{"title": "(CLASS) Cemetery Symbols & Secrets", "start": "2026-11-01T13:15:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Union Hall", "address": "Union Street 702, 11215", "price": "", "price_from": "38.05", "price_to": "38.05", "tickets_url": "https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cancelled-class-cemetery-symbols-secrets-tickets-2002081330153#organizer-card", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art", "history"], "description": "A class on cemetery symbols and secrets from New York's city of the dead, held at Union Hall in Brooklyn. Taught by Allison C. Meier, it shows how to decipher the messages left by departed New Yorkers, focusing on funerary art across the five boroughs. 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It opens with a live encoffining ceremony by the nōkanshi Koki Kimura, who with his father served as technical advisor on the Academy Award–winning film Departures, alongside a calligraphy performance by Taisan Tanaka. Visitors can see an art exhibition by more than 20 Japanese artists and craftspeople, attend talks with a Zen teacher, a death doula, and a death-literacy researcher, try a coffin experience and write their own epitaph, and browse a marketplace of Japanese crafts, urns, and keepsakes. No knowledge of Japanese is needed and all are welcome, whatever their beliefs.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/memento-mori-in-nyc-the-art-of-japanese-life-and-death-55326/", "official_url": "https://resobox.com/event/memento-mori-in-nyc/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/355990fa568d46df2b8aaebf4277de9b3ace42282b135df4b2bd6b5208a2fd53-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Mizuhiki: Japanese Decorative Knots – Memento Mori Jewelry", "start": "2026-11-05T17:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-05T18:30:00-05:00", "place": "Resobox", "address": "27th Street 41-26, 11101 Long Island City", "price": "$50 / person", "price_from": "50.00", "price_to": "50.00", "tickets_url": "https://checkout.square.site/merchant/ADDNG79130W4G/checkout/JWILNAB2M6TFRMNUT3ZINCCA", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["art/crafts/paper-crafts"], "description": "Mizuhiki: Japanese Decorative Knots – Memento Mori Jewelry is a hands-on workshop where you make your own accessory from mizuhiki, fine cords of twisted washi paper tied into decorative knots. It is led by Satoi Adams, a mizuhiki instructor who has taught in Boston, New York, and Tokyo since 2018. She guides participants through the basic knots and their meanings, which in Japan mark life's turning points and appear on condolence envelopes at funerals, where unbreakable knots carry the wish that such sorrow never be repeated. No experience is necessary, all materials are included, and the session is limited to 12 participants as part of the festival Memento Mori in NYC: The Art of Japanese Life and Death.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/mizuhiki-japanese-decorative-knots-memento-mori-jewelry-55327/", "official_url": "https://resobox.com/event/memento-mori-in-nyc-mizuhiki-workshop/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/2eeaf0d61ff75369b358c9d6ff66955d6a99e1b7998c2da2b0526b912aeba0a3-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Iei: A Portrait of the Life You Are Living", "start": "2026-11-05T00:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-07T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Resobox", "address": "27th Street 41-26, 11101 Long Island City", "price": "$180 hair & makeup + portrait (30 min); $50 portrait only (about 10 min); two-day festival admission", "price_from": "50.00", "price_to": "180.00", "tickets_url": "https://resobox.com/event/memento-mori-in-nyc-iei-portrait-session", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["art/photography/portrait-photography"], "description": "Iei: A Portrait of the Life You Are Living is a portrait session where you can be photographed for your own iei, the portrait placed at a Japanese funeral, while you are still alive. It is part of the Memento Mori in NYC event at Resobox and is led by New York photographer Tokio Kuniyoshi with hair and makeup artist Michael. In Japan more and more people are choosing their own funeral portrait themselves, and the session is less about preparing for death than about honoring the person you are today. Photos are retouched and delivered as digital files on the spot, with hair and makeup or portrait-only options.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/iei-a-portrait-of-the-life-you-are-living-55325/", "official_url": "https://resobox.com/event/memento-mori-in-nyc-iei-portrait-session/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/600a7a691778b6c7249c987caadd9b73fecddb4aeb60970da6a0481797cd0f56-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Family Time Día de Muertos 2026", "start": "2026-11-07T13:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-07T15:00:00-05:00", "place": "Bronx Museum of the Arts", "address": "Grand Concourse 1040, 10456 Bronx", "price": "free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://bx-museum-dia-de-muertos26.eventbrite.com", "category": "kids-family", "tags": ["art/crafts", "occasion/day-of-the-dead"], "description": "A free, all-ages celebration of Día de Muertos with art-making and storytelling at The Bronx Museum of the Arts. 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