{"title": "Kazari Maki Zushi: Decorative Sushi Roll – Jack-o'-Lantern & Frankenstein", "start": "2026-10-31T11:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-10-31T12:30:00-04:00", "place": "Resobox", "address": "27th Street 41-26, 11101 Long Island City", "price": "$80 / person", "price_from": "80.00", "price_to": "80.00", "tickets_url": "https://checkout.square.site/merchant/ADDNG79130W4G/checkout/62YXVPYFLIVHDEQSWQIF7TMZ", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["food-drink/japanese", "occasion/halloween"], "description": "A hands-on workshop in kazari maki zushi, Japan's art of decorative sushi rolls, where participants make a jack-o'-lantern and a Frankenstein's monster design whose faces appear in every slice. Every color comes from food — carrot, aonori, bonito furikake, nori, cheese, cucumber and fish sausage — with no dyes. The rolls are built in parts and assembled, so no sushi experience is needed. Chef Hiroyo Belmonte, a certified Level 1 instructor in decorative sushi from the Japan Sushi Instructors Association, guides every step.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/kazari-maki-zushi-decorative-sushi-roll-jack-o-lantern-frank-55320/", "official_url": "https://resobox.com/event/kazari-maki-zushi-halloween-october-31/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/3efbd7bcb04960beda15ec04cdaf339f694befac631b748c88a419a9a3260b54-2000.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-10-31T11:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-10-31T12:30:00-04:00", "place": "Resobox", "address": "27th Street 41-26, 11101 Long Island City", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Spooktacular MAD Halloween Party!", "start": "2026-10-30T15:00:00-04:00", "end": null, "place": "Museum of Arts and Design", "address": "Columbus Circle 2, New York", "price": "$10 general, $5 members, free for ages 12 and under (tickets do not include Museum admission)", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "10.00", "tickets_url": "https://buy.acmeticketing.com/orders/460/tickets?cdEventIds=621a47c2d751820835e8b51b&date=2026-10-30T15:00:00-04:00&eventId=68bf45836dfecb20fd27ab7d", "category": "kids-family", "tags": ["art/crafts", "occasion/halloween"], "description": "Spooktacular MAD Halloween Party! is a festive Halloween day at the Museum of Arts and Design with hands-on art activities, spooky creations, and family-friendly fun, and guests are encouraged to come dressed in their most creative costume. It is held by the museum and features an interactive soft sculpture installation by Mookntaka, the Brooklyn-based artist duo of Mark Zlotsky and Karyn Lao, whose cheerful inflatable sculptures encourage people of all ages to connect through play. Visitors can also pose in a Boo! photo booth and join art-making including mask making, spooky pom-poms with resident artist Karyn Lao, and pop-up Halloween cardmaking with artist Hayley Ferber.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/spooktacular-mad-halloween-party-54032/", "official_url": "https://www.madmuseum.org/events/spooktacular-mad-halloween-party", "image": "https://noky.io/images/53c7b94f642a5abde671a301353b632e76ee2d9919b70d0ee36e9bb05ad16d83-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Kimekomi: Japanese Traditional Doll-Making – Frog, Owl & More", "start": "2026-11-07T11:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-07T13:00:00-05:00", "place": "Resobox", "address": "27th Street 41-26, 11101 Long Island City", "price": "$60 / person, all materials included", "price_from": "60.00", "price_to": "60.00", "tickets_url": "https://checkout.square.site/merchant/ADDNG79130W4G/checkout/3V3B2U5RS6PYNSGUFMB4TSZG", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["art/crafts"], "description": "Kimekomi: Japanese Traditional Doll-Making – Frog, Owl & More is a hands-on workshop at RESOBOX where participants make traditional Japanese dolls with all materials included and no experience necessary. For the November 7th class, students can choose among the Frog, Owl, Jizo, Daruma, and Goldfish designs, and take home their finished artwork. The workshop is open to everyone, inviting you to relax, enjoy a creative moment, and bring a little piece of Japanese art into your home. 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Japanese chef Daisuke Yamada, with over 25 years of experience in Japanese cuisine, has created an exclusive menu for the night, with Japanese food and drinks including Dassai BLUE, shochu, craft beer, and matcha. Koki Kimura, a professional nōkanshi (Japanese encoffinment ritual specialist), performs a special funeral ritual, and guests can also try the Coffin Experience. Speakers, performers, artists, and exhibitors from Memento Mori in NYC join the evening to reconnect, exchange ideas, and reflect on the past two days.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/memento-mori-in-nyc-after-party-a-night-to-celebrate-life-55329/", "official_url": "https://resobox.com/event/memento-mori-in-nyc-after-party/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/9f91184246d9b41757a8a87a0e079e4d4266bc1fae630abc5615b9b908ee58f4-2000.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. 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It is led by Masami Asao Sensei, one of Japan's leading instructors, a temple chef and registered dietitian who directs Akasaka Teran, a vegetarian cooking school at Jokokuji, a 350-year-old temple in Tokyo. Participants prepare traditional Japanese dishes in the temple setting of New York Zendo Shobo-ji, and each day concludes with sharing the dishes made, followed by a ceremonial matcha offering by Johan Lee, a hospitality management expert and student of the Urasenke Chanoyu tea school. Instruction is in Japanese with an English interpreter, and there is a different menu each day.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/nyz-zen-in-the-kitchen-shojin-ryori-cooking-workshop-57617/", "official_url": "https://zenstudies.org/event/nyz-zen-in-the-kitchen-shojin-ryori-cooking-workshop/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/0809174f06569272ca57e1486deddb12dd6046abd9f9e3bfdae0ae5dc88d3171-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Kumiko Woodworking: Japanese Joinery – Flower Vase (Ichirin-zashi)", "start": "2026-10-31T13:30:00-04:00", "end": "2026-10-31T15:00:00-04:00", "place": "Resobox", "address": "27th Street 41-26, 11101 Long Island City", "price": "$90 / person (all materials included)", "price_from": "90.00", "price_to": "90.00", "tickets_url": "https://checkout.square.site/merchant/ADDNG79130W4G/checkout/UZII5IGLHHN2SUI4H44Z4ATX", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["art/crafts", "diy/woodworking"], "description": "A hands-on woodworking class in kumiko, the Japanese craft of assembling thin wooden pieces into intricate patterns without nails, where participants build a hanging wooden flower vase called an ichirin-zashi. 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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": "Socrates Sculpture Park Halloween Harvest Festival", "start": "2026-10-31T12:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-10-31T17:00:00-04:00", "place": "Socrates Sculpture Park, Vernon Boulevard, Astoria, NY, USA", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.eventbrite.com/e/halloween-harvest-festival-tickets-1986570753601?aff=oddtdtcreator", "category": "festivals-street", "tags": ["occasion/halloween"], "description": "The Halloween Harvest Festival fills Socrates Sculpture Park in Astoria with a family-friendly afternoon of artmaking workshops, performances for young children, and pumpkin decorating and carving contests. The program also includes a community resource fair with local organizations, a vegan food market curated by Erica Muñoz, and an annual dog costume contest co-hosted with Chateau le Woof. Workshops range from learning about New York's bats with iDig2Learn to Lizania Cruz's interactive kiosk 'Ecologies of Care' and costume making with reused materials. The event also marks the park's season closeout.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/socrates-sculpture-park-halloween-harvest-festival-71899/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/2c0b4553d10cfbee9ec4fcc4b341708e0b12acbdf989dc488111cc3f9bae65b0-1200.webp"}]}