{"title": "Open Session #23: Hosted by Rujuta Rao", "start": "2026-10-29T18:30:00-04:00", "end": null, "place": "Storefront for Art and Architecture", "address": "Kenmare Street 97, 10012", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://storefront.nyc/shop/", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["stage/performance-art"], "description": "An evening event at an art and architecture space in New York City, part of a series of sessions each hosted by a different artist. The host, Rujuta Rao, is an artist who works across bookmaking, beverage making, garment making, sculpture, and performance, drawing on her training as a bartender and Japanese sake adviser to consider guest-host relations, borders, and migration. For this session she will present a new form called the 'garment-essay,' a wearable publication and performance exploring fermentation as a metaphor for diaspora and transformation. During the performance, her essay will be read from an indigo-dyed garment worn by performer Rebecca Mzengi Corey while feni, a fermented cashew beverage from Goa, is served to the audience, and garments from Rao's clothing line RUGA will be available for browsing afterward.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/open-session-23-hosted-by-rujuta-rao-56184/", "official_url": "https://storefront.nyc/program/open-session-23-hosted-by-rujuta-rao/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d4bac967bd0ad0f46fd96da0d7d725185eeedd97d8951513a518ee150bea0854-2000.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-10-29T18:30:00-04:00", "end": null, "place": "Storefront for Art and Architecture", "address": "Kenmare Street 97, 10012", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Adebunmi Gdadebo", "start": "2026-11-10T15:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-10T17:00:00-05:00", "place": "School of Visual Arts", "address": "East 23rd Street 209, 10010", "price": "Free and open to the public", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art"], "description": "An artist's talk in the Talks lecture series, free and open to the public, also accessible online via Zoom. 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Her multidisciplinary practice explores heritage through historically and culturally significant materials such as indigo dye, human hair collected throughout the African diaspora, and soil hand-dug from the True Blue Plantation grounds in South Carolina, investigating the complex relationships between land, matter, and memory.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/adebunmi-gdadebo-67140/", "official_url": "https://sva.edu/events/adebunmi-gdadebo", "image": "https://noky.io/images/f5e0eaacc1619d0a6b3d1e86c1e8456f7ed89189f42e0cdaf56a1ed703d42756-2000.webp"}, {"title": "BONE ASH, MEMORY HOLES, THE RECIPES", "start": "2026-10-09T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-11-04T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "NARS Foundation", "address": "46th Street 201, 11220", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/mixed-media", "society/migration"], "description": "BONE ASH, MEMORY HOLES, THE RECIPES is a solo exhibition of works by Yoshie Sugito at the NARS Foundation's Project Space. The Berlin-based Japanese visual artist tracks 13 Sichuan pickle jars that traveled from New York across the West Coast, Taiwan, and Berlin. Through recipes, notes, and drawings gathered along migrant networks and domestic spaces, she explores how culture mutates across borders. Her wider practice spans painting, sculpture, ceramics, drawing, and participatory installation, gathering personal stories and lived experiences into visual and material forms.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/bone-ash-memory-holes-the-recipes-54076/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/6dbb36400dd518fe6ca5b54c227abeb6019a70a043235d866c933f8c0c8d9852-2000.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": "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": "The Language of Crochet", "start": "2026-09-12T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-11-07T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "The Drawing Room", "address": "10001", "price": "free (members)", "price_from": "890.00", "price_to": "890.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["diy/crochet"], "description": "The Language of Crochet is an 8-week crochet intensive at Drawing Room, held on Saturdays in three-hour sessions and open to all levels in a group of up to 16. It is taught by Luisa, a New York-based Brazilian textile artist and Parsons MFA graduate whose work translates themes of migration, memory, and transformation into sculptural forms. Each week moves the technique in a new direction—shape, motif, openwork, texture, and color—building a growing library of samples, and in the final weeks participants develop a personal project from it. Beginners get the foundations they need, while more experienced makers use the framework to break habits and find their own voice with the hook.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/the-language-of-crochet-56549/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/2ec7930fa5a4099561bfe480eb1f5037012e0571db3d627fc48ec8ed8047b058-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Rough Draft Festival", "start": "2026-10-27T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-10-30T00:00:00-04:00", "place": "LaGuardia Performing Arts Center", "address": "Van Dam St 45-50", "price": "Free to attend with a Free RSVP; a $25 Supporter Ticket is also offered", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://ci.ovationtix.com/35690/production/1292857", "category": "festivals-street", "tags": ["stage/theatre"], "description": "Rough Draft Festival is a festival at LaGuardia Performing Arts Center where invited artists share works in progress through performances and conversations with the artists. 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"}]}