NewBridge Gallery is now closed until Friday 16 October.
You can join us on 5 September and 3 October for Saturday Social. You can still shop NewBridge Books throughout the weekdays!
The Reading Room has worked with artist Henna Asikainen, landscape architect Usue Ruiz Arana, and art historian Olga Smith to create a reading resource in response to Henna’s new sound installation Lintukoto.
As you listen, the particles of sound (phonons) decide to be heard. Listening affects what is sounding. The relationship is symbiotic.
As you listen, the environment is enlivened. This is the listening effect.
– Pauline Oliveros, Deep Listening: A Composer’s Sound Practice
The books delve into the politics of listening, to solidarity beyond borders, to the entanglement between plant worlds and colonialism, and movements to protect the earth and people’s rights.
Visit us at NewBridge Project to borrow a book or read in our small library space. An expanded reading list can be downloaded as a PDF and contains additional titles added from Henna’s personal collection.
Botany of Empire: Plant Worlds and the Scientific Legacies of Colonialism (University of Washington Press)
Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene (Duke University Press)
The Life of Plants: A Metaphysics of Mixture (Polity Books)
Talking with Trees (Carcanet Poetry)
Solidarity Without Borders Gramscian Perspective on Migration and Civil Society Alliances (Pluto Press)
Deep Listening: A composer’s sound practice (Deep Listening Publications / iUniverse)
The Solutions are Already Here: Strategies for Ecological Revolution from Below (Pluto Press)
Braiding Sweetgrass (Penguin)
Not Just Gay Penguins: A Zine (Sage Brice)
The Politics of Permaculture (Pluto Press)
Pirate Care: Acts against the criminalization of solidarity (Pluto Press)
Making Peace with the Earth (Left Book Club)
Living as a Bird (Polity Books)
Sense of Place and Sense of Planet: The Environmental Imagination of the Global (Oxford University Press)
The Reading Room is a collaborative project opening up local spaces and providing a wealth of educational tools which will be a catalyst for creative thinkers and critical minds. Our physical library space can be found on the first floor, next to the gallery, and is stocked with thought-provoking books from Pluto Press and Left Book Club.
The Reading Room is a resource for artists, activists, and thinkers. Our programme brings together artists, authors, and researchers to host workshops, screenings, and talks inspired by the books housed in the library. These events, guided by our communities, address topics such as the environment, LGBTQ+ issues, structural racism, and more.
Our collection of books continually expands with suggestions from exhibiting artists and the NewBridge Programme Committee.
The NewBridge Project is a charity, registered charity no. 1173849.
We are grateful to our funders, including Arts Council England, Newcastle City Council, Garfield Weston Foundation, Jerwood Foundation, Community Foundation North East, Newcastle University and the The North East Mayoral Strategic Authority.
We are proud to be a Gallery of Sanctuary.
