Now up on the wall of The Concern Newsstand at Attic 506 in Chapel Hill, paintings by Fig Hendrick. Fig is an artist local to Chapel Hill.
Attic 506
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
Attic 506 Rooftop Reading - November 19, 3pm
Please join us on Saturday, November 19, at 3pm for a Rooftop Reading curated by Mesha Maren. Mesha Maren will be reading from her latest novel 'Perpetual West', published this year by Algonquin Books. Signed copies will be available for purchase through The Concern Newsstand. The spaces at Attic 506 will be open that day 1-4pm.
Reading along with Mesha will be Tyree Daye, Ashleigh Bryant Phillips, Destiny Hemphill (bios below).
Mesha Maren is the author of the novels Sugar Run and Perpetual West (Algonquin Books). Her short stories and essays can be read in Tin House, The Oxford American, The Guardian, Crazyhorse, Triquarterly, The Southern Review, Ecotone and elsewhere. She was the 2018-2019 Kenan Visiting Writer at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and is currently an Assistant Professor of the Practice of English at Duke University.
Tyree Daye is a poet from Youngsville, North Carolina, and a Teaching Assistant Professor at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is the author of two poetry collections River Hymns, the 2017 APR/Honickman First Book Prize winner, and Cardinal (Copper Canyon, 2020). Daye is a Cave Canem fellow. Daye won the 2019 Palm Beach Poetry Festival Langston Hughes Fellowship and was a 2019 Kate Tufts finalist. Daye most recently was awarded a 2019 Diana and Simon Raab Writer-In-Residence at UC Santa Barbara and a 2019 Whiting Writers Award.
Ashleigh Bryant Phillips is from rural Woodland, North Carolina. Hailed in The New Yorker as "elegant and mesmerizing" and "brimming with dark and romantic details," her debut collection, Sleepovers, won the C. Michael Curtis Short Story Book Prize. It was also longlisted for The Story Prize and is forthcoming in Italian in 2022. Ashleigh's stories have appeared in The Paris Review, The Oxford American and others. Her essays have appeared in Our State and Lit Hub. She teaches fiction at West Virginia Wesleyan College's low residency MFA and is a Southern editor for Joyland Magazine.
Destiny Hemphill (she/her) is a ritual worker and poet based in Durham, NC. A recipient of fellowships from Naropa University’s Summer Writing Program, Callaloo, Tin House, and Kenyon’s Writers Workshop, she is the author of the poetry chapbook Oracle: a Cosmology (Honeysuckle Press, 2018).
Drawings by Olivia Gone and Skully Gustafson up at The Concern/ Attic 506
Starting June 9, 2022, The Concern’s walls at Attic 506 in Chapel Hill will have some recent drawings by Olivia Gone and Skully Gustafson. Pieces are for sale. Olivia and Skully are both artists and the managers of Slug Space, the baby gallery at Attic 506. They are also together in the band, Wetness. Drawings will be up through the end of August.
Larissa Lynn Wood charcoal drawings at Attic 506
Opening Friday, April 8, 6-9pm at The Concern’s Attic 506 location: Larissa Lynn Wood’s original charcoal drawings from the self-published zine, ‘The Abscission Zone’, an A to Z of tree terminology. We also sell Wood’s self-published children’s book ‘There’s Wondrous Fungus Among Us’. Larissa Lynn Wood is an artist and teacher in science & art, based in Chapel Hill, originally from Asheville.
the concern reading series & Golias Books present Ted Rees
Join us on Sunday, April 10 on the rooftop at Attic 506 in Chapel Hill. The Concern Reading Series and Golias Books (Durham) present Thanksgiving, A Poem, read in its entirety by Ted Rees (PA). Doors open at 3pm. Reading starts at 4pm. Afterward hear music from The Always Sacred Beauty Collective. Line up organized by Dylan Angell. Thank you to Orange County Arts Commission for the series grant support.
Romance Press (Durham) worked with Ted Rees, and us to create a risograph- printed broadside of one of Ted’s poems. Available for free while supplies last.
Reading Series Helps Revitalize Downtown Arts Scene, article in The Local Reporter by Pamir Kiciman
Thankful to Pamir Kiciman for writing this article :
Reading Series Helps Revitalize Downtown Arts Scence’ after interviewing me, Orvokki Crosby owner of The Concern Newsstand and curator/ emcee of the Reading Series, Dylan Angell. It can be read here at The Local Reporter.
The Concern Reading Series December 12, 3pm
The Concern Reading Series continues again on Sunday, December 12 on the rooftop at Attic 506 in Chapel Hill. Doors open at 3pm and the reading begins at 4pm. Poets reading: Nina Oteria, Aimee (Harrison) Wright Clow, Fred Joiner & Christopher Catanese. Nina Oteria is a current resident in Drawing Room and Fred Joiner is the current resident in the Attic 506 residency program. The Reading Series is curated by Dylan Angell.
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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.
The Concern Reading Series at Attic 506, October 8, 7pm
Join us for another iteration of The Concern Reading Series on Friday, October 8 at 7pm during the Second Friday art walk. Readers include emilio Taiveaho Peláez, Loan Tran, Olivia Gone & Sam Lineberger. Curated by Dylan Angell.
Thank you Orange County Arts Commission for granting this project further!
The Concern Reading Series at Attic 506, August 13, 7pm
On Second Friday in August, join us for a poetry reading on the rooftop at 7pm sharp.
Organized by Dylan Angell (author of I Am My Own Imaginary Friend and Photo Never Taken), the reading includes poets from the Triangle area: Michelle Dove, Laura Jaramillo, Chanelle A. Bergeron and Minori Sanchiz-Fung (who has a solo show of painting at Slug Space at Attic 506 currently).
Poetry Reading at Attic 506, June 11, 7pm
On Second Friday in June, join us for a poetry reading on the rooftop at 7pm sharp.
Organized by Dylan Angell (author of I Am My Own Imaginary Friend), the reading includes poets from the Triangle area: Mark He, Susannah Simpson, Ian Lockey, Marta Núñez Pouzols, Dylan Angell.
Art Basil
Join us December 8 for Art Basil, a Holiday Bazaar at Attic 506 (506 W. Franklin Street, 2nd floor), 4-7pm!
Get some holiday shopping done-> locally made art, crafts, ceramics, cards (Max Huffman, Amanda Barr, Jerstin Crosby, Lindsay Metivier, Vanessa Murray), vintage clothing (Dress Kit Vintage) and books & magazines courtesy of us. Flyer below by Max Huffman, whose comics we sell in store.
Precious Moment & more at Attic 506 Friday, March 8, 6-9pm
Attic 506 (new name for the Art Studios at 506A W. Franklin Street, 2nd floor)
open for 2nd Friday Art Walk in Chapel Hill:
March 8, 6-9pm
Featuring:
A hallway show by Brenda Goldstein (Durham) showing a series that explores her relation to space, color and light rendered in architectonic lines and curves in acrylic pencil & crayon.
Sourcing imagery from production sets, kitsch crafts, and prop designs, April Childers will present new paintings and sculptures in a show titled ‘Precious Moment’ at ‘My Room,’ Amanda Barr’s rotating exhibition space. Combining the principle of the carrot and the stick with gentle notions of instructional painting, mouse excrement and chintzy object references, the exhibition will be displayed as a ‘looping still’, taken from a narrative cycle involving authority and the rumination of it.
The Concern Newsstand run by Orvokki Crosby (Chapel Hill) open with new artist publications in store, plus video with original music by Clark Blomquist (Carrboro) of Tegucigalpan on display and a new publication by him called ‘Instant Ham’.
The debut of Jerstin Crosby (Chapel Hill) sharing a studio with Vanessa Murray (Carrboro). Jerstin will be showing his current work with sculpture, as well as video art by David Colagiovanni (Athen, OH) from Jerstin’s long running cable access video art show, Acid Rain. Vanessa will be showing painting & mixed media work from the past & present.
Lindsay Metivier (Carrboro) will have her photo studio open. In her space will also be a table ocomix collective The Weakly Group founders Max Huffman (Carrboro) & Andrew Alexander (NY). They will be selling comics, zines, prints & stickers.
Precious Moment- April Childers
Brenda Goldstein