{"title": "Iron + Palm Wine: Koneh Pelawoe", "start": "2026-11-11T00:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-12-19T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Recess", "address": "46 Washington Ave. Brooklyn. NY", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/installation", "music/folk"], "description": "Iron + Palm Wine: Koneh Pelawoe is a sound and moving-image installation at Recess, presented as part of the Session program. The artist YATTA, a Sierra Leonean-American composer and great-niece of the pioneering Sierra Leonean palm wine musician S.E. Rogie, transforms the gallery into an evolving pre-production environment for the project, which is named after Rogie's song \"Koneh Pelawoe,\" meaning \"Please Open Your Heart.\" The installation pairs a collegiate ethnomusicology building with a Southern and West African veranda, bringing together Rogie's songs, recorded conversations, archival materials, and YATTA's compositions of vocals, kora, and field recordings. Through Rogie's musical legacy, YATTA explores the entanglements of Blackness, land, leisure, and extraction, asking what healing possibilities the sounds of West Africa may hold when the psychic weight of labor, migration, and extraction is set down.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/iron-palm-wine-koneh-pelawoe-55301/", "official_url": "https://www.recessart.org/projects/613-iron-palm-wine-koneh-pelawoe", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d73c4aa3a9b5027995631c146a051af6f07fec49bb03fa8002e1497ba0e181eb-2000.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-11T00:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-12-19T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Recess", "address": "46 Washington Ave. Brooklyn. NY", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Opening Reception for YATTA: Iron + Palm Wine", "start": "2026-11-11T18:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Recess", "address": "46 Washington Ave. Brooklyn. 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The evening offers light refreshments, a first look at the installation, and a poetry reading featuring poets from Camille Dungy's 2009 anthology Black Nature.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/opening-reception-for-yatta-iron-palm-wine-55299/", "official_url": "https://www.recessart.org/events/614-opening-reception-for-yatta-iron-palm-wine", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d73c4aa3a9b5027995631c146a051af6f07fec49bb03fa8002e1497ba0e181eb-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Yacouba Sissoko & Siya", "start": "2026-11-08T21:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Bar LunAtico", "address": "Halsey Street 486, 11233 Brooklyn", "price": "$10 (CASH) SUGGESTED DONATION", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/world/african"], "description": "An evening of live music at LunÀtico, a Brooklyn bar and music venue, presented in two sets. It features Yacouba Sissoko, a kora master from Mali widely regarded as one of the premier exponents of Mali music in the world, with his band SIYA. The group plays traditional African songs alongside influences from jazz, Latin and R&B, with Sissoko on kora and vocals joined by Mamoudou Konaté on talking drum, Moussa Manfa Diabate on n'goni, Kayode Kuti on bass and Alex Saho on drums. Sissoko has toured with artists such as Regina Carter, Baaba Maal and Roberto Fonseca, and recorded with Lauryn Hill, Harry Belafonte, Paul Simon and Ami Koita.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/yacouba-sissoko-siya-51237/", "official_url": "https://www.barlunatico.com/calendar/wmle9m5ymc4tp2k-zz8jh-84rgk", "image": "https://noky.io/images/15b8f8a4e71be234a900e84df052d11fee5a2d954ca8a1baa839926f965eef93-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Native Voices Karenna—Lay Our Vibration Down", "start": "2026-11-05T19:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-05T20:30:00-05:00", "place": "Cooper Union", "address": "7 East 7th Street, between Third and Fourth Avenues, New York, NY", "price": "Free, first-come-first-served with registration required", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["society/indigenous", "stage/opera"], "description": "Native Voices Karenna—Lay Our Vibration Down is an evening in the Gardiner Foundation Great Hall Forum presenting the New York-stage premieres of two short operas, Trials and Tears and Sacajawea: Women of Many Names. Both pieces are by Dawn Avery, a Grammy-nominated cellist-composer of Mohawk descent, with Danielle Olana Jagelski (Oneida Nation of Wisconsin and Red Cliff Band of Ojibwe) as music director and original video design by Kate Freer. Trials and Tears, a collaboration with artist Ty Defoe commissioned by New Music Theatre Alliance in 2022, responds to Benny Andrews' painting Trail of Tears and connects the forced resettling of Indigenous people with trials leading to incarceration of minorities. Sacajawea: Women of Many Names, made with librettist-soprano Blake Hill-Saya and Shoshone Advisor Francesca Mason Boring, shows Sacajawea from the perspective of her Shoshone ancestral traditions, unfettered from Western mythologies about her life and motivations.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/native-voices-karennalay-our-vibration-down-75364/", "official_url": "https://cooper.edu/events-and-exhibitions/events/native-voices-karenna-lay-our-vibration-down", "image": "https://noky.io/images/30e9c4439e2e624271c3021d72aaf341e5043b486c586d78e474d967d1eb8b40-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Adebunmi Gdadebo", "start": "2026-11-10T15:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-10T17:00:00-05:00", "place": "School of Visual Arts", "address": "East 23rd Street 209, 10010", "price": "Free and open to the public", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art"], "description": "An artist's talk in the Talks lecture series, free and open to the public, also accessible online via Zoom. It features Adebunmi Gdadebo, an artist who earned her BFA at the School of Visual Arts and lives and works in Philadelphia. Her multidisciplinary practice explores heritage through historically and culturally significant materials such as indigo dye, human hair collected throughout the African diaspora, and soil hand-dug from the True Blue Plantation grounds in South Carolina, investigating the complex relationships between land, matter, and memory.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/adebunmi-gdadebo-67140/", "official_url": "https://sva.edu/events/adebunmi-gdadebo", "image": "https://noky.io/images/f5e0eaacc1619d0a6b3d1e86c1e8456f7ed89189f42e0cdaf56a1ed703d42756-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Jazz Is Staten Island: Rhythms of the African Diaspora (Local is Global Part II)", "start": "2026-11-07T19:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "The Carpenter's Shop, Snug Harbor", "address": "", "price": "$25 & Under", "price_from": "20.00", "price_to": "20.00", "tickets_url": "https://snugharbor.my.salesforce-sites.com/ticket/#/events/a0SQg00000AEe6HMAT", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/jazz"], "description": "An evening concert closing the Jazz Is Staten Island series, presenting Local is Global Part II: Rhythms of the African Diaspora with a dynamic jazz ensemble. It is presented by Universal Temple of the Arts together with Snug Harbor. The lineup features Asante Santi Debriano on bass, T.K. Blue on saxophone, flute and kalimba, Matt Smythe on keyboard, and Juan Chiavassa on drums. Debriano and Blue, both internationally recognized and longtime collaborators of the late NEA Jazz Master Dr. Randy Weston, continue through their music the storytelling purpose Weston described.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/jazz-is-staten-island-rhythms-of-the-african-diaspora-local-77025/", "official_url": "https://snug-harbor.org/event/jazz-is-staten-island-rhythms-of-the-african-diaspora-local-is-global-part-ii/?slot_id=25136", "image": "https://noky.io/images/8a5af0106c7be358e376fce8ca1f13f2ad63843b0ea5d26381c4547383fd8271-2000.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"}, {"title": "adaku, part 2: she shivers with it", "start": "2026-11-11T00:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-15T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "BAM Fisher (Fishman Space)", "address": "", "price": "Tickets start at $45", "price_from": "45.00", "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://commerce.bam.org/production/55770", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/contemporary-dance"], "description": "adaku, part 2: she shivers with it is a dance-theater work presented by BAM in association with L'Alliance New York's Crossing The Line Festival. It was created by sweat variant, the collaborative practice of Okwui Okpokwasili and Peter Born, and continues a speculative trilogy about one family's fractured ancestral memories. Set in a near-future United States, it follows a young woman taught she has no history worth remembering who begins receiving sudden transmissions, opening a multitude of imaginable futures. Running 1 hour 30 minutes with no intermission, the work places Black interiority at the center of an immersive experience at the crossroads of dance, theater, and visual art.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/adaku-part-2-she-shivers-with-it-51174/", "official_url": "https://www.bam.org/dance/2026/adaku2", "image": "https://noky.io/images/7d1960a9a12df5faf2af54f2950a34095c7e9f314d5c5f8c24049bd289f9058a-2000.webp"}]}