Alternative Library

Tatsuya Nakatani (Japan) returns to Bellingham next week, joined by Lost Sock (Cascadia), and spinning out of the weekly contact improvisation jam at the Akido dojo in Bellingham.

Monday, March 2nd
Aikido Peace Education Center
1101 N State Street

• 5:30pm - Contact Improvisation Class
• 7pm - Contact Improvisation Open Movement Jam
• 8:30pm - Lost Sock ( + ) live improvised music for movement
• 9:15pm - Tatsuya Nakatani ( ) solo percussion performance

$10 suggested donation supports the artists and the venue

Tatsuya Nakatani is an avant-garde percussionist, composer, and sound artist. His primary focus is his solo work and his large ensemble project, the Nakatani Gong Orchestra, which we hosted in 2019. Nakatani’s distinctive music centered around his adapted bowed gong, supported by an array of drums, cymbals, and singing bowls. In consort with his personally hand-carved Kobo Bows, he has spent decades refining and developing his sound as an arrangement of formations of vibrations, incorporated in shimmering layers of silence and texture. Within this contemporary work, one can still recognize the dramatic pacing, formal elegance and space (ma) felt in traditional Japanese music.

Lost Sock is the duo of percussionist Melanie Sehman and multi-instrumentalist Future. The two met while playing in the chamber pop group Hooves & Beak, and began meeting before band practices to experiment with electronics and extended technique playing. The two continue to play together, but public shows are rare. This will be their first since 2021.

We will also popup with our mutual aid zine distro, featuring a selection of zines available by donation.

The venue is located up a flight of stairs, and the doors will be closed and locked, except for brief moments transition times. Please ring the doorbell to be let in if you arrive outside one of these transitions. If you have mobility accessibility needs, please contact us with 24-hours advance notice and we will make arrangements for you.

Blow the Whistle on ICE: Developing a community alert system in Whatcom County.

Monday, December 1st, 3-5pm
2123 New Street

We have heard and seen reports coming from Los Angeles and Chicago of communities using whistles to help raise the alarm when ICE agents are identified in an area. Whistles can be heard from a distance, allowing us to communicate about the presence of ICE as they move through urban areas, and giving time and space for anyone who would be at risk of being targeted to get to safety.

We will be distributing whistles and information regarding nationwide ICE resistance. Let’s talk about what we can do in Whatcom County to make our community safer ❤️

**kICE

Tonight, we invite you to attend a book talk on the newly published volume from a fantastic regional radical publisher, Historical Seditions! We’re happy to present a talk on their most extensively researched publication yet::: Deconstructing Settler Socialism: The Internationals and Anarchism in the Wild West 🤠

TONIGHT, August 17th, 6pm
Lookout Arts Quarry
246 Old Hwy 99 N
Bellingham, WA 98229

The talk will be presented in the warehouse movement studio at the Lookout Arts Quarry. Please park in the lower lot near the large blue warehouse building and enter through the doors on the west side.

We will additionally present some publications from the AltLib radical zine distro 📚 …and more 🤫

Last week we dropped off hundreds of free newspapers, test prints, rare zines, and more at Fairhaven College. As the story goes, students descended on the boxes of free radical literature like wild dogs, tearing into the stacks and leaving newspapers strewn across the halls, into dormitories, and through the cafeteria for the following week, despite janitorial efforts to the contrary.

Much of the material distributed came from and though forensics would be hard pressed to identify much more.