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AltLib Art Walk Popup
2022-04-01 18:00 - 22:00 (America/Vancouver)
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!
NOTAFLOF

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!
NOTAFLOF

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
NOTAFLOF

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
NOTAFLOF

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!
NOTAFLOF

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!
NOTAFLOF

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
NOTAFLOF

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

AltLib is always ALL AGES!
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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!

Orgone Donor // Soft Teeth // Guillotine Eyes // Oplapanax
2021-09-24 18:00 - 22:00
We are hosting a generator-powered noise show on the beach or under a bridge, depending on the weather and vibe of the day! This show will be happening at Little Squalicum Park, where the dogs roam leash-free ~
$ donations support the artists and the AltLib
Featuring performances from:
Guillotine Eyes – https://www.facebook.com/GuillotineEyesBand/
Soft Teeth (Zach Zinn)
Orgone Donor (V. Vecker, Riley R. and Dustin Williams)
Oplapanax (John Saint Pelvyn and Molly Bush)
Face masks and social distancing will be encouraged!

Black Noise Sidewalk Literature Popup
2021-08-14 11:00 - 19:00
Saturday, August 14th, 11am-7pm
AltLib Sidewalk Literature Popup
at Black Noise Records
1230 Bay Street
Local and small-press publications featuring art and radical culture!

CANCELED: Lori Goldston // Gibrana Cervantes
2021-08-04 19:00 - 21:00
THIS EVENT HAS UNFORTUNATELY BEEN CANCELED DUE TO A COMPLICATION WITH THE HOST VENUE. We will be rescheduling a performance with Lori Goldston later this summer.
The AltLib Popup series will run through the summer, presenting a series of roving popup events to continue supporting expansive art projects and dig deep for uncommon cultural exchanges, while we search for a new space to ground our collective.
For the first installment, we are proud to host:
Lori Goldston is a cellist; classically trained and rigorously de-trained, possessor of a restless, semi-feral spirit. She has been based in Seattle, working as a musician, composer, improvisor, producer, writer and teacher. Her voice as a cellist, amplified or acoustic, is full, textured, committed and original. A relentless inquirer, her work drifts freely across borders that separate genre, discipline, time and geography.
Gibrana Cervantes is a Mexican violinist and improviser. After being classically trained, she has performed both in traditional orchestras and contemporary music groups. Her work as a violinist incorporates electronic sound processing to use noise as a composition tool, mixing atmosphere with melody. She is the founder and curator of the sound gallery 316centro, a space focused on bringing to light the different manifestations of sound art that mark musical life in Mexico City.
$10 // Location TBA

Arrington de Dionyso // Cookie Tongue // Larkin Grimm
2021-07-29 19:00 - 21:00
Our collection has been entirely packed away for the summer, but we’re hosting one last backyard performance at the old pottery studio, featuring:
Arrington de Dionyso is a self-taught artist, musician and linguist. He is the founder of seminal NW post-punk bands Old Time Relijun, Malaikat dan Singa, and the avant-jazz ensembles This Saxophone Kills Fascists and Trance Music For Crows. He has performed and exhibited around the world, and as a kind of “punk ethnomusicologist” Arrington circumvents academic approaches in favor of building direct cooperative relationships with diverse musical cultures, as an invited participant and active collaborator.
Cookie Tongue is a freak-folk duo from NYC, creating a menagerie of puppetry, animation, butoh-inspired dance, and ritual magic, and performing original songs and whimsical interludes, inspired by surreal mythology, fairytales, childhood, ghost stories, and a sprinkle of the occult. Performed with guitar, singing saw, glockenspiel, organ, bells, drums, experimental percussion, and orphaned toys.
Larkin Grimm Larkin Grimm is a NYC based composer, singer, and multi-instrumentalist
who bridges the worlds of folk, rock n’ roll, noise, and free jazz. Music is invisible sculpture!
$8 // All-Ages // NOTAFLOF

Up Up Up Crane Truck Circus
2021-07-28 19:00 - 20:30
We’re very excited to be hosting the first Bellingham performance from the UpUpUpInc Crane Truck Circus show!
The show was created while in residence at @lookoutartsquarry utilizing an old flatbed truck and manual-crank crane mounted to the bed for levitating pianos, aerial apparatuses, and humans! The show has been traveling the northwest with a 7-person cast of aerialists, musicians, acrobats, clowns and illusionists!
AltLib is always ALL AGES!
Donations will support the AltLib and the artists ~ NOTAFLOF!

Fleegix Film Screening // Spine Readers
2021-07-23 19:00 - 22:00
Friday, July 23rd; 7:00pm
Come through the backyard this week to catch a screening of Matt Thurber’s feature-length film, Fleegix, projected on 16mm with live narration performed by the director!
Bring a dish (or not) and join us for a potluck dinner at 7:00pm, then witness a sunset performance from the Spine Readers, one of Bellingham’s most audacious rock bands, performing a unique set as their first public re-emergence from quarantine!

Writer's Communion
2021-07-18 11:11 - 13:00, 2021-06-20 11:11 - 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.

Lost Sock // John Saint Pelvyn & Cauda Decurvata // Tim Root
2021-07-16 19:00 - 21:00
Lost Sock is a collaboration of percussionist Melanie Sehman and multi-instrumentalist Cullen Beckhorn. Their work is based in live improvisation that transcends genre, combining elements recognizable as jazz, ambient, electronic, experimental, metal, and other sounds!
John Saint Pelvin is a vocalist and guitarist who plays with uncommon resonances and has previously opened up performances for Paul Metzger. For this performance he will be collaborating in song with Cauda Decurvata
Local poet, filmmaker and artist Tim Root will also be sharing something with us.

Intro to Self-Publishing
2021-07-15 17:00 - 19:00
Intro to Self-Publishing is our monthly workshop on the basics of self-publishing, with a focus on zine-making!
This is a two-hour instructional that will cover the basic processes of creating a zine using a laser printer, long-arm stapler and paper guillotine! It is recommended (but not required) that you come with ready material to include in your zine ~
$25/person covers initial print studio orientation/training as well as ongoing access to the equipment covered in this class for the month’s open studio hours!
Attendance will be strictly limited, due to the size of our space. To confirm your attendance for this class, please e-mail: info@AltLib.org

Letters To Prisoners
2021-07-08 18:00 - 19:30
We will gather in the backyard for a kind of info session about prisoner solidarity in the US and then break out to write letters to incarcerated people.
We have assembled some information and correspondence with specific prisoners, and we will provide pens, paper, and envelopes!
As Biden/Harris crack down even harder on anyone fighting for any semblance of justice with their new “anti-terrorism” law, we’re stepping our game up and learning to better support and include our captured comrades in the ongoing struggle (as more comrades may end up captured)…
See our Prisoner Solidarity page for more info~

We’re All We’ve Got, We’re All We Need
2021-07-04 13:00 - 19:00
Mutual Aid Pop-Up
July 4th; 1-7pm; Public Library Lawn
Come bring supplies for unhoused neighbors, listen to local artists perform, and find ways to get involved with local mutual aid groups.

The First Pride Was a Riot
2021-07-03 18:00 - 23:00
THE FIRST PRIDE WAS A RIOT!
July 3rd; 6:00pm; Meet at the Bellingham City Hall Lawn; All Queers Welcome! *cops stay home*
Join us during the anniversary of the 1969 Stonewall Riots for an evening of radical queer joy and solidarity to honor the radical queers, queens, amd other assorted troublemakers who came before us!
This will be a radical, anti-capitalist, abolitionist, queer street event on the anniversary of the Stonewall Riots against police oppression! Expect part rave, part drag show, and part absurdist street theater!
Drag show hosted by @mx.combobulated with performances from @rikkisinsation @glamazonbananazon @alecialily @desmondpounder and more!
DJ sets and performances from @reverenddollars , DJ Parts Per Million, DJ Samadhi Flow, and more!
We will be in attendance with our mobile literature table and a fresh swath of radical queer zines available by donation 🖤

Palm Sunday // Sun Professor // Laith
2021-07-02 19:00 - 21:00
This week’s backyard concert features the inimitable Sun Professor performing live alongside traveling artists Palm Sunday and Laith, visiting from Portland!
$8 supports the artists and the AltLib!
AltLib is always ALL AGES
NOTAFLOF

Inside Joe Listening Party
2021-06-27 13:00 - 16:00
Swing through the backyard for a listening party and hang with the curators of the newly released Inside Joe Mixtape Vol. 1
