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Bellingham Puppet and Mask Festival
2019-03-22 19:00 - 23:00 (America/Vancouver)
Come forget we’re all puppets of the system — watch masters manipulate and make magic with premium puppet shows! Bellingham Puppetry Guild and the Alternative Library present a full weekend of puppet shows, mask performances, and storytelling for All Ages!
Doors at 7:30pm; Performances at 8:00pm
Single night tickets will be available at the door: $8-20 sliding scale
Featuring acts from:
Jawbone Puppet Theater – Jawbone Puppet Theater is a quirky father/son act presenting short form, funny, iconoclastic puppet shows based on literature, history and folktales, which tend to have social justice messages at their heart.
https://www.adamende.art/
Pappenspeil – From the German paper play, Pappenspeil is a widely inspired, but original creation. Traveling in a trunk-sized box, the puppets and masks have been crafted from mostly repurposed cloth, rag, wire, paper and other ordinary everyday objects to form the characters and symbols of legendary folk tales and morality plays. The stories are based on classics from the German/Central European “Märchen” tradition, yet aimed freshly at your very own eyes and ears, your beating heart, wondering mind – to celebrate the living art of the good sense, the common sense, the laughing twinkle and the soaring spirit!
String and Shadow – String and Shadow Puppet Theater is based out of Olympia, Washington. With mixed backgrounds in theater, puppetry, visual art, and computer science, they have joined forces to play with trash in public together for the last two years. They specialize in things big, tiny, peculiar, dreamy, and unsettling.
https://www.stringandshadow.com/
Shadow Sail Theater – Heather Dawn Sparks and Mattea Made are the Creatures of the Night! Weaving bold pomp with saucy voguing haute couture, the creatures of the night come to life in the crisp clarity of shadow and light.
http://sparksdesigns.xyz/shadow-theatre-blog/
RSVP and more info here: https://www.facebook.com/events/795084340859193/
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Full Festival passes ensure support for all the touring artists and are available via Brown Paper Tickets: https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/4101792
AltLib is always ALL AGES
NOTAFLOF
No Strings Attached!

Artist's Open Stage
2019-03-21 19:30 - 22:00 (America/Vancouver)
The Artist’s Open Stage at the Alternative Library 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.
Signups start at 7:15, with performances starting at 7:30pm
In March, we’re celebrating World Puppetry Day! This is an open call to any and all puppeteers with short acts to come and perform for our Open Stage!
We will have two puppeteers who will be joining us as features for the night: Max Eberhard of “Pappenspiel” and Adam Ende of “Jawbone Puppet Theatre” will both be performing series of short works for puppet and mask!
RSVP and more info here: https://www.facebook.com/events/408764496548567/
This will launch into our first ever Bellingham Puppet and Mask Festival, with feature-length performances to follow through the weekend!
Friday, March 22nd – https://www.facebook.com/events/795084340859193/
Saturday, March 23rd – https://www.facebook.com/events/765261733845582/
A full weekend pass to all puppet shows is available via Brown Paper Tickets: https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/4101792

Film: Harvest of Empire
2019-03-20 20:00 - 22:00 (America/Vancouver)
As part of the Bellingham Film Coalition, Whatcom Peace & Justice Center presents…

“Harvest of Empire” is based on the book by award-winning journalist and Democracy Now! co-host Juan González. By featuring stories from a wide array of immigrants, rarely seen archival material, and interviews with prominent activists, “Harvest of Empire” takes an unflinching look at the role that U.S. economic and military actions played in triggering the wave of migration that is transforming our nation’s cultural and economic landscape. As Juan González says at the beginning of the film, “They never teach us in school that the huge Latino presence here is a direct result of our own government’s actions in Mexico, the Caribbean and Central America over many decades — actions that forced millions from that region to leave their homeland and journey north.”
$5 suggested donation
AltLib is always All Ages~
NOTAFLOF
RSVP and more info here: www.facebook.com/events/2326158844296149/
Bellingham Film Coalition is brought to you by:
Whatcom Peace & Justice Center
Whatcom-Skagit IWW
Film Is Truth
Alternative Library

Volunteers' Meeting
2019-03-20 19:00 - 20:00 (America/Vancouver), 2019-03-13 19:00 - 20:00 (America/Vancouver), 2019-03-06 19:00 - 20:00 (America/Vancouver), 2019-02-27 19:00 - 20:00 UTC
Every Wednesday is our weekly volunteer meeting, where we discuss the goings on and future of the AltLib!

Vernal Equinox Celebration
2019-03-19 19:30 - 20:30 (America/Vancouver)
A non-denominational celebration centering around the birth of spring, the turning of the seasons and the story of Persephone.
All ages~

Classroom: Tai Chi
2019-03-19 08:30 - 09:30, 2019-03-12 08:30 - 09:30, 2019-03-05 08:30 - 09:30 (America/Vancouver)
Start the day with intention
A step-by-step hour of meditational movement

Poetrynite
2019-03-18 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Vancouver), 2019-03-11 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Vancouver), 2019-02-25 19:00 - 22:00 UTC
The second longest running Bellingham poetry group- poetrynight.
All people are invited to join the group any Monday night at 7 pm. You don’t have to be a writer to participate as readers of all ages are always invited to sign up to read between 6:30-7:00. 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

Classroom: IWW Meetin'
2019-03-17 18:00 - 20:30 (America/Vancouver)
International Workers of the World unite!
Whatcom and Skagit IWW chapters host a monthly communion of comrades

11:11 Writer's Communion
2019-03-17 11:15 - 13:00 (America/Vancouver)
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.

JJ Gregg / WMD
2019-03-16 19:30 - 23:00 UTC
Doors at 7:30pm; Music at 8:00pm
$8-16 supports the artists and the AltLib

JJ Gregg is known for his lyrical and meditative style of sitar playing. For the past eighteen years, JJ has studied and performed South Asian Classical music on the sitar under the guidance of his guru, Ustad Usman Khan. JJ Gregg has performed in India, Japan Thailand, and throughout the U.S.
https://jjgregg.bandcamp.com/
WMD is the ambient electronic project of Michael Erickson. The prolific electronic musician from the pacific northwest creates lush, airy songs thrumming with the power of melancholia, nostalgia, and the bliss and sorrow of relationships. Erickson’s music taps into a blend of chillwave, downtempo, and even post-rock. As daunting as that can sound, WMD lands somewhere between Tycho, Washed Out, and Baths in his deep, melodic production.
https://wmdchiptune.bandcamp.com/
AltLib is always ALL AGES!
RSVP and more info here: https://www.facebook.com/events/2286800118271074/

The Beautiful Freaks / Jock Tears / Apollo Ghosts / Bad Sister
2019-03-15 19:30 - 23:00 (America/Vancouver)
Join us for this SPRING FLING with local and out of town punx!
Doors at 7:30pm; Music at 8:00pm
$6-10 sliding scale supports the artists and the AltLib

THE BEAUTIFUL FREAKS (Bellingham, WA) play an eclectic and encompassing brand of rock music ranging in style from punk, to progressive, to funk, to thrash, and everything in between.
https://www.facebook.com/TheBeautifulFreaksMusic/
JOCK TEARS (Vancouver, B.C. Canada): the sensitive, sporty & sassy four piece band will melt your heart and whip everything up into a frenzy!
https://jocktears.bandcamp.com/
APOLLO GHOSTS (Vancouver, B.C. Canada) first show in six years! Sweater punks, DIY enthusiasts, crowd-surfers, inclusive, progressive!
www.apolloghosts.com
BAD SISTER (Seattle)
No online presence ,heavy and dark, pacific northwest punk///prepare ++ james jean and co/drum and bass
RSVP and more info here: https://www.facebook.com/events/386723525471002/

Classroom: Extinction Rebellion
2019-03-14 17:30 - 18:30, 2019-03-07 17:30 - 18:30, 2019-02-28 17:30 - 18:30 (America/Vancouver)
Comrades meet and discuss the imminent extinction rebellion

An Evening w/ Lou Barlow
2019-03-09 19:30 - 23:00 UTC
Message from Lou:
“In 2019, I continue my small space 7:30 showtime tour. I did this throughout 2018 and it was really good. The general set-length seems to be about 2 1/2 hours which is what it takes to play the requests I get and the corners of my catalogue (Sebadoh, Folk Implosion, Dinosaur Jr, solo etc.) I like to touch on every night. I also tend talk about the songs, my kids and whatever else happened that day. I’m most comfortable in this setting, please join me if you can.”
This intimate show is limited to just 50 tickets.
Doors at 7:30pm; Music at 8:00pm
AltLib is always ALL AGES!
We are serious about that timing~
Advance tickets are available in person at the AltLib or through EventBrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/an-evening-with-lou-barlow-in-bellingham-tickets-55101934369
RSVP and more info: https://www.facebook.com/events/550889025392557/

Brivele and Other Jewish Anti-Fascists
2019-03-08 19:30 - 23:00 UTC
Jewish Voice for Peace Presents an Evening with BRIVELE ! בריוועלע and Other Jewish Anti-Fascists, living and dead!
Doors at 7:30pm; Performances at 8:00pm
$6-$16 sliding scale at the door~

BRIVELE is a Seattle-based anti-fascist klezmer folk-punk trio who braid together oral history, Yiddish language, contemporary and old-country musical genres, American Vaudeville, and visual arts. Brivele is pronounced “BREE-veh-leh” (בריוועלע) and means “Little Letter” in Yiddish.
https://www.brivele.com/
JEWISH VOICE FOR PEACE members are inspired by Jewish tradition to work together for peace, social justice, equality, human rights, respect for international law, and a U.S. foreign policy based on these ideals.
www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org
ELAINA M. ELLIS is a poet, editor, curator, and performing artist. She is the author of the poetry collection Write About an Empty Birdcage (Write Bloody Publishing). She is a Lambda Literary Fellow, a self-identified Mountain Femme, and a founding member of the Kulshan Academy for Queer Artists. She has served as a consultant for Jewish Voice for Peace.
ROBERT YERACHMIEL SNIDERMAN is a poet, performance and visual artist. Through 2018, he worked as a DAAD Research Fellow at the Institute for Art in Context in Berlin, where he contemplated, amassed an archive, and performed public art actions with/in the largest intact and active Jewish cemetery in Europe. In the years prior, he organized anti-racist programming, workshops, and exhibitions at the Jewish History Museum of Tucson.
…and MORE!!!
RSVP and more info here: https://www.facebook.com/events/312960589333263/
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AltLib is always ALL AGES
NOTAFLOF

Film: Roger & Me
2019-03-06 20:00 - 22:00 (America/Vancouver)
As part of the Bellingham Film Coalition, Whatcom-Skagit IWW presents…

THIS IS WHERE IT ALL BEGAN!! Before all the hype, big budgets, and
mainstream controversy that made him famous, Michael Moore grabbed a
camera and a microphone, and barged into the offices and cocktail
parties of the people in power — all so he could ask tough questions
and demand real answers. It’s all worth it, if only to see the captains
of industry squirm… This is some punk rock, d.i.y., socially relevant
film making!
Flint, Michigan, was a city dominated by one company, General Motors (GM), largest corporation in the world. GM Chair Roger B. Smith decides to close eleven GM plants, most in Flint, resulting in 30,000 lost jobs. Despite GM still making profits in the billions, Smith moves those jobs to new factories in Mexico, where wages are lower. As such, Moore goes on a quest to speak to Smith to find out exactly his rationale for relocating those 30,000 jobs from Flint, thus devastating the city, and to show Smith firsthand that devastation. But Moore’s quest is easier said than done.
AltLib is always all ages~
RSVP and more info here: www.facebook.com/events/225780224936382/
Bellingham Film Coalition brought to you by:
Whatcom-Skagit IWW
Whatcom Peace & Justice Center
Film Is Truth
Alternative Library

Trouble #18
2019-03-05 19:15 - 21:30 (America/Vancouver)
We’ll be screening Sub.Media’s Trouble, episode 18: ACAB
To check out the trailer, see here: https://sub.media/video/trouble-18-acab-trailer/
See ya there, комраде

Poetrynite -- Sister Spit
2019-03-04 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Vancouver)
Sister Spit is touring with 7 poets and spoken word artists bringing 2 hours of QTPOC brilliance to the Alternative Library’s Poetrynight!
$10-$20 admission supports the artists and the AltLib
Meet the 2019 lineup:
▼KATIE FRICAS▼
Katie Fricas is a cartoonist and library worker from New York City. She makes non-fiction essay comics about art, politics, cultural events, oddities, and hidden histories in a wiggly, sloppy style for various publications and websites. She got her start illustrating for $pread Magazine (R.I.P) and self-publishing a comic about her life called Blabbermouth. Her work pops up in various anthologies, including the 2018 Ignatz Award-winning book, Comics for Choice, and she’s also published comics in the Guardian, Hyperallergic, the New Yorker, and a bunch of other shiny places. Her series Checked Out, about almost a decade spent working at NYC’s oldest Library, appears regularly on the website Spiralbound. When she isn’t scuttling all over NYC for work or elbow-deep in ink, she can be found scanning the funnie pages.
▼CRISTY ROAD▼
Cristy C. Road is a Cuban-American artist, writer, and musician. Through visual art, storytelling, and punk rock music, C.Road has thrived to testify the beauty of the imperfect since she began creating art in her hometown of Miami, FL. She grew up as a self-taught figure drawing artist with a penchant for all things that questioned society and began publishing Green’Zine in 1997– a fanzine which was originally devoted to the punk rock group, Green Day. C.Road graduated from the the Ringling School of Art and Design in 2004 with a BFA in Illustration. In early 2006, C.Road released her first illustrated novel, Indestructible (Microcosm Publishing), a 96-page narrative about high school; and later in 2007, a collection of postcards entitled Distance Makes The Heart Grow Sick (Microcosm Publishing). In 2008, she released Bad Habits (Soft Skull Press), an Illustrated story about healing from an abusive relationship; and lastly in 2013, her most recent book, Spit and Passion (Feminist Press, 2012), is a coming-out memoir about Cuban identity, discovering Green Day, and surviving in the closet. C.Road’s curent project is The Next World Tarot (2017), a 78-card tarot deck detailing themes of justice, knowledge, accountability, and reclaimed magic.
▼AUSTIN HERNANDEZ▼
Austin Hernandez is a Tejano designer and writer living in Brooklyn. His creative work is strongly influenced by his mom’s second-wave feminist teachings, his family’s Mexican-American or Hispanic or Chicanx or Mexica or “just American” origins, and high school riot grrrl mix tapes. Through traveling, sharing, and storytelling by film and spoken word, he focuses on the feeling of estrangement from society and analyzing seemingly conflicting identities—transman with strong lesbian roots, a monolingual mestizo with bilingual family, and a working-class Texan, raised on homemade flour tortillas and fast food, turned tech anti-bro. He recently left an international corporate life to become a civic technologist, improving the ways governments provide services to the public. He sits on the board of directors for Maven, a nonprofit that empowers LGBTQ+ youth to use technology for social change.
▼KATHERINE AGARD▼
Katherine is an interdisciplinary artist and writer from Trinidad and Tobago. She recently graduated from the MFA program in Writing from UC – San Diego and now lives in San Francisco. You can find her writing in Yes Femmes, Anmly, the Black Warrior Review and forthcoming in Feminist Studies.
▼BARUCH PORRAS HERNANDEZ▼
Baruch Porras Hernandez is a queer Mexican Immigrant from Toluca, Mexico. He is a writer, performer, storyteller, playwright and stand-up comedian, a two-time winner of Literary Death Match, a Lambda Literary Poetry Fellow, a Lambda Literary Playwriting Fellow, a two-time Pushcart Prize nominee, and was named a Bay Area Writer to Watch! in 2016 by 7×7 San Francisco Magazine. He is the founder and host of ¿Donde Esta Mi Gente? Latinx Literary Series, a regular KQED Arts host, and was the Voice of Shipwreck SF Erotic Fan Fiction Competition and podcast for four years and hosted the legendary SF Queer Open Mic for 7 years. His poems have been published in several anthologies and journals, both online and in print. Last summer he had the honor of being an artist in residence at the Ground Floor Summer Lab with Berkeley Repertory Theatre. He lives in San Francisco.
▼IMANI SIMS▼
Imani Sims is a curator, alchemist, and author. She believes in the healing power of ritual, performance art, and the power of words. She is the Curator of Kitchen Sessions, a running show series in collaboration with Central District Forum for Arts and Ideas, Bellevue Art Museum, Seattle Art Museum, and Theater Off Jackson. Her goal is to continue to shift the social narrative by providing artists of color with resources that empower and display our stories in public spaces all over the nation. Her book (A)live Heart is available on Sibling Rivalry Press.When she isn’t working, you can find her on the couch with a chilled glass of rose.
▼JULIANA DELGADO LOPERA▼
Juliana Delgado Lopera is an award-winning Colombian writer, historian based in San Francisco. The recipient of the 2014 Jackson Literary award, and a finalist of the Clark- Gross Novel award, she’s the author of ¡Cuéntamelo! an illustrated bilingual collection of oral histories by LGBT Latinx immigrants (Aunt Lute 2017) which won a 2018 Lambda Literary Award and Quiéreme (Nomadic Press 2017). She’s received fellowships from Brush Creek Foundation of the Arts, Lambda Literary Foundation, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and The SF Grotto, and an individual artist grant from the SF Arts Commission. Her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and published in various publications. She’s the creative director of RADAR Productions.
RSVP and more info here: https://www.facebook.com/events/359373281332031/
AltLib is always all ages~

Muse Reading Series
2019-03-03 15:00 - 17:00 (America/Vancouver)
Muse Reading Series, a student-run literary collective, curates diverse groups of local writers to read their work at spaces in the Bellingham community. We will be joined by authors Dayna Kidd Patterson and Hanna Webster, as well as student writers Madison Starks, Sydnee Smith, Jabez Richards and others. Join us!
For more info, click here: https://www.facebook.com/events/554892975016937/
AltLib is always all ages~

Cheap Sweat / Shimmertraps / Nate Kahn / Micah McCaw
2019-03-02 19:30 - 23:00 (America/Vancouver)
Come out for an eve of next-door-neighbor rock!
Doors at 7:30pm
Music at 8:00pm
$6 supports the artist and the Alt Lib
Always ALL AGES!

Cheap Sweat
https://cheapsweatband.bandcamp.com/?fbclid=IwAR2yXoxzUt95xF09uPPzZ-3-6B6fdzsYqhMoinidGJNLrwTSI-mP4IW63Ks
Shimmertraps
https://shimmertraps.bandcamp.com/?fbclid=IwAR08LL8ISKzZcpQ1-srYxj_VlR95yLNU8JYT71W-0wF3Bc0OfJqAIzRASIo
Nate Kahn and the Maple Bacon Band
https://natekahn.bandcamp.com/releases
Micah McCaw
https://www.micahmccaw.bandcamp.com
RSVP and more info: www.facebook.com/events/2146570498795811/

Cléo from 5 to 7
2019-02-27 20:00 - 21:30 UTC
As part of the Bellingham Film Coalition, Film Is Truth presents Agnès Varda’s 1962 film Cléo de 5 á 7, an example of French New Wave cinema that grapples with themes of mortality, the idea of despair, and the struggle to lead a meaningful life. Takes place in Paris in the two hour space following a tarot reading while Cléo awaits the results test results from her doctor.
Suggested $6 donation: all proceeds go to the Alt Lib & Film Is Truth.
Bellingham Film Coalition is brought to you by…
Whatcom-Skagit IWW
Whatcom Peace & Justice Center
Film Is Truth
Alternative Library

Classroom: Nettle Cordage Workshop
2019-02-24 14:00 - 17:00 (America/Vancouver)
Cordage is an ancient technology that has the power to heal when practiced in its primitive form. Fibers from many plants growing around us can be prepared and twisted together to make a tool essential for our basic needs. Each one is a work of art in which the soul of the maker can be seen.
Nettle has a very fine and strong fiber. It has long been used by native people for making fishing nets. Davis will be teaching the method of hand-working the material from dry stalks into strong two-ply string. This is a basic initiation into cordage. Each participant will get to work with their own materials and bring home the string they make. Much of the time will be spent practicing and refining the technique, including the finer points of how to make the strongest cord. There will be other fibers to experiment with as well, including wool, cotton string, New Zealand flax, and red cedar bark.
Davis has been practicing primitive skills for several years, having learned at retreats from some great teachers on the west coast. His attention to detail and appreciation for the deeper meaning behind the work will give you a strong introduction to this valuable life skill. Davis is also a song leader and will facilitate the playful creation of a song we can all sing together while we work!
ALL MATERIALS PROVIDED.
$10 suggested donation
RSVP and more info here: https://www.facebook.com/events/558526684667976/
photo credit: Allan Brown. Find him on Facebook!
