Little Five Points

Social, political and spiritual values of contemporary culture; affordable space for local companies

DIY zine-fair account; Waller’s Coffee Shop and rotating Atlanta sites. Vendor calls and archived fair posts lead directly to self-publishers and small tables.

Umbrella for Atlanta Underground Film Festival, ATL EXP, Atlanta Micro Short, ATL DOC, Atlanta Shortsfest, and HorrorFest; Little Five Points / 7 Stages and partner venues. ATL EXP in particular joins experimental cinema, video art, live visuals, sound, movement, and audience interaction.

Atlanta film-competition and screening community; rotating ITP venues. It centers women, nonbinary, trans, and gender-nonconforming filmmakers through audience voting, grants, mentorship, and intimate screenings.

Atlanta media collective and zine distro; citywide, with Little Five Points and pop-up activity. Artist-run trades, collage, pins, and small publications reliably surface makers who are otherwise hard to find.

Outdoor experimental cinema and contemporary video-art series at Findley Plaza, Little Five Points. Artist-led open calls and public projection turn a countercultural plaza into a temporary microcinema.

Annual all-instrumental festival rooted in Little Five Points. Its jazz, trap-jazz, experimental, ambient, dance, and genre-crossing lineups provide a broad annual doorway into Atlanta’s creative-music network.

Recurring Atlanta fair for zines, handmade art, analog work, workshops, and trades; citywide. Its human-made, small-table format is a useful counterweight to commercial book culture.

Queer tattooer working from a private studio; Little Five Points. The explicitly queer, artist-run, private-studio model sits within Atlanta’s alternative cultural geography.

Biweekly open mic pairing poetry, rap, and live music; Atlanta venues vary. Open sign-ups and a nonacademic stage make it a practical discovery account for local performers.

'The best local and national touring acts 5 nights a week'

Clothing brand (founded by Matt Lambert of No Head / Night Cleaner) hosting local-artist shows after hours

WRFG/community-radio zine collective; Atlanta, with Little Five Points activity. First- and third-Monday meetups connect accessible zine circulation to independent radio.

Aisle 5, 1123 Euclid Ave NE, Little Five Points, capacity around 300. Alternative, indie rock, and folk bookings; a working L5P room rather than a touring shed.

Atlanta-based magazine and 501(c)(3) covering contemporary art and criticism from the American South and Caribbean; Atlanta-based/editorial; follow for criticism, interviews, opportunities, and links between local spaces and the wider Southern art world.

Independent Little Five Points record store established in 1991 selling vinyl, CDs, comics, graphic novels, toys, and special releases; Little Five Points; follow for alternative-culture retail, obscure titles, new/used stock, and neighborhood scene activity.

Little Five Points store specializing in underground soul, jazz, hip-hop, and house; Little Five Points; follow for Black music lineages, crate-digger culture, beat sessions, and producer/DJ gatherings.

Variety Playhouse, Little Five Points. Historic room, useful for tracking which underground acts are graduating.

Vinyl specialist founded in 1976 carrying LPs, CDs, cassettes, 45s, posters, and record-care supplies; Little Five Points; follow for deep catalog knowledge and continuity between older Atlanta scenes and current independent music.