{"title": "Call and Response: Songbooks to power the movement", "start": "2026-10-15T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2027-01-31T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Interference Archive", "address": "7th Street 314, 11215 Brooklyn", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["music/folk", "history"], "description": "An exhibition of songbooks from Interference Archive's collection, opening with an evening event. It draws on books from the labor movement, the civil rights movement, the socialist schools of the 1930s and the feminist movement, exploring why people sing together on picket lines, strikes and rallies. Songs like “Bread and Roses,” “We Shall Overcome” and “Bella Ciao” appear alongside satire against fascism, war, oppression and poverty.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/call-and-response-songbooks-to-power-the-movement-53177/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/a639a5c3159d5297dc24d0b5fa2ac8adb41371f1835e2482b5de188d7efc6d32-2000.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-10-15T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2027-01-31T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Interference Archive", "address": "7th Street 314, 11215 Brooklyn", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Raise Your Voice: Curator-led Tour", "start": "2026-11-11T18:30:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Museum of the City of New York", "address": "5th Avenue 1220, 10029 New York", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://35948.blackbaudhosting.com/35948/tickets?tab=2&txobjid=29ff61fa-a369-4e0d-98de-cf461eacef33", "category": "tours", "tags": ["art/design/graphic-design/poster", "society/activism"], "description": "A curator-led tour of the exhibition Raise Your Voice: New York Activism at the Museum of the City of New York. This one-hour tour looks at the signage of social movements with Josh MacPhee, creator of the interactive poster maker featured in the exhibition. MacPhee is a designer, artist, and archivist, a founding member of the Justseeds Artists' Cooperative and Interference Archive, and author or editor of publications including Signs of Change and Signal. The tour is part of the museum's monthly series with curator Sarah Seidman and its Free Late-Night Wednesdays.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/raise-your-voice-curator-led-tour-54056/", "official_url": "https://www.mcny.org/event/raise-your-voice-curator-led-tour-0", "image": "https://noky.io/images/557cdbb318a20c720dc819a312a33377618c649fbe9849bd536c255e1e7b3141-2000.webp"}, {"title": "An Evening from the Queer Songbook: A Conversation with Taylor Mac and Matt Ray", "start": "2026-11-10T00:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "The Adam Space", "address": "", "price": "Tickets start at $35; with an added book $60, totaling $95", "price_from": "35.00", "price_to": "35.00", "tickets_url": "https://commerce.bam.org/booking/production/bestavailable/57934#promocode-popup", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/queer", "music"], "description": "An Evening from the Queer Songbook is a conversation at BAM in which Taylor Mac and Matt Ray discuss their new book, Bark of Millions: Queer Songs for the Living Library of the Deviant Theme. The two artists, a MacArthur Fellow and an Obie Award winner, wrote the four-hour rock opera Bark of Millions to expand the repertoire of songs documenting and celebrating queer lives. Their book brings together a volume of lyrics and essays and a volume of music with lead sheets for 50 of the show's songs, creating a canon of queer music for a joyful world. The evening celebrates the transcendence of joy over tragedy as seen through the personal histories of queers.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/an-evening-from-the-queer-songbook-a-conversation-with-taylo-51185/", "official_url": "https://www.bam.org/talks/2026/bark-of-millions", "image": "https://noky.io/images/52586b8859f3ec6da939dff541a27dbf3cf535fb13a2c28b30b301b864f9d268-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Singing the Alan Lomax Archive: A Benefit for the Association for Cultural Equity", "start": "2026-11-05T20:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-05T23:00:00-05:00", "place": "Saint Ann's and the Holy Trinity Episcopal Church", "address": "Montague Street 157, 11201", "price": "$50 – $100", "price_from": "50.00", "price_to": "100.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.stannholytrinity.org/event/singing-the-alan-lomax-archive-a-benefit-for-the-association-for-cultural-equity-2", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/folk"], "description": "A benefit concert in which renowned singers give their own takes on music documented by Alan Lomax, following a New York premiere screening of Lomax's rarely seen 1961 film \"Ballads, Blues, and Bluegrass\". The evening is hosted by Dom Flemons and features Peter Stampfel, Kyp Malone, Catherine Russell, Luther Dickinson, Laura Cantrell, Grace Bergere, and Stephanie Jenkins performing songs from the digital archive of the Association for Cultural Equity. The film's screening shows performances by Doc Watson, Roscoe Holcomb, Willie Dixon, Memphis Slim, Clarence Ashley, The New Lost City Ramblers, Jean Ritchie, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Peter LaFarge, Ernie Mars and The Greenbriar Boys. The concert is the kick-off event of the Brooklyn Folk Festival, presented by the Jalopy Theatre.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/singing-the-alan-lomax-archive-a-benefit-for-the-association-55511/", "official_url": "http://culturalequity.org/benefit", "image": "https://noky.io/images/5cc578fb2ff067f287c145009e54ee3de2be40fd6b97e1e2c27976047bc78f81-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Rally Reading Series: Kevin Nguyen, E.Y. Zhao, and Aurora Huiza", "start": "2026-11-05T19:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Pete's Candy Store", "address": "709 Lorimer St", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature"], "description": "A reading evening of the Rally Reading Series with writers Kevin Nguyen, E.Y. Zhao, and Aurora Huiza. The series is themed \"Overtly Political Literature\" and gives a platform to underrepresented voices. After live readings, writers talk with the audience, who can ask questions and share thoughts. Readers also collectively suggest an actionable call, such as an organization to donate to or ways to confront injustice.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/rally-reading-series-kevin-nguyen-ey-zhao-and-aurora-huiza-54772/", "official_url": "https://www.rallyreadingseries.com/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/226c8e2824c45fda2e26adf58d053203a092cd9561ebc4d5b7c9975d16da416a-600.webp"}, {"title": "Reading Under Fire: Arming Minds & Hearts During Wartime", "start": "2026-04-23T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-11-01T00:00:00-04:00", "place": "Poster House", "address": "West 23rd Street 119, 10011 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/design/graphic-design/poster", "history/world-war"], "description": "\"Reading Under Fire: Arming Minds & Hearts During Wartime\" is an exhibition of book-related posters from the United States, Great Britain, Canada, and Germany printed during the World Wars. It is curated by Molly Manning, an author, historian, and associate professor of law at New York Law School, with exhibition design by Randee Ballinger. It shows how nations relied on public book donations and fundraising to supply soldiers with reading material, and how books became a symbol of freedom and democracy. 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Blanton blends infectious melodies, lyrical wit, vaudeville, campfire singalongs and punk rock into a show of humor, hope and solidarity. Beyond music, she works as a political organizer and activist, having joined the Global Sumud Flotilla carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza by sailboat.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/lpr-presents-carsie-blanton-w-the-burning-hell-53613/", "official_url": "https://lpr.com/lpr_events/carsienov126nyc/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/20d15d21aeedf9df65f8361d79223e70c7987a16087ef583d8c2fd6538defbc1-600.webp"}, {"title": "Monthly Community Song Sharing", "start": "2026-11-04T14:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-04T17:00:00-05:00", "place": "Brooklyn Society for Ethical Culture", "address": "269 4th Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11215", "price": "Discretionary collection for use of the space", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["music/singing/community-singing"], "description": "Monthly Community Song Sharing is a monthly gathering at the Brooklyn Society for Ethical Culture in Park Slope, Brooklyn. It is an open and supportive group of people who share the joy of music, welcoming all skill levels and no skill level. There is no RSVP required, and a discretionary collection is taken for use of the space. The gatherings take place on the first Wednesday of every month from 7PM to 10PM.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/monthly-community-song-sharing-51675/", "official_url": "https://bsec.org/events/monthly-community-song-sharing/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/a3c9dd0c3c9f9fb9e9a0d1e438c439e3d8791f8e13b0c230cf03da9c45b94ab6-1200.webp"}]}