{"title": "First Mondays: Readings of New Works In Progress", "start": "2026-10-05T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2027-06-07T00:00:00-04:00", "place": "Performance Space 122", "address": "1st Avenue 150, 10009", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature"], "description": "First Mondays: Readings of New Works In Progress is a reading series at Performance Space New York where writers present new, unpublished work-in-progress to an audience. It is organized and curated by Sarah Schulman and aims to build and grow literary community, mixing well-known and rewarded writers with under-recognized artists, emerging writers, and some who have not yet published. The October 5 season opening features Sarah Schulman, William M. Burton, Lazz Kinnamon, and more with THE LESBIAN BODY by Monique Wittig.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/first-mondays-readings-of-new-works-in-progress-67058/", "official_url": "", "image": "", "dates": [{"start": "2026-10-05T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2027-06-07T00:00:00-04:00", "place": "Performance Space 122", "address": "1st Avenue 150, 10009", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Unruly", "start": "2026-11-02T19:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "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": "https://ci.ovationtix.com/203/production/1283947", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature"], "description": "\"Unruly\" is a reading in the First Mondays reading series, featuring Owen Park, Betty Shamieh, and Rivers Solomon. 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Three randomly chosen audience members read each story on stage together with its author, one page at a time, alternating between the four readers, and every attendee receives an exclusive zine with the stories printed in it. The lineup features Emma Copley Eisenberg, Kyle Dillon Hertz, Tanaïs and Sara Youngblood Gregory, hosted by Mikey Friedman.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/page-break-presents-stage-break-66794/", "official_url": "https://littlefieldnyc.com/event/?wfea_eb_id=2003222700021", "image": "https://noky.io/images/98eaa38505bc68d9fb3d2c8d71b78a7e00dfadcfbca22ffb17ebd5402340305e-600.webp"}, {"title": "Latine Queer Studies Reading", "start": "2026-11-04T18:30:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-04T20:30:00-05:00", "place": "College of Staten Island", "address": "Victory Boulevard 2800, 10314 Staten Island", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/poetry", "society/queer"], "description": "A public evening of queer Latine poetry, at which the Brooklyn-born poet Emanuel Xavier reads from his new book of poems, \"Still, We Are Sacred.\" It is a CC CLUE event hosted by the LGBTQ+ Resource Center and the English Department of the College of Staten Island, and refreshments will be served. 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It is curated by Hanif Abdurraqib, a BAM Curator and MacArthur \"Genius,\" now in its third year, and this year spotlights powerful voices from across the African Diaspora. The evening on offer pairs versatile composers and instrumentalists Meshell Ndegeocello and Samora Pinderhughes, who share a night of words and music under the series' banner. 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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"}]}