{"title": "A Living Altar (Treya)", "start": "2026-11-12T00:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-15T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Jack", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticketing/a-living-altar", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/experimental", "religion/spirituality"], "description": "Treya Lam presents \"a living altar\" at JACK. Through sound, breath, and the act of gathering, the work responds to collective crises including ongoing genocide, climate collapse, and spiritual disconnection. It is an offering to come together in solidarity with one another and with the earth, inviting a return to what has been forgotten and a reimagining of what is still possible.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/a-living-altar-treya-81256/", "official_url": "https://www.jackny.org/treyalam-alivingaltar", "image": "https://noky.io/images/e39ef12bcf94b38180d641eebc55c6505e648fa9109131bba86c7143f1db15fe-2000.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-12T00:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-15T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Jack", "address": "", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Nocturnal Medicine Presents – The Well: A Service", "start": "2026-11-06T20:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-06T22:30:00-05:00", "place": "Union Theological Seminary", "address": "10027 New York", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://host.nxt.blackbaud.com/registration-form/?formId=1b66dbcb-6bfc-449a-8272-741711fd7356&envId=p-srWBW36ys0aZ4CkIRtKH6Q&zone=usa", "category": "worship", "tags": ["religion/spirituality", "stage/performance-art"], "description": "\"Nocturnal Medicine Presents – The Well: A Service\" is an experimental service held in a house of worship, where divinity springs from Earth and prayer is unmoored from dogma. 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Nocturnal Medicine is joined by adobeprincess, DaMond LeMonte Garner, Laila Rosen, Madison Wada, Mamiko Usuda, and Paul Pinto for this collaborative, immersive experience, and all are welcome to gather for a night of art, presence, and transformation.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/nocturnal-medicine-presents-the-well-a-service-57273/", "official_url": "https://utsnyc.edu/blog/event/nocturnal-medicine-presents-the-well-a-service/?instance_id=4284", "image": "https://noky.io/images/6138eb22b191866e0d95d8471b65ac68ae87c644f40d60fdb7633650c3c15d39-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Morley — Meditations on The Gift of Awe Record Premiere Celebration", "start": "2026-11-07T19:30:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "National Sawdust", "address": "North 6th Street 80, 11249", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://ci.ovationtix.com/36490/production/1280597", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/folk/singer-songwriter"], "description": "Morley — Meditations on The Gift of Awe Record Premiere Celebration is a live music performance marking the premiere of Morley's record \"Meditations on the Gift of Awe :: love songs for earth & survival\". It centers on an immersive, prayerful and celebratory, genre-defying song cycle that uses vocal soundscapes, rhythm and improvisation to focus on healing and the cultivation of calm. Singer-composer and producer Morley leads a vocal trio and chamber ensemble, joined by Chris Bruce, Daniel Mintseris, Jack DeBoe, Chris St. Hilaire, Levon Henry, Arun Ramamurthy, Trina Basu, Kenita Miller and Justin Hicks, with songs from the album and others from her catalogue about individual journeys towards collective liberation and love.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/morley-meditations-on-the-gift-of-awe-record-premiere-celebr-54140/", "official_url": "https://www.nationalsawdust.org/event/morley-meditations-on-the-gift-of-awe-record-release-celebration", "image": "https://noky.io/images/699640657d6630937c434d8b348dfc8ed7edea0354e5d98be57169c2c7758c5d-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Opening Reception for YATTA: Iron + Palm Wine", "start": "2026-11-11T18:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Recess", "address": "46 Washington Ave. Brooklyn. 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The evening offers light refreshments, a first look at the installation, and a poetry reading featuring poets from Camille Dungy's 2009 anthology Black Nature.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/opening-reception-for-yatta-iron-palm-wine-55299/", "official_url": "https://www.recessart.org/events/614-opening-reception-for-yatta-iron-palm-wine", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d73c4aa3a9b5027995631c146a051af6f07fec49bb03fa8002e1497ba0e181eb-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Iron + Palm Wine: Koneh Pelawoe", "start": "2026-11-11T00:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-12-19T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Recess", "address": "46 Washington Ave. Brooklyn. NY", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.eventbrite.com/e/opening-reception-for-yatta-iron-palm-wine-tickets-2003417735377?aff=oddtdtcreator&keep_tld=true", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/installation", "music/folk"], "description": "Iron + Palm Wine: Koneh Pelawoe is a sound and moving-image installation at Recess, presented as part of the Session program. The artist YATTA, a Sierra Leonean-American composer and great-niece of the pioneering Sierra Leonean palm wine musician S.E. Rogie, transforms the gallery into an evolving pre-production environment for the project, which is named after Rogie's song \"Koneh Pelawoe,\" meaning \"Please Open Your Heart.\" The installation pairs a collegiate ethnomusicology building with a Southern and West African veranda, bringing together Rogie's songs, recorded conversations, archival materials, and YATTA's compositions of vocals, kora, and field recordings. Through Rogie's musical legacy, YATTA explores the entanglements of Blackness, land, leisure, and extraction, asking what healing possibilities the sounds of West Africa may hold when the psychic weight of labor, migration, and extraction is set down.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/iron-palm-wine-koneh-pelawoe-55301/", "official_url": "https://www.recessart.org/projects/613-iron-palm-wine-koneh-pelawoe", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d73c4aa3a9b5027995631c146a051af6f07fec49bb03fa8002e1497ba0e181eb-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Tiresias Presents New Weird Future: a Work in Process", "start": "2026-11-12T00:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-15T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "La MaMa", "address": "East 4th Street 66, 10003 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://ci.ovationtix.com/42/production/1292091?performanceId=11871516", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["nature/climate", "stage/opera"], "description": "New Weird Future: a Work in Process is a speculative eco-opera and puppet pageant-in-process running at La MaMa. 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The work imagines futures of multispecies flourishing in the ruins of the Anthropocene, promising utopian visions of eclectic, non-innocent entanglements on Future Earth as a collective act of radical queer defiance against apathetic submission to climate apocalypse.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/tiresias-presents-new-weird-future-a-work-in-process-66708/", "official_url": "https://lamama.org/tiresiaspresentsnewweirdfuture/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/8224396d8efa016b65abe9936821ddaf8a6a728f848175d58ba89a29a3c6e758-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Fall Event: Praying with Song & Sound", "start": "2026-10-31T09:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-10-31T13:00:00-04:00", "place": "Saint Ignatius Loyola Catholic Church", "address": "Park Avenue 990, 10028", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "worship", "tags": ["music/classical/sacred-music", "religion/christian/prayer"], "description": "Fall Event: Praying with Song & Sound is a gathering exploring how praying with song and sound can connect people more deeply with the Divine and strengthen faith in new and exciting ways. It is led by guest facilitators Jackie Perez and The Ignatian Schola, a New York-based vocal ensemble composed of Jesuits and lay colleagues. Rooted in Ignatian spirituality, the Schola is dedicated to the exploration of musical prayer in the service of faith and the promotion of justice. The event is sponsored by The William J. 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Mason blends natural sounds of his Yuwaalaraay homeland, guitar, spoken word and singing styles of his old people, interwoven with movement choreographed with Jo Clancy, Lily Shearer, Kiarn Doyle and himself. The work honours matriarchy, survival, strength and the power of First Peoples storytelling, inviting audiences into a shared catharsis of truth, healing and resilience.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/maayuma-li-mubirr-healing-scars-53460/", "official_url": "https://lamama.org/maayuma-li-mubirr/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/92b25eb1f266bcb72ef3c6488400b7467f96fa3309ec1924b4d8c18170d245a1-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Eternitys Pillar", "start": "2026-11-12T00:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "BAM Rose Cinemas", "address": "Lafayette Avenue 30, 11217 Brooklyn", "price": "General Admission: $17, Members: $12 (a $2 handling fee per ticket will be added)", "price_from": "17.00", "price_to": "17.00", "tickets_url": "https://commerce.bam.org/booking/production/bestavailable/59257#promocode-popup", "category": "film", "tags": ["music/jazz/spiritual-jazz", "film/experimental", "religion/spirituality"], "description": "Eternity's Pillar is a kaleidoscope of devotional music, meditation, philosophy, scripture, and moving image, produced from 1985 to 1988 by Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda. Following the death of her husband, John Coltrane, in 1967, she pursued a profound spiritual path that reshaped her music and artistic practice, eventually establishing a spiritual community in Southern California. Originally broadcast late night on Los Angeles' KTTV Channel 11, six episodes screen continuously, offering a deeper look into a largely under-explored dimension of Coltrane's creative practice. Introduced by musician Surya Botofasina, the program continues with a conversation with filmmaker Ephraim Asili exploring Coltrane's visual language, spiritual practice, and enduring influence on spiritual cinema.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/eternitys-pillar-51164/", "official_url": "https://www.bam.org/film/2026/eternitys-pillar", "image": "https://noky.io/images/36bec03b96de8c9885af17149ed3d59240c3a5a4229d05182f681942b4333317-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Cavernous Shoal", "start": "2026-09-19T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2027-06-16T00:00:00-04:00", "place": "Performance Space 122", "address": "1st Avenue 150, 10009", "price": "Pay what you can with RSVP", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["music/electronic/club", "art/installation"], "description": "Cavernous Shoal is a season-long residency installation in the lobby and community space OPEN ROOM, opening with a live performance by Ibrahima Mbaye. Artist Jesús Hilario-Reyes, who works across sonic performance, land installation, and expanded cinema, fills the space with a bespoke sound system and a sculpture of mangrove roots. Inspired by DJ culture and shorelines between land and sea, it imagines the dancefloor in Black diasporic club culture as a place of perpetual transformation, where belonging emerges through movement rather than permanence. During the residency the artist hosts open decks, performances, conversations, workshops, screenings, and experimental sound activations.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/cavernous-shoal-54717/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/5cd3a4ed73cb78677abe4bf877b0570dc1da2322967f4a21ed15d0dab0c33d22-1200.webp"}]}