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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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[Hyphen] // Worldwide Levitation

This Friday continues our recent weekly tradition of hosting live backyard performances! This week the flavor is experimental rock music, with two as-yet unheard acts, including who describes himself as a one-man lo-fi electro-math-surf-wave project, combining gameboy and drum machines with live guitar and keyboards to form a multimedia mindmeld. This will also be the […]

Swan Dadd // Roland Olayvar // Tessa O’Connell

This week on the Alt Lib Radio Hour, we’re stoked to host Chicago-based experimental singer-songwriter Tessa O’Connell, whose lilting vocal arrangements explore longing, leaving, and “that fuzzy space in-between.” We’re also joined by Bellingham pop artist (and stalwart of the arts scene) Roland Olayvar and Seattle-based musician/ projectionist Swan Dadd, whose playful, ironic tunes explore […]

Letters to Prisoners

No backyard concert this week, but we hope you'll join us for a prisoner solidarity event! We will gather in the backyard for a kind of info session about political prisoners in the US and then break out to write letters to incarcerated people. We have assembled some information and correspondence with specific prisoners, and […]

Pearls Have Eyes / Ruth & Steven / Tarsier Eyes

This Friday (June 11th) Tarsier Eyes will be headed up from Seattle to perform a set of improvised electronic music in the backyard: https://tarsiereyes.bandcamp.com Joining him will be locals Pearls Have Eyes performing ambient music for acoustic guitars: https://pearlsthatwerehiseyes.bandcamp.com/album/on-we Ruth & Steven will be gracing us a duet of improvised music for Cello and Upright […]

Backyard Concert for People’s First Initiatives

Our backyard concert series continues with a party to support the People's First Initiatives 1-4 being added to the next ballot. Petitions will be available to sign if you haven't and you can learn about how you can volunteer to help in the final push! Performances through the evening from: • Old Town Scouts • […]

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.

Inside Joe Listening Party

Swing through the backyard for a listening party and hang with the curators of the newly released Inside Joe Mixtape Vol. 1

Palm Sunday // Sun Professor // Laith

This week’s backyard concert features the inimitable Sun Professor performing live alongside traveling artists Palm Sunday and Laith, visiting from Portland! $8 supports the artists and the AltLib! AltLib is always ALL AGES NOTAFLOF

The First Pride Was a Riot

THE FIRST PRIDE WAS A RIOT! July 3rd; 6:00pm; Meet at the Bellingham City Hall Lawn; All Queers Welcome! *cops stay home* Join us during the anniversary of the 1969 Stonewall Riots for an evening of radical queer joy and solidarity to honor the radical queers, queens, amd other assorted troublemakers who came before us! […]

We’re All We’ve Got, We’re All We Need

Mutual Aid Pop-Up July 4th; 1-7pm; Public Library Lawn Come bring supplies for unhoused neighbors, listen to local artists perform, and find ways to get involved with local mutual aid groups.