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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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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, […]

Classroom: Chemical Weapons Medical Training

Medical support is at the heart of any movement, and chemical weapon countermeasures are vital for medical support. Join some comrades for a practical course on the latest in street medic technology! Taught by Joshua. The General Defense Committee (GDC) is a committee of and supports the revolutionary unionism of the Industrial Workers of the […]

Foxy Apollo / In Aisle Eight / Bobby Petite

Bend those knees & bob those heads to the groovy rhythm & blues tonight! $6-10 sliding scale supports the artists and AltLib Foxy Apollo https://www.facebook.com/foxyapollo/ Funky Blues out of Seattle In Aisle Eight https://www.facebook.com/inaisleeight/ A little bit of everything, but nothing you've ever heard before. Bobby Petite https://www.facebook.com/bobbypetite/ Jazz/rock and psychedelic/soul with a collective background […]

$6 – $10

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 […]

Volunteers’ Meetin’

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

Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure: The Musical

Doors at 7:30pm; Show at 8:00pm $15 General; $10 Student Discount Admission supports the artists and the AltLib! The future of the world is in peril unless the two excellent ones, Bill S. Preston Esquire and Ted Theodore Logan, can pass their History report. With the help of Napoleon, Socrates, Billy the Kid and others, […]

ReForge: Metal Arts Guild

Bellingham Metal Arts Guild presents ReFORGE! Bring your unwanted, unworn, excess jewelry! Bham Metal Arts Guild will process the donations back into raw materials to create more metal art. Come out for the day, meet the project participants, and listen to some tunes by Josie Wails and more!

Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure: The Musical

Doors at 7:30pm; Show at 8:00pm $15 General; $10 Student Discount Admission supports the artists and the AltLib! The future of the world is in peril unless the two excellent ones, Bill S. Preston Esquire and Ted Theodore Logan, can pass their History report. With the help of Napoleon, Socrates, Billy the Kid and others, […]

11:11 Writer’s Communion

com·mun·ion kəˈmyo͞onyən noun 1. the sharing or exchanging of intimate thoughts and feelings, especially when the exchange is on a mental or spiritual level.

IWW Meeting

International Workers of the World unite! Whatcom-Skagit IWW host a monthly communion of comrades