{"title": "Open [Block] House", "start": "2026-11-07T07:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Building 9", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/architecture"], "description": "Open [Block] House is a day of workshops, talks, studio visits and more at Nolan Park - Building 9. It is hosted by The Institute for Public Architecture (IPA), which welcomes a new cohort of fellows to Governors Island this Fall. 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The day includes public viewing hours, a performance lecture by Gabriel Gonzalez Depalo titled Pagqank Is Burning, artist talks beginning with welcome remarks by residency director Deborah Garcia, and a closing reception.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/fall-residency-exhibition-artist-talks-reception-52856/", "official_url": "https://www.govisland.com/things-to-do/events/fall-residency-exhibition-artist-talks-reception", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d5b8b2b1a05a3eba02d59f7261c0180e59338b404cdcd3f73eab134896f1685b-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Culture of Place", "start": "2026-11-05T18:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Van Alen Institute", "address": "Bond Street 303, 11231", "price": "Free with RSVP", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/urbanism"], "description": "Culture of Place is a public conversation on how architecture can support community organizations that give people places to gather and a voice in their neighborhoods' futures. 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Drawing on their practices and perspectives on Black cultural memory, they will examine what architects can learn from people already doing the work of building community.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/culture-of-place-57339/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/4365a4c136c0c0b94778d78397882a3c6b0f222b9a9bbec42cf06d31d07622bb-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Second Sundays: November 2026", "start": "2026-11-08T12:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Pioneer Works", "address": "159 Pioneer St, Brooklyn, NY 11231, United States", "price": "Free RSVP", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "festivals-street", "tags": ["art"], "description": "Second Sundays is a free monthly open house with open studios, exhibitions, workshops, live music, and food across all three floors and the garden. Since 2013, Pioneer Works has hosted it, highlighting the organization's programs, artists-in-residence, and Red Hook community members. This edition features open studios with artists including Dustin Yellin, exhibitions on view, workshops, a broadcast behind-the-scenes look, and live music presented by Barbès, with food and drink from Live Canteen featuring Chef Eli Charm and the Pioneer Works Bar. 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After the concert, visitors can celebrate the ensemble's first season in residence and enjoy art by artists in residence Katy Pinke and Lara Lewison and designers Claire Caverly and Meredith Newman.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/chamber-music-season-finale-halloween-bash-52851/", "official_url": "https://www.govisland.com/things-to-do/events/chamber-music-season-finale-halloween-bash", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d99f3a19e4d269da2eca6cbb9566387329cfb5b93b07cde07995b10e02521b93-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Roosevelt School Undergraduate Virtual Open House", "start": "2026-11-03T17:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-03T18:00:00-05:00", "place": "Brooklyn Campus | Long Island University", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": [], "description": "Roosevelt School Undergraduate Virtual Open House is a virtual open house presenting undergraduate programs for students who want to lead, serve, solve problems, and shape the future. It is run by The Roosevelt School at Long Island University and covers opportunities in international relations and diplomacy, criminal justice, public administration, public health, policy, and leadership. Faculty, staff, and current students explain what makes the school different, and attendees can ask questions about academics, internships, careers, and student life.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/roosevelt-school-undergraduate-virtual-open-house-51552/", "official_url": "https://calendar.liu.edu/event/copy-of-roosevelt-school-graduate-virtual-open-house", "image": ""}, {"title": "Lander College for Men Open House", "start": "2026-11-08T13:15:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Lander College for Men", "address": "150th Street 75-31, 11367 Kew Gardens Hills", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/education"], "description": "Lander College for Men Open House is an open house at a college in Kew Gardens Hills, Queens. It is run by Lander College for Men - Beis Medrash L'Talmud, part of Touro College, which combines professional studies with Torah study. 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Van Alen Institute has spent more than 130 years at the intersection of design ambition and civic life, and its archive of competition boards, jury records, travel logs, and correspondence is one of the most extensive records of American architectural history. Working directly with these materials, the participants ask what the archive reveals about who design has historically served and whom it has erased, through works such as sonic installations summoning uncredited voices and core samples grounding architecture in land history. Visitors are invited to explore the exhibition with curiosity and skepticism, treating the archive as living material to be questioned and reinterpreted.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/open-access-exploring-130-years-of-american-design-57334/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/64844e8853810e08d6817a2b007c3c46562ffdf6503ee3d9177bfd96dd15cd41-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Open House at the Mount Vernon Hotel Museum & Garden-Tues, Nov 3rd", "start": "2026-11-03T11:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-03T16:30:00-05:00", "place": "Mount Vernon Hotel Museum", "address": "East 61st Street 421, 10065 New York", "price": "free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://mvhm.org/events/", "category": "tours", "tags": ["history/local-history"], "description": "A free, all-day open house at a historic house museum celebrating a new exhibition and the 200th anniversary of the Mount Vernon Hotel opening on this site. The Mount Vernon Hotel Museum & Garden invites the public to drop in between 11am and 4:30pm for complimentary tours, Insider Talks on the exhibition The Empire City Begins: New York in the 1820s and 1830s, and refreshments in the historic Tavern. Visitors can also play a traditional 19th-century game, stroll the historic garden, browse the gift shop, and learn about the hidden history of day hotels in 1820s New York.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/open-house-at-the-mount-vernon-hotel-museum-garden-tues-nov-54012/", "official_url": "https://mvhm.org/event/open-house-at-the-mount-vernon-hotel-museum-garden-tues-nov-3rd/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/61d4ce3d251a6651aebc9429ab891f677ac2db4c30af0ce60ec8e5c482bb7aa6-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Open House", "start": "2026-11-08T14:45:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Lander College for Men", "address": "150th Street 75-31, 11367 Kew Gardens Hills", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["religion/jewish"], "description": "An open house at Lander College for Men, a college in Kew Gardens Hills, Queens. The college, Beis Medrash L'Talmud, offers a unique opportunity for those determined to succeed professionally while devoted to Torah study. Prospective students can visit the campus and learn about its program.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/open-house-53464/", "official_url": "https://lcm.touro.edu/events/list/lcm-open-house.php", "image": ""}, {"title": "Halloween Open Studio", "start": "2026-10-31T11:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-10-31T15:00:00-04:00", "place": "Whitney Museum of American Art", "address": "Gansevoort Street 99, 10014 New York", "price": "", "price_from": "25.00", "price_to": "25.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["occasion/halloween", "art"], "description": "Halloween Open Studio is a drop-in art workshop for families at the Whitney Museum of American Art, where children explore the galleries and make their own artworks. It is run by the Whitney's education team as part of the museum's family programs. This session draws inspiration from the current exhibition Roy Lichtenstein: Like New, and the schedule lets kids finish before heading out to trick-or-treat.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/halloween-open-studio-75742/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "In-Person: Tech Open Lab", "start": "2026-11-02T11:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Todt Hill-Westerleigh Library", "address": "Victory Boulevard 2550, 10314 Staten Island", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["science/technology"], "description": "In-Person: Tech Open Lab is a technology open lab session at the Todt Hill-Westerleigh Library in Staten Island. It is run by the library, part of The New York Public Library, whose page hosts the event. The library gives no further details of what the session covers, so its content is not known.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/in-person-tech-open-lab-71930/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/39d06d9ec9917734b5adbc6914921804088330a4a0db8cf2d45daf5af52feee8-2000.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": "", "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": "QUEER|ART x PSNY OFFICE HOURS", "start": "2026-10-08T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2027-06-10T00:00:00-04:00", "place": "Performance Space 122", "address": "1st Avenue 150, 10009", "price": "Pay what you can with RSVP", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art", "community"], "description": "QUEER|ART x PSNY OFFICE HOURS is a drop-in open hours event for artists and arts workers, described as a community space for resource-sharing. It is co-hosted by Queer|Art and Performance Space New York across the 2026/2027 season. Visitors can meet curators, administrators, producers, and technicians from NYC arts institutions, review portfolios, and build connections. It runs as part of a series of sessions throughout the season, presented by Various Artists.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/queerart-x-psny-office-hours-54718/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/a7db98cb08509acbdd348bcc00a2cdc873bbf8e816373ffe18431de1482a7960-1200.webp"}]}