EVENTS CALENDAR

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While we are in transition and searching for a stable home base, we will continue to produce events with some of our neighborhood partners.

The AltLib Popup Series will present roving events to continue supporting expansive art projects and dig deep for uncommon cultural exchanges. If you’re interested in setting up a show with us, please read our booking page and send us an e-mail.

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Muse Reading Series

Muse Reading Series, a student-run literary collective, curates diverse groups of local writers to read their work at spaces in the Bellingham community. We will be joined by authors Dayna Kidd Patterson and Hanna Webster, as well as student writers Madison Starks, Sydnee Smith, Jabez Richards and others. Join us! For more info, click here: […]

Poetrynite — Sister Spit

Sister Spit is touring with 7 poets and spoken word artists bringing 2 hours of QTPOC brilliance to the Alternative Library’s Poetrynight! $10-$20 admission supports the artists and the AltLib Meet the 2019 lineup: ▼KATIE FRICAS▼ Katie Fricas is a cartoonist and library worker from New York City. She makes non-fiction essay comics about art, […]

Classroom: Tai Chi

Start the day with intention A step-by-step hour of meditational movement

Trouble #18

We'll be screening Sub.Media's Trouble, episode 18: ACAB To check out the trailer, see here: https://sub.media/video/trouble-18-acab-trailer/ See ya there, комраде

Volunteers’ Meeting

Every Wednesday is our weekly volunteer meeting, where we discuss the goings on and future of the AltLib!

Film: Roger & Me

As part of the Bellingham Film Coalition, Whatcom-Skagit IWW presents... THIS IS WHERE IT ALL BEGAN!! Before all the hype, big budgets, and mainstream controversy that made him famous, Michael Moore grabbed a camera and a microphone, and barged into the offices and cocktail parties of the people in power -- all so he could […]

Brivele and Other Jewish Anti-Fascists

Jewish Voice for Peace Presents an Evening with BRIVELE ! בריוועלע and Other Jewish Anti-Fascists, living and dead! Doors at 7:30pm; Performances at 8:00pm $6-$16 sliding scale at the door~ BRIVELE is a Seattle-based anti-fascist klezmer folk-punk trio who braid together oral history, Yiddish language, contemporary and old-country musical genres, American Vaudeville, and visual arts. […]

An Evening w/ Lou Barlow

Message from Lou: "In 2019, I continue my small space 7:30 showtime tour. I did this throughout 2018 and it was really good. The general set-length seems to be about 2 1/2 hours which is what it takes to play the requests I get and the corners of my catalogue (Sebadoh, Folk Implosion, Dinosaur Jr, […]

Poetrynite

The second longest running Bellingham poetry group- poetrynight. All people are invited to join the group any Monday night at 7 pm. You don’t have to be a writer to participate as readers of all ages are always invited to sign up to read between 6:30-7:00. Not all works must be originals. Poetrynight got its […]