As the months grow colder and the days shorter, we turn our thoughts inward. We spend more time in the comfort of our homes, cozying up with books and enjoying the company of those dear to us. November is naturally a time we give thanks for the people and things we are grateful for. A beautiful practice that will long benefit us.
This November we also gratefully acknowledge the lands we stand on and the people who lived here before the origins of our country. November is the time of Native American Heritage Month, and we at New Village Press would like to pay homage to all indigenous citizens and recognize the many native nations, both federally recognized and unrecognized, that have persevered despite historical genocide and persecution. Please join us in respecting and honoring their celebrations of heritage and culture over the coming days.
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New and Forthcoming Releases |
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Healing from Genocide in Rwanda
By Susan Viguers and Lily Yeh
“[This book] brings the transformative power of art to a very dark place.” —JoAnn Greco, The Pennsylvania Gazette
Healing from Genocide in Rwanda: Rugerero Survivors Village, an Artist Book demonstrates the power of art in the service of healing, and is a testimony to responsive community process in a highly sensitive environment. The work immerses readers in the stories of two Rwandans who as small children experienced the 1994 Genocide. Their moving accounts are framed by paintings by Lily Yeh and a visual chronicle of the transformation, in the Rugerero Survivors’ Village, of a concrete burial slab into a powerful genocide memorial, designed by artist Lily Yeh and built by the villagers.
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How Spaces Become Places:
Place Makers Tell Their Stories
Edited by John Forester
“Simply the best text available for understanding how to create more just, beautiful, convivial, and safe places. . . .This book is a gift of hope and possibility, revealing how the participatory art and craft of placemaking can be a small laboratory for democracy.”
—Leonie Sandercock, Professor in Community Planning,
University of British Columbia
We are honored to publish John Forester's collected "practice stories" of place makers who respond to daunting challenges of affordable housing, racial violence, and immigration, as well as community building, arts development, safe streets, and coalition building.
—Contributors—
Michael Pyatok • Al Zelinka • Mark Lakeman • Michael Hughes • Karen Umemoto • James Brodick • Fr Phil Sumner • Malik Yakini • Barnaby Evans • Wendy Sarkissian • Laurence Baudelet • Doug Rice • John Davis
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Portraits of Racial Justice:
Americans Who Tell the Truth
by Robert Shetterly
“These are healing, breathing portraits. People once met,
we now feel compelled to know. We can sense their palpable presences across time and their fierce struggles.”
—Jack Tchen, Professor and Director of the Clement Price Institute, Rutgers University, Newark
Artist Robert Shetterly's book, the first in a series, features 50 of his exquisite color portraits of inspirational social changemakers. Essays by Sherri Mitchell, Ai-Jen Poo, Rev. Lennox Yearwood, and Dave Zirin open the book. Blending history, social commentary, and stunning art, Portraits of Racial Justice makes a beautiful
and powerful work for our time.
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Featured Voices: Native American Heritage |
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Sherri Mitchell
Weh’na Ha’mu Kwasset
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Rights and responsibilities cannot be separated.
Every right that we stand upon must be balanced by a set of corresponding responsibilities. We cannot legitimately make a demand unless we are willing to take responsibility for creating a world where that demand can be met.
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The law says if you poison the water, you'll die. The law says if you poison the air, you'll suffer. The law says if you degrade where you live, you'll suffer.... If you don't learn that, you can only suffer. There's no discussion with this law.
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Waging Peace in Vietnam Exhibit |
Exhibit presented by Visions and Voices
University of Southern California Annenberg School
November 11 – December 3, 2021
Wallis Annenberg Hall, USC, Los Angeles
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SYMPOSIUM: Waging Peace in Vietnam: Protest Movements and Social Change
November 11, 7:30 p.m. PT
Meet four of the thousands of soldiers and sailors who paid a price for opposing the war. Susan Schnall, Navy nurse sentenced to six months hard labor for dropping thousands of flyers from a plane onto SF Bay military installations and then leading and speaking at an antiwar rally. JJ Johnson, one of the Fort Hood Three, served three years in Federal prison for refusing to deploy to Vietnam. William Short, incarcerated twice at the US Army’s Long Binh jail in Vietnam for refusing to continue killing Vietnamese. David Cortright, labeled a troublemaker by the US Army and transferred after he refused to stop his girlfriend from protesting the war. Plaintiff in the famous first amendment lawsuit, Cortright v. Resor. Also, Diane Winston, Knight Chair in Media and Religion, USC Annenberg School, and Dana Moss (moderator) Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Notre Dame.
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The book Waging Peace in Vietnam is available thru December at a 30% discount with free shipping! Use code PEACE30 at checkout on our distributor's website. |
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Fri, Nov 12, 2021, 7:00 PM EST
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse, NY 13203
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Stonington Opera House to hold special screenings of Truth Tellers documentary and Q&A with Portraits of Racial Justice author Rob Shetterly and director Richard Kane!
November 20 & 21
Stonington, Maine
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Truth Tellers, a feature film about the work of artist and author Robert Shetterly, will premiere in New York State at the Hamptons Documentary Film Festival.
December 9, 4 PM EST
Bay Street Theater, Sag Harbor, NY
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Glenna Lang, author of Jane Jacobs's First City, will be featured speaker at the AIA North Eastern PA Design Awards program! Lang will discuss and sign her book.
November 18, 5:00 PM EST
PNC Field Clubhouse, Moosic, PA
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Tenement Museum to host Jane Jacobs's First City a virtual book talk with author Glenna Lang!
December 7, 7–8 PM EST virtual
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Daniel O'Connell joined Scott Peters at Cornell University for a series of events and presentations related to their book In the Struggle about activist scholars in California who fought not only against industrial agribusiness but also for vital principles of equity, economic justice, community vitality, and ecological wellbeing. Here they speak informally at an upstate New York farm.
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Be sure to listen to the podcast Change the Story / Change the World, hosted by BIll Cleveland, author of Art and Upheaval. In the episode, Cleveland interviews Jan Cohen-Cruz, an important figure in the world of socially engaged performance and coauthor with Rad Pereira of the forthcoming Meeting the Moment, a book based on recent interviews of progressive performance artists covering the past 55 years.
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