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Definitely, Maybe / Jackie / Razzleberry
2019-06-01 19:30 - 23:00 (America/Vancouver)
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
NOTAFLAF

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!
NOTAFLOF

Volunteers' Meetin'
2019-05-29 19:00 - 20:00, 2019-05-22 19:00 - 20:00, 2019-05-15 19:00 - 20:00, 2019-05-08 19:00 - 20:00, 2019-05-01 19:00 - 20:00
Every Wednesday is our weekly volunteer meeting, where we discuss the goings on and future of the AltLib!

Bhagavad Gita Book Club
2019-05-29 16:00 - 17:00, 2019-05-22 16:00 - 17:00, 2019-05-15 16:00 - 17:00, 2019-05-08 16:00 - 17:00
Feel free to show up without any prior attendance to this open discussion on one of the most foremost scriptures in Hinduism – the Bhagavad Gita!

Poetrynight
2019-05-27 19:00 - 21:00, 2019-05-20 19:00 - 21:00, 2019-05-13 19:00 - 21:00, 2019-05-06 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.

NOISE Church
2019-05-26 19:30 - 22:30
BOW DOWN to the SOUND…!
Doors at 7:30pm; Music at 8:00pm
AltLib is always ALL AGES~
Featured acts include:
Death Mask
Kellan & Friends

Shimmertraps / Booty EP / Laguna Largo
2019-05-25 19:30 - 23:00
It’s gonna be a groover at the AltLib! Two local favorites and some of our maple-syrup-loving neighbors!
Doors at 7:30pm; Music at 8:00pm
$6-10 supports the artists and the AltLib
Shimmertraps – Certainly shimmery; not a trap.
https://shimmertraps.bandcamp.com/
Booty EP is a Vancouver based duo inviting you on a dreamy time through their wonderland of sounds and visuals. Francis Hooper (synth, guitar, vocals) and Alli Deleo (keys, vocals) blend sampled hip-hoppy beats with a wash of electronic instruments and cozy guitar.
https://www.bootyepmusic.com/
https://bootyep.bandcamp.com/
Laguna Largo is a new funky outfit on the B’ham scene ~
https://lagunalargo.bandcamp.com/

RSVP and more info: https://www.facebook.com/events/295931887968672/
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AltLib is always ALL AGES
NOTAFLOF

Xiu Xiu
2019-05-24 19:30 - 23:00
Xiu Xiu comes to the Alternative Library touring their latest album: Girl With Basket of Fruit!
Doors at 7:30pm; Music at 8:00pm
$15 adv | $17 dos | Always All-Ages
Advance tickets are available via Brown Paper Tickets ~ https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/4108106
“It’s as if the basic machinations of nation-states are crumbling before our very eyes. Our Faith, privately, collectively, torn apart. Could there ever be a more perfect juncture for a new Xiu Xiu album?”
– Tiny Mix Tapes
RSVP and more info: https://www.facebook.com/events/532869893903010/

Autonomy Is In Our Hearts
2019-05-21 19:00 - 21:00
Come join us for an evening with PM Press author Dylan Fitzwater as he shares lessons from his experience working and learning alongside the Zapatistas. He’ll be presenting his newly published work, “Autonomy Is In Our Hearts: Zapatista Autonomous Government through the Lens of the Tsotsil Language.”
The lessons offered by the Zapatista movement of Chiapas, Mexico are more pertinent now than ever. As the political right resurges throughout the Americas and the world, the Zapatistas offer a different way forward. Instead of seeking state power, they have remained steadfast in their commitment to build an autonomous government system beyond the logic of capital and the nation state, and continuously resist attacks on their communities.
Autonomy Is in Our Hearts gives a detailed account of this autonomous government system based on hundreds of testimonies from within the Zapatista base communities. It is rooted in Dylan’s own experiences of years of Zapatista solidarity work and as a student of Tsotsil, a Mayan language indigenous to the highlands Zapatista communities of Chiapas. Dylan analyzes the autonomous government system through the conceptual language of Tsotsil: the foundations of autonomous government lie in long traditions of indigenous understandings of labor, spirit, social change, self-defense, and the good life. The words “Freedom,” “Justice,” and “Democracy” emblazoned on the Zapatista flag are only rough translations of concepts such as ichbail ta muk’ or “mutual recognition and respect among equal persons or peoples;” a’mtel or “collective work done for the good of a community;” and lekil kuxlejal or “the life that is good for everyone.”
Both a good introduction to the Zapatistas and a new perspective for those already familiar with the movement, it is important reading for engaged intellectuals, activists, and organizers.
RSVP and more info: https://www.facebook.com/events/1828224013945779/
AltLib is always All Ages~

IWW Meeting
2019-05-19 17:30 - 20:30
International Workers of the World unite!
Whatcom-Skagit IWW host a monthly communion of comrades

11:11 Writers' Communion
2019-05-19 11:15 - 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.

Memory Boys / All Over Me / Cat Valley
2019-05-18 19:30 - 23:00
Join us for a night of indie pop-punk!
Doors at 7:30pm; Music at 8:00pm
$6-10 sliding scale supports the artists and AltLib
AltLib is always All Ages~
Memory Boys: From Langley, WA, their blistering and melodic, dirty indie punk will be ringing in your ears long after you press the pause button. https://memoryboys.bandcamp.com/album/sun-wires
All Over Me: Based in Bellingham, WA, and bringing those softcore hits. https://alloverme.bandcamp.com/album/best-hits
Cat Valley: A feminist surf pop-punky trio that writes songs about cat-calling, misogyny, and trying to get off in our modern day patriarchy. https://catvalley.bandcamp.com/

Artists' Open Stage
2019-05-16 19:00 - 22:00
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~

Harvesting Water Workshop
2019-05-16 16:00 - 17:30
We will discuss harvesting rain/greywater & how it can enhance your landscape & help our watershed.
Taught By Hunterwolflydon.com

Film: The Mask You Live In
2019-05-15 20:30 - 22:30
WWU’s new Ally Education Club will be screening “The Mask You Live In,” a 2015 film addressing how American culture’s narrow definition of masculinity is harming our boys, men and society at large and explores what we can do about it.
Snacks provided!
RSVP and more: https://www.facebook.com/events/330460394335413/
AltLib is always All Ages~
NOTAFLOF

Let's Talk About Sex
2019-05-12 16:00 - 18:30
Let’s Talk About It… is an afternoon of open conversation about topics that affect all of us, featuring different voices from within the community.
This month, Let’s Talk About… Sex.
In facilitated group discussions, we’ll examine:
-How we learn about sex
-How we relate sex and intimacy
-What is our relationship with sex concerning sexual autonomy (the body)?
Featured guests:
Blanca Ortega — prevention education specialist for Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Services (DVSAS). Blanca works closely with middle and high schools throughout Whatcom County facilitating The Empowerment Project, a three day prevention curriculum which addresses healthy relationships and consent. Blanca also provides advocacy to students that are in need of support after experiencing any type of trauma involving domestic/dating violence and or sexual assault.
Void — member of the Bellingham Sex Positive Center. The BSPC works to create a safe and inclusive environment that provides education, active community, and open exploration of consensual gratification. Void has been been active in the kink community through the BSPC for ten months. Currently engaging in RACK, or risk aware consensual kink, Void is exploring enhancing and expanding their sense of intimacy, autonomy, and general pleasure.
Josefina Mora — senior at WWU and a retail associate at WinkWink Boutique. This summer she’ll be transitioning to be the assistant educational and outreach manager. Josefina is an active member of community groups focused on immigrant justice and is the daughter of undocumented community leader Maru Mora Villalpando.
Johnilee Whiteside, M.S. — relationship and sexual empowerment coach. Johnilee helps couples and individuals discover their authentic potency and create magical lives filled with sex and magic.
AltLib is always All Ages~
RSVP and more info: https://www.facebook.com/events/306986286662513/
To review our Respectful Space Policy, see here: https://altlib.org/safer-space/

Chirgilchin: Tuvan Throat Singers with Yuliyana Krivoshapkina
2019-05-11 19:30 - 23:00
The Alternative Library is excited to bring the traditional Tuvan throat singing group Chirgilchin, and Yuliyana Krivoshapkina to Bellingham for a concert of traditional Tuvan folk music!
Doors at 7:30pm; Music at 8:00pm
Ticket pre-sales will be announced soon ~~~
The word Chirgilchin has two translations: “dance of the air in the heat of the day” and “miracle.” Established in 1996, Chirgilchin is a group of musicians from Tuva, a small Russian province north of Western Mongolia. Their music tells stories of their homeland, its horses and its people. The monotone sustained notes that branch out into overtone singing with slight shifts in pitch give Tuvan music its characteristic buoyant yet meditative drone quality.
https://www.pnmartists.com/chirgilchin
Throat-singing is an extraordinary vocal form in which one singer produces two or more voices simultaneously, the low sounds in the throat harmonizing with middle and high flute-like overtones, to create richly layered melodies that evoke Central Asian steppes and nomadic life. Atmospheric and mesmeric, this music is almost too difficult to describe in words and must be heard to be believed. The most advanced forms of throat-singing come from Tuva, and the members of Chirgilchin are among the best and most accomplished throat-singers in all of Tuva.
The concert will be opened by a solo performance from Yuliyana Krivoshapkina, a singer and virtuoso in the art of the khomus, the national instrument of the Sakha Republic. It functions much like a Jew’s harp, but differs in several respects. A conventional Jew’s harp is limited in range, volume, and pitch. The khomus is loud and strikingly expansive in range. Yuliyana has mastered playing sounds across nearly three octaves. Her music draws on the powers of Nature and the wisdom and traditions of the Yakut people to portray the timeless relationship between Man and the Universe.
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AltLib is always ALL AGES
RSVP and more info: https://www.facebook.com/events/2111744542227248/

Free Jazz / Free Food / Free Spirits
2019-05-10 19:30 - 22:00
Come join us for a night of free jazz and free food in the company of free spirits!
$6-10 supports the artists and the AltLib
With his seventh solo album “Broken Silence,” Swiss saxophonist Urs Leimgruber allows more space for the expression of the quiet – a sort of contemplative essence. Having long left the path of powerful electric jazz that characterized his time with “OM” during the 1970s, he has since evolved a delicately sophisticated and often quite abstract style. The nine pieces found on “Broken Silence” have been developed out of silence, which they – mostly gently – break, only to subside back into eloquent silence in the end.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8z6il8S7X8
TIME — On tour from Florida, TIME is an improv dance/noise piece performed inside a wall of fabric with interactive projections called Awakening of the Self. https://timeiam.bandcamp.com/
Sage Romey is a Junior at Western, perusing an interdisciplinary degree concentrated in Decolonial Ethnomusicology with a concentration in Africana studies and jazz. Sage was introduced to the joys of music listening to her grandfather’s records and plunking out tunes on the piano next to her mother. Singing since she could talk, and playing piano since she was seven, she has always been drawn to music as a form communication. Today Sage plays with numerous groups through the WWU jazz program and in the community, constantly searching for new sounds and means of expression through music.
AltLib is always All Ages~

Sounds of the Underground: Battle of the Bands
2019-05-05 19:30 - 23:00
Doors at 7:30pm; Music at 8:00pm
AltLib is always ALL AGES~
The final round of Sounds of the Underground, Western Washington University’s battle of the bands. Here, previous rounds’ winners will compete before a panel of judges represented by different music industry professionals from around the PNW. The winner will secure a spot on the Lawnstock lineup, recording time in a local studio, and more.
PERFORMERS:
TBA
For disability accommodations, please contact as.disability@wwu.edu
RSVP and more info: https://www.facebook.com/events/311326326222652/

Nakatani Gong Orchestra
2019-05-03 19:30 - 23:00
Doors at 7:30pm; Performance at 8:00pm
Tatsuya Nakatani returns to Bellingham to lead a performance of the Nakatani Gong Orchestra (NGO), a nomadic, large ensemble contemporary sound art project, featuring 10 performers bowing and striking large gongs under Nakatani’s conduction. In the last decade, the NGO has performed hundreds of concerts involving thousands of participants around the world in the creation of these transformative sound works.
This project is not a traditional music program or traditional Japanese music — it is a contemporary sound art project.
Tatsuya Nakatani (1970) is an avant-garde sound artist and master percussionist originally from Osaka, Japan. Based in the United States since 1994, he lives in Truth or Consequences, New Mexico. Since the late 1990s, Nakatani has released over 80 recordings in the US and Europe and has toured extensively; performing solo, in collaboration with other artists, and with his large ensemble project – the Nakatani Gong Orchestra.
Nakatani’s adaption of the Chinese wind gong to respond to his percussive bowing technique in his solo work (c. 1995) led to the inclusion of other players trained in his methods to realize his compositions. The Kobo bows, mallets, and surrounding instrumentation equipment have all been developed and are hand crafted by Tatsuya Nakatani. After ten years of planning and preparation, the NGO began touring in 2011 with four adapted gongs and has grown to 17 gongs today (January 2019). It is the only bowed gong orchestra in the world.
Held in the beautiful and naturally resonant space of the Alternative Library, the Nakatani Gong Orchestra will surely be an incomparable experience!
Advance tickets are available via Brown Paper Tickets:
https://ngoataltlib.brownpapertickets.com
RSVP and more info: https://www.facebook.com/events/370833003645346/
