learning space with attention to specific needs, use cases, and levels of experience with tech.
Offline Social
The Offline Social Club is unstructured social time with opportunities for play, connection, and ambient socializing with no devices in sight.
Acudetox Circle
The Acudetox Circle is an ear acupuncture circle using the 5-NP or NADA protocol designed to address anxiety, trauma, and cravings, helping people reconnect with their bodies and move through overwhelm, dissociation, and chronic stress.
Note: these Four Core Elements are absolutely essential, and in another equally essential sense, totally subject to remixing and experimentation in line with the spirit of the Very Offline Club.
Get Involved
Stay updated via the events calendarand the mailing list.
Your Context Creator
Very Offline Club is founded by a community organizer, registered acupuncturist, cybersecurity consultant, writer, and playful weirdo who mostly co-exist in one flesh-body.
Why the Very Offline Club? (A Working Manifesto)
- ~because we take back control of our attention spans, our connections, our concerns, our outrage, and our imaginations from algorithmic manipulation
- ~because we uplift direct connections with each other and the living world, unmediated by abstracted code
- ~because we build the capacity to examine the digital tools used against us and we exercise agency in our digital worlds
- ~because we pause to question the social, environmental, and global impacts of digital technologies
- ~because we don't just want digital access or representation in tech; we want digital autonomy for the people
- ~because we seek to expand our capacities for nuance, complexity, and the resilience of our social ties
- ~because we value the full range of human experience, not just that which is profitable
- ~because we practice refusal to the agendas of tech oligarchies and fascist state actors ~because we don't want to be numbed out or distracted or living in simulated worlds while the real world burns
- ~because we want to be engaged with, alive to, and actively shape: the living world