This year, our focus has been on expanding the Free Newsstands initiative of the Non-Traditional Newsstands project, broadening our scope to include more types of venues. To this end, we’ve been conducting outreach and building relationships with cafés, museums, and post-secondary institutions in the Lower Mainland area of BC, as well as planning outreach to post-secondary institutions on Vancouver Island.
We set up new newsstands at the Museum of Vancouver, Saunter Coffee in Downtown Vancouver, and Moodswing Coffee + Bar in New Westminster, and are set to establish two newsstands soon: one at the SFU Student Union Building on Burnaby Mountain, and one at Nelson the Seagull, a café in the Gastown neighbourhood of Vancouver.
Our newsstands at Evergreen Cultural Centre and Studio 58 at Langara College continue to see engagement and are being regularly restocked.
We have also partnered again with the Dance Centre to run limited pop-up shops at shows in February and March 2026.
Attention publishers!
If you’ve heard about this project but haven’t signed on, now is your chance.
We’re looking for more magazines to join Non-Traditional Newsstands. Through us, you can establish a presence in new and unusual venues and get your magazine into more hands.
Get free promotion, expand your distribution, and new readers. Let’s continue to showcase our vibrant magazine publishing sector!
Get in touch with co-leads Aniana Domínguez and Sun Woo Baik at ntnewsstands@magsbc.com.
