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Volunteers' Meetin'
2019-11-13 19:00 - 20:00, 2019-11-06 19:00 - 20:00 (America/Vancouver)
Every Wednesday is our weekly volunteer meeting, where we discuss the goings on and future of the AltLib!

Poetrynight
2019-11-11 19:00 - 21:00, 2019-11-04 19:00 - 21:00, 2019-10-28 19:00 - 21:00, 2019-10-21 19:00 - 21:00, 2019-10-14 19:00 - 21:00
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 start in Stuart’s Coffeehouse in 1995, when a group of poets gathered around a table to share their current work. It has grown over the years as it moved to different locations.
Poetrynight is a program under the Whatcom poetry series, and besides the weekly open mic/feature, can provide creative writing workshops for schools.

Our Cult
2019-11-09 20:00 - 23:55
Doors at 7:30pm; Program at 8:00pm
$6-12 sliding scale supports artists and the AltLib
AltLib is always ALL AGES~
Our Cult is an interactive art experience built around the idea that everything is a cult leader, and responsible for cultivating a piece of our existence. You, mountains, trees and universe, we’re all the cult leaders of our reality. The question this event asks of every guest and artist is: As the cult leader of our reality, what are we doing to heal ourself?
We live in a wild time, and an even crazier place, this event is all about accepting the darkness within ourself, acknowledging the struggles we face, and using the darkness to create a positive existence.
DJ Sets:
Leaf
Cables
Korra the Kid
Live Shibari:
Knotty Devil
Live Performance Art:
Aida Cardona
Cadian Molumby
Brendan Rouge
Connor Chaney
Zac Pease
Bellingham Flow Artists Collective
Visual Art and Installations:
Marc Pease
Keara Deer
Zac Pease
Piper Crabtree
Jackie Cogan
RSVP and more info: https://www.facebook.com/events/521619238592600/

GrossFest
2019-11-02 20:00 - 23:55
2 stages: Upstairs Alternative Library & Downstairs Karate Church
$10
All profits from this show will go directly to the Mt.Baker Planned Parenthood Clinic.
Costumes Encouraged
BANDS:
Cop Talk
Spoon Benders (PDX)
The Offectors (PDX)
Wild Powwers (SEA)
Careen
TYL
Supermissive
Glitchlette
Jerry Core
DJ Jacksn Croy

Analog Brass / Bobby Petite / Guest
2019-10-31 19:30 - 23:00
Join us this Halloween for a funky fun time! Dress code: costume casual
Doors at 7:30pm; Music at 8:00pm
$6-10 sliding scale supports artists and the AltLib
AltLib is always ALL AGES~
Analog Brass: Explosive pop-funk that puts the concept of acoustic music on its head and runs it into a new state of being. Analog Brass actively pushes the limitations of what’s possible on horns and gives the audience an experience that goes beyond just sound.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWIBHfojz6xboF6FIICSz4w
Bobby Petite: Mixing jazz/rock and psychedelic/soul, Bobby Petite is a no-frills band that creates art for music lovers.
https://bobbypetite.bandcamp.com/
Guest: Derived from the solo work of Sidney Amos, Guest is a three-piece band fusing blues, singer-songwriter, and pop elements to create music that has a lil something for everyone
https://soundcloud.com/sidneyamoss/mustard-seeds-1
RSVP and more info: https://www.facebook.com/events/484784258795126/

Volunteers' Meetin'
2019-10-30 19:00 - 20:00, 2019-10-23 19:00 - 20:00, 2019-10-16 19:00 - 20:00, 2019-10-09 19:00 - 20:00 | Alternative Library, 519 E Maple St, Bellingham, WA, 98225, United States

Story Box Storytime w/ Michael E. & O.
2019-10-27 14:30 - 15:30, 2019-10-20 14:30 - 15:30, 2019-10-13 14:30 - 15:30 | Alternative Library, 519 E Maple St, Bellingham, WA, 98225, United States
It’s storytime at the Alternative Library!
Sundays in October: 2:30-3:30 PM
Stories, curiosities, and magic tricks emerge from the story box, and sometimes the audience becomes the storyteller. Bring a child, bring a friend, or come as you are. All are encouraged to attend and participate.
Michael E. started librarian life as a children’s librarian. O. was just a week old at her first storytime. Together they are a playful team.
RSVP and more info HERE ~

AltLib 12 Year Anniversary ~ Group Publication Launch and Show
2019-10-26 19:30 - 23:30
Come celebrate the 12th Anniversary of the AltLib, with the group launch of new publications from local artists, and performances from The Censors and Beth Fleenor! The night will be both a celebration of 12 years of community collaboration and a fundraiser to support AltLib’s quest for a new home ~
Doors at 7:30pm; Music at 8:00pm
$6-20 sliding scale donation
AltLib is always All Ages~
Publications launching from:::
Collaborative Editions, Neoglyphic Media, and Re Pinter ~
Performances from:::
Crystal Beth: Unleashing her first full-length studio record, PUSH THRU, a solo incarnation using wailing vocals, amplified clarinet, beat-boxing and electronics, she weaves a sonic universe all her own. Known for crafting aural rituals that encompass industrial chants, alien disco breaks, heart gushings, improvisations, and robot love songs, Crystal Beth redefines the possibilities of the voice and clarinet in tight experimental pop songs and undulating, cathartic noise cries. Crafting moments that ricochet between meditation and a full body purge, she is an electric, adrenaline inducing performer voted Seattle’s Best Classical Musician and nominated for NW Vocalist of the Year.
https://crystalbeth7d.bandcamp.com/album/push-thru
The Censors: Four humans, one larynx, multiple strings, several blunt objects, and a smattering of electronic devices. Influences include no wave, krautrock, free jazz, distant children crying out in what could equally well be anguish or mirth, etc.
https://soundcloud.com/kelsify/sets/censors-demos

Techno Halloween Party
2019-10-25 20:00 - 23:55
Doors at 7:30pm; Music at 8:00pm
$6 supports artists and the AltLib
AltLib is always ALL AGES
Music, art, costumes and friends. These four things are some of the basics of having a good time. Friday, October 25th our goal is to bring these four things together at the Alternative Library in an attempt at throwing the best party in Bellingham. The team assembled for this event consists of some of Bellingham’s most passionate techno lovers as well as art lovers. The dance floor is a sacred space and we intend to keep it a safe space for this event, so please leave any negative attitudes at home and come join in a techno banger.

IWW Meeting
2019-10-20 17:30 - 20:30 | Alternative Library – CLASSROOM, 519 E. Maple St. , Bellingham, WA, 98225, United States
Industrial Workers of the World unite!
Whatcom-Skagit IWW host a monthly communion of comrades

11:11 Writer's Communion
2019-10-20 11:10 - 13:00 | Alternative Library, 519 E Maple St, Bellingham, WA, 98225, United States
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.

Artists' Open Stage
2019-10-17 19:00 - 22:00 | Alternative Library, 519 E Maple St, Bellingham, WA, 98225, United States
Signups start at 7:00pm; performances start at 7:30pm
The Artist’s Open Stage is a night of creative expression: a sharing of words, music, movement, and ideas. Please join us every third Thursday by performing or curling up on the couch and enjoying the variety of talent our community has to offer.
AltLib is always ALL AGES~

Duo Violao +1 (Brazil) / MANtrio / Combo Zero
2019-10-12 19:30 - 23:00
We’re looking forward to welcoming Duo Violao +1, on tour from Brazil, playing a survey of traditional choro music.
Doors at 7:30pm; Music at 8:00pm
$8-12 admission supports the artists and the AltLib
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Long before the emergence of bossa nova and samba, choro took shape in 19th-century Rio de Janeiro as the first truly Brazilian musical style; A confluence of popular European dance music like the polka and waltz with African rhythms, particularly habanera (via Cuba) and Angolan lundu.
Duo Violao is the duo project of Brazilian guitarists Rogerio Souza and Edinho Gerber. They have since expanded to Duo Violao +1, when during their first visit to the Bay Area in 2015, they met percussionist Ami Molinelli and the musical connection was immediate. Over the following years, they travelled up and down the West Coast, performing and developing a unique sound while navigating the rhythms, styles, and sub-genres of Choro music. In 2018, their hard work paid off as Ami Molinelli received an IAC grant from the San Francisco Arts Commission for their collaboration. The result is “A Historia do Choro”, a survey of the musical history and evolution of Brasil’s greatest art form that reveals its rhythmic and harmonic permutations. Their playing creates a unique musical statement, coherent in timbre and vision, marvelously varied in its nuances.
http://www.duoviolaobrasil.com/
Additionally, they will be joined by two local jazz groups:
MANtrio – MANtrio is an improvising trio featuring pianist and vocalist Sage Romey, bassist Sarah Yates and drummer Melanie Sehman. Based in the jazz idiom, the group brings together a wide variety of backgrounds and influences, from West African and contemporary classical music to medieval music and jazz Manouche. Using radical listening as a guiding principle, the group uses the standard trio format as a laboratory for exploration, performing improvised music, original creative work and experimental arrangements.
Combo Zero – Combo Zero is a local jazz ensemble.
AltLib is always ALL AGES!
NOTAFLOF
RSVP and more info: https://www.facebook.com/events/370599577149855/

Free the Nipple Yoga
2019-10-10 18:00 - 19:00
We will join weekly to continue our work of normalizing the human nipple so it may be worn equally by all people, not just those with “male” bodies.
We will join together in a facilitated yoga session open to all experience levels. Kids are so welcomed and people of all sorts…wearing what we would like to on our torsos.
Respectful people of All Genders Shapes and Sizes are encouraged and welcomed to participate. Given societal nuances however, male bodied people will be there to serve, mainly engaging with the public if the public have questions or concerns, so that fem, trans, and non-binary folk don’t have to. Also, as part of serving, any person will leave if asked.
Folks should bring their families, friends, water, a towel, sunscreen, and food for a potluck after we do yoga

Brook Pridemore / Vervex / Fawn Eolande / Cat Positive
2019-10-08 07:30 - 23:30
It’s a really good idea to come to this show.
$6-12 suggested donation
(NOTAFLOF)
The Alternative Library is always all ages.
Wheelchair accessible, single level entry.
Brook Pridemore
Loner Doom from Brooklyn, NY
https://brookpridemore.bandcamp.com/
Vervex
https://vervex.bandcamp.com/
Cat Positive
https://tysonballew.bandcamp.com/
Fawn Eolande
RSVP and more info: https://www.facebook.com/events/2422761987838791/

Poetrynight ft Joy Wright
2019-10-07 19:00 - 21:00
The usual open mic, signups start around 7pm and we’ll have a short intermission after our featured poet.
Featuring J. L. Wright.
J. L. Wright, international poet, shares her experience with the world while encouraging others to find their voice. She always finds a way to connect to others in a way that is meaningful. Her publications include Homeless Joy: An exposé in poetry is a follow up to her first book, Unadoptable Joy: A memoir in poetry and prose. Her poems have appeared in numerous publications including Taj Mahal Review, GNU Journal, and several anthologies.
RSVP and more info: https://www.facebook.com/events/2130022923968963/
J4Austin@yahoo.com / https://rightwrightwrite.blogspot.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/joy.wright.121
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Poets4Communion/

Out of Style ::: Upcycled and Vintage Fashion Show
2019-10-06 19:30 - 23:30
Out Of Style – Upcycled and Vintage Fashion Show
$6 -10 admission supports the artists and the AltLib
Featuring an upcycled designer and vintage thrift market, and followed by a runway walk with local designers!
MARKET – 7:30pm
RUNWAY – 9:00pm
DANCE – 11:00pm
Featuring work from:
Piper Crabtree
Rugged and REclaimed
Siri Beckmen
Mitchell Hiers
Dummer Thrift
Tommy Montgomery
Cole Sampson
AltLib is always ALL AGES
NOTAFLOF
RSVP and more info: https://www.facebook.com/events/2448684248707882/

Caminando Hacia La Autonomia (Walking towards Autonomy)
2019-10-05 19:00 - 21:00
Cherán is a Purépecha indigenous community in Michoacán, Mexico. Beginning in 2000 organized crime infiltrated the town. With time the presence of narco-traffickers and their power grew substantially. They began to raze the precious forests surrounding the community. When community members tried to defend the forests they were assassinated or kidnapped. The forest was devastated and the people terrorized. The situation put everyone’s life at risk. At sunset Cherán turned into a ghost town.
On April 15, 2011 a group of women decided to stop the situation: They covered the streets to stop the pass of the clandestine tree-cutters. Rapidly the entire community reacted and the uprising united, burning cars and setting up barricades at all the town entrances. Against all this, the politicians and local police fled Cherán in fear. The community took the city government offices like the vehicles and weapons of the police, to begin to provide security. At the same time the town decided to definitively expel the political parties to retake their traditional forms of self-government.
Four years after the uprising, community members speak to us of the different stages that have passed in the construction of their new world, where you are really giving voice to the people, in which the boss is the assembly, while the government obeys. This is the beginning of a long process of building autonomy of which each and everyone can learn.
RSVP and more info: https://www.facebook.com/events/490552628191247/
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Simón Sedillo has contributed to the production of a wide variety of documentary films, which focus primarily on the effects of neoliberalism and militarism on indigenous communities, immigrant communities, and communities of color in the US and Mexico. Sedillo tours universities and community centers throughout the USA screening films and facilitating discussions and workshops on political economy and geopolitics in Mexico and the USA.
Simón also teaches geopolitics and political economy and is the Coordinator for Independent Studies at SURCO for a summer and a winter study abroad program in Oaxaca, Mexico. He has been teaching geopolitics in the US and community based media production in communities in the US and Mexico for the last 15 years. Simón has a growing archive of workshops, lectures, articles, and documentary films about community based resistance to neoliberalism, militarism, and white supremacy.
Suggested Donation $6-$10
No one will be turned away due to lack of funds

Indigenous Strategies for Community Liberation
2019-10-05 14:00 - 16:00
These can be depressing and scary times in the USA, but this is also a really good opportunity to dissect our realities and begin to figure out what we are going to do to build the world in which we do want to live. This workshop/presentation will help us learn from one another while pushing one another towards self determination, self defense, and autonomy.
2PM-4PM
Suggested Donation $5-$25
This workshop will begin by defining and clarifying our understanding of 3 basic concepts for community based liberation: Self determination, Self Defense, and Autonomy. These key terms will be a recurring theme throughout the process of the workshop/presentation.
We will look at several examples of traditional forms of self governance taking place in Mexico. We will begin with the Zapatista uprising in Chiapas and working our way through different examples in Oaxaca, Guerrero, and Michoacán. These examples will include general assembly structures and practices; an overview of necessary attitudes and world views necessary to carry out these forms of self governance; and an analysis of power, powerlessness, and the exercising of collective power as strategy of attaining self determination.
A common theme through out mesoamerica has to do with a living list of indigenous principles for unity and resistance. These principles are a toolbox for day to day community organizing as well as for moments of resistance or direct action. We will go over the principles in detail and review how we can apply them to the set of goals we set up for ourselves earlier in the discussion.
To conclude we can go over the 3 basic concepts for community liberation: Self determination, Self Defense, and Autonomy once again, and begin to discuss what forms of traditional self governance we can translate into our community goals and aspirations in neighborhoods, the workplace, and in our hood.
Brought to you by…
NWIC Trio Club
RSVP and more info: https://www.facebook.com/events/543232036503761/
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Simón Sedillo has contributed to the production of a wide variety of documentary films, which focus primarily on the effects of neoliberalism and militarism on indigenous communities, immigrant communities, and communities of color in the US and Mexico. Sedillo tours universities and community centers throughout the USA screening films and facilitating discussions and workshops on political economy and geopolitics in Mexico and the USA.
Simón also teaches geopolitics and political economy and is the Coordinator for Independent Studies at SURCO for a summer and a winter study abroad program in Oaxaca, Mexico. He has been teaching geopolitics in the US and community based media production in communities in the US and Mexico for the last 15 years. Simón has a growing archive of workshops, lectures, articles, and documentary films about community based resistance to neoliberalism, militarism, and white supremacy.
Join us for unique, engaging, and intentional steps towards our liberation!

The Dawn Bombs / ings / Smooth Kiwi
2019-10-04 19:30 - 23:00
Join us for a night of groove-infused pop music, with sets from The Dawn Bombs, ings, and Smooth Kiwi!
Doors at 7:30pm; Music at 8:00pm
$6-10 supports the artists and the AltLib!
The Dawn Bombs – B’ham born blend of indie rock, groovy pop and and sweet/savory homebaked fusion.
https://www.thedawnbombs.com/
ings – Inge Chiles is a guitarist and composer now living in Seattle. Her heart is overflowing with sentiment.
https://ings.bandcamp.com/
Smooth Kiwi – Like a fresh kiwi, their music is vibrant, sweet, and satisfying. Together Carly, Connor, Bobby, and Joseph blend groove-centric jams with sensual vocals, funky bass-lines, tasteful drumming and exploration of atmospheric guitar tones, to establish a wide variety of sound from song to song.
https://smoothkiwi.com/
RSVP and more info: https://www.facebook.com/events/363174194587977/
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AltLib is always ALL AGES!
NOTAFLOF
