The Alternative Library presents a night of beautifully crafted alternative folk music from Seattle's Heddwen and Larsen Gardens, joined by Bellingham's Meghan Yates. Heddwen is an original alt-folk duo with singer-songwriters Riley Skinner and Katie Rudman, featuring complex harmonies over simple folk progressions. They are based in Seattle, WA. www.heddwen.com Larsen Gardens is the project […]
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.
International Workers of the World unite! Whatcom-Skagit IWW host a monthly communion of comrades
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 […]
Every Wednesday is our weekly volunteer meeting, where we discuss the goings on and future of the AltLib!
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 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 […]
Join 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 […]
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 […]
Sacred 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.