June 2019 Newsletter
Dear Friends,

June is blooming at New Village with progressive media featuring Chellis Glendinning's new memoir, upcoming author and disability rights activist Nadina LaSpina's being named Grand Marshal of the Disability Pride Parade, and the editors for Waging Peace in Vietnam fielding a blurber flurry as we get it ready for press. Summer interns have come just in time for a boost—whew!
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In the Company of Rebels excerpt featured in ColdType !

The June issue of ColdType with journalists from the around the world writing on important social issues has showcased an excerpt from Chellis Glendinning's In the Company of Rebels: A Generational Memoir of Bohemians, Deep Heads, and History Makers !

ColdType is a noteworthy radical political journal edited by Tony Sutton. True to its mission of creating a more fair and just society, the journal offers free online subscriptions.
PDF of June's ColdType here!
Chellis Glendinning reveals inspirations for her book in Wild Culture interview
Whitney Smith of The Journal of Wild Culture interviews Chellis Glendinning on her newly released memoir, In the Company of Rebels: A Generational Memoir of Bohemians, Deep Heads, and History Makers .
"The folks whose bios appear in In the Company of Rebels are indeed wild ones, and, by their thoughts and actions, courage and creativity, are the artists of remembrance of who we truly are.”
— Chellis Glendinning on the individuals she profiles in her memoir
Wild Culture also features an excerpt, "Sunshine Appleby: Disobedience in a Wet Suit,"







Chellis Glendinning sits with fellow students for the demonstration for People's Park at the University of California Berkeley, 1969.

Photo taken by Peter Barnes

Such a Pretty Girl in bookstores July 19th
Such a Pretty Girl: A Story of Struggle, Empowerment, and Disability Pride
by Nadina LaSpina

Coming out in July to honor the 29th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act

Such a Pretty Girl is Nadina La Spina's story—from her early years in her native Sicily, where still a baby she contracts polio, a fact that makes her the target of pity and messages of hopelessness; to her adolescence in America, spent almost entirely in hospitals, where she is relentlessly operated on in the quest for a cure; to her empowerment as a woman and professional and to her life-affirming activism in the disability rights movement.
The book's cover is an image of the author at age 4 or 5 .
Such a Pretty Girl Reviews
 Kirkus Starred Review:

“Her memoir encompasses activism, civil disobedience, and legislation that would help move disability from the realm of disease requiring treatment (and eliciting pity) to respect, acceptance, and equal protection under the law.”

Starred review coming out in Booklist :

"In this insightful memoir, disability activist LaSpina effortlessly shares how her personal experiences led to her activism, creating a compelling story that is both instructive and moving. ... LaSpina's story of determination and hard-won independence is engaging, informative, and ultimately, inarguably, inspiring."
Upcoming Events
Disability Pride Parade NYC
July 14th, New York City

Nadina Laspina author of the forthcoming memoir Such a Pretty Girl will be Grand Marshal of the 2019 Disability Pride Parade in NYC on Sunday, July 14th!

This 5th Annual Disability Pride Parade NYC will start at Madison Square Park, proceed down Broadway, and end at Union Square Park for a festival. Disability Pride NYC strives to promote inclusion, awareness, and visibility of people with disabilities while redefining public perception of disability.
More event information here!
Lily Yeh to Give New Horizons Placemaking Lecture In Erie, PA
Wednesday, June 19 5:00pm, Erie County Blasco Library
Lily Yeh, international artist and author of Awakening Creativity: Dandelion School Blossoms , will be the New Horizons Initiative Placemaking Speaker hosted by Erie Arts and Culture this June!

Yeh's process as an artist and "urban alchemist" has guided her creative, collaborative work with distressed communities throughout the world in their transformation and healing. Lily will speak to the ways that community-based art practices can positively impact neighborhoods. Lily will also be conducting community workshops during her time in Erie.
Visit the event page for more details!
Resisting Displacement and Dispossession – Conference
June 21-22, New York, Tacoma, & Montreal
Pratt Institute, Higgins Hall
61 St James Pl, Brooklyn, NY 11238

In cities throughout the nation and world people are facing powerful economic and political forces that lead to evictions from their homes and displacement from their communities. In response, people are organizing, resisting, and developing their own plans and policies as alternatives. Speakers include: Tom Angotti, Eve Baron, Dana Driskell, Emily Ahn Levy, and Emma Osore. New Village Press is a Planners Network Conference cosponsor and will exhibit books at Pratt Institute on the 21st.
More information here!
Imagining America 20th Anniversary National Gathering
October 18-20, Albuquerque, New Mexico

The Imagining America Gathering is an annual convening of public scholars, artists, students, designers, and cultural organizers who are addressing the nation's most critical issues. Come connect, dialogue, learn, and strategize about ways the arts, humanities, and design build public knowledge and collective imagination!

And visit our New Village Press book table at IA.
More information here!
Waging Peace in Vietnam releasing September 10th!
The book originates from the exhibition Waging Peace in Vietnam , which has been shown in Vietnam and the University of Notre Dame, and will be touring the United States in conjunction with book launches in Boston, Amherst, New York, and San Francisco starting September.

edited by Ron Carver, David Cortright, and Barbara Doherty

This large-format, heavily illustrated book shows how the GI Movement to resist the Vietnam War unfolded, from the numerous anti-war coffee houses springing up outside military bases, to the hundreds of GI newspapers giving an independent voice to active soldiers, to the stockade revolts and the strikes and near-mutinies on naval vessels and in the air force. The book features first-hand accounts, oral histories, and a wealth of underground newspapers, posters, flyers, and photographs documenting the actions of GIs and veterans who took part in the resistance worldwide. In addition, the book features original essays by leading scholars and activists, as well as poetry by respected and Pulitzer-Prize-winning poets.

Learn more about the book here !
Author Awards and Media
The Environmental Design Research Association 2019 Achievement Award given to authors of Placemaking with Children and Youth
Authors Victoria Derr, Louise Chawla, and Mara Mintzer received the 2019 EDRA Achievement Award for Placemaking with Children and Youth: Participatory Practices for Planning Sustainable Communities .

Their illustrated, essential guide to engaging children and youth in the process of urban design was a best-seller at EDRA's 50th Anniversary Conference on Sustainable Urban Environments.
More about the book and award here!


Coauthor Louise Chawla celebrates her new book with EDRA50 keynote presenter Jan Gehl
Mindy Thompson Fullilove’s work with the University of Orange featured in Next City
"The 'free people' university acts as a way to connect local residents to each other and to empowering urbanist principles with the hopes of encouraging the next generation of city leaders. Courses — all free and open to residents — range from music theory to urban placemaking." 

Full article here!