Greensboro Zine Fest: Saturday, July 28, 2024

Save the date! Come visit us at Greensboro Zine Fest, after a few years break. Happening on Saturday, July 28, 12-5pm at The Crowne in Greensboro (310 South Greene Street).

The Concern Reading Series pamphlets

Beginning with the reading that took place in October, we are now publishing a tri-fold pamphlet with a poem or writing piece from each writer taking part. For the October 8 reading that took place at Attic 506 in Chapel Hill, the readers were emilio Taiveaho Peláez, Loan Tran, Olivia Gone and Sam Lineberger, line up curated by Dylan Angell Pamphlets are available at the Attic 506 location when open and also shipping free with web orders while supplies last. This project was funded in part by the Orange County Commission.

Stockist: The Improbable from Siglio Press

Happy to be a stockist of The Improbable, second issue from @sigliopress / a free newspaper investigating the rich & varied space between art & literature. In this issue: pieces by Nicole Rudick (on Niki de Saint Phalle), Anaïs Duplan (on the Black Avant-Garde), Shiv Kotecha (on Nicholas Moufarrege), J. Mae Barizo (on colonialism & archives), Douglas Kearney (on sonic & visual frequencies), Amaranth Borsuk (on Barbara Stauffacher Solomon), Clive Phillpot (on the Flat Time House), & Rachel Valinsky (on Chantal Ackerman & Hanne Darboven). A stack soon at @lump_raleigh too / shipping out free with web orders !

Local Distributor for Slingshot

Finally & proudly now a local distributor for Slingshot, the independent, radical & free quarterly newspaper from the East Bay in California. In operation since 1988, the newspaper is still created with a hand-done layout method by the Slingshot Collective, a loose group of volunteer members. Slingshot is also well-known for the pocket calendar called The Organizer they come out with every year since 1995. Slingshot issues will be available while supplies last for free at Lump in Raleigh and at Attic 506.

I'm With Earth sticker by Lydia Moyer

Another giveaway by artist Lydia Moyer (Charlottesville, VA), this time a 3” x 3” sticker ‘I’m With Earth’ while supplies last will be sent free with web orders or in store purchases at Lump Gallery & Attic 506.

Previously we’ve distributed her newsprint posters -> “Make America an Endless Expanse of Old-Growth Forest With No Certain Borders Again’ (designed with Tero Juuti) and two-sided poster ‘Melt Your Guns, Melt Your Sons’.

Lydia Moyer Poster back in stock for a limited time/ OUT OF STOCK

The all star newsprint poster “Make America an Endless Expanse of Old-Growth Forest With No Certain Borders Again,” by artist Lydia Moyer (Charlottesville, VA) is back in stock for a limited time. (now out of stock)

Shipping out free with orders while supplies last. Will update this blog post when they are no longer available!

Jason S. Wright 'I Am Here for You' Newsprint Poster (Giveaway)

We are excited to announce our first ‘giveaway’ produced exclusively by The Concern Newsstand.

Artist Jason S. Wright created artwork, titled ‘I am here for you’, for a 22.5” x 28” newsprint poster which will be shipping free with web orders & free with all purchases made at our back room bookstore at Lump Gallery in Raleigh and at our Chapel Hill showroom.

Jason S. Wright is currently based in Richmond, VA and shows his drawings & art works internationally. He is prolific in zine/ book producing & in one of a kind shirts with his writings & illustration. He is a founder of Udli Editions, producing such sellables, based in Boone, NC. We have several of his publications in store, including Heads Magazine 6, Heads Magazine 4, a book of drawings Angels Forever and a book of photographs, Scar Lover in a Red Halter.

New Poster Giveaway by Lydia Moyer

Artist, Lydia Moyer has created a new poster, as a follow up to her much talked about: "Make America an Endless Expanse of Old Growth Forest with no Certain Borders Again," (which have all been dispersed).  This new one, also newsprint, is two-sided with the words 'Melt Your Guns' on one side and 'Melt Your Sons' on the other.  We are lucky to be giving them away with orders while supplies last.

Here is what Lydia had to say about this one:

" I live in Charlottesville where this year, on the anniversary of the Unite The Right rally which brought hundreds of gun-wielding young male white supremacists to town in 2017, there were checkpoints around the city where the police could take your knives and bats and paintball guns and water guns and pellet guns away but not your AK47 because open carry is legal in Virginia."

Note from the artist: If you don't want to hang them up, "they are also excellent fire-starters : )"

Dog-Ear Bookmark Magazine, Issue 09- FREE

We received the newest issue of Dog-Ear, a "community interest" bookmark magazine published in the UK.  We are lucky to be able to give this issue for free with web orders and purchases at Lump Gallery.  The bookmark includes poetry, illustration & even a crossword puzzle.  Contributors include Olivia Spidel, Charlie Methven, John Ros, Neil Laurenson, Mansour Chow, Vicki Johnson, Rebecca Field, Nathan Fidler & cover art by Tomoko Tsukiuda.  In this issue, they even give The Concern Newsstand a shoutout as one of their few state-side stockists.  Dog-Ear relies on donations, as in this issue from people like author Margaret Atwood (!).

"It’s a bookmark. It’s a magazine. It’s open to everyone.  It believes in the benefits of playful creativity, especially reading, writing and drawing.  You’ll find it lurking in libraries and bookshops, or nestled between pages of other magazines.  Submissions are collected and posted online. Every three months-ish, we pick our top nine and print an issue."

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Make America... newsprint poster by Lydia Moyer & Tero Juuti

While supplies last, we are giving away this special, limited run- newsprint poster with every purchase made online or at our Lump Gallery location in Raleigh.  It was the idea of Charlottesville, VA- based artist Lydia Moyer as a spin off of what she sees America should be, mocking Trump's 'Make America Great Again' slogan:  "Make America An Endless Expanse of Old-Growth Forest With No Certain Borders Again."  Moyer enlisted the help of Finnish designer Tero Juuti to recreate the MAGA hat typography -look into this newsprint poster.  The result is, as someone pointed out to Moyer after the fact: "some irony in the whole project since newsprint is tied to deforestation."  22.75" x 27.5"

Only US stockist for Dog-Ear bookmark magazine from the UK

Happy to currently be the only stockist in the US for Dog-Ear, a bookmark shaped folding magazine from the UK.  It includes poems, witticisms & illustrations.  "It believes in the benefits of playful creativity, especially reading, writing and drawing. It's open to everyone."  And in that way, it's free!  Every purchase from The Concern will receive a Dog-Ear Issue 8 while supplies last, you can also grab one at our new corner outpost at Lump Gallery starting in February.

Dog-Ear is a 'Community Interest Company', meaning all of their profits go back to their business, back issues can be purchased on their website.