{"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", "dates": [{"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", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "LaJuné McMillian: Child/ren of the Bloom", "start": "2026-09-12T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-12-20T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Pioneer Works", "address": "159 Pioneer St, Brooklyn, NY 11231, United States", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["nature/environment/oceans", "art/installation"], "description": "\"Child/ren of the Bloom\" is an interactive, multidisciplinary installation at Pioneer Works that explores the threshold between land and sea and the body's return to its origins. It was created by artist LaJuné McMillian as the culmination of a residency developed with OceanX Education in partnership with Pioneer Works, transforming her research on phytoplankton, algal blooms, and bioluminescence into a spiritual, embodied encounter with oceanic systems. The exhibition follows Child, a recurring avatar in the artist's work, through a first threshold crossing in which dissolving into oceanic life becomes a metaphor for an early encounter with the spirit world. Visitors can move their hands before a sensor-driven, floor-to-ceiling video installation that shifts between satellite views of algal blooms and close-ups of individual phytoplankton, alongside holographic displays, beaded embroidery, prayers and voiceovers, and a virtual oracle that invites conversation with Child.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/lajune-mcmillian-children-of-the-bloom-71724/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/b1cb22f18e0cbdf3bc5502af9a5af0f783efcccfb46d793b7c38c6f5a6e34f96-2000.webp"}, {"title": "There's no me without you", "start": "2026-09-12T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-12-20T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Pioneer Works", "address": "159 Pioneer St, Brooklyn, NY 11231, United States", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/installation", "society/disability"], "description": "There's no me without you is an interactive exhibition by artist Finnegan Shannon, turning a 12-foot mechanized conveyor belt into a vehicle that brings artworks to visitors seated on surrounding furniture, who can engage through touch, sight, and sound. Shannon reimagines the belt from a longtime fantasy of an exhibition space that meets their access needs, designed as a space for rest and play, with the title drawing on interdependence in disability culture. Over its three-month run, the installation hosts three successive solo presentations of new works by Joselia Rebekah Hughes, Ariana Martinez, and Alex Dolores Salerno, figures of New York City's disability art scene. On September 12, it features Ariana Martinez's presentation of a soundscape with objects forming a \"tactile score,\" exploring touch as a shared language between ecologically entangled entities.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/theres-no-me-without-you-54875/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/5630d881ee482e7a89dbb3470223e4e587ec78feeeaebbac8d492b4447c22b5a-2000.webp"}, {"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": "", "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. It is created by Nocturnal Medicine, Union's new Artists-in-Residence, a duo who invite people to sink down into the subterranean well. Within James Chapel, a tapestry of overlapping performances unfolds, each figure a channeller offering prayers through movement, material toil, hypnotic sound, and ritual. 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": "Still On After / Sala Sadio", "start": "2026-10-30T18:30:00-04:00", "end": null, "place": "Arts on Site", "address": "Saint Marks Place 12", "price": "$30.00 (+$1.50 service fee)", "price_from": "30.00", "price_to": "30.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "dance", "tags": ["stage/contemporary-dance"], "description": "\"Still On After / Sala Sadio\" is an evening of performance at Studio 3R, the performance space at Arts on Site on 12 St Marks Place. It presents \"Still On After\", a work exploring what it means to be the \"Achiever\" versus the \"Observer\", asking whether pausing to notice, listen and be curious might become a form of action, and what openness to seeing things differently could mean for our sense of self and relationships. It is shared alongside \"Sala Sadio\", described as a solo choreographed work, with @_trea_ credited. The event is hosted at Arts on Site's Studio 3R, a performance space in New York City.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/still-on-after-sala-sadio-51081/", "official_url": "https://www.artsonsite.org/events-1/still-on-after-sala-sadio", "image": "https://noky.io/images/110643621edf3b0a3064de762ef7dce30eb59d59d9f370c4f6a4c6c2bedf0548-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Opening night performance | Monobloc Harp by Dan Ortiz Leizman", "start": "2026-11-05T18:30:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-05T20:30:00-05:00", "place": "Strother School of Radical Attention", "address": "Washington Street 55, 11201", "price": "Free (RSVP strongly encouraged)", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["stage/performance-art"], "description": "An opening night performance and reception for the group exhibition 'Haunted by Light'. Artist Dan Ortiz Leizman turns the mundane monobloc chair into a string instrument, playing ephemeral sounds described as 'apocalyptic folk music' that navigate the nostalgia and personal memories marked on the chair. The exhibition gathers photoreactive media such as cyanotypes, autoradiographs, lumen photography, plant ashes in glass sculptures, and audiovisual environments for collective mourning. RSVP is free but strongly encouraged; light refreshments will be served.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/opening-night-performance-monobloc-harp-by-dan-ortiz-leizman-56199/", "official_url": "https://www.schoolofattention.org/events/xax7gq0vopa6lp3gfd8bkexrp0u1jw", "image": "https://noky.io/images/0c63b359262e961b198da9323c7b01a3f61046fb4374698322a7b63841a47959-1200.webp"}, {"title": "MOCA PERFORMS – Echoes of Arrival: Becoming", "start": "2026-11-06T19:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-06T20:00:00-05:00", "place": "Museum of Chinese in America", "address": "Centre Street 215, 10013", "price": "General Admission: $20 | MOCA Member Admission: $15", "price_from": "20.00", "price_to": "20.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["society/migration", "stage/performance-art"], "description": "MOCA PERFORMS – Echoes of Arrival: Becoming is a live performance at the Museum of Chinese in America in which immigrant artists share stories of migration, transformation, and becoming. It was conceived by Dennis Yueh-Yeh Li and is devised and performed by Shan Y. Chuang, Nikkiesha N. McLeod, Timmy Ong, Pascal Phoa, Jeremy Rafal, Nedelka Sotelo, and Fang Tseng. Seven immigrant artists from Taiwan, the Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, Myanmar, Mexico, and Trinidad and Tobago reflect on their journeys to the United States—what they had to learn to survive and build a life, what they chose to carry with them from home, and what new parts of themselves emerged along the way. Through personal narration, poetry, music, dance, and stand-up comedy, they share these experiences on stage.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/moca-performs-echoes-of-arrival-becoming-54048/", "official_url": "https://www.mocanyc.org/event/moca-performs-echoes-of-arrival-becoming-5/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/f76fac89e905abd68b0a491b4c2addb494e8784b35b03b7c92e6f7bd935dcc6c-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Field Notes Exhibition", "start": "2026-11-06T16:30:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Flushing Town Hall", "address": "Northern Boulevard 137-35, 11354", "price": "Free & open to the public", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.eventbrite.com/e/field-notes-notas-del-campo-tickets-2003837808828?aff=oddtdtcreator", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting/community-art", "science/biology/ecology"], "description": "Field Notes / Notas del Campo is a summer workshop exhibition celebrating a season of creativity, exploration, and collective learning at Valé EcoLab. It is led by Valé Collective, a Latinx-led, eco-centered art and design organization, through the Field Notes public art and science program. Over spring and summer, artists and community members of all ages explored the coastal ecology of the Rockaways through hands-on art and science workshops, from natural dyes and coastal plants to soils, sound, and living environments. The exhibition brings together the community's artwork, experiments, and discoveries, with music by DJ Creepitona and refreshments.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/field-notes-exhibition-52651/", "official_url": "https://www.flushingtownhall.org/show-details/field-notes-/-notas-del-campo", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c8e28b68eafb23ea2b2bc1649b35a6b94bcd81f356857c13c719c1025d8f7856-600.webp"}, {"title": "Cevdet Erek: Americas", "start": "2026-09-19T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-12-28T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Sculpture Center", "address": "Purves Street 44-19, 11101 Long Island City", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.sculpture-center.org/shop/", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/sound-art"], "description": "Cevdet Erek: Americas is an exhibition of sound-based sculptural installations at SculptureCenter in Long Island City. It brings together five site-responsive sonic works by Cevdet Erek, a Turkish artist trained as an architect and sound engineer and active as a musician, developed over the last decade for projects in Mexico City, Chicago, San Francisco, São Paulo and the US Embassy in The Hague, alongside a new commission for SculptureCenter that mixes 1980s New York metal with audio samples from the landmark 1984 exhibition Sound/Art. Erek assembles installations that reconfigure how visitors perceive space, tuning into the material qualities of architecture and the social, historical and geographical conditions they occupy. The exhibition, curated by Jovanna Venegas, weaves traces of the works' origins in the Americas into a single, newly distributed sonic environment regrounded in New York.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/cevdet-erek-americas-55742/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/2eede0a97fed5bcdc760e1d0725426d6e1f8b7e4feacadde36855b9db7873309-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Open Movement – Fall 2026", "start": "2026-10-04T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-12-13T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Performance Space 122", "address": "1st Avenue 150, 10009", "price": "Free with RSVP / pay what you can", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["dance/movement-dance"], "description": "Open Movement – Fall 2026 is a free program open to all ages, abilities, and levels of experience, held in the theater and offering space for self-guided movement practice along with artist-led workshops. It is curated and organized by Monica Mirabile and hosted by Performance Space New York. Participants may move however they choose—stretching, drawing, dancing, rehearsing, or observing—and past attendees describe it as a sacred space for self-discovery, connection, and grounding towards personal and collective practices. This season also features workshops by artists including Eartheater's child (Nova Harlem), Dorchel Haqq, Charmaine Bee, Andros Zins-Browne, Sophie Ortiz, Gillian Walsh, Sigrid Lauren, and Viva Ruiz, alongside Works In Progress showings by Cristina Moya-Palacios and Viva Soudan.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/open-movement-fall-2026-54719/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/41dcde7a9d71b58bd25d912ebe98c7c8d13f23e2a18cd61bc292e180bd820fa3-1200.webp"}, {"title": "We Can’t Dream Alone", "start": "2026-09-01T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-10-31T00:00:00-04:00", "place": "Brooklyn Botanic Garden", "address": "Washington Avenue at Montgomery Street, Brooklyn, NY", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting", "nature/climate"], "description": "\"We Can't Dream Alone\" is an outdoor exhibit of four large-scale reproductions of paintings by Brooklyn-based artist Madjeen Isaac, installed along the Washington Avenue perimeter of Brooklyn Botanic Garden. It is presented by the Climate Museum and Brooklyn Botanic Garden. Combining experiences from her homeland of Haiti and her upbringing in Flatbush, Brooklyn, Isaac explores how collective care, memory, and ecological knowledge are crucial to building a more just future. Her lush urban environments invite viewers to consider how relationships to place and community make us more resilient to personal adversities, social injustice, and climate change.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/we-cant-dream-alone-51528/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/70d11ab6a4a07e86689b012238344a8772a6837ca0ae172be5094258be60eeb7-1200.webp"}]}