{"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", "dates": [{"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", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Maayuma li Mubirr (Healing Scars)", "start": "2026-11-04T00:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-06T00:00:00-05:00", "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/1284916", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["society/indigenous", "stage/performance-art"], "description": "\"Maayuma li Mubirr (Healing Scars)\" is a 65-minute performance work from Australia. It was created by Yuwalaaraay composer and performer Warren Mason and is presented by Moogahlin Performing Arts, tracing the intergenerational journey lines of First Peoples healing from injustice. Mason blends natural sounds of his Yuwaalaraay homeland, guitar, spoken word and singing styles of his old people, interwoven with movement choreographed with Jo Clancy, Lily Shearer, Kiarn Doyle and himself. The work honours matriarchy, survival, strength and the power of First Peoples storytelling, inviting audiences into a shared catharsis of truth, healing and resilience.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/maayuma-li-mubirr-healing-scars-53460/", "official_url": "https://lamama.org/maayuma-li-mubirr/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/92b25eb1f266bcb72ef3c6488400b7467f96fa3309ec1924b4d8c18170d245a1-2000.webp"}, {"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": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.eventbrite.com/e/opening-reception-for-yatta-iron-palm-wine-tickets-2003417735377?aff=oddtdtcreator&keep_tld=true", "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"}, {"title": "All My R(el)ations", "start": "2026-11-04T00:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-06T00:00:00-05:00", "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/1284923", "category": "dance", "tags": ["society/indigenous", "stage/contemporary-dance"], "description": "All My R(el)ations is a multi-disciplinary dance theatre performance and installation by the Indigenous company Aanmitaagzi from Nipissing First Nation, Ontario, Canada, running about 45 minutes. Co-created and performed by the Aanmitaagzi Ensemble under director and choreographic lead Penny Couchie, it is part of the Spiderwoman global indigenous Theater festival. The work brings together professional artists and community, asking who we are in the face of adversity and who we hope to be, built on story-telling luncheons with elders, summer intensives with youth and weekly workshops. Through this intergenerational, multi-year project, the company seeks to make the E and the L no longer silent, so we can return to All My Relations.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/all-my-relations-53461/", "official_url": "https://lamama.org/all-my-relations/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/5f4d74ee441a822cc4992c5dbccc91b8618135a3fa6ee24fe74acca607adb22c-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Playing Safe: Queering the Indigenous Performance Archive", "start": "2026-11-05T00:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-07T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Performance Space 122", "address": "1st Avenue 150, 10009", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://ci.ovationtix.com/203/production/1283991", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["society/indigenous", "stage/performance-art"], "description": "A performance presented by grunt gallery at Performance Space 122. Curators Tania Willard and Dana Claxton commissioned a new work by Vance Wright, the gallery's 2026 curatorial fellow, drawing on the gallery's archive and its history with Indigenous performance art. Using actions, natural materials, oration, and sound, Wright's piece explores sacred sexuality, decolonial kink, trust, consent, and the body and the land as archive, grounded in Indigenous queer ways of being.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/playing-safe-queering-the-indigenous-performance-archive-54720/", "official_url": "https://performancespacenewyork.org/shows/playing-safe-queering-the-indigenous-performance-archive/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/1a61500cefb709a9417d77508430a09aec9d3614a028e75c41adb87723879973-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Designed to Be Red: Native American & Indigenous Poster Works", "start": "2026-09-25T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2027-02-21T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Poster House", "address": "West 23rd Street 119, 10011 New York", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/design/graphic-design/poster", "society/indigenous"], "description": "Designed to Be Red: Native American & Indigenous Poster Works is an exhibition at Poster House about Native graphic art, shown in the Main Gallery and taking about an hour to see. It is curated by Brian Johnson of the Monacan Indian Nation, a designer and partner at Polymode, with exhibition design by Ola Baldych. Through works spanning nearly two centuries and representing over 60 tribes and nations, it celebrates Native designers as shapers of design, not merely its subjects, in resistance to colonial narratives. It is rated PG-13 for some racist and violent imagery and language.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/designed-to-be-red-native-american-indigenous-poster-works-54899/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/047288f03a507764a0d5e4b7526ae189cbded1c6baa7e911fdfaab7025ed33bf-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Kate Rigg with Slanty Eyed Mama", "start": "2026-11-01T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-11-07T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "La MaMa", "address": "East 4th Street 66, 10003 New York", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://ci.ovationtix.com/42/production/1294622", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["literature/spoken-word", "music/rock"], "description": "Kate Rigg with Slanty Eyed Mama is a residency at La MaMa built around the spoken word, rock and comedy duo of the same name. Slanty Eyed Mama is award-winning lyricist and singer Kate Rigg (Lady-K) and electric violinist Lyris Hung, who met while studying at the Juilliard School and create a fresh American Asian sound. Their work has taken them twice to the Smithsonian Institute, to headline the PBS Special \"Race is the Place\", and to stages such as LA Grand Performances, the Perth International Festival and the Vancouver Comedy Festival. On November 1 they lead \"Speak Up! Speak Out! Speak Up!\", a free workshop for ages 14-22 on turning stories and feelings into powerful spoken word with improvised musical accompaniment.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/kate-rigg-with-slanty-eyed-mama-53459/", "official_url": "https://lamama.org/kateriggwithslantyeyedmama/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/63d467e6a125927dea076c1e3563ecf6e80e82fe036cc990b3a1d1794f1f8a4f-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Land", "start": "2026-09-10T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-12-31T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Old Stone House", "address": "3rd Street 336, 11215", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/contemporary", "society/indigenous"], "description": "Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Land is an art exhibition at the Old Stone House in Brooklyn. Guest-curated by Jeremy Dennis, a member of the Shinnecock Indian Nation and executive director of Ma's House & BIPOC Art Studio, it features work by Luanne Redeye, Ella Mahoney, Leonard Harmon, and Dennis himself. The show presents Redeye's monoprint collage, Mahoney's Theories of belonging, Harmon's ntapi nuxwis (I Am Here My Grandchild) and Grandma Warned Me, and staged photography by Dennis. A free opening reception with the artists takes place on September 16, 2026, from 6 to 8 PM.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/life-liberty-and-the-pursuit-of-land-54592/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/89f07abb0b0e5e5b62b92bea09854aac9cfd2c7b7d33e152d84010df6bd0ccec-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Nikki and the Noise at Arts on Site", "start": "2026-11-08T18:30:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Arts on Site", "address": "Saint Marks Place 12", "price": "$30.00", "price_from": "30.00", "price_to": "30.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage"], "description": "An evening of performance by Nikki and the Noise, the group of Nikki Assanti, Shannon Healey, Daniel Morimoto, and Brandon Washington. It traces their creative evolution, from early stirrings of Claws of A Stray to the NYC premiere of Ambiguous Grief. Claws of A Stray, a new work-in-progress, explores shifting dynamics of territory and how we inhabit our own space. Ambiguous Grief examines the sorrow that comes with the loss or destruction of an emotional bond and the uncertainty of navigating all types of loss.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/nikki-and-the-noise-at-arts-on-site-51085/", "official_url": "https://www.artsonsite.org/events-1/nikki-and-the-noise-at-arts-on-site", "image": "https://noky.io/images/434acd13f6ca5744bc71e3fd6c9b00f3e579743fa60c7fb2a06a7d507637e972-2000.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/booking/production/bestavailable/55771", "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"}, {"title": "Invisible Shadows", "start": "2026-10-30T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-11-01T00:00:00-04:00", "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/1284922", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["society/indigenous", "stage/theatre"], "description": "A theater piece told by Indigenous actors about growing up in an urban Indigenous community amid an opioid epidemic. It centers on young people in community prevention programs who face addiction at home, whose hopes collide with learning their cultures and their family's and community's misuse of alcohol and drugs. It is performed by Ikidowin Theater Ensemble, a group from Minneapolis whose members tell stories of their own lives, some having joined as young as eleven. A recurring question runs through it: can one spirit tell another what to do?", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/invisible-shadows-53458/", "official_url": "https://lamama.org/invisible-shadows/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/25f855f5b94ec28683b4bd0441b457c7d65560daada1306dad21750f6efa4be1-2000.webp"}, {"title": "I Guess It Was My Destiny To Live So Long", "start": "2026-10-23T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-10-30T00:00:00-04:00", "place": "Peter Jay Sharp Building, Howard Gilman Opera House", "address": "", "price": "Tickets start at $35", "price_from": "35.00", "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://commerce.bam.org/production/55619", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/poetry", "music"], "description": "I Guess It Was My Destiny To Live So Long is a transdisciplinary poetry series honoring the legacy of Brooklyn icon June Jordan. 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. The program also includes Poetry Overnight at BAM, Southern Oracles by the Black Air Poets, Be Holding based on a Ross Gay poem, and Stones in the Water with Sarah Kay, Clint Smith, Anis Mojgani, and Abdurraqib.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/i-guess-it-was-my-destiny-to-live-so-long-51198/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ca322bacd44652032ba8e3d49e9c02203731c1f147933a90f0e38b4f8fdc7558-2000.webp"}, {"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. NY", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2003417735377?aff=oddtdtcreator", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/installation", "literature/poetry", "music/folk"], "description": "An opening reception at Recess for the artist and musician YATTA's Session installation, Iron + Palm Wine: Koneh Pelawoe. Through the musical legacy of Rogie, YATTA explores entanglements of Blackness, land, leisure, and extraction, drawing on palm wine music as a balm for the psychic wounds of the transatlantic slave trade. 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": "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": "Tahkox: Indigenous Stages Launch of a New Online Journal", "start": "2026-11-12T18:30:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-12T20:30:00-05:00", "place": "Martin E. Segal Theatre Center", "address": "5th Avenue 365, 10016 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/indigenous", "stage/theatre"], "description": "An evening launching the online journal Tahkox: Indigenous Stages, held at the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center. The journal is the world's first interdisciplinary academic journal dedicated primarily to Indigenous authors writing about the theatrical and cultural performance of Indigenous artists and communities around the globe. Published by the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center at the CUNY Graduate Center, it was founded by Opalanietet (Ryan Victor Pierce) and Frank Hentschker and will release its inaugural issue in November 2026. The evening includes a conversation with Opalanietet, Tammy Hailiʻōpua Baker, Pililuaikekaiohilo M. Q. Keala and Frank Hentschker.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/tahkox-indigenous-stages-launch-of-a-new-online-journal-53862/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "New Music from Washington and Jackson", "start": "2026-11-12T18:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Perelman Performing Arts Center", "address": "Fulton Street 251, 10007 New York", "price": "Free and open to the public; RSVPs are encouraged, but not required.", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://cart.pacnyc.org/events/70401ASVSQQQCRPSCNRQPCKDQQQTGLMGK/186001ALPGBSQPKTJTBSTMPTVKRTSRKNB", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/soul-funk", "stage/musical"], "description": "New Music from Washington and Jackson is a high-energy evening of brand-new musical theater performed on the Lobby Stage. It is created by writers Dwayne Washington and Brandon Jackson, collaborators trained at Juilliard and Berklee who recently had a sold-out run at Green Room 42 and a developmental reading of their first public work, Influenced, with ATC Theater in Pittsburgh. Drawing on world music, R&B, jazz, classical, and hip-hop, they create a sound that is unmistakably their own. The performance features songs from three musicals currently in development, celebrating Black joy, bold storytelling, and a fresh perspective on what Broadway can sound like.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/new-music-from-washington-and-jackson-67048/", "official_url": "https://pacnyc.org/whats-on/new-music-from-washington-and-jackson/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c1c6e5dd18e54e79d7dc7c4cfaf607b4a91d311c82c1b935f37f19d4d7ff5602-600.webp"}, {"title": "Spiderwoman Workshops!", "start": "2026-10-28T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-11-05T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "La MaMa", "address": "East 4th Street 66, 10003 New York", "price": "free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["stage/theatre", "music"], "description": "Spiderwoman Workshops! is a series of free theatre and cultural workshops, one of which takes place on this day: Song Story with Warren Mason. It is part of the Global Indigenous Theatre Festival at La MaMa, held as Spiderwoman celebrates its 50th Anniversary with groundbreaking theatre companies. Warren Mason, the creator, composer and performer of Maayuma li Mubirr, sits with participants to learn devising song stories, with instruments optional for the ten participants.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/spiderwoman-workshops-66701/", "official_url": "https://lamama.org/spiderwomanworkshops/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/5a5b52ffb101d621b8ea83758dd1b76e570c77b410f579ca3126ea824690a32e-2000.webp"}]}