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! […]
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.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]