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.
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EVENTS CALENDAR
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.
IWW Meeting
International Workers of the World unite! Whatcom-Skagit IWW host a monthly communion of comrades
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!
Hooves & Beak / Eleanor Murray / Colleen Freeman
Doors at 7:30pm; Music at 8:00pm $6-12 supports the artists and the AltLib Eleanor Murray has spent the past twelve years creating and recording music in the Pacific Northwest. Informed by folk tradition while adhering to no rules, Eleanor Murray’s music exists in a genre all its own. Her songs are often structurally complicated, while […]
Cybersecurity 101: Intro to securing yr $#!’|’ on the Interwebs
Alternative Library - CLASSROOM 519 E. Maple St. , Bellingham, WACybersecurity 101 - Intro to securing your shit on the Interwebs: Making sure we can binge the new season of Stranger Things without the feds profiling us. When you hear things like "We live in a state of mass surveillance" and "Corporations are tracking and selling all your information," do you enter a state of […]
Rahikka / Steve Sehman / WMD
Alternative Library 519 E Maple St, Bellingham, WAJoin 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, WASacred 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!