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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Paper Club

Come cut and create through collage! An opportunity to put your mind to rest and your fingers to work~ We’ve got all the supplies you’ll need — magazines, scissors, gluesticks, and laughs! Bring yourself, maybe a friend, and maybe a snack!

Volunteers’ Meetin’

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

Alternative Thanksgiving: An Experimental Dinner Party

$15 supports the artists and the Alt Lib Advanced tickets are available via WithFriends: https://withfriends.co/event/4460637/ Doors at 7:00pm; Performances at 7:30pm An uncanny evening of food oriented art, film, and dining set to music and performances from: - Guillotine Eyes - BF Knowhere - Tim & His Winter Campers Art and film by Tim Root […]

Clothing Swap

All day, all styles, all bodies, all ages~ Bring your used/unwanted/ill-fitting clothes (washed and/or smell-free!) and search a sea of garbled garments to find a fresh fit! Please no single socks~ All clothes remaining at the end will be donated to Wise Buys to help raise funds for Lydia Place!

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 […]

Bill Horist (Experimental Guitar) / Lost Sock

Advance tickets are available for $15 via WithFriends: https://withfriends.co/event/4456125/ Doors at 7:00pm; Music at 7:30pm Seattle guitarist, Bill Horist is an improviser/composer/performer in a wide array of genres including rock, jazz, contemporary chamber, avant garde, folk, new music and several subgenres within each. He has appeared on over 80 recordings and has performed well over […]

Other Music Documentary – Virtual Screening

Independent bookstores and record stores are more vulnerable in today's media landscape than they've ever been, and the onset of the Covid-19 global pandemic, further harshens the conditions. This is why the producers of the new documentary on NYC record store Other Music have decided to release their film online through a network of independent […]

Alt Lib Radio Hour

Alt Lib Radio Hour is a new livestream performance initiative broadcast every Friday out of the Alternative Library. ALRH understands live-streaming as not merely a response to COVID-19 but a site of indeterminate possibility: where the internet is available, so too is an entire world of art and culture. While intended to transition into (coterminous) […]

Body Conference // Arrington de Dionyso // K. Kunkel

Three artists join us this March 26th for a night of ‘sound, song and elegiac trance’, centered thematically around loss, elegy, release and letting go. Eclectic artist K. Kunkel offers us the vocal channeling of grief and surreal, unedited prose with sparse musical accompaniment. Body Conference, the project of writer, artist and theologian Ashley Chambers, […]

Alt Lib Radio Hour – Silencio Epi Satellite Show

This week the ALRH hosts its first satellite show, all the way from Mexico City 😈 We’re excited to feature guest curator @silencio.epi, an experimental label specializing in drones, power electronics, noise and distortion. The artists featured in this week’s lineup include: textural club music from ESE ES ESE, dystopic and pulsating analog loops from […]