Excited to be participating in THE ZINE MACHINE again this year!
Sunday October 20th from 11am to 5pm
At the Durham Armory.
75+ vendors!
All kinds of printed matter. Check it out!
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Announcing: The Concern Newsstand rack at Ada Gallery in Richmond, VA
We are excited to announce that we now have a small selection of books at Ada Gallery in Richmond (228 West Broad Street, Richmond, VA). They are open Thursdays - Saturdays, 12-4pm. Go check it out!
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).
Liberty Plaza Spring Market, Saturday, May 19, 2-6pm in Winston-Salem
We will be tabling at the Liberty Plaza Spring Market on Saturday, May 19, from 2-6pm in downtown Winston-Salem. 102 W. 3rd Street. The event is hosted by Culture.
Catalog Era Market, Saturday, May 11 in Durham, NC
Mini-market Saturday May 11 from 11-4 with vintage + gifts for grads, moms & everyone in between.
All-star lineup featuring
@rivtak
@jleepoli
@collective.clay
@themagickmakers
@shopfruitpunch
@twobluefeathers
@teaandtigervintage
@theconcernnewsstand
@clasicocloset
@authentic_vintage_official
At @cocoacinnamon AND of course! 420 West Geer
Liberty Plaza Spring Market hosted by Culture, in Winston-Salem
Sunday April 21, 2-6pm
Taking part in an art & craft Spring Market at Liberty Plaza in downtown Winston-Salem.
Culture has gathered over 20 artists to bring the best of local crafts, art and more!
This is a FREE to attend Market and will happen at 102 W. 3rd St. in Winston-Salem NC
Boone Bound Art Book Fair, April 27
We are taking part in the first annual Boone Bound Art Book Fair at Appalachian State University, taking place on Saturday, April 27, 10am-4pm. It will be at the Schaefer Center’s :
Smith Gallery
Department of Art
731 Rivers Street
Boone, NC 28608
Sleepy Fest at Down Yonder Farm on October 28
We are excited to have an area at Sleepy Fest this year, happening on October 28 at Down Yonder Farm in Hillsborough, NC. This is the 2nd Annual festival put on by Sleepy Cat Records! Get your tickets today! The Concern will be stationed in the Neptune Room along with an installation by Kathryn Desplanque and poetry readings curated by The Octopod (Dan Ruccia and Aimee Harrison) throughout the afternoon and evening. Come chill out inside between music acts outside.
Zine Machine- Durham Printed Matter Festival on October 15
Coming up, The Concern Newsstand will have a table at Zine Machine at The Fruit in Durham (305 S. Dillard Street). Nancy Sampson, author of Antiracist Ancestors zine, will be taking over the tabling on this day. Come learn more about her project and buy/ see other zines from The Concern. Come by on Sunday, October 15, 11am-5pm!
End Paper: NCMA Art Book Fair Panel Discussion & Tabling
Coming up: End Paper, NCMA Art Book Fair. The Concern will be tabling on Sunday, September 24 & Orvokki of The Concern will be part of a panel discussion on Friday, September 22, 6-7pm along with Bill Fick (Duke, Zine Machine, Super G Print Lab), Jenn G (Queen City Zine Fest) & Josh Hockensmith (UNC–Chapel Hill). Kick off the first NCMA Art Book Fair with a panel discussion on the communities and contemporary culture of art books in North Carolina. Guest speakers describe their leadership and involvement in various organizations, events, and initiatives in the state.
Friday, September 22, 5–8 pm
East Building, SECU Auditorium and Lobby
Kick off the first NCMA Art Book Fair with a panel discussion on the communities and contemporary culture of art books in North Carolina. Grab a unique print at the Triangle Screen Printers Guild print jam, check out the interactive zine display, enjoy music with DJ Chocolate Rice, and meet and mingle with other printed matter enthusiasts.
Sunday, September 24, 10 am–4 pm
East Building; Plaza; and West Building, Museum Store
The final day of End Paper brings together professional book artists from across the state to share the artistry of their work, lead workshops and demonstrations, and participate in a juried competition with works selected being acquired by the NCMA Library.
THE COLORS ARE LIKE WORDS THAT ARE NOT WORDS BUT COLORS / Book Curation
Coming up: The Concern’s Orvokki Crosby curated a selection of books for perusal, linked thematically to Abby Donovan’s solo show THE COLORS ARE LIKE WORDS THAT ARE NOT WORDS BUT COLORS. Opening June 7, going through August 5 at the North Gallery of the Shirley Fiterman Art Center at BMCC (Borough of Manhattan Community College). Come hang out in the reading nook and take a look. The South Gallery will have a solo show by artist Midori Harima.
Catalog Era market, Sunday, March 5 at Cocoa Cinnamon in Durham
Sunday, March 5, 2023, 11am- 5pm at Cocoa Cinnamon, (420 West Geer Street, Durham)
The Concern will be selling only rare & vintage books & magazines from the 1960s- 1990s', items not previously available on the web store or in store. Come by!
Old school! Remember when vintage was vintage?! Join us for a curated market with vendors highlighting the best of the 1960’s through the 1990’s!!
Tons of clothing vendors, higher end MCM furniture, original art from the 50’s, 60’s, 70’s, vintage and pristine records, handmade artisan and estate jewelry, collectible glass and housewares, vintage books and magazines, and more.
@wonderpuff @pernos_eclectic_relics @flippermccoyvintage @shadowgraph.vintage @durhamfashion @discodesignsvintage @duck_lane_vintage @heron_and_hellebore @oldcouchgirl @freekvintage @movingmamasvintage @spector_vintage @secondhand.news.durham @my_thrift_fix @valley_view_vintage @madeineverywear @bull_city_vintage_nc @dress_kit_vintage @theconcernnewsstand @rivtak @curafted @newexistencevintage @picnicwear @remko_nizbit
EUTOPIA Design & Friends Market, December 16 & 17
The Concern will have a pop up, along with other local vendors at EUtopia design, downtown Durham (118 W. Parrish St) on Friday, December 16, 6-9pm and Saturday, December 17, 12-6pm. Come get your last minute gifts!
Sexy Trippy Holiday Market - Two Days, Two Cities
Back for our third year, the Sexy Trippy Holiday Art Market burns bright with booths by new friends, artists and olde-time favorites. For the first time ever we will be hosting two events. One will be in Chapel Hill on our rooftop (Sat 12/3) and the other will be held the following day at Lump in Raleigh (Sun 12/4). This year’s offerings represent a variety of limited edition and handmade products and artwork. Stuff your own stockings with fun stuff like realistic ceramic cigarettes, poetry books, goth-inspired jewelry, flint-knapped knives, painted clothing, cryptic t-shirts, and beautifully printed risographs and screenprints. We’ll have live music and hope to see a lot of friends.
Confirmed vendors for one or both days:
Poplars Pocket
Soft Landing
Rivtak
Amanda Barr
The Concern Newsstand
Jerstin Crosby
Edward Max Fendley
Tom Sowders
Tilly Castelli
Nina Oteria
Tiger Potion
Drawing Room
Trepet Books/ Goodtimes Press
Larissa Lynn Wood
Olivia Gone & Skully Gustafson
Kasey Artcrafts
No Masters
Dress Kit Vintage
Live Music on Saturday: Joseph Spearman
DJ on Sunday: Cambria Storms
Now in Durham: EUtopia Design pop up shop
Now in Durham: we have a selection of books of Baltic & otherwise European origin, now available for sale at EUtopia Design pop up shop (118 W. Parrish St) downtown. Please go check out this cool & unique shop specializing in Polish crystal, glassware & decorative objects opened by Marta Brassil. Open Tuesday thru Saturday 12-6pm.
Zine Machine at Durham Armory, Sunday, October 16
Pleased to be tabling once more at Zine Machine after a two year hiatus due to the pandemic.
It will take place on Sunday, October 16, 11am-5pm at the Durham Armory (220 Foster St, Durham 27701)
Two Day Pop Up + Reading at Horse & Buggy Press' PS118 Gallery in Durham
We are excited to have a two-day pop up in Durham on Friday, June 3 & Saturday, June 4, 12-6pm at Horse & Buggy Press’ PS118 Gallery Space in Durham (118 West Parrish Street. Downtown Durham).
The Concern will have a broad selection for sale + sale items.
On Saturday, June 4, Ann Humphreys will read from her new, self-published book ‘The Tao of Hoop’. Ann is a writer, hula hooper & Carrboro resident. The book--which is a mixture of memoir, philosophy and spiritual inquiry, with a dash of self-help thrown in--guides the reader along the path Humphreys took as a middle-aged newbie hooper, showing how the hula-hoop taught her the crucial life lesson of how to feel. Not which emotions are appropriate to feel at any given moment, but rather, how to embrace the embodied experience of all emotions--especially those we do not wish to feel--and be transformed by that embrace.
Inflation Liquidation Sale
Enjoy 30% off all items, including already discounted items on two evenings in May:
Friday, May 13, 6-9pm (During second Friday Art Walk in Chapel Hill)
Thursday, May 19, 7-9pm (During the Acid Rain Rooftop Video Screening)
The Concern reading library for 181 exhibit at Locust Projects
181, artist collective (Brandon Boan, Abby Donovan, Tom Hughes, Jason Rhodes) has an exhibit at Locust Projects in Miami, FL called THE ABSOLUTE VALUE OF INFINITY ON ITS SIDE (O DISSIPATION). The Concern Newsstand has been invited to curate a reading library display in conjunction with the exhibition. It can be viewed there from February 19- April 9, 2022.
The collective’s exhibition will activate a series of circumstantial compositions considering time-based obstruction, including: the ancient Mud Lake Canal, Reserve-Capacity wave maneuvers, attempts to spot the endangered snail kite, shadow-telling trails from Mabel Cody, and other anomalous successions.
As a collective the 181 is interested in composing situations that generate experiential spaces which expand, contract, or reassemble as information sloshes about. Imperfect approximations of the universe as a whole. Artists, a physicist/electronic engineer/musician, a mushroom forager/rockhound, and a former linotype operator—any attempts to formalize their practice they view with distress.
As far as they can tell, the 181 has been working together since 2007 when they found themselves gathered by the Pacific Ocean with a glim glam golden Q, roughly 10 yards of transparent lavender vinyl, and a broken hold on the sea’s reflection.
Sexy Trippy Rooftop Holiday Market at Attic 506
Join us on Saturday, December 4th from 12-4pm for Attic 506’s 2nd Annual Sexy Trippy Rooftop Holiday Market. There will be music & vendors selling art, drawings, ceramics, apparel, vintage, books, zines, bushcraft & more. The indoor spaces, including The Concern’s shop will be open. Entrance either via 506 West Franklin Street 2nd floor door, or via the Graham Street alleyway to the fire escape stairs (by Beer Study).
