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Josephine Foster / Lori Goldston / ini
2023-06-13 19:00 - 22:00 (America/Vancouver)
AltLib x Lookout Arts Quarry present a night of unexpected textures and surreal folk poetics hosted at the beautiful Lookout Arts Quarry, located just south of Bellingham, at:
246 Old Hwy 99 N
Bellingham, WA 98229
Advance tickets are available through Brown Paper Tickets:
https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/6031230
Doors: 7:00pm
Performance: 7:30pm
Lori Goldston is an American cellist and composer. Accomplished in a wide variety of styles, including classical, world music, rock and free improvisation, she has performed with groups including Nirvana, Earth, Clyde Petersen, the Black Cat Orchestra, and Spectratone International, and also performs solo in many contexts.
http://lorigoldston.com/
Josephine Foster is an American singer-songwriter and musician from Colorado. As an adolescent she worked as a funeral and wedding singer, and aspired to become an opera singer. After her studies she began to record demos of her own songs.
http://www.josephinefoster.info/
ini is the folk/grunge songwriting project of Jessi Rado, a Bellingham local, who transplanted from Philadelphia not so long ago. Jessi is a member of the vocal trio Earth Practice.
All Ages!
No Dogs!

Indie Film Bazaar
2023-06-02 20:00 - 22:00
A showcase of independent films from local experimental filmmakers!
$6-12 supports the filmmakers and the AltLib
Doors at 8:00pm
Screenings at 8:30pm
Featuring works from:
Elle Ramey Glasse
Sulai Lopez
Arnold Gallows
Moose Kinsey
Iris Christensen
Oliver Gibbons
There MAY be POPCORN!
ALL AGES
NOTAFLOF

Print and Poetry Bazaar
2022-12-02 19:00 - 22:00 | Flow Shala, 203 W. Chestnut Street, Bellingham, WA, 98225, United States
Print & Poetry Bazaar: This begins our monthly print and literary art market, popping up every first Friday for downtown Arts Walk to showcase writers and publishing artists in our community!
Doors at 7:00pm, spoken word and poetry readings start at 8:00pm
This event will be hosted at the Flow Shala Studio, located at 203 W Chestnut Street on the lower floor, please contact us in advance for accessibility requests.

Print and Poetry Bazaar
2022-10-21 19:00 - 22:00 | Flow Shala, 203 W. Chestnut Street, Bellingham, WA, 98225, United States
Print & Poetry Bazaar: This print and literary art market will be an ongoing series to showcase writers and publishing artists in our community!
Doors at 7:00pm, spoken word and poetry readings start at 8:00pm
Performances, art, and literature from creatives including @comicsandz @soulsticeartandoddities @alex.y.park @elle.ramey.art @luukhoney @therhetorician100 @pronunciacionsumergida @glaurified @mossy.limbs @video_arena_archives @futuretman @hadleysart8
Poster design by Bryn Roth

Sideshows by the Seashore: Butoh Cabaret
2022-08-14 20:30 - 23:00
Sideshows by the Seashore: BUTOH CABARET Extravaganza
A Marvelous Night of Madness, Magic and Butoh Cabaret
The Cotton Building, 607 Water Street, Port Townsend, WA 98368
8:30pm Doors open || 8:45pm SHOWTIME
Tickets are available in advance via Brown Paper Tickets.
Prepare to be swept away by a wild, whimsical whirlwind of rambunctious dance, theater and Live music of all shapes and sizes at THE COTTON BUILDING in downtown Port Townsend! Featuring over a dozen vignette solo and ensemble performances probing the fantastical dancing FUSION of Butoh-inspired performance art and burlesque entertainment, this night-time blowout is the culmination of the 2nd-ever Salish Sea Butoh Festival in Port Townsend, Washington. We invite you to celebrate with us!
This year, Salish Sea Butoh has assembled a wide array of musicians, magicians, singers, performance artists and dancers, all of whom have been tasked with presenting original stage works that explore BUTOH CABARET through the lens of their own particular aesthetic, discipline and artistic lineage. As a point of artistic reference and inspiration, our show is informed by the radical Japanese choreographer Tatsumi Hijikata who developed Butoh with his ensemble of burlesque dancers in an effort to defy and subvert authority, including conventional notions of dance. This iconoclastic, avant-garde dance form was developed hand-in-glove with the CABARET scene of the Tokyo underground throughout the 1960s. During the day, Hijikata trained his dancers in exercises and techniques that would become Ankoku Butoh. At night, they experimented with bringing their exploration into the competitive marketplace of cabaret & burlesque. According to dance scholar Rosemary Candelario, his shows got a reputation for being a kind of ‘weird, funky cabaret’ in which nudity appeared along with Surrealist and Dadaist images.” Inspired by this historical reference, Salish Sea Butoh challenges artists to explore the theme of FUSION & ALCHEMY by deconstructing and reinventing their particular art form, whatever it might be, and combine elements from the worlds of both cabaret and Butoh. We asked: If the theme is FUSION/ALCHEMY — of the self, of society, of art, of politics — what will it take to bring this about??
THE AUDIENCE TOO is encouraged to come be a part of the experience! Wear your most expressive & outrageous costume/look, and help celebrate the festival’s theme of FUSION/ALCHEMY. An on-site makeover room will stand ready to accessorize willing participants, and we’ll have a photo booth set-up during part of the evening to celebrate!
The Alternative Library will exhibit a curated selection of local and international small-press art books during the event.
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ABOUT SALISH SEA BUTOH:
Salish Sea Butoh is a collective of performers and multimedia artists co-founded by Cosmo Rapaport and Iván-Daniel Espinosa in the Pacific Northwest to deepen the study of Japanese Butoh and Butoh performance. Salish Sea Butoh continues to be the only group consistently bringing international Butoh artists to the Olympic Peninsula and producing an annual festival that features both guest artists and local performers.
ABOUT BUTOH:
Butoh, which incorporates elements of Surrealism, Dada, French Existentialism, German Expressionism, Japanese theatre and eastern spiritual thought, was first developed in the late 1950’s through experimental collaborations between its founders Tatsumi Hijikata and Kazuo Ohno. Their work established Butoh as disciplined and rigorous, yet spontaneous and idiosyncratic, intellectual and experimental, yet grounded in the human body. Rather than aspiring to an aesthetic ideal, the dance attempts to expose the joys and sorrows of life, exploring the most fundamental elements of physical and psychological existence. Despite the fairly recent origination of this dance form, it has quickly appealed worldwide and demonstrated that it speaks to something primordial within us.
ABOUT BUTOH CABARET:
As a budding artistic genre, BUTOH CABARET has been most prominently developed and proliferated by two artists from different corners of the globe: Australia-based dancer and choreographer Yumi Umiumare and Mexican artist Diego Piñón. Salish Sea Butoh celebrates the contributions of both of these amazing artists to the emerging field of BUTOH CABARET and draws inspiration from these two and other creative sources as well to further develop, nurture, share and cross-pollinate this dynamic fusion of art forms. Since the late nineties, Yumi Umiumare has been developing her unique style of visceral dance-theater performance and creating original Butoh Cabaret works. Originally born in Hyogo, Japan, Yumi is based in Australia where she has presented the hugely successful and well-received DasSHOKU BUTOH CABARET performance series, renowned for provoking visceral emotions and cultural identities with wild humor. According to Yumi, in the 1950s, Butoh was relegated to street performers and underground nightclubs in Tokyoalmost like a guerrilla dance movementand these performances shocked and provoked. I was trying to bring back the energy and rawness of Butoh by combining it with the accessibility of cabaret; this combination is so unique and exciting.” Separately, a group of artists studying with Mexican artist Diego Piñón launched the CONEY ISLAND Butoh and Beyond Festival in 2016, probing the fantastical dancing partnership of Butoh and cabaret performance on CONEY ISLAND USA’s burlesque stage in NYC. For the next four years, through his artistic intensives and ensemble performances in Brooklyn, Diego Piñón re-branded the festival as ritual cabaret a reflection of the defining aesthetic that resulted from his immersion into the historical and contemporary Coney Island. Cabaret, burlesque, vaudeville and circus sideshow have had a long and storied history in Coney Island, making it a perfect venue to explore the boundaries of ritual & entertainment. Piñón, who hails from the mountain town of Tlalpujahua Michoacán, fuses aesthetic principles stemming from Mexican shamanism, Japanese Butoh and community-based ritual dance.

Salish Sea Butoh: International Performance Gala
2022-08-13 19:00 - 22:00
The Salish Sea Butoh Festival proudly presents A LIVE PERFORMANCE GALA with master dance artists from Japan, Germany and New York City at the USO Building on the grounds of Fort Worden State Park.
7:00pm Doors open || 7:30pm SHOWTIME
Tickets are available online via Brown Paper Tickets
Featuring stage performances by:
Katsura Kan from KYOTO, JAPAN
Yuko Kaseki from BERLIN, GERMANY
Jacquelyn Marie Shannon from BROOKLYN, NY
You are cordially invited to join us for a very special theatrical event celebrating the unique artform of Butoh. This is a production of the second-ever Salish Sea Butoh Festival in Port Townsend, Washington. It highlights master artists of the 1st generation of Butoh from Japan along with 2nd and 3rd generation artists from all over the world performing on the same stage. All ticket purchases include admission to a post-show reception with complimentary refreshments and a chance to meet and talk to the artists.
ABOUT BUTOH:
Butoh is an avant-garde dance movement that originated in Tokyo, Japan shortly after WWII. It is characterized by physical movements that tend towards the earth and the subconscious. Butoh, which is influenced by and incorporates elements of Surrealism, Dada, French Existentialism, German Expressionism, Japanese theatre and eastern spiritual thought, was developed in the late 1950’s and 1960’s through experimental collaborations between its founders Tatsumi Hijikata and Kazuo Ohno. Their work established Butoh as disciplined and rigorous, yet spontaneous and idiosyncratic, intellectual and experimental, yet grounded in the human body. Instead of aspiring to an aesthetic ideal, Butoh reveals the primordial human being and the inner world. It implies total presence where dance is an expression of being in the world as well as containing the world within oneself. It grows from such themes such as dreams, ghosts, androgyny, nature, solitude and the natural cycles of life and death.
The Alternative Library will exhibit a curated selection of local and international small-press art books during the event.

Poetry Bazaar!
2022-08-09 19:00 - 21:00 | Flow Shala, 203 W. Chestnut Street, Bellingham, WA, 98225, United States
This performance will be presented at the Flow Shala, located on the lower floor of 203 W. Chestnut Street.
Doors at 7:00pm
Donations support the artists and the AltLib!
An evening showcase of poetry, with readings and performances from Elle Glasse, Siena Clayton, Rye Bennett, Ben Stump, and MORE!
There will also be a popup exhibition of small press books and art from local creators including Micaela Lieseke, Rae Berry, Shrija Gandhi and more!
AltLib is always ALL AGES!
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Marlo Mudd // Gabriel Seaver // Hemlock // Kjetil Lund
2022-07-21 17:00 - 20:00
Outdoor sunset generator show at THE SLAB! Come check out some sonic and scenic beauty with:::
Marlo Mudd (Bellingham, WA) https://marlomudd.bandcamp.com
Gabriel Seaver (Portland, OR)
https://gabrielseaver.bandcamp.com/
Hemlock (Chicago, IL)
https://hemlock.bandcamp.com
Kjetil Lund (Bellingham, WA)
ALL AGES /// NOTAFLOF

Atlanta Forest Defense Reportback: STOP COP CITY
2022-07-07 19:00 - 22:00 | Flow Shala, 203 W. Chestnut Street, Bellingham, WA, 98225, United States
Atlanta Forest Defense Reportback: STOP COP CITY!
An evening of film screenings and reportbacks. Discussion with presenters.
This performance will be presented at Creative Hope Studio, 1474 Franklin Street, accessed through the the back door over the bridge. Facemasks must be worn throughout the evening
Doors at 7:00pm
In the wake of the 2020 George Floyd Rebellion, Atlanta-area officials have planned to build the largest police training compound in the country — by bulldozing the largest urban tree canopy in the country! Meanwhile, film-industry executives plan to clear-cut what remains in order to build “the largest soundstage complex on Earth.”
Join us for an in-depth overview and conversation with on-the-ground activists involved in the historic movement to Stop Cop City and Defend The Atlanta Forest.
There will also be videos shown from Videos From the Trash Dimension, with one of the filmmakers in attendance!
Admission by donation supports the presenters!
AltLib is always ALL AGES!
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The First Pride Was a Riot!
2022-07-01 18:00 - 23:00
An autonomous street party for the anniversary of the Stonewall Riots!
We’ll be there with our mutual aid literature distro!
From the poster, sent to us anonymously:
“Come join us on the anniversary of the 1969 Stonewall riots, for a street event/protest celebrating radical queer joy and honoring the queers, queens, and troublemakers who came before.
Roe v Wade is gone … and we’ll be taking to the streets to rage, rave, and love!”

Felix the Hammer // Kitty Obsidian // Selector Lucky Brown
2022-05-28 19:30 - 22:00 | Flow Shala, 203 W. Chestnut Street, Bellingham, WA, 98225, United States
This performance will be presented at the Flow Shala, located on the lower floor of 203 W. Chestnut Street. Facemasks must be worn throughout the evening
Doors at 7:30pm; Performance at 8:00pm
$10 supports the artists and the AltLib!
Featuring performances from:
Felix the Hammer – Felix the Hammer is a three piece bluesy-poppy-rock band based off of the solo work of Sidney Amos. Currently based in Bellingham and Seattle, Washington, Felix the Hammer is composed of Sidney Amos, Ryan Barney, Zach Bassett, and Erik Anders.
Kitty Obsidian – Neo-soul newcomers to the Bellingham scene!
Selector Lucky Brown – strictly vinyl 7″ 45s
Jazz, Funk, Soul, Latin, African, Vintage/Contemporary with concentration on works of global black radical music traditions and private-press homages thereto.
AltLib is always ALL AGES!
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Karima Walker // Claire Cronin // Advance Base
2022-05-23 18:30 - 21:30
Secret Backyard Show!
Monday, May 23rd, 2022; 6:30pm – 9:30pm
Location is in the Birchwood Neighborhood, and the address will be provided by e-mail upon donation of $10 or more via PayPal. You may also contact us to make other arrangements if needed:
info@AltLib.org
This show will feature performances from Karima Walker (Tucson, AZ), Claire Cronin (Los Angeles, CA), and Advance Base (Chicago, IL), who all have recent records out through Orindal Records!
Orindal Records is a Chicagoland DIY music label specializing in vinyl & tape releases for experimental songmakers, gentle weirdos & melancholic introverts between the shores of California and Maine.
Karima Walker
Tucson, Arizona interdisciplinary artist Karima Walker walks a line between two worlds. Aside from her long resume of collaborative work with artists in the diverse fields of dance, sculpture, film, photography and creative non-fiction, Walker has long nurtured a duality within her work as a musician, developing her own sonic language as a sound designer in tandem with her craft as a singer/songwriter.
www.karimawalker.com
Claire Cronin
Claire Cronin is a writer and musician from Los Angeles whose work explores the supernatural and metaphysical themes of haunted Americana.
www.clairecronin.com
Advance Base
Advance Base is the melancholic story-song synth-pop project of Chicago, IL singer/songwriter Owen Ashworth (formerly of Casiotone for the Painfully Alone). Using a two-handed arsenal of electric piano, Omnichord, samplers, effect pedals & drum machines, Ashworth builds minimalist, heavy-hearted, & nostalgia-obsessed ballads around his conversational baritone.
www.advancebasemusic.com
AltLib is always ALL AGES!
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Hear Our Voices // LLLFest
2022-05-21 17:00 - 21:00 | Wisteria Garden
Join us at The Love + Land Liberation Fest to see some music, drag, and art. The event will be on Saturday, May 21st at 5 pm and tickets are $5 or more. We will have a pop-up literature distro with zines, so come by and say hello!
Check out The Love + Land Liberation Fest Instagram @LLLFestival for the address and details about the performers.

Butoh Spring Cabaret
2022-04-16 19:00 - 22:00 | Flow Shala, 203 W. Chestnut Street, Bellingham, WA, 98225, United States
As part of the weekend butoh immersion with teacher Joan Laage, we will present an evening cabaret performance, featuring some of the premiere butoh performance artists in the Pacific Northwest in a multimedia performance, with live music, dancers, and light installation.
Tickets will be available by donation at the door at a sliding scale: $10-15
Featuring performances from:
Joan Laage
Sophia Solano
Cosmo Rapaport
Francis Laird
Melia Kalani
Musical accompaniment by Cullen Beckhorn
Projections by Patrick Ward
AltLib is always ALL AGES!
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Butoh Immersion with Joan Laage
2022-04-15 18:00 - 2022-04-17 22:00 | Flow Shala, 203 W. Chestnut Street, Bellingham, WA, 98225, United States
This weekend-long butoh immersion with renowned teacher, Joan Laage, will be co-presented with the Flow Shala, where this event will be hosted. Please see their website for ticketing!
This workshop is a process of erasing and re-creating the body through guided improvisation largely inspired by nature imagery.
Experience training methods towards a supple body and mind and investigate aesthetics common to butoh through creative explorations. ETS explores endless questions: What is life? What is the human condition? What is the body? The workshop structure includes explorations of physical, natural, and transforming bodies. Partner work will facilitate participants’ individual and collective journeys. In this workshop we will focus on earth imagery – earth, trees, roots, etc. – and introduce imagery from the famous Japanese Ukiyoe wood block prints. The workshop draws from Joan’s training with Butoh Masters Kazuo and Yoshito Ohno and Yoko Ashikawa in Tokyo and her background as a Tai Chi practitioner and professional gardener.
Enrollment & Pricing
Full Weekend Discount: $160.00
Friday 6-9pm – $45
Saturday 11am-4pm -$65
Sunday 11am-4pm -$65
Joan Laage (Kogut) studied under butoh masters Kazuo Ohno and Yoko Ashikawa and performed with Ashikawa’s group Gnome in Japan in the late 80s, and more recently, has enjoyed training with Atsushi Takenouchi. After settling in Seattle in 1990, she formed Dappin’ Butoh, a company known for its appearances in Seattle’s fringe theater and dance festivals. Joan has performed and taught at national and international butoh festivals, was a featured artist at the UCLA Butoh Symposium in May 2011 and has been an adjunct faculty at Cornish College of The Arts (Seattle). She is featured in Dancing Into Darkness: Butoh, Zen, And Japan and Butoh: Metamorphic Dance and Global Alchemy by Sondra Horton Fraleigh and in a soon to release book by Tanya Calamoneri about butoh in the Americas.Her site-specific “Wandering & Wondering” is an event at the Seattle Japanese and Kubota Gardens. Joan is a founding member of DAIPANbutoh Collective which produces an annual butoh festival in Seattle. She has been teaching intensive weekend workshops and directing site-specific group works in Port Townsend, WA for Salish Butoh this past year.

AltLib Art Walk Popup
2022-04-01 18:00 - 22:00
We’re popping up during the Downtown Arts Walk with a selection of books from our retail bookstore and mutual aid zine distro! We’ve recently published a selection of new zines that will be available, and have got a bunch of new books in stock from some of our favorite artists and small-press publishers that we’re hyped to share with you!
For more information and popup previews, see our instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bhamaltlib/
There will also be new work on display from fiber artist, Sulai Lopez, who is beginning a three-month artist residency. There will be a performance presented starting at 7:00pm, so please arrive early to catch it, as doors will be temporarily locked during the performance to respect the container.
Flow Shala is located in the lower floor at 203 W Chestnut Street, accessible by stairs from the front of the building. E-mail for disability accommodations: info@AltLib.org
AltLib is always ALL AGES!

North Sound DA Training Camp: REGISTRATION
2022-03-20 08:00 - 17:00
North Sound DA Camp!
April 8-10, Whatcom/Skagit County, registration link is open through March 20th!
Weekend-long d!rect act!on training camp in the woods of Whatcom/Skagit Counties. Come to camp and learn about for3st d3fense tactics, including blockades, campaigning, security culture, and more!
Registration at:::
https://tinyurl.com/DAtrainingcamp
For more information check out @bellingham.forest.defense on Instagram.
When we empower ourselves, we in turn empower our communities!

Garbage Fest Northwest: Bellingham
2022-03-18 16:00 - 23:00
Garbage Fest is coming to the Pacific Northwest, popping up in spontaneous temporary occupations in five cities!
EVERYTHING / NOTHING
What is Garbage Fest you ask? The answers are within you. There will be noises, sounds, puppets, parades, carnival games, sports, drag and trashion shows, consumption and production of garbage literature, crazed prophets ranting their strange garbage opinions, monuments erected and razed, workshops on breaking and building everything and nothing from it all!
Stay tuned, and get in touch if you want to be involved!
Bellingham’s Garbage Fest will be held at the skate park under the bridge!
Featuring:
Videos from the Trash Dimension
Enormous Face
Alternative Library
DJ Parts Per Million
Timothy Trash
Sulai Lopez
…PROBABLY MORE, MAYBE YOU?!
Bring the worst person you know!
Bad vibes only! …also, FUCK YOU!

B'ham Sustainable Art & Retail Festival
2022-03-12 12:00 - 17:00
Local makers, vintage curators, small businesses and nonprofits are taking over the Depot Market Square for Bellingham’s Sustainable Art & Retail Festival. The AltLib will be there slinging publications from local authors, regional small presses, and global radical propaganda produced in our studio!
From the D-Town B’ham Gov’t Nonprofit website:
This festival is intended to help consumers connect directly with local businesses and highlight how to access reliable retail that fits our cultural values. Come support, shop, learn & socialize with local businesses working hard to make art and sell products/services that enhance a better way of living.
See ya there!

YOUR ANOMALY IS MY NEW NORMAL
2022-03-11 19:30 - 22:00 | Flow Shala, 203 W. Chestnut Street, Bellingham, WA, 98225, United States
YOUR ANOMALY IS MY NEW NORMAL:
New Mutations in Sound, Movement and Light
Collaborative evening of screenings and multimedia performance with WWU Dance, Art, and Music
Discussion with artists follows the screening/performance.
This performance will be presented at the Flow Shala yoga studio, located on the lower floor of 203 W. Chestnut Street. Facemasks must be worn throughout the evening
Doors at 7:30pm; Performance at 8:00pm
Admission by donation supports the AltLib! Make a one-time donation with the button at the bottom, or sign up for one of our automated memberships to be a regular supporter of our programs ~
AltLib is always ALL AGES!
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An Intimate Evening with FLESH SEEKER
2022-02-25 20:00 - 22:00 | Flow Shala, 203 W. Chestnut Street, Bellingham, WA, 98225, United States
Forget Basement (Chicago) and Emma Etc (Bellingham) present an intimate evening with FLESH SEEKER!
Capacity will be limited to 35 attendees. This show is SOLD OUT! Tickets may be available at the door for $15 if ticket-holders do not arrive by 8:30pm
The experimental electronic project FLESH SEEKER was birthed online in 2020 as a side-project for the duo to indulge in the most dramatic and intense fringes of their tastes. Now, after years of working together, Forget Basement and Emma Etc are bringing their best work to the quadraphonic stage.
Live visuals from Trinity Montgomery will be projected in the space!
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AltLib is always ALL AGES!
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Sea Masons - 16mm Film Screening
2022-01-21 19:00 - 21:00 | Flow Shala, 203 W. Chestnut Street, Bellingham, WA, 98225, United States
Capacity will be limited to 35 attendees. RSVP will be made available soon ~
This performance will be presented at the Flow Shala yoga studio, located on the lower floor of 203 W. Chestnut Street. Facemasks must be worn throughout the evening
Somewhere in the Anthropocene, a salmon appears in Manode’s driveway– an invitation to join an underwater secret society. As Nargill, a humanoid fish, emerges from the waves, attempting to destroy the fresh-water hegemony of Snowbear, Manode finds himself in a love triangle whose other vertex is Jennifer Jr, an extravagant dancer. In the world of the Sea Masons, surgery is performed in the streets, surfer babes are plundered for their nutrients by the hideous underwater society, giant spiders threaten Tinder dates, and the implacable crocodile’s jaws may prove to be the final curtain call. Filmed on Lummi Island WA, a paradise soon to sink beneath rising sea waters, The Sea Masons is a silent phantasy in the tradition of Georges Méliès.
The Sea Masons, 2021
by Matthew Thurber and Tom Phillips
40 minutes, presented with live sound.
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AltLib is always ALL AGES
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Gabriel Seaver / Haven Johansen / A.W. Ballew
2022-01-08 19:00 - 21:00 | Flow Shala, 203 W. Chestnut Street, Bellingham, WA, 98225, United States
THIS SHOW HAS BEEN CANCELLED DUE TO THE LATEST COVID MUTANT CURRENTLY RAMPAGING ACROSS THE CITY!
Capacity will be limited to 35 attendees. RSVP with a donation via PayPal with the button at the bottom of this page ~
This performance will be presented at the Flow Shala yoga studio, located on the lower floor of 203 W. Chestnut Street. Proof of vaccination is required for entry.
Gabriel Seaver’s guitar playing is informed by the biocosmos, the puget sound, rivers, the pacific ocean, sitting, walking, dancing, afro/latin rhythms, friends, minimalism, improvisation, touring, loving and perhaps most primarily, listening.
https://gabrielseaver.bandcamp.com/
Joining the night of creative folk meanderings, we’re happy to additionally present two wonderful local songwriters, A.W. Ballew and Haven Johansen!
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AltLib is always ALL AGES
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Somasonic Liberation with Sasha Petrenko
2021-12-10 20:00 - 22:00 | Flow Shala, 203 W. Chestnut Street, Bellingham, WA, 98225, United States
Capacity will be limited to 35 attendees.
$8 advance tickets are available by making a PayPal donation with the button at the bottom of this page!
This performance will be presented at the Flow Shala yoga studio, located on the lower floor of 203 W. Chestnut Street. Proof of vaccination is required for entry.
Ruby Rae Jones will open the evening with her piece, Dreaming the Whale, a performance about the affects of noise pollution on whales during migration and feeding.
Somasonic Liberation is inspired by Pauline Olivero’s Sonic Meditations and Brian Eno’s sing-alongs, Sasha Petrenko leads a collective sonic ritual meant to, in the words of Oliveros, “return control of sound to the individual alone and within groups especially for humanitarian purposes, specifically healing.”
Or in Enos words, I want “to stop being Me for a little while, and become Us.”
This will take shape as a multi-media performance, involving the audience as participants, and may consist of drums, chimes, electric guitar, various effects pedals, vocal microphones directed towards the audience, along with some sonified objects that respond to touch and proximity.
Through this process of somasonic liberation a kind of music may occur naturally.
Find more of Shasha Petrenko’s work at: www.sashapetrenko.org
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AltLib is always ALL AGES!
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Videos From the Trash Dimension
2021-12-05 19:00 - 21:00 | Pipsqueak Gallery, 173 16th Avenue, Seattle, WA, United States

Wet’suwet’en Solidarity Night
2021-12-04 17:00 - 19:00 | Pipsqueak Gallery, 173 16th Avenue, Seattle, WA, United States
We are collaborating with Seattle’s Pipsqueak Gallery to host an informational night of solidarity and fundraiser for the indigenous people of the Wet’suwet’en Nation in their fight for sovereignty and self-determination!
There will be a screening of the film Invasion and update from someone who recently visited the territory, and the AltLib will be distributing literature by donation to raise funds to send to the frontlines.
Pipsqueak Gallery is located at 173 16th Avenue and requires proof of vaccination to enter.

Videos from the Trash Dimension
2021-11-19 19:00 - 21:00 | Flow Shala, 203 W. Chestnut Street, Bellingham, WA, 98225, United States
This event will be presented at the Flow Shala yoga studio, located on the lower floor of 203 W. Chestnut Street. Proof of vaccination is required for entry.
Discussion and film screening, focused on media alternatives to film; videos made without money or directors.
We will also present a popup literature distro of radical media produced from the AltLib publication studio, available by donation!
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AltLib is always ALL AGES!
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Tatsuya Nakatani
2021-11-14 19:00 - 21:00
Tatsuya Nakatani returns to Bellingham!
Capacity will be limited to 35 attendees.
$15 advance tickets are available via PayPal

This performance will be presented at the Flow Shala yoga studio, located on the lower floor of 203 W. Chestnut Street. Proof of vaccination is required for entry.
Tatsuya Nakatani is an avant-garde percussionist, composer, and artist of sound. Active internationally since the 1990’s; Nakatani has released over 80 recordings and tours extensively, performing over 150 concerts a year. His primary focus is his solo work and his large ensemble project, the Nakatani Gong Orchestra. With his activity in the new music, improvisation and experimental music scenes, Nakatani has a long history of collaboration. He teaches master classes and lectures at universities and music conservatories around the world. Originally from Japan, he makes his home in the desert town of Truth or Consequences, New Mexico.
Nakatani creates his distinctive music centered around his adapted bowed gong, supported by an array of drums, cymbals, and singing bowls. In consort with his hand carved Kobo Bows, it is an instrument he has spent decades developing.
AltLib is always ALL AGES
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POOR Press Book Release and Reading
2021-11-12 19:00 - 21:00
A Homeless People’s Solution to Homelessness!
Capacity will be limited to 35 attendees.
Donations will be collected at the door to support the artists and the AltLib!
To RSVP, please send an e-mail to: bellinghamhomefulness@gmail.com
This performance will be presented at the Flow Shala yoga studio, located on the lower floor of 203 W. Chestnut Street. Proof of vaccination is required for entry.
POOR MAGAZINE, a collective of Poor, Homeless, Indigenous, Black and Brown writers and activists, will be in Bellingham to share an innovative model to solving homelessness called Homefulness. Members of POOR Magazine are touring to share their innovative “Homefulness Handbook,” accompanied by a series of writing/poetry workshops in encampments, community centers, schools and jails with other homeless and formerly homeless communities. Leading a tour on stolen land and hoarded resources, they will be sharing the template of Homefulness via storytelling and spoken word performance with fellow houseless and housed residents of so-called Bellingham, WA!
2021 POOR Press / Prensa POBRE releases
The Homefulness Handbook: How to build a homeless peoples solution to homelessness by POOR Magazine Family
Crip Lyrics: The Unapologetic Poetry of Disability by Val Vera
The Sidewalk Motel: Poems from a Poverty Skola & PoShunary by Tiny Gray-Garcia
Kai Talks about the Missions by Angel Heart
What’s My Address? by Lisa Ganser
Chimalli by Muteado Silencio
Las palabras tienen poder para construir y destruir/Words have power to construct and destruct by Ingrid DeLeon
Oakland to Iraq by Audrey CandyCorn

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Portland Anarchist Book Fair
2021-10-09 - 2021-10-10
Radical literature projects from around the region converge for the weekend on an elementary school in Portland! We’ll be mobbing down with a couple tables and some of our recent publications and literature distro!
The following was copied from a press release posted anonymously to https://pugetsoundanarchists.org/
FREE
October 9th and 10th
Outside Buckman Elementary on SE 18th and Pine
1pm to 6pm both days
All ages.
We’re really excited to announce the 2021 Anarchist Bookfair in so-called Portland, Oregon. The weekend of the 9th and 10th will include books, zines, art, food, friends, workshops, and other fun shit. We’ll be able to share and connect with anarchist publishers, artists, distros and other anarchics from all over Turtle Island. Please wear a mask.
We welcome folks to show up and table on either or both days. There is also still space for more workshops, talks, and other activities.
If you plan on tabling, please try to bring your own table. If you need a table and cannot get one, reach out to us beforehand.
Email PortlandBookfair@riseup.net if you have any questions or need anything.
For joy and anarchy in Portland and everywhere!
