TENT & ROTTERDAM SOUTH Boerenzij - or the ‘rural side’ - takes the nick-name of the south bank in Rotterdam as a starting point for a project on rural migration. A year of (private) events and an exhibition in TENT in 2019. WHITECHAPEL GALLERY LONDON: is preparing `‘The Rural: Contemporary Art and Spaces of Connection`, a tone-setting conference on the rural, and Myvillages is part of the Working Group, alongside Wysing Arts Centre, Aberystwyth University and Istanbul Biennial. JANUS DIE WOLFKERZE: a new Village Good for the Lüneburger Heide, where the Wolf is not only part of the cultural heritage but also walks into the daily live again. This two-headed-candle is available at Kunstverein Springhornhof. KUNSTHUIS SYB: Almende - 6-9 Sept 2018, the second Triennial of Beetsterzwaag, the curators Julia Geerlings and Niekolaas Johannes Lekkerkerk invited a mobile International Village Shop. NEW BOOKS ON THE SHELF: 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. AND AN UPCOMING PUBLICATION: Myvillages started editing `The Rural`, in the Documents of Contemporary Art series published by Whitechapel Gallery and MIT in early 2019.