The second longest running Bellingham poetry group – Poetrynight. All people are invited to join the group any Monday night at 7pm. You don’t have to be a writer to participate as readers of all ages are always invited to sign up to read between 7-7:30. Not all works must be originals. Poetrynight got its […]
Every Wednesday is our weekly volunteer meeting, where we discuss the goings on and future of the AltLib!
Sunset Flight with the Dragons (Mostly) Improvisational atmospheric rock with international mysticism. Doors at 7:30pm; Music at 8:00pm $7-12 sliding scale. Naloxone (Bellingham/Seattle) An improvisational trio featuring Captain Raab (guitar), Dave Abramson(drums), and Kole Galbraith (Bass). Captain Raab is best known for his work as a member of Khu.eex’ and with Bernie Worrell. Dave Abramson […]
Dance party / variety show to celebrate pride! Featuring: Pizza Wizard - pizza-flavored party music. Improvisational electronic experimentations in the various styles of house, techno, breaks, lo-fi, noise, and glitch. https://pizzawizard.bandcamp.com/ Farrah Flockhart - amazing drag performer! https://www.facebook.com/farrah.flockhart mystery band - ??? Penny Wide Pupils - Got lifeless eyes. When she comes at ya, she […]
The second longest running Bellingham poetry group – Poetrynight. All people are invited to join the group any Monday night at 7pm. You don’t have to be a writer to participate as readers of all ages are always invited. Sign-ups for the open mic start around 6:45. First half of the reading starts at a […]
Every Wednesday is our weekly volunteer meeting, where we discuss the goings on and future of the AltLib!
Guest host: Tiffany Geaudreau! On the fourth wedding anniversary gifts of fruit or flowers are traditionally exchanged between the married couple. Featuring at a poetry open mic is close enough? Four years ago, Ellie and Danny surprised their friends, the bartender, the other patrons with a wedding at the Copper Hog. You are cordially invited […]
$10-$15 sliding scale Doors at 8pm; Music at 8:30pm KZAX Presents is a concert series brought to you by Bellingham's freeform community radio station KZAX-Lp 94.9 FM, featuring independent artists from the PNW and West Coast hosted in different spaces throughout the City of Subdued Excitement! We're very excited this July to be hosting an […]
Sunrise Bellingham is having a kick-off meeting on Wednesday, July 17th at 6-8 pm at the Alternative Library. The meeting will be in the side classroom. Sunrise is building a movement of young people to stop climate change and create millions of good jobs! Join up to fight for a Green New Deal at all […]
Every Wednesday is our weekly volunteer meeting, where we discuss the goings on and future of the AltLib!
Doors at 7:30pm; Show at 8:00pm $6-10 supports the artists and the AltLib Summer songwriter feature with: Pat Keen -- https://patkeen.bandcamp.com/ Marlo Mudd -- marlomudd.bandcamp.com Ivan Sandomire -- https://soundcloud.com/ivansandomire Magic Forest Fiddlers -- https://www.instagram.com/magicforestfiddlers/
The Alternative Library presents a night of beautifully crafted alternative folk music from Seattle's Heddwen and Larsen Gardens, joined by Bellingham's Meghan Yates. Heddwen is an original alt-folk duo with singer-songwriters Riley Skinner and Katie Rudman, featuring complex harmonies over simple folk progressions. They are based in Seattle, WA. www.heddwen.com Larsen Gardens is the project […]
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International Workers of the World unite! Whatcom-Skagit IWW host a monthly communion of comrades
The second longest running Bellingham poetry group – Poetrynight. All people are invited to join the group any Monday night at 7pm. You don’t have to be a writer to participate as readers of all ages are always invited to sign up to read between 7-7:30. Not all works must be originals. Poetrynight got its […]
Every Wednesday is our weekly volunteer meeting, where we discuss the goings on and future of the AltLib!
Doors at 7:30pm; Music at 8:00pm $6-12 supports the artists and the AltLib Eleanor Murray has spent the past twelve years creating and recording music in the Pacific Northwest. Informed by folk tradition while adhering to no rules, Eleanor Murray’s music exists in a genre all its own. Her songs are often structurally complicated, while […]
Cybersecurity 101 - Intro to securing your shit on the Interwebs: Making sure we can binge the new season of Stranger Things without the feds profiling us. When you hear things like "We live in a state of mass surveillance" and "Corporations are tracking and selling all your information," do you enter a state of […]
Join us at the AltLib for an eclectic, electronic evening with spiraling synth sounds! Rahikka Rahikka is the pseudonym of Seattle based electronic ambient artist Carson Rennekamp. Inspired by abstract expressionism and experimental cinema, Rahikka focuses on meditation, repetition, and organic regeneration in non-narrative structure. Rahikka's third LP, Black River, was independently released on June […]
The second longest running Bellingham poetry group – Poetrynight. All people are invited to join the group any Monday night at 7pm. You don’t have to be a writer to participate as readers of all ages are always invited to sign up to read between 7-7:30. Not all works must be originals. Poetrynight got its […]
Sacred Medicine For The Modern Mind by Eric Johnson Join us for an introduction to Amazonian plant medicine from a Bellingham-based author, followed by a reading from the book, and ending with a Q&A. Free event.
Every Wednesday is our weekly volunteer meeting, where we discuss the goings on and future of the AltLib!
On his debut release "Y Los Lonely Hipsters", Garrett T. Capps offered the world a hometown anthem in the form of “Born In San Antone” - a South Texas rock ’n soul epic and the most recent song about the Alamo City to reach a wider consciousness this side of Charley Pride or Bob Wills, […]
RAS presents BLKSKNN with local support from The Rhetorician and CHRVNS! BLKSKNN With a surge of local music scenes taking off in new new and unusual places, the world has come to hear some of the most creatively diverse music of our time. BlkSknn is an emerging artist out Seattle, Washington providing a new refreshing […]
Cybersecurity 202 - Interwebs Anonymity: How to censor your face when you use Snapchat. This workshop focuses on the feeling you get when you know some fed is sitting in a desk silently cursing the heavens as they futilely try to decrypt your message to a fellow comrade after hours, succeeding only to find a cat […]
Join Seattle marimbist Erin Jorgensen for JS Bach's famous cello suite played on a beautiful five-octave marimba and pancakes made on the spot. Absolutely all ages and families of all kinds are welcome! Come find out why Seattle Weekly named Pancakes & Bach "he year’s most charming chamber-music concerts" and Seattle Magazine called it "the […]