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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Bhagavad Gita Book Club

Feel free to show up without any prior attendance to this open discussion on one of the most foremost scriptures in Hinduism – the Bhagavad Gita!

Volunteers’ Meetin’

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

The City Hall / Magnolia Baseball / River Gods

The City Hall returns to Bellingham, along with LA-based group River Gods, and new local group Magnolia Baseball will open the evening! Doors at 7:30pm; Music at 8:00pm $6-10 supports the artists and the AltLib The City Hall creates music that is the sonic equivalent of throwing gushers, broken camcorders, and birthday tears into an […]

Definitely, Maybe / Jackie / Razzleberry

Come out to the AltLib for a night of three groovy energetic bands that will get you dancing and thrashing about!!! Doors at 7:30pm; Music at 8:00pm $6-10 supports the artists and the AltLib Definitely, maybe is a Denver-based tender psych band formed by Carmine Gabbianelli in 2018. The live band features Ben Weirich's swirling […]

Anti-Semitism Movie with Q&A

For June's WPJC film night, we are watching the second volume of "Shoah" by Claude Lanzmann. Afterward, we will have a Q&A about anti-semitism hosted by local Jewish artist and activist Robert Yerachmiel Schneiderman. RSVP and more info: https://www.facebook.com/events/353691225501198/ AltLib is always All Ages

Poetrynight

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 […]

Classroom: Fiction Writing as an Act of Magick

Do you believe a story can change the world? Do you marvel that ink and tree pulp can conjure images in your mind, and stir up chemicals in your body? Ever wonder exactly how the story of your own life is less fictional than a story in a book? Do you want to feel something? […]

Volunteers’ Meetin’

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

Transtock!

Celebrate Trans Lives! Eat food, build community, hear great music! Left at London - Although Left At London mostly is known for her pop writing sensibility, she is mostly known for her deeply personal and introspective lyricism. Despite some of the songs subject matters being very specific to her life as a trans woman with […]

Future Jazz: Anthony Coleman

The Alternative Library's Future Jazz series explores work from modern experimental composers and improvisers in the field of jazz~ Doors at 7:30pm; Music at 8:00pm $6-10 supports the artists and the AltLib Anthony Coleman (born August 30, 1955) is an avant-garde jazz pianist. During the 1980s and 1990s he worked with John Zorn on Cobra, […]