{"title": "Hidden Colors 6: The Culture of Resistance", "start": "2026-11-13T00:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Cinema Village", "address": "East 12th Street 22, 10003", "price": "", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "14.00", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "history"], "description": "A documentary that explores the overlooked history of Black American resistance, innovation, survival, and cultural influence. Through historians, scholars, and cultural commentators, it reveals how Black Americans challenged oppression, created lasting institutions and traditions, and helped shape the development of the United States. 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It is a program convened by writer and historian Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts, presented by the African Film Institute, which Christian Nyampeta convenes at e-flux. The films are Sarah Maldoror's Et les chiens se taisaient (1978), Stan Lathan's Statues Hardly Ever Smile (1971), and Alain Resnais and Chris Marker's Les statues meurent aussi (1953), extending Aimé Césaire's poem on the Haitian Revolution and questions of colonialism, memory, and the repatriation of cultural goods. After the screening, Rhodes-Pitts and Nyampeta will talk, as part of the African Film Institute's 2026 programming, Two Thousand Seasons.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/and-the-dogs-were-silent-a-convening-by-sharifa-rhodes-pitts-71191/", "official_url": "https://www.e-flux.com/events/6783403/and-the-dogs-were-silent-a-convening-by-sharifa-rhodes-pitts/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/5c2400be00ada6de41980067c6a4a2f7aa3d802e8ff75c90d6d087c026d79d75-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Soul Patrol", "start": "2026-11-05T19:30:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "IFC Center", "address": "6th Avenue 323, 10014", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "history"], "description": "Soul Patrol is a documentary screening followed by a Q&A. Director J.M. Harper follows Vietnam War veterans from the war's first Black special ops team, using their personal Super 8 footage, photographs, and audio recordings. As the surviving members reunite in a hotel, the film explores memory, brotherhood, and the contradiction of fighting for freedom abroad while facing inequality at home. The screening is followed by a Q&A with Harper and Ed Emanuel, the documentary's subject and author of the book Soul Patrol.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/soul-patrol-53139/", "official_url": "https://www.ifccenter.com/films/soul-patrol/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/77c6c1fa065c9af6554a12e72b7041b4a3035103860c713f56255e6220defd4b-2000.webp"}, {"title": "DOUGLASS: THE RECKONING: A WORKING PROCESS", "start": "2026-11-02T19:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-02T20:00:00-05:00", "place": "La MaMa", "address": "East 4th Street 66, 10003 New York", "price": "free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/experimental-theatre", "history/abolitionism"], "description": "DOUGLASS: THE RECKONING: A WORKING PROCESS is a performance project in development, presented as a town hall that invites audiences into the making of a new work. It centers on Frederick Douglass and the unfinished argument over American democracy, asking who \"we\" is in \"We the People\" and who gets to speak. It was conceived and directed by Charlotte Brathwaite and created in collaboration with June Cross, Nia O. Witherspoon, Alexis Marcelo, artists from IMPACT Repertory Theatre, and students from The New School's School of Drama. The event is free and open to the public, RSVP is required, and light snacks will be provided.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/douglass-the-reckoning-a-working-process-88266/", "official_url": "https://event.newschool.edu/douglassthereckoning", "image": "https://noky.io/images/2a51a86b4aa93517b901d586db34dc9a262d4311fc1d6981a321a9bf77d8f9b0-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Photography and the Black Arts Movement, 1955–1985", "start": "2026-07-25T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-11-08T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Mississippi Museum of Art", "address": "380 South Lamar Street, Jackson, MS, 39201", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/photography/documentary-photography", "history/black-history"], "description": "Photography and the Black Arts Movement, 1955–1985 is an exhibition on the role photography played in shaping a distinctly Black artistic and cultural identity in the mid-twentieth century. Organized by the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, it is curated by Philip Brookman and Deborah Willis, and overseen at the Mississippi Museum of Art by Kaegan Sparks. Through works by over 100 artists, it shows the medium's versatility as art, design, organizing tool, and community builder. From Kwame Brathwaite's fashion photography to Gordon Parks's photojournalism, it reveals how studio and street photographers, designers, activists, and community organizers used photography to document, imagine, and transform Black life.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/photography-and-the-black-arts-movement-19551985-66542/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/fabd552951a38ecc401d93b1e2a1434a68e1aee6a97f5da1d1ea57e9a413ab9c-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Changing Lanes & Anti-car films", "start": "2026-11-08T18:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Interference Archive", "address": "7th Street 314, 11215 Brooklyn", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "society/activism"], "description": "A screening of four documentaries about social movements that challenged the policing and commodification of urban mobility and embraced freedom of movement beyond the automobile. 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It was made by director Ric Burns and co-writer and co-producer James Sanders, who debuted the five-part series on PBS in 1999, and is hosted by Open House New York. The episode explores the forces that shaped New York in the second half of the 20th century, as the city fell into the most threatening period of decline and disorder in its history, then rose again thanks to a stunning drop in crime. It ends in the summer of 2001, with a safe and secure New York unaware of a new threat from beyond its borders.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/new-york-a-documentary-film-56267/", "official_url": "https://svatheatre.com/events/new-york-a-documentary-film-shadows-of-the-past-screening-and-qa/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/7768043317c0571df38e62b28d9d2bc22d1fde8ade62752499f3d6cafaec2d5b-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Brooklyn Against Empire: Film and Fundraiser", "start": "2026-11-03T17:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-03T20:00:00-05:00", "place": "Starr Bar", "address": "Starr Street 214, 11237 Brooklyn", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "history"], "description": "An evening of film at the bar Starr Bar in Brooklyn. Brooklyn Against Empire hosts a movie night and fundraiser whose proceeds pay the tuition of medical students in Gaza, where the group has already fully funded three students; this event supports the sisters Ola and Sama, who attend the medical school at Al Azhar University of Gaza. The film is a documentary rated 100% Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes about the 1876 seizure of the Black Hills and the indigenous Lakota people's fight to reclaim control of them.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/brooklyn-against-empire-film-and-fundraiser-56039/", "official_url": "https://www.starrbar.com/events/bae", "image": "https://noky.io/images/61adb9d444843957941ca675c1d8757360c9ad443d25dee27a9f49732af5516d-2000.webp"}, {"title": "I Said What I Said: Steve Locke in Conversation with Robert Reid-Pharr", "start": "2026-11-11T18:30:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Alexander Gray Associates", "address": "384 Broadway, New York NY 10013", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/contemporary", "society/racism"], "description": "A gallery conversation in Chelsea between artist Steve Locke and scholar Robert Reid-Pharr, moderated by curator Evan Garza. It celebrates Locke's first career monograph, Steve Locke: I Said What I Said, and accompanies his exhibition of the same title at the gallery. The discussion explores Locke's interdisciplinary practice and his engagement with portraiture, desire, race, and memory, examining the histories of racial violence, anti-Blackness, and the Western art historical canon.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/i-said-what-i-said-steve-locke-in-conversation-with-robert-r-50911/", "official_url": "https://www.alexandergray.com/news/3231-i-said-what-i-said-steve-locke-in/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/96e9d2d26d198261cf3bfd188ddce7c05c7d94958da02efae161e071d08cdd6d-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Here, Already", "start": "2026-11-10T19:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "e-flux", "address": "172 Classon Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11205, USA", "price": "General $12, Student $10", "price_from": "12.00", "price_to": "12.00", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "society/queer"], "description": "\"Here, Already\" is a screening of three films by Salad Hilowle, Ahmed Umar, and Samira Elagoz with Z Walsh, guest-curated by Power Ekroth and followed by a discussion between Ekroth, Elagoz, and Walsh. The films explore love in different forms, from desire hidden in plain sight to intimacy across continents, with music playing an important role in each. Hilowle's \"Passion of Remembrance\" uses 1990s Swedish pop, television, and archival footage to reveal how Black artists were celebrated for their contributions to popular culture while treated as outsiders due to xenophobia. Umar's \"Truth Bears No Scandal\" brings hidden queer love stories within well-known Sudanese songs to the fore, while Elagoz and Walsh's \"You can't get what you want but you can get me\" documents their own love story across continents through a year of photographs.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/here-already-52439/", "official_url": "https://www.e-flux.com/events/6783397/here-already/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d8494b80775001b38602e02f60e9cb7c7c56d4c3128fcc35cedd3d2fc5d4a110-2000.webp"}, {"title": "DOUGLASS: THE RECKONING: A WORKING PROCESS", "start": "2026-11-02T19:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "651 ARTS", "address": "Lafayette Avenue 10, 11217 Brooklyn", "price": "free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/works-in-progress", "history/abolitionism", "society/democracy"], "description": "DOUGLASS: THE RECKONING: A WORKING PROCESS is a performance project in development centered on Frederick Douglass and the unfinished argument over American democracy, shared with the public across two town halls. It is conceived and directed by Charlotte Brathwaite and created in collaboration with June Cross, Nia O. Witherspoon, Alexis Marcelo, artists from IMPACT Repertory Theatre, and students from The New School's School of Drama. Audiences are invited into the development of the new work, exploring Douglass's words alongside questions of freedom, citizenship, belonging, disagreement, and what democracy asks of us now. It is free and open to the public, with RSVP required and light snacks provided.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/douglass-the-reckoning-a-working-process-88267/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/2a51a86b4aa93517b901d586db34dc9a262d4311fc1d6981a321a9bf77d8f9b0-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Blackout", "start": "2026-11-03T13:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "IFC Center", "address": "6th Avenue 323, 10014", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "film", "tags": ["film/horror/monster-horror"], "description": "Blackout is a feature film screening at IFC Center, shown as part of the series Optic Nerve: A Tribute to Glass Eye Pix. Director Larry Fessenden says he tells the story of a town divided by racism and a corrupt patriarch to update the werewolf movie. He describes his work as rooted in the low-key traditions of 1990s indie cinema, with collaborators like Kelly Reichardt, Jim Jarmusch and Steve Buscemi, alongside a deep love of the horror genre. The film stars Alex Hurt, Addison Timlin, Michael Buscemi, Joe Swanberg and Barbara Crampton.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/blackout-53133/", "official_url": "https://www.ifccenter.com/films/blackout/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/417d009dce51124a77c8c1fff6c82d00652985d409424b598e255cb7da23fbab-2000.webp"}]}