The New Commons Project's October 2021 events will explore David Bowie's classic "Life on Mars?" (released on his 1971 album, Hunky Dory).

Arthur Miller's dramatic deconstruction of the American Dream, Death of a Salesman (1949), will take center stage in the New Commons Project in November 2021.

Jordan Peele's Oscar-nominated 2017 horror film that critiques racism in America, Get Out, will provide the foundation for New Commons Project events in December 2021.

New Commons Project programming for January 2022 focuses on Marjane Satrapi's landmark graphic novel about growing up during the Iranian Revolution of the 1970s, Persepolis.

Emily Dickinson's foundational body of poetic works will be the focus of New Commons Project events in February 2022.

Helen and Scott Nearing's key work of the American back-to-the-land movement, Living the Good Life: How to Live Simply and Sanely in a Troubled World (1954), will be the focus of New Commons Project events in March 2022.