{"title": "Once Upon a Time in Harlem", "start": "2026-10-29T00:00:00-04:00", "end": null, "place": "BAM Rose Cinemas", "address": "Lafayette Avenue 30, 11217 Brooklyn", "price": "$17, Members $12, plus $2 handling fee per ticket", "price_from": "17.00", "price_to": "17.00", "tickets_url": "https://commerce.bam.org/production/59324", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "history/20th-century"], "description": "Once Upon a Time in Harlem is a newly restored documentary, shot on 16mm, capturing Harlem Renaissance luminaries at a cocktail party at Duke Ellington's home. Conceived in 1972 by filmmaker William Greaves and completed fifty years later by his son David, it follows the gathered artists and intellectuals as they reminisce, argue, and drink for four hours. The film features Duke Ellington, Aaron Douglas, Richard Bruce Nugent, Arna Bontemps, Eubie Blake, Noble Sissle, and James Van Der Zee. It is an invaluable document of an era's artists wrestling with their place in a rapidly shifting cultural landscape, discussing their lives' work and legacies.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/once-upon-a-time-in-harlem-51158/", "official_url": "https://www.bam.org/film/2026/once-upon-a-time-in-harlem", "image": "https://noky.io/images/b4110fa5b5739c2c479489096f1bc7cac1c041fb4d9bff1586db5d362bd15a31-2000.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-10-29T00:00:00-04:00", "end": null, "place": "BAM Rose Cinemas", "address": "Lafayette Avenue 30, 11217 Brooklyn", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Jazz Lecture Series: Duke Ellington", "start": "2026-11-04T18:30:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-04T19:30:00-05:00", "place": "Riverhead Neighborhood House", "address": "Mosholu Avenue 5521, 10471", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["music/jazz/big-band"], "description": "A lecture in the Jazz Lecture Series devoted to the music and artistry of master composer Duke Ellington and how his band revolutionized big band jazz from Harlem to the world. 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Cafritz (1947–2018), an arts patron, educator, and civil rights activist who cofounded the Duke Ellington School of the Arts, bequeathed the majority of her collection to the museum. Her bequest included over four hundred works by more than two hundred artists of African descent, spanning paintings, photographs, sculptures, textiles, and works on paper. This is the first exhibition to tell a story of Cafritz as an art collector, organized by curator Connie H. Choi and curatorial assistant Kiki Teshome.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/dreams-of-this-future-the-collection-of-peggy-cooper-cafritz-53893/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/67180f9368199293b0017c080175ce6483022d6e107f04ed540b02a028f1ce22-2000.webp"}, {"title": "When a Witness Recants", "start": "2026-10-30T00:00:00-04:00", "end": null, "place": "Cinema Village", "address": "East 12th Street 22, 10003", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.fandango.com/cinema-village-aaefn/theater-page?format=all&date=2026-10-30", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "society/law"], "description": "A documentary screening about a 1983 Baltimore school murder that led to three teens being wrongfully imprisoned for 36 years. Directed by Dawn Porter, the film runs 112 minutes and follows Ta-Nehisi Coates as he investigates how the case affected the accused, witnesses and their community. 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It marks the centennial of Rauschenberg's birth and includes two of his Spread-series works, Ring Master and Recital, made in 1980, alongside additional pieces from The Glass House collection and the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation. Jackson's new paintings draw on archival images of Jewel's Catch One, a Black lesbian-owned nightclub in Los Angeles that under owner Jewel Thais Williams offered a welcoming space, cultural programming, and social support to Black and queer communities. Curated by Cole Akers, the exhibition is organized by The Glass House in partnership with the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/tomashi-jackson-and-robert-rauschenberg-the-catch-one-66559/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/2c0b81d8f9a61bb57fb80e26982dac0a990ad25905d592945aaff63948b28501-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Singing the Alan Lomax Archive: A Benefit for the Association for Cultural Equity", "start": "2026-11-05T20:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-05T23:00:00-05:00", "place": "Saint Ann's and the Holy Trinity Episcopal Church", "address": "Montague Street 157, 11201", "price": "$50 – $100", "price_from": "50.00", "price_to": "100.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/folk"], "description": "A benefit concert in which renowned singers give their own takes on music documented by Alan Lomax, following a New York premiere screening of Lomax's rarely seen 1961 film \"Ballads, Blues, and Bluegrass\". The evening is hosted by Dom Flemons and features Peter Stampfel, Kyp Malone, Catherine Russell, Luther Dickinson, Laura Cantrell, Grace Bergere, and Stephanie Jenkins performing songs from the digital archive of the Association for Cultural Equity. The film's screening shows performances by Doc Watson, Roscoe Holcomb, Willie Dixon, Memphis Slim, Clarence Ashley, The New Lost City Ramblers, Jean Ritchie, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Peter LaFarge, Ernie Mars and The Greenbriar Boys. 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Organized by the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, it is curated by Philip Brookman and Deborah Willis, and overseen at the Mississippi Museum of Art by Kaegan Sparks. Through works by over 100 artists, it shows the medium's versatility as art, design, organizing tool, and community builder. From Kwame Brathwaite's fashion photography to Gordon Parks's photojournalism, it reveals how studio and street photographers, designers, activists, and community organizers used photography to document, imagine, and transform Black life.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/photography-and-the-black-arts-movement-19551985-66542/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/fabd552951a38ecc401d93b1e2a1434a68e1aee6a97f5da1d1ea57e9a413ab9c-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"}]}