EVENTS CALENDAR

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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.

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Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure: The Musical

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, […]

ReForge: Metal Arts Guild

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!

Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure: The Musical

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, […]

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.

IWW Meeting

International Workers of the World unite! Whatcom-Skagit IWW host a monthly communion of comrades

Poetrynight ft Oliver Amatist

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 […]

Volunteers’ Meetin’

Every Wednesday is our weekly volunteer meeting, where we discuss the goings on and future of the AltLib!

Supermissive / Mobilites / Bird & Shooter

$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. […]

Laughingstock / Laundry / Apology Wars

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 […]

$6 – $10

Open Floodgates: Ad-hoc Orchestral Jam

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 […]