{"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", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-11T18:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Recess", "address": "46 Washington Ave. Brooklyn. NY", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"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": "Transatlantik II with Jardineros, Tree Trini Collective, DJ Sabine Blaizin", "start": "2026-11-06T19:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Public Records", "address": "Butler Street 233, 11217", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/jazz"], "description": "Transatlantik II is a night of live music and DJ sets at Public Records in Brooklyn, the first of two evenings exploring the syncretic thought and spirit forms of the Black Atlantic. It features Jardineros, a trio of Cuban improvisers (Hery Paz, Román Díaz, Francisco Mela) working within and beyond Cuban musical and religious traditions and contemporary jazz; Tree Trini Collective (Fay Victor, Lyndon Achee, Jessie Cox), a steelpan-centered trio drawing on the experimental history of Trinidad and Tobago's music; and DJ Sabine Blaizin of Oyasound Productions, who spins Afro-diasporic rhythms and electronic music between sets. All ticket proceeds are donated to Haitian Women for Haitian Refugees, a Brooklyn organization supporting Haitians affected by the termination of Temporary Protection Status. The event is part of an ongoing FourOneOne series on creolization as a living process.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/transatlantik-ii-with-jardineros-tree-trini-collective-dj-sa-55040/", "official_url": "https://www.fouroneoneprojects.org/events/transatlantik-ii-jardineros-tree-trini-collective-dj-sabine-blaizin", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c5b092d259e8ba1912c62176d97d63baee441359eb8e5c9eba55acd443977f40-2000.webp"}, {"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", "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. It features Adebunmi Gdadebo, an artist who earned her BFA at the School of Visual Arts and lives and works in Philadelphia. 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": "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": "Transatlantik II with ReFash NYNY Band, Anaïs Maviel & Friends, DJ Tara", "start": "2026-11-07T19:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Public Records", "address": "Butler Street 233, 11217", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.fouroneoneprojects.org/events/transatlantik-ii-refash-nyny-band-anais-maviel-friends-dj-tara", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/world"], "description": "Transatlantik II is an evening of live music and DJ sets exploring the syncretic thought and spirit forms of the Black Atlantic, with performers drawing on the ancient and modern modalities of Haiti, Brazil and New York City. Night two features the Port-au-Prince via Brooklyn kanaval band ReFash NYNY Band, a rhythm and song connection from Anaïs Maviel & Friends, and roots-to-the-future collagist DJ Tara, who spins soulful selections before, after and between the live sets. ReFash NYNY Band, founded in Port-au-Prince in the 1980s as Fashion Mattè and now directed by Jean Wesly \"Dadou\" Cantave, is a high-energy bann a pye playing the rhythms of Haiti, while Maviel gathers longtime collaborators from New York and São Paulo's creative music communities around song and rhythm. All ticket proceeds from both nights are donated to Haitian Women for Haitian Refugees, a Brooklyn-based organization supporting those affected by the termination of Temporary Protection Status for Haiti.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/transatlantik-ii-with-refash-nyny-band-anais-maviel-friends-55042/", "official_url": "https://www.fouroneoneprojects.org/events/transatlantik-ii-refash-nyny-band-anais-maviel-friends-dj-tara", "image": "https://noky.io/images/5939af144b2ea9d0df3349a614f9ea8ddf2b9eaed8544ea732b1a6cf956db0de-1200.webp"}, {"title": "We Can’t Dream Alone", "start": "2026-09-01T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-10-31T00:00:00-04:00", "place": "Brooklyn Botanic Garden", "address": "Washington Avenue at Montgomery Street, Brooklyn, NY", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting", "nature/climate"], "description": "\"We Can't Dream Alone\" is an outdoor exhibit of four large-scale reproductions of paintings by Brooklyn-based artist Madjeen Isaac, installed along the Washington Avenue perimeter of Brooklyn Botanic Garden. It is presented by the Climate Museum and Brooklyn Botanic Garden. Combining experiences from her homeland of Haiti and her upbringing in Flatbush, Brooklyn, Isaac explores how collective care, memory, and ecological knowledge are crucial to building a more just future. Her lush urban environments invite viewers to consider how relationships to place and community make us more resilient to personal adversities, social injustice, and climate change.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/we-cant-dream-alone-51528/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/70d11ab6a4a07e86689b012238344a8772a6837ca0ae172be5094258be60eeb7-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Opening night performance | Monobloc Harp by Dan Ortiz Leizman", "start": "2026-11-05T18:30:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Strother School of Radical Attention", "address": "Washington Street 55, 11201", "price": "free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.eventbrite.com/e/opening-night-performance-monobloc-harp-by-dan-ortiz-leizman-tickets-2002747181733?aff=oddtdtcreator", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["stage/performance-art"], "description": "An opening night performance and reception for the group exhibition 'Haunted by Light'. Artist Dan Ortiz Leizman turns the mundane monobloc chair into a string instrument, playing ephemeral sounds described as 'apocalyptic folk music' that navigate the nostalgia and personal memories marked on the chair. The exhibition gathers photoreactive media such as cyanotypes, autoradiographs, lumen photography, plant ashes in glass sculptures, and audiovisual environments for collective mourning. RSVP is free but strongly encouraged; light refreshments will be served.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/opening-night-performance-monobloc-harp-by-dan-ortiz-leizman-56199/", "official_url": "https://www.schoolofattention.org/events/xax7gq0vopa6lp3gfd8bkexrp0u1jw", "image": "https://noky.io/images/0c63b359262e961b198da9323c7b01a3f61046fb4374698322a7b63841a47959-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Meet Me in the Forest", "start": "2026-09-03T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2027-02-27T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Gladstone Gallery", "address": "West 21st Street 530, 10011 New York", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["nature/forest", "art"], "description": "Meet Me in the Forest is an exhibition of twenty-one contemporary works spanning paintings, textiles, mixed-media, glass, ceramics, photography, and installations. It invites visitors into forests, gardens, and natural worlds artists create, exploring the layered relationships between nature and humankind, where beauty, danger, and humanity converge. The show draws on the Cafesjian Art Trust Museum's collection, new acquisitions, and loans, and features artists including Carrie Mae Weems, Ebony G. Patterson, and Ana Mendieta. It is organized by the museum's curator Jill Ahlberg Yohe and assistant curator of glass Linnea Seidling, with works lent in part by Gladstone Gallery.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/meet-me-in-the-forest-66536/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ca1b291a88beb0e39c480b065c8d0a3e612f5bd0a2181948ac02915d3e33562f-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": "I Said What I Said: Steve Locke in Conversation with Robert Reid-Pharr", "start": "2026-11-11T18:30:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Alexander Gray Associates Gallery", "address": "West 26th Street 510, 10001 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.eventbrite.com/e/i-said-what-i-said-steve-locke-in-conversation-with-robert-reid-pharr-tickets-2003828790855?aff=oddtdtcreator", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/contemporary", "society/racism"], "description": "A gallery conversation in Chelsea between artist Steve Locke and scholar Robert Reid-Pharr, moderated by curator Evan Garza. It celebrates Locke's first career monograph, Steve Locke: I Said What I Said, and accompanies his exhibition of the same title at the gallery. The discussion explores Locke's interdisciplinary practice and his engagement with portraiture, desire, race, and memory, examining the histories of racial violence, anti-Blackness, and the Western art historical canon.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/i-said-what-i-said-steve-locke-in-conversation-with-robert-r-50911/", "official_url": "https://www.alexandergray.com/news/3231-i-said-what-i-said-steve-locke-in/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/96e9d2d26d198261cf3bfd188ddce7c05c7d94958da02efae161e071d08cdd6d-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": "Cavernous Shoal", "start": "2026-09-19T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2027-06-16T00:00:00-04:00", "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": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["music/electronic/club", "art/installation"], "description": "Cavernous Shoal is a season-long residency installation in the lobby and community space OPEN ROOM, opening with a live performance by Ibrahima Mbaye. Artist Jesús Hilario-Reyes, who works across sonic performance, land installation, and expanded cinema, fills the space with a bespoke sound system and a sculpture of mangrove roots. Inspired by DJ culture and shorelines between land and sea, it imagines the dancefloor in Black diasporic club culture as a place of perpetual transformation, where belonging emerges through movement rather than permanence. During the residency the artist hosts open decks, performances, conversations, workshops, screenings, and experimental sound activations.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/cavernous-shoal-54717/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/5cd3a4ed73cb78677abe4bf877b0570dc1da2322967f4a21ed15d0dab0c33d22-1200.webp"}]}