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Free the Nipple Yoga
2019-10-10 18:00 - 19:00 (America/Vancouver) | WA
We will join weekly to continue our work of normalizing the human nipple so it may be worn equally by all people, not just those with “male” bodies.
We will join together in a facilitated yoga session open to all experience levels. Kids are so welcomed and people of all sorts…wearing what we would like to on our torsos.
Respectful people of All Genders Shapes and Sizes are encouraged and welcomed to participate. Given societal nuances however, male bodied people will be there to serve, mainly engaging with the public if the public have questions or concerns, so that fem, trans, and non-binary folk don’t have to. Also, as part of serving, any person will leave if asked.
Folks should bring their families, friends, water, a towel, sunscreen, and food for a potluck after we do yoga

Duo Violao +1 (Brazil) / MANtrio / Combo Zero
2019-10-12 19:30 - 23:00 | WA
We’re looking forward to welcoming Duo Violao +1, on tour from Brazil, playing a survey of traditional choro music.
Doors at 7:30pm; Music at 8:00pm
$8-12 admission supports the artists and the AltLib
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Long before the emergence of bossa nova and samba, choro took shape in 19th-century Rio de Janeiro as the first truly Brazilian musical style; A confluence of popular European dance music like the polka and waltz with African rhythms, particularly habanera (via Cuba) and Angolan lundu.
Duo Violao is the duo project of Brazilian guitarists Rogerio Souza and Edinho Gerber. They have since expanded to Duo Violao +1, when during their first visit to the Bay Area in 2015, they met percussionist Ami Molinelli and the musical connection was immediate. Over the following years, they travelled up and down the West Coast, performing and developing a unique sound while navigating the rhythms, styles, and sub-genres of Choro music. In 2018, their hard work paid off as Ami Molinelli received an IAC grant from the San Francisco Arts Commission for their collaboration. The result is “A Historia do Choro”, a survey of the musical history and evolution of Brasil’s greatest art form that reveals its rhythmic and harmonic permutations. Their playing creates a unique musical statement, coherent in timbre and vision, marvelously varied in its nuances.
http://www.duoviolaobrasil.com/
Additionally, they will be joined by two local jazz groups:
MANtrio – MANtrio is an improvising trio featuring pianist and vocalist Sage Romey, bassist Sarah Yates and drummer Melanie Sehman. Based in the jazz idiom, the group brings together a wide variety of backgrounds and influences, from West African and contemporary classical music to medieval music and jazz Manouche. Using radical listening as a guiding principle, the group uses the standard trio format as a laboratory for exploration, performing improvised music, original creative work and experimental arrangements.
Combo Zero – Combo Zero is a local jazz ensemble.
AltLib is always ALL AGES!
NOTAFLOF
RSVP and more info: https://www.facebook.com/events/370599577149855/

Story Box Storytime w/ Michael E. & O.
2019-10-13 14:30 - 15:30, 2019-10-20 14:30 - 15:30, 2019-10-27 14:30 - 15:30 | Alternative Library, 519 E Maple St, Bellingham, WA, 98225, United States
It’s storytime at the Alternative Library!
Sundays in October: 2:30-3:30 PM
Stories, curiosities, and magic tricks emerge from the story box, and sometimes the audience becomes the storyteller. Bring a child, bring a friend, or come as you are. All are encouraged to attend and participate.
Michael E. started librarian life as a children’s librarian. O. was just a week old at her first storytime. Together they are a playful team.
RSVP and more info HERE ~

Poetrynight
2019-10-14 19:00 - 21:00, 2019-10-21 19:00 - 21:00, 2019-10-28 19:00 - 21:00, 2019-11-04 19:00 - 21:00, 2019-11-11 19:00 - 21:00, 2019-11-18 19:00 - 21:00 | WA
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.

Volunteers' Meetin'
2019-10-16 19:00 - 20:00, 2019-10-23 19:00 - 20:00, 2019-10-30 19:00 - 20:00 | Alternative Library, 519 E Maple St, Bellingham, WA, 98225, United States
Every Wednesday is our weekly volunteer meeting, where we discuss the goings on and future of the AltLib!

Artists' Open Stage
2019-10-17 19:00 - 22:00 | Alternative Library, 519 E Maple St, Bellingham, WA, 98225, United States
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~

11:11 Writer's Communion
2019-10-20 11:10 - 13:00, 2019-11-17 11:10 - 13:00 | Alternative Library, 519 E Maple St, Bellingham, WA, 98225, United States
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
2019-10-20 17:30 - 20:30 | Alternative Library – CLASSROOM, 519 E. Maple St. , Bellingham, WA, 98225, United States
Industrial Workers of the World unite!
Whatcom-Skagit IWW host a monthly communion of comrades

Techno Halloween Party
2019-10-25 20:00 - 23:55 | WA
Doors at 7:30pm; Music at 8:00pm
$6 supports artists and the AltLib
AltLib is always ALL AGES
Music, art, costumes and friends. These four things are some of the basics of having a good time. Friday, October 25th our goal is to bring these four things together at the Alternative Library in an attempt at throwing the best party in Bellingham. The team assembled for this event consists of some of Bellingham’s most passionate techno lovers as well as art lovers. The dance floor is a sacred space and we intend to keep it a safe space for this event, so please leave any negative attitudes at home and come join in a techno banger.

AltLib 12 Year Anniversary ~ Group Publication Launch and Show
2019-10-26 19:30 - 23:30 | WA
Come celebrate the 12th Anniversary of the AltLib, with the group launch of new publications from local artists, and performances from The Censors and Beth Fleenor! The night will be both a celebration of 12 years of community collaboration and a fundraiser to support AltLib’s quest for a new home ~
Doors at 7:30pm; Music at 8:00pm
$6-20 sliding scale donation
AltLib is always All Ages~
Publications launching from:::
Collaborative Editions, Neoglyphic Media, and Re Pinter ~
Performances from:::
Crystal Beth: Unleashing her first full-length studio record, PUSH THRU, a solo incarnation using wailing vocals, amplified clarinet, beat-boxing and electronics, she weaves a sonic universe all her own. Known for crafting aural rituals that encompass industrial chants, alien disco breaks, heart gushings, improvisations, and robot love songs, Crystal Beth redefines the possibilities of the voice and clarinet in tight experimental pop songs and undulating, cathartic noise cries. Crafting moments that ricochet between meditation and a full body purge, she is an electric, adrenaline inducing performer voted Seattle’s Best Classical Musician and nominated for NW Vocalist of the Year.
https://crystalbeth7d.bandcamp.com/album/push-thru
The Censors: Four humans, one larynx, multiple strings, several blunt objects, and a smattering of electronic devices. Influences include no wave, krautrock, free jazz, distant children crying out in what could equally well be anguish or mirth, etc.
https://soundcloud.com/kelsify/sets/censors-demos

Analog Brass / Bobby Petite / Guest
2019-10-31 19:30 - 23:00 | WA
Join us this Halloween for a funky fun time! Dress code: costume casual
Doors at 7:30pm; Music at 8:00pm
$6-10 sliding scale supports artists and the AltLib
AltLib is always ALL AGES~
Analog Brass: Explosive pop-funk that puts the concept of acoustic music on its head and runs it into a new state of being. Analog Brass actively pushes the limitations of what’s possible on horns and gives the audience an experience that goes beyond just sound.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWIBHfojz6xboF6FIICSz4w
Bobby Petite: Mixing jazz/rock and psychedelic/soul, Bobby Petite is a no-frills band that creates art for music lovers.
https://bobbypetite.bandcamp.com/
Guest: Derived from the solo work of Sidney Amos, Guest is a three-piece band fusing blues, singer-songwriter, and pop elements to create music that has a lil something for everyone
https://soundcloud.com/sidneyamoss/mustard-seeds-1
RSVP and more info: https://www.facebook.com/events/484784258795126/

GrossFest
2019-11-02 20:00 - 23:55 | WA
2 stages: Upstairs Alternative Library & Downstairs Karate Church
$10
All profits from this show will go directly to the Mt.Baker Planned Parenthood Clinic.
Costumes Encouraged
BANDS:
Cop Talk
Spoon Benders (PDX)
The Offectors (PDX)
Wild Powwers (SEA)
Careen
TYL
Supermissive
Glitchlette
Jerry Core
DJ Jacksn Croy

Volunteers' Meetin'
2019-11-06 19:00 - 20:00, 2019-11-13 19:00 - 20:00, 2019-11-20 19:00 - 20:00 | WA

Our Cult
2019-11-09 20:00 - 23:55 | WA
Doors at 7:30pm; Program at 8:00pm
$6-12 sliding scale supports artists and the AltLib
AltLib is always ALL AGES~
Our Cult is an interactive art experience built around the idea that everything is a cult leader, and responsible for cultivating a piece of our existence. You, mountains, trees and universe, we’re all the cult leaders of our reality. The question this event asks of every guest and artist is: As the cult leader of our reality, what are we doing to heal ourself?
We live in a wild time, and an even crazier place, this event is all about accepting the darkness within ourself, acknowledging the struggles we face, and using the darkness to create a positive existence.
DJ Sets:
Leaf
Cables
Korra the Kid
Live Shibari:
Knotty Devil
Live Performance Art:
Aida Cardona
Cadian Molumby
Brendan Rouge
Connor Chaney
Zac Pease
Bellingham Flow Artists Collective
Visual Art and Installations:
Marc Pease
Keara Deer
Zac Pease
Piper Crabtree
Jackie Cogan
RSVP and more info: https://www.facebook.com/events/521619238592600/

Latinx Poetry
2019-11-15 18:00 - 19:00 | WA
Join writers Casandra López and Malcolm Friend at Bellingham Alternative Library for an evening of Latinx poetry. Books will be available for sale after the reading.
About the authors:
Casandra López is a California Indian (Cahuilla/Tongva/Luiseño) and Chicana writer who has received support from CantoMundo, Bread Loaf, and Tin House. She’s the author of the poetry collection, Brother Bullet and has been selected for residencies with the School of Advanced Research, Storyknife, Hedgebrook and Headlands Center for the Arts. Her memoir-in-progress, A Few Notes on Grief was granted a 2019 James W. Ray Venture Project Award. She’s a founding editor of As/ Us and teaches at Northwest Indian College.
Malcolm Friend is a poet originally from the Rainier Beach neighborhood of Seattle, Washington. He received his BA from Vanderbilt University, and his MFA from the University of Pittsburgh. He is the author of the chapbook mxd kd mixtape (Glass Poetry, 2017) and the full length collection Our Bruises Kept Singing Purple (Inlandia Books, 2018), selected by Cynthia Arrieu-King as winner of the 2017 Hillary Gravendyk Prize. Together with JR Mahung he is a member of Black Plantains, an Afrocaribbean poetry collective.
RSVP and more info: https://www.facebook.com/events/2461096980804076/

Meg Yates / ini / Earth Practice
2019-11-15 19:30 - 22:30 | WA
The Alternative Library invites all to gather together in an evening of song to welcome in the fall and winter seasons. Three overlapping acts will not only perform, but also guide the audience through voicing together with the intention of generating a sense of community and warmth.
Doors at 7:30PM, music begins at 8PM
$6-$10 sliding scale supports the artists & the Alt Lib
Your musical guides for this evening will be:
MEG YATES
http://www.meghanyatesandthereveriemachine.com
“Meghan’s style has the soul and strike of 70s era Joni Mitchell mixed with the unfettered, brilliant timbre of Björk and a guttural delivery all her own. Watching and listening to Meghan sing is like hearing one’s own soul reflected through a blessed vessel. It comes from a fire-filled, compassionate place of purity. It is honest, elemental music.”
— Frank Giokas (What’s Up Magazine)
INI
https://www.instagram.com/thisisini
Love songs for the new age. INI is the solo music of Jessi Rado. Guitar Bedroom Rock + R&B + Incantation, INI plays sweet songs of life, love, heartbreak/opening, and death. She is joined by her musical partner, YAMBABY.
EARTH PRACTICE
https://www.facebook.com/earthpracticemusic
EarthPractice is the song-family/singing-collective of yin, yam & jessi from bellingham, wa. Drawing inspiration from aspects of everyday life, the members of Earth Practice offer powerful medicine through simple means; creating warm, easy-to-catch songs that activate the heart and feel good inside. Their unique blend of musical influences have drawn comparisons to everything from 90s r&b to doo-wop to devotional chanting – often using only sounds and rhythms made by their hands, feet and voices
RSVP and more info: https://www.facebook.com/events/757478938010276/
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The Alternative Library is ALWAYS ALL AGES
NOTAFLOF
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IWW Meeting
2019-11-17 17:30 - 20:30 | WA

McKain Lakey / I Love You Avalanche / The Best Intentions
2019-11-22 19:30 - 23:30 | WA
Come on out for a superb line-up of musical acts, hosted by the incredible Alex Minshall!
Doors at 7:30pm; Music at 8pm
$6-12 sliding scale supports the artists and the AltLib
AltLib is ALWAYS ALL AGES~
THE BEST INTENTIONS
The Best Intentions are Ani Banani and Pete Irving playing a repertoire that encompasses jazz standards, old blues, contemporary diamonds in the rough, and a surprising amount of classic-sounding original music.
I LOVE YOU AVALANCHE
Since 2003, Anna Arvan has been writing and performing lyrically driven pop music as I Love You Avalanche. In addition to myriad four track recordings and random scraps, Fiction, the first full-band I Love You Avalanche record made in the studio, was released in 2013. Since then, Anna Arvan and Nora Hughes have been playing as a two piece focusing on vocal harmonies. They have recently added drums and bass, and are recording in September 2019.
https://www.iloveyouavalanche.com/
MCKAIN LAKEY
Songwriter, performer, teacher, luthier, and sound engineer – McKain Lakey knows every inch of the musician life. With voice, banjo, fiddle, and her handcrafted guitar, Lakey draws her creative inspiration from the American folk tradition, touring nationally with her patented mix of old-time tunes and new-roots originals. These originals exist wherever the imagination of John Hartford flows into the grit of Hazel Dickens—in the beating heart of contemporary Americana, forever old and new, described by What’s Up Magazine as “a time capsule unearthed, fine-tuned and re-imagined.” Lakey is also an accomplished music educator and audio engineer, exploring the power of sound from every angle and letting that experience shine through her compositions. Following the success of her debut EP “West,” Lakey is currently writing a full-length studio album, expected in 2020.
https://www.mckainlakey.com/
RSVP and more info: https://www.facebook.com/events/2146304642342024/
