Monthly Archive for September, 2026

10-16 Yoko Ono Creation Celebration

Published on September 30, 2026 0 Comments
Oct
16
6:00 pm

Yoko Ono Creation Celebration
FEMME FANTASQUE #2 Release Party
And Interactive Art Show
with Mike SmithFriday 10/16, 6:00-8:00 pm
Quimby’s, 1854 W. North Ave.

8 PM Musical march from Quimby’s to Six Corners, North and Milwaukee with Environmental Encroachment

Announcing a performance, exhibition and Zine release event dedicated to YOKO ONO. Museum-quality replicas, along with surrogate Performances and Homages. Interaction and Participation will be available!
Performances, Re-enactments, as well as Tours of over Ten of Yoko’s artwork replicas will be continuous. A table will be available for a group letter to Yoko. also, an Official Announcement for a Ray Johnson 100 event next year~!
Sponsored by Quimby’s and Mike Smith’s new zine: FEMME FANTASQUE, a Chic Fanzine Uncovering Disparaged Starlets. The Chicago-produced ‘indy zine’ features collage portraits and historical commentary by local artist and musician Mike Smith.
The format is 10 legal size pages folded, making it 8.5 x 7 inches. “I uncovered amazing stories looking for Femme Fatales, instead I found these amazing souls, fantastic, better yet, FANTAS-QUE, a Surrealist artist term. The zine series is available at Quimby’s in Chicago.

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Event is donate what you can afford in person or via Venmo
Funds goes to: Support the traveling artist or the cause of their choice
Suggested donation: $10
Venmo: @quimbysbookstore
Please include “ONO” in the note!

9-20 to 11-12 ECHO ALIAS

Published on September 29, 2026 Closed
Sep
20
7:00 pm

ECHO ALIAS
On view at through 11/12
Mid-Show Party 10/17 6:30
Quimby’s Bookstore
1854 W. North Ave, Chicago

ECHO ALIAS is an urban art and graff inspired crew comprised of Alias Himself, Alias Elder and L. Culprit with a long running anonymously sourced 11 issue zine of moody diaristic and fiction writing and urban art.

For their Chicago gallery debut they’ve put together a killer installation of vinyl graphics, framed riso prints and original art with dozens of print varieties and entire run of zines for $10!

Come by any day of the week 12-7 to see this awesome addition to the store.

Join us 10/17 for a mid-show party with snacks and fun hangout vibes. 

10/2 PRAIRIELAND with Elisabet Westbye

Published on September 29, 2026 Closed
Oct
2
6:00 pm

PRAIRIELAND
A Landmark Battle for Human Rights
with Elisabet Westbye

Friday 10/2, 6:00-8:00 pm
Quimby’s, 1854 W. North Ave.

~ Learn about the defendants.
~ Discuss how to fight against this injustice and oppression

From The New Republic article
“My Brother Was Sentenced to 30 Years for Moving a Box of Zines” 

“In June, Daniel Sanchez Estrada, a defendant [one of 22 defendants] in the historic Prairieland case, was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison, drawing international headlines and outrage. The artist and father was convicted of two federal offenses for allegedly moving a box of zines and other literature from the home he shared with another defendant, his wife, Maricela Rueda, following a July 4, 2025, noise demonstration at the Prairieland ICE Detention Center in Alvarado, Texas. Rueda faces 70 years in federal prison.” ~ 

Event is donate what you can afford in person or via Venmo
Funds goes to: Support the traveling presenter or the cause of their choice
Suggested donation: $10
Venmo: @quimbysbookstore
Please include “Pararieland” in the note!

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9/24 After Hours with Rose Metal Press

Published on September 8, 2026 Closed
Sep
24
6:30 pm

After Hours: Rose Metal Press
Thursday 9/24, 6:30-8:30 pm
Quimby’s, 1854 W. North Ave.

Rose Metal Press is an independent, not-for-profit publisher of hybrid genres specializing in the publication of flash fiction and nonfiction that moves beyond the traditional categories of poetry, fiction, and essay to find new forms of expression.

Rose Metal Press’s Readers:

Kathleen Rooney is a founding editor of Rose Metal Press, and a founding member of Poems While You Wait, a collective of typewriter poets who do commissioned poetry on demand. Her fifth novel Man Overboard! was published by Gallery Books / Simon & Schuster in July of 2026 and her debut picture book Leaf Town Forever, co-written with her sister Beth and illustrated by Betsy Bowen, was released by University of Minnesota Press in 2025. 

Essayist and poet Heidi Czerwiec is the author of Crafting the Lyric Essay: Strike a Chord, and the lyric essay collection Fluid States, selected by Dinty W. Moore as winner of Pleiades Press’ 2018 Robert C. Jones Prize for Short Prose, and she is also the co-editor of the forthcoming The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing the Lyric Essay.

Lee Horikoshi Roripaugh (she/they) is a biracial Nisei whose most recent book, unMothered, unTongued: Lyric Essays is the winner of the 2024 AWP Sue William Silverman Prize for Creative Nonfiction. They are the author of five volumes of poetry, most recently Tsunami vs. the Fukushima 50, and her fiction collection, Reveal Codes, winner of the Moon City Press Short Fiction Award, was published by Moon City Press in 2023. 

Kelcey Parker Ervick is pretty sure she holds the record for being the author/editor with the most books published by Rose Metal Press—most recently The Field Guide to Graphic Literature. She is the author and illustrator of the graphic memoir, The Keeper, and a professor of creative writing at Indiana University South Bend. 

Mar Romasco-Moore is the author of the novels Inner Glow (forthcoming 2028), Deadstream, I Am the Ghost in Your House, Krazyland, and Some Kind of Animal, as well as Ghostographs, an interconnected collection of flash fiction inspired by vintage photographs. 

 

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Pay what you can afford in person or via Venmo.
Suggested: $10
Venmo: @quimbysbookstore
Please include “After Hours” in the note!

Your generous donation directly supports artist honorariums and ensures the continuation of this program. We are so grateful for your support of local creators, Quimby’s Bookstore, and DIY culture—we truly couldn’t do it without you!

Your generous donation directly supports artist honorariums and ensures the continuation of this program. We are so grateful for your support of local authors, publishers, creators, Quimby’s Bookstore, and DIY culture—we truly couldn’t do it without you!

9/10 Drunk Punk Recovery: Discussion Group with Tim Spock

Published on September 8, 2026 Closed
Sep
10
6:30 pm

 

Drunk Punk Recovery: Discussion Group with Tim Spock
Thursday 9/10, 6:30-8:30 pm
Quimby’s Bookstore, 1854 W. North Ave, Chicago

Join us this Thursday, 9/10 for Drunk Punk Recovery: Discussion Group featuring artist, punk and writer Tim Spock @drunkpunkrecovery! 6:30 sharp! No booze please.

We will have Tim’s zines available for sale: Why Do I Get High, Drunk Punk: Getting Sober Without Gods or Masters and The Drunk Punk Workbook.

Tim Spock is a punk who struggled with addiction. He was the cause of a crash while intoxicated that took the lives of two people and injured two more. While serving time for his crime, he created his own take on addiction and recovery based on lived experience and interactions with others. Now he is a licensed peer recovery specialist who helps others with their addictions. He lives in Lakewood, Ohio.

 

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Pay what you can afford in person or via Venmo.
Suggested: $10
Venmo: @quimbysbookstore
Please include “Drunk Punk” in the note!

Your generous donation directly supports artist honorariums and ensures the continuation of this program. We are so grateful for your support of local creators, Quimby’s Bookstore, and DIY culture—we truly couldn’t do it without you!

Your generous donation directly supports artist honorariums and ensures the continuation of this program. We are so grateful for your support of local authors, publishers, creators, Quimby’s Bookstore, and DIY culture—we truly couldn’t do it without you!