{"title": "Notes Towards: For Once!", "start": "2026-11-04T19:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-04T23:00:00-05:00", "place": "Judson Memorial Church", "address": "Thompson Street 239", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "dance", "tags": ["society/queer", "stage/ballet"], "description": "\"For Once!\" is an experimental story ballet by Dr. Angel-Jehbreal Muhammad Jackson with collaborator Ryan Charles-Marc, presented in partnership with Black Trans Liberation Kitchen. It explores Jackson's relationships with their Black trans identity and masculinity through duets with 3 pivotal figures: first love, worst love, and father. The evening is part of Notes Towards, curated by Judson Arts Weekly's Program Manager, Arien Wilkerson. 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It is choreographed and directed by Cynthia Oliver, a Bessie Award-winning choreographer and 2022 Guggenheim Fellow, with a cast of six contemporary dance artists. The works were made before, during, and after the 2020 global pandemic: Tether meditates on Black girls' creativity and play, Fallow depicts the pandemic's chaotic underbelly, and Summon. Sow. Reap. explores re-emergence from isolation through rhythm and spiritual patterning. 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The score by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Tyshawn Sorey is performed by quartet Yarn/Wire, directed by Brooke O'Harra, with text recited by Gay and poet David Gaines and video by Catching on Thieves and Matt Deinhart.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/be-holding-51159/", "official_url": "https://www.bam.org/poetry/2026/be-holding", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c7dafebe0121980b8b8736d5182cd67de413a2b4434e3baccb196affa6a5c245-2000.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": "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"}, {"title": "Naima Ramos-Chapman: In Place of Monuments", "start": "2026-11-06T19:30:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Apollo Theater", "address": "West 125th Street 253, 10027 New York", "price": "$25", "price_from": "25.00", "price_to": "25.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.ticketmaster.com/event/00006519DF8B9C86", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/play", "society/racism"], "description": "A staged reading of the one-act play \"In Place of Monuments\", part of the Apollo Works in Process Series, presented by the Apollo. The play, by Naima Ramos-Chapman, centers the friendship of two Black American and Caribbean friends and examines how state-sanctioned violence threatens to tear their family and community apart. Through recalling memories across time and incorporating movement and dance, it aims to create a portal for audiences to envision more just and liberated futures for Black and Brown people. The reading is followed by a talkback with the creatives.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/naima-ramos-chapman-in-place-of-monuments-51069/", "official_url": "https://www.apollotheater.org/event/apollo-new-works-naima-ramos-in-place-of-monuments", "image": "https://noky.io/images/9358ca52963fb66e5e081b518918365f8df1020d3d1e3843395423eec923c3ca-2000.webp"}, {"title": "MS. BLAKK FOR PRESIDENT", "start": "2026-10-22T19:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-11-29T14:00:00-05:00", "place": "Vineyard Theatre", "address": "East 15th Street 108, 10003 New York", "price": "$20", "price_from": "20.00", "price_to": "20.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/drama", "society/queer"], "description": "Ms. Blakk for President is a theatrical production inspired by the true story of drag performer and activist Terence Alan Smith, a joyous stampede through urgent and unfinished business. It is written by Tarell Alvin McCraney and Tina Landau and directed by Tina Landau, with a cast including Wayne Brady, Gideon Glick, Nic Ashe, Kelvin Moon Oh, Sawyer Smith, and Adina Verson. The show features the 'Club Joan' experience.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/ms-blakk-for-president-71988/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/9ccd7c505b26026e92d98c9dac30b940c67eacc87ffa63fb0dee4015cdfb24a4-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Nocturnal Medicine Presents – The Well: A Service", "start": "2026-11-06T20:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-06T22:30:00-05:00", "place": "Union Theological Seminary", "address": "10027 New York", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "worship", "tags": ["religion/spirituality", "stage/performance-art"], "description": "\"Nocturnal Medicine Presents – The Well: A Service\" is an experimental service held in a house of worship, where divinity springs from Earth and prayer is unmoored from dogma. It is created by Nocturnal Medicine, Union's new Artists-in-Residence, a duo who invite people to sink down into the subterranean well. Within James Chapel, a tapestry of overlapping performances unfolds, each figure a channeller offering prayers through movement, material toil, hypnotic sound, and ritual. Nocturnal Medicine is joined by adobeprincess, DaMond LeMonte Garner, Laila Rosen, Madison Wada, Mamiko Usuda, and Paul Pinto for this collaborative, immersive experience, and all are welcome to gather for a night of art, presence, and transformation.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/nocturnal-medicine-presents-the-well-a-service-57273/", "official_url": "https://utsnyc.edu/blog/event/nocturnal-medicine-presents-the-well-a-service/?instance_id=4284", "image": "https://noky.io/images/6138eb22b191866e0d95d8471b65ac68ae87c644f40d60fdb7633650c3c15d39-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Still On After / Sala Sadio", "start": "2026-10-30T18:30:00-04:00", "end": null, "place": "Arts on Site", "address": "Saint Marks Place 12", "price": "$30.00 (+$1.50 service fee)", "price_from": "30.00", "price_to": "30.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "dance", "tags": ["stage/contemporary-dance"], "description": "\"Still On After / Sala Sadio\" is an evening of performance at Studio 3R, the performance space at Arts on Site on 12 St Marks Place. It presents \"Still On After\", a work exploring what it means to be the \"Achiever\" versus the \"Observer\", asking whether pausing to notice, listen and be curious might become a form of action, and what openness to seeing things differently could mean for our sense of self and relationships. It is shared alongside \"Sala Sadio\", described as a solo choreographed work, with @_trea_ credited. The event is hosted at Arts on Site's Studio 3R, a performance space in New York City.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/still-on-after-sala-sadio-51081/", "official_url": "https://www.artsonsite.org/events-1/still-on-after-sala-sadio", "image": "https://noky.io/images/110643621edf3b0a3064de762ef7dce30eb59d59d9f370c4f6a4c6c2bedf0548-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Movement Research", "start": "2026-11-09T19:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-09T22:00:00-05:00", "place": "Judson Memorial Church", "address": "Thompson Street 239", "price": "free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "dance", "tags": ["dance"], "description": "Movement Research is a live experimental performance evening of dance and new work in progress. It is a free, high-visibility, low-tech forum for experimentation and emerging ideas, held in the Fall and Spring seasons. Artists are selected by a rotating committee of peer artists and perform alongside Movement Research Artists-In-Residence and international guests. The performances take place at the historic Judson Memorial Church.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/movement-research-53343/", "official_url": "https://www.judson.org/calendar/movement-research-11-9-26", "image": "https://noky.io/images/8b85cbe5a4dce7a42c6b7dccd84a3e9a48ce116f5af66209e91ca060b5cc7b32-1200.webp"}, {"title": "BFA Fall Concert", "start": "2026-11-11T19:30:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater", "address": "West 55th Street 405, 10019 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://ci.ovationtix.com/29185/production/1288279", "category": "dance", "tags": ["dance"], "description": "BFA Fall Concert is a dance performance staged at the Ailey Studio Theater at 405 W 55th Street in New York. It is presented by The Ailey School, a program of AILEY. The concert features all students of the Ailey/Fordham BFA Program in Dance, and the students appear in Maleek Washington's InFlux. 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Behind it is LPAC, as part of its commitment to supporting new work, giving artists opportunities to strengthen storytelling, test new possibilities, and connect with audiences and fellow artists. Audiences are invited into the creative process, seeing how new work evolves through experimentation, revision, and collaboration. On October 27 the program presents \"Skin to Skin - Triptych of an American Epidemic\", created by playwright Jeremy J. Kamps and co-creator Trixie Ndanu Kioko with Houses on the Moon Theater Company, centering the experiences of Black women in a theatrical exploration of health, care, and survival.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/rough-draft-festival-53450/", "official_url": "https://www.lpac.nyc/upcoming-events/rough-draft", "image": "https://noky.io/images/b630d0b2ec7633cd208ae9b1a185ef4184c89e2c7d72c2d34bcf4f710bf63516-1200.webp"}, {"title": "i’m not even half", "start": "2026-10-27T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-10-30T00:00:00-04:00", "place": "The Bushwick Starr", "address": "Eldert Street 419, 11237 Brooklyn", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/monodrama", "society"], "description": "A darkly funny solo theater show about a woman glued to her phone watching an uprising in Iran, who gets hit by a car while crossing a Brooklyn street. Created and performed by Layla Khoshnoudi and directed by Machel Ross, it follows her character S on an odyssey of antics and self-discovery, as a physical impact forces her to confront what is worthy of faith. Produced in association with ¡OYE! Group, the show runs about 90 minutes without intermission and is recommended for ages 15 and up.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/im-not-even-half-56450/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/cf6301430177345a3bd1955501a6e26582a3a1a9a45271531c8b156cbe64b5db-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Queer Stories", "start": "2026-10-29T18:00:00-04:00", "end": null, "place": "The LGBT Network", "address": "Northern Boulevard 37-18", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/poetry", "society/queer"], "description": "An evening with best-selling author J Brooke featuring a reading, Q&A, and book signing of their poetry collection, I Can Tell You The Version That Will Make You Take My Side. The collection follows one human's journey towards themselves, illuminating gender identity and the culture that surrounds us all. Everyone is welcome to attend this free event.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/queer-stories-67259/", "official_url": "https://lgbtnetwork.org/queer-stories/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/526f362b6c722726f96cb87bd3c0ac7ff704e7f44f2f2e4dad80c2d50c3decd6-2000.webp"}]}