WHITECHAPEL GALLERY LONDON: is preparing `Spaces of Connection: Contemporary Art and the Rural`, a tone-setting conference on the rural, and Myvillages is part of the Working Group, alongside Wysing Arts Centre, Aberystwyth University and Istanbul Biennial. MIT DOCA: Myvillages started editing `The Rural`, an upcoming title in the Documents of Contemporary Art series published by Whitechapel Gallery and MIT in early 2019. THE LAND WE LIVE IN - THE LAND WE LEFT BEHIND: Hauser & Wirth Somerset UK A group-show (20 Jan - 7 May) curated by Adam Sutherland - with Grizedale`s Dinner Tables and Berlin Pantry (Vorratskammer). INTERNATIONAL VILLAGE PRODUCE: Huangbian Bag now available at Kunstverein Springhornhof Neuenkirchen DE, Times Museum Guangzhou and Design Society Shenzhen in China. KUNSTHUIS SYB: Almende - 6-9 Sept 2018, the second Triennial of Beetsterzwaag, the curators Julia Geerlings and Niekolaas Johannes Lekkerkerk invited our Wild Treasure and an International Village Shop. NEW BOOKS: PAV Torino is publishing Grow it Yourself, following an exhibition with the same name. And the A_Z Marzona Collection Catalogue has recently been launched by Hamburger Bahnhof Berlin.