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Pride Rock: Variety Show + Dance
2019-07-06 19:30 - 23:30 (America/Vancouver)
Dance party / variety show to celebrate pride!
Featuring:
Pizza Wizard – pizza-flavored party music. Improvisational electronic experimentations in the various styles of house, techno, breaks, lo-fi, noise, and glitch. https://pizzawizard.bandcamp.com/
Farrah Flockhart – amazing drag performer! https://www.facebook.com/farrah.flockhart
mystery band – ???
Penny Wide Pupils – Got lifeless eyes. When she comes at ya, she doesn’t seem to be living until she bites. Then you hear that terrible low bass thumping, and despite all the pounding and hollering, she comes in and rips you to pieces. https://soundcloud.com/penny-wide-pupils
RSVP and more info: https://www.facebook.com/events/2335852439832450/
AltLib is always All Ages
$6-10 sliding scale to support the artists and AltLib
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Sunset Flight with the Dragons
2019-07-05 19:30 - 23:00
Sunset Flight with the Dragons
(Mostly) Improvisational atmospheric rock with international mysticism.
Doors at 7:30pm; Music at 8:00pm
$7-12 sliding scale.
Naloxone (Bellingham/Seattle)
An improvisational trio featuring Captain Raab (guitar), Dave Abramson(drums), and Kole Galbraith (Bass). Captain Raab is best known for his work as a member of Khu.eex’ and with Bernie Worrell. Dave Abramson is a member of Diminished Men, Master Musicians of Bukkake, and Wayne Horvitz’s The Royal We; his long list of collaborators ranges from Secret Chiefs 3 to Eyvind Kang to Lori Goldston. Kole Galbraith is part of the psy jazz duo Cyote Teeth and as a solo artist has played throughout North America and Europe.Naloxone will be performing a set of improv, drone, lanquidity, and indigenous sonic mayhem reflecting influences ranging from Fripp/Eno to electric Miles to Sunn O))) to Morricone.
Ami Dang
Conservatory trained sitarist and vocalist Ami Dang combines Northern Indian classical and ranges through ambient, psych, and experimental dance-pop to convey the chaos and spirituality landscapes of her hybrid South Asian and Baltimore identity. Her entrancing new work emphasizes the beauty of more traditional composition.
With Both Shoulders Broken
Coming from bands in Cleveland, and performing as With Both Shoulders Broken since exactly that in 2011, he comes to upbeat guitar rock through a collage of atmospheric and drone elements, entirely improvising live with electric guitar, drum machine, loopers, etc.
Kristal McKinstry and the Springs
A one-mermaid-band primarily on slide-guyageum guitar with shamanic vocals through morphing atmospheric effects and instrumental feedback, incorporating layered multiple microtonal scale morphing and fractaling rhythms for live ad-hoc narrative vision-quest journeys – drawing this season from sets of multiple genres from underground jazz-psychedelia through samba, surf, Celtic, Islander, techno influences, and beyond, touring the timeless stratosphere with transcendent exuberance.
RSVP and more info: https://www.facebook.com/events/335256853808352/

Volunteers' Meetin'
2019-07-03 19:00 - 20:00, 2019-06-26 19:00 - 20:00, 2019-06-19 19:00 - 20:00, 2019-06-12 19:00 - 20:00, 2019-06-05 19:00 - 20:00
Every Wednesday is our weekly volunteer meeting, where we discuss the goings on and future of the AltLib!

Poetrynight
2019-07-01 19:00 - 22:00, 2019-06-10 19:00 - 21:00, 2019-06-03 19:00 - 22:00
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.

Rinse Out vs Underground Transmissions
2019-06-29 20:00 - 23:55
Rinse out is back at it again, and this time with a vengeance. 4/4 vs 160 bmp, only one crew will come out with their precious DJ fingers in tact. The people will be skanking, jacking, and wiggling their bodies to beats thumping all night long.
$6 dollar donation
All ages
Underground Transmissions: Jack Anderson, strattcat, Noah Ostrow
https://soundcloud.com/undergroundtransmissions
https://soundcloud.com/noah_ostrow_music
https://soundcloud.com/strattcat_eric_stratton
https://soundcloud.com/jeksea
The second coming of underground dance music is here. The Underground Transmissions family is here to deliver the underground experience to a dance floor near you.
Rinse out: Korra the Kid, Squanch
https://soundcloud.com/korrathekid
https://soundcloud.com/squanchsounds
RSVP and more info: https://www.facebook.com/events/406071939985009/

Revival: Kickin' Knowledge
2019-06-28 20:00 - 23:55
Come for Bellingham’s own Revival events dose of Hip-Hop and Art dance your booty off, laugh the night away and have your jaw hit the floor from this amazing slew of talent.
Music Lineup- Pascal, Nicholaus Veljkov (Fungus), Harlan James, Lonely Together, Oddlin, $QVTCH
Comedy- Zachary Alexander Pease
Dance Performance- SINI-HHA Dancers
Open Mic Spoken Word
Live Painting
Vendors
RSVP and more info: https://www.facebook.com/events/2161542103941536/

Poetrynight ft Savannah Sloane
2019-06-24 19:00 - 21:00
As usual, signups for the open mic will start around 7 and our feature will read about halfway through.
Savannah Slone is a queer writer who recently completed her M.F.A. and dwells in the Pacific Northwest. Her poetry and short fiction has appeared in or will soon appear in Glass: A Poetry Journal, Crab Creek Review, FIVE:2:ONE, Pidgeonholes, decomP magazinE, Hobart, Pithead Chapel, Crab Fat Magazine, TERSE, and elsewhere. She is the Editor-in-Chief of Homology Lit, a literary magazine for marginalized voices. Savannah is the author of HEARING THE UNDERWATER (Finishing Line Press, 2019). She enjoys reading, knitting, hiking, and discussing intersectional feminism. You can read more of her work at www.savannahslonewriter.com.
RSVP and more info: https://www.facebook.com/events/175014856731643/
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.

Open Floodgates: Ad-hoc Orchestral Jam
2019-06-23 19:00 - 22:00
OPEN FLOODGATES – A drop-in park-style mutual-improv jam highlighting melodic story-building dialogue.
Winding bridges, scale altercations, rhythm permutations, evolving narrative continuity, in microtonal jazz blues, ragtime, surf, gamelan etc.
Musicians free / $5-15 suggested donation from audience members
WHAT TO BRING:
* An outside snack (it’s a long event).
* Any instrument you can sit on, hold in/over your lap, hold standing, or keep under your feet. (2.5′ x 3.5′ per person)
RSVP and more info: https://www.facebook.com/events/2336411593244483/

Laughingstock / Laundry / Apology Wars
2019-06-22 19:30 - 22:00
Doors at 7:30pm; Music at 8:00pm
$6-10 supports the artists and the AltLib
Laundry
https://laundrytheband.bandcamp.com
https://www.facebook.com/LaundryTheBand
Funk-punk from our dear neighbors to the south, Eugene, Oregon.
Laughingstock
https://laughingstockmusic.bandcamp.com
https://www.facebook.com/laughingstockmusic
Bellingham Based Boy Band. Sometimes it’s folky, sometimes it’s emo.
Apology Wars
https://apologywars.com/
https://www.facebook.com/Apologywars
Vocal-driven, high-energy indie rock band out of Bellingham. Formed in 2017, first studio LP set to release in June 2019.
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AltLib is always ALL AGES
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Supermissive / Mobilites / Bird & Shooter
2019-06-21 19:30 - 23:00
$6-10 supports the artists and the AltLib
Mobilities is a four-piece experimental rock / progressive indie rock band based in Portland, OR. On tour this summer to bring their upcoming EP, “Something’s Right”, to the American West. Drawing influence from bands like The Mars Volta, Incubus, White Denim, Wand, Queens of the Stone Age, Portugal. The Man, Tame Impala, Thee Oh Sees. They bring with them an energetic show that takes twists and turns, as it flows through dynamic ranges and into your ear holes.
Supermissive is the creative effort of four individuals fusing elements of psychedelic rock, desert rock, and heavy metal into progressive and conceptual music about space, time, justice, injustice, life, and death.
https://supermissive.bandcamp.com/
Bird & Shooter is a B’ham-based 6-piece
https://birdandshooter.bandcamp.com/
RSVP and more info: https://www.facebook.com/events/456263791802319/
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AltLib is always ALL AGES!
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Poetrynight ft Oliver Amatist
2019-06-17 19:00 - 21:00
Another Monday, another featured poet!
As usual the open mic portion will begin around 7.
Born and raised throughout the Pacific Northwest, Oliver Amatist is a free verse spoken word poet emerging in the performance art community. With his surprise debut performance speaking at the Bite of Seattle 2017, in front of hundreds, he aims to bring that same mentality to his tour at Washington cafés, book stores, and poetry venues. Come join in on his spoken word set, Messages of a Deviant Angle and Soak in a Slice of Americana.
RSVP and more: https://www.facebook.com/events/255258715230763/
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. Messages of a Deviant Angle and soak in a slice of Americana.

IWW Meeting
2019-06-16 17:30 - 20:30
International Workers of the World unite!
Whatcom-Skagit IWW host a monthly communion of comrades

11:11 Writer's Communion
2019-06-16 11:10 - 13:00
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.

Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure: The Musical
2019-06-15 19:30 - 22:30, 2019-06-14 19:30 - 22:30
Doors at 7:30pm; Show at 8:00pm
$15 General; $10 Student Discount
Admission supports the artists and the AltLib!
The future of the world is in peril unless the two excellent ones, Bill S. Preston Esquire and Ted Theodore Logan, can pass their History report. With the help of Napoleon, Socrates, Billy the Kid and others, Bill and Ted travel through time most triumphantly in this musical adaptation of the most bodacious movie of the 1980’s. Be a part of history, be excellent to each other, and party on!
This original musical adaptation was adapted by local director, Carol Makela! There will be two showings:
Friday, June 14th
Saturday June 15th
RSVP and more info: https://www.facebook.com/events/293532931526994/
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ReForge: Metal Arts Guild
2019-06-15 14:00 - 19:00
Bellingham Metal Arts Guild presents ReFORGE!
Bring your unwanted, unworn, excess jewelry! Bham Metal Arts Guild will process the donations back into raw materials to create more metal art. Come out for the day, meet the project participants, and listen to some tunes by Josie Wails and more!

Foxy Apollo / In Aisle Eight / Bobby Petite
2019-06-08 19:30 - 23:00
Bend those knees & bob those heads to the groovy rhythm & blues tonight!
$6-10 sliding scale supports the artists and AltLib
Foxy Apollo
https://www.facebook.com/foxyapollo/
Funky Blues out of Seattle
In Aisle Eight
https://www.facebook.com/inaisleeight/
A little bit of everything, but nothing you’ve ever heard before.
Bobby Petite
https://www.facebook.com/bobbypetite/
Jazz/rock and psychedelic/soul with a collective background in performance art creating art for music lovers with sauce and soul.
RSVP and more info: https://www.facebook.com/events/2437026123201238/
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AltLib is always All Ages
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Classroom: Chemical Weapons Medical Training
2019-06-08 14:00 - 16:00
Medical support is at the heart of any movement, and chemical weapon countermeasures are vital for medical support. Join some comrades for a practical course on the latest in street medic technology! Taught by Joshua.
The General Defense Committee (GDC) is a committee of and supports the revolutionary unionism of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). The GDC’s goal is to defend and support the entire working class, divided and under attack by those who wage class war against us. We therefore promote, through organization, action, and outreach, a mass, non-sectarian defense of the class, in order to build a self-organized working class that treats differences as strengths and opportunities to live in solidarity.

Future Jazz: Anthony Coleman
2019-06-07 19:30 - 22:00
The Alternative Library’s Future Jazz series explores work from modern experimental composers and improvisers in the field of jazz~
Doors at 7:30pm; Music at 8:00pm
$6-10 supports the artists and the AltLib
Anthony Coleman (born August 30, 1955) is an avant-garde jazz pianist. During the 1980s and 1990s he worked with John Zorn on Cobra, Kristallnacht, The Big Gundown, Archery, and Spillane and helped push modern Jewish music into the 21st century.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Coleman
RSVP and more info: https://www.facebook.com/events/2196064390460114/
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AltLib is always ALL AGES!
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Transtock!
2019-06-06 18:30 - 23:00
Celebrate Trans Lives! Eat food, build community, hear great music!
Left at London – Although Left At London mostly is known for her pop writing sensibility, she is mostly known for her deeply personal and introspective lyricism. Despite some of the songs subject matters being very specific to her life as a trans woman with autism, borderline personality disorder, ADHD, and PTSD, her songwriting style takes these concepts and makes them into something that’s uniquely abstract while still remaining relatable and honest. http://leftatlondon.com/
Beautiful Freaks – ranging in style from punk to progressive, to funk, to thrash, and everything in between. https://beautifulfreaksfreeaaky.bandcamp.com/
Porch Cat – Through uptempo punk songs, sludgy ballads, and dreamy pop hooks, Porch Cat writes about queer identity, pain and chronic illness, surviving abuse and assault, colonization and racism – ultimately returning to themes of love and empowerment. https://porchcat.bandcamp.com/music
Rosie Flowers – Seattle, WA
Community Potluck @ 6:30pm
Music @ 7:30pm, poetry/spoken word throughout.
Look for us at Red Square from 12-5pm too.
Email raine.dozier@wwu.edu with questions

Classroom: Fiction Writing as an Act of Magick
2019-06-04 18:00 - 19:20
Do you believe a story can change the world? Do you marvel that ink and tree pulp can conjure images in your mind, and stir up chemicals in your body? Ever wonder exactly how the story of your own life is less fictional than a story in a book? Do you want to feel something?
JUNE 4th TO JULY 23rd
TUESDAY EVENINGS FROM 6 TO 7:20
Eight weeks. Eight sessions. Eighty dollars. Get embodied. Fortify your creative life. Produce at least one rigorously revised work of short fiction with a magickal aim.
Class size will be limited to 15 seats. Please register in advance via Brown Paper Tickets: https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/4228443
RSVP and more info: https://www.facebook.com/events/500505820484752/
FICTION WRITING AS AN ACT OF MAGICK is taught by Taylor Leatrice Werner, who holds an MFA in Fiction from the Institute of American Indian Arts, where she graduated with the distinction of Best Fiction of the Year. Her undergraduate concentration was called Catharsis: Writing the Shadows. She has been awarded three Lannan Foundation Grants, the Carolyn Walton Cole Endowment Fund in Creative Writing, and the James T. Whitehead Creative Writing Endowment. As a tutor and teacher, Taylor has been helping others write since 2012.

Anti-Semitism Movie with Q&A
2019-06-02 20:00 - 22:00
For June’s WPJC film night, we are watching the second volume of “Shoah” by Claude Lanzmann. Afterward, we will have a Q&A about anti-semitism hosted by local Jewish artist and activist Robert Yerachmiel Schneiderman.
RSVP and more info: https://www.facebook.com/events/353691225501198/
AltLib is always All Ages

Definitely, Maybe / Jackie / Razzleberry
2019-06-01 19:30 - 23:00
Come out to the AltLib for a night of three groovy energetic bands that will get you dancing and thrashing about!!!
Doors at 7:30pm; Music at 8:00pm
$6-10 supports the artists and the AltLib
Definitely, maybe is a Denver-based tender psych band formed by Carmine Gabbianelli in 2018. The live band features Ben Weirich’s swirling and texturally warm synth and keys, Aaron Deboskey heartfelt laid back bass parts, and Zachary Antonio’s distinctly groovy and visceral drums.
https://definitelymaybemusic.bandcamp.com/
Jackie is an eclectic blend of blues and classic rock mixed with modern music. Released early 2019, Cabacheba reflects a range of writing styles, versatility, and audience. If you want to be moved both intellectually and physically, take a listen!
https://jackie6.bandcamp.com/
Razzleberry – Indie punky country boy band right here in B’ham!
www.instagram.com/razzleberryband/
RSVP and more info: https://www.facebook.com/events/647738108972334/
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AltLib is always ALL AGES
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The City Hall / Magnolia Baseball / River Gods
2019-05-31 19:30 - 23:00
The City Hall returns to Bellingham, along with LA-based group River Gods, and new local group Magnolia Baseball will open the evening!
Doors at 7:30pm; Music at 8:00pm
$6-10 supports the artists and the AltLib
The City Hall creates music that is the sonic equivalent of throwing gushers, broken camcorders, and birthday tears into an ez-bake oven—in other words, sugary pop with a salty aftertaste.
http://thecityhallband.com/
River Gods is a Los Angeles-based group who claim the title of:
THE BEST BAND EVER
https://www.rivergodsforever.com/
Magnolia Baseball is a new Bellingham-based group blending hamonies with indie-rock grooves
https://magnoliabaseball.bandcamp.com/releases
RSVP and more info: https://www.facebook.com/events/428262131309541/
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AltLib is always ALL AGES!
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