{"title": "La MaMa Puppet Festival 2026", "start": "2026-11-11T00:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-12-06T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "La MaMa", "address": "East 4th Street 66, 10003 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://ci.ovationtix.com/42/production/1284054", "category": "festivals-street", "tags": ["stage/puppetry"], "description": "La MaMa Puppet Festival 2026 is an annual festival of contemporary puppet theatre, running November 11 to December 6. Puppetry has been part of La MaMa's programming since 1962, and the venue has hosted annual puppet festivals since 2004. Curated by Denise Greber and Federico Restrepo, this year's festival brings together international puppet artists including Monica Lerch, Tiresias, Tom Lee, Deniz Khateri, and Michelle Beshaw. 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It was created by Monica Lerch, a Brooklyn-based multidisciplinary puppet artist, with Jeshua Bratman as writer and producer and Sean Devare as creative co-director. The story follows Syx, whose body is withering in a future where engineering the body is a crime; she alters herself in secret, builds robotic companions, and descends beneath the ocean to a commune of transformed humans. There, the wholeness she finds asks her to surrender the self she has fought to preserve.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/endless-forms-66706/", "official_url": "https://lamama.org/endless-forms/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/beb492b0c84574284c576ec30d61d03a7221867a3fdd8f6a18035165ed9aa7b9-2000.webp"}, {"title": "NYC Village Halloween Parade 2026", "start": "2026-10-31T19:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-10-31T22:00:00-04:00", "place": "Canal St & 6th Ave, New York, NY 10013, USA", "address": "", "price": "free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "festivals-street", "tags": ["occasion/halloween", "stage/puppetry"], "description": "New York's 53rd Annual Village Halloween Parade, an annual holiday parade on the night of Halloween in Greenwich Village and a wildly creative public participatory event. 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It is written, directed, and composed by Tiresias, who also performs, together with Synead, Wes Garlington aka Klondyke, Ellen Zahniser, Mizuho Kappa, Nicki Kissil, and Emily Batsford. The work imagines futures of multispecies flourishing in the ruins of the Anthropocene, promising utopian visions of eclectic, non-innocent entanglements on Future Earth as a collective act of radical queer defiance against apathetic submission to climate apocalypse.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/tiresias-presents-new-weird-future-a-work-in-process-66708/", "official_url": "https://lamama.org/tiresiaspresentsnewweirdfuture/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/8224396d8efa016b65abe9936821ddaf8a6a728f848175d58ba89a29a3c6e758-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Open Movement – Fall 2026", "start": "2026-10-04T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-12-13T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Performance Space 122", "address": "1st Avenue 150, 10009", "price": "Free with RSVP / pay what you can", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://ci.ovationtix.com/203/production/1283948", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["dance/movement-dance"], "description": "Open Movement – Fall 2026 is a free program open to all ages, abilities, and levels of experience, held in the theater and offering space for self-guided movement practice along with artist-led workshops. 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"}, {"title": "Concrete Boom Vol 5", "start": "2026-11-03T19:30:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Dixon Place", "address": "Chrystie Street 161A, 10002", "price": "Early Bird $22 (ends October 16th), Standard Seating $25, DP/CTT Lover $50", "price_from": "22.00", "price_to": "25.00", "tickets_url": "https://ci.ovationtix.com/35526/production/1292709", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/puppetry"], "description": "\"Concrete Boom Vol 5\" is an evening of visual theatre at Dixon Place, showing works that express ideas through puppetry, movement, images, mask work and scenography. It was launched in 2018 by Concrete Temple Theatre, an internationally acclaimed devised visual-theatre company, to support the development of visual theatre in New York City. This installment is curated and hosted by J Hann and features artists Ash Winkfield, Christine Schisano, Al Strong and Pixie Pierrot.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/concrete-boom-vol-5-52283/", "official_url": "https://dixonplace.org/performances/concrete-boom-vol-5/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/9053a2613bf6f6a9cad05bbff960245d76c27cf28575b1ddbc8aea3b967ab122-2000.webp"}, {"title": "¡CalabazaFest! 2026", "start": "2026-11-01T11:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "RiseBoro Community Partnership", "address": "Bushwick Avenue 555, 11206 Brooklyn", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "festivals-street", "tags": ["music/world/latin/mariachi", "occasion/day-of-the-dead"], "description": "¡CalabazaFest! is a free, family-friendly outdoor mini-festival in Bushwick celebrating community, culture, and the traditions of Día de los Muertos and Halloween. It is organized by RiseBoro, with support from Council Member Jennifer Gutierrez, and returns after becoming a beloved neighborhood event. The day offers live performances from noon, including mariachi, folkloric dance, and youth cumbia, a creative costume contest with prizes at 2:00 pm hosted by emcee Ricardo Steven, local vendors, community partners, and pumpkin carving with composting by BK Rot. 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The program lets writers hear new work aloud with an audience to discover plays for possible future production.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/new-works-fall-festival-2026-53251/", "official_url": "https://irishrep.org/whats-on/new-works-fall-festival-2026", "image": "https://noky.io/images/0091e773d0f5a46708dc7bd56359de4d8b720a33b7951d06f1bfda4761cfdb06-2000.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. 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