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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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Rahikka / Steve Sehman / WMD

Alternative Library 519 E Maple St, Bellingham, WA

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 […]

$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 […]

Local Author Reading: Sacred Medicine for the Modern Mind

Alternative Library 519 E Maple St, Bellingham, WA

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.

Free

Volunteers’ Meetin’

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

Garrett T. Capps & Nasa Country / Aidan Fay

Alternative Library 519 E Maple St, Bellingham, WA

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, […]

$6 – $10

Blksknn // The Rhetorician // C H R V N S

Alternative Library 519 E Maple St, Bellingham, WA

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 […]

$10

Cybersecurity 202 – Interwebs Anonymity: How to censor your face when you use Snapchat

Alternative Library - CLASSROOM 519 E. Maple St. , Bellingham, WA

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 […]

$6 – $10

Bach & Pancakes

Alternative Library 519 E Maple St, Bellingham, WA

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 […]

$6 – $12

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!