{"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", "dates": [{"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", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"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": "Maayuma li Mubirr (Healing Scars)", "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/1284916", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["society/indigenous", "stage/performance-art"], "description": "\"Maayuma li Mubirr (Healing Scars)\" is a 65-minute performance work from Australia. It was created by Yuwalaaraay composer and performer Warren Mason and is presented by Moogahlin Performing Arts, tracing the intergenerational journey lines of First Peoples healing from injustice. Mason blends natural sounds of his Yuwaalaraay homeland, guitar, spoken word and singing styles of his old people, interwoven with movement choreographed with Jo Clancy, Lily Shearer, Kiarn Doyle and himself. The work honours matriarchy, survival, strength and the power of First Peoples storytelling, inviting audiences into a shared catharsis of truth, healing and resilience.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/maayuma-li-mubirr-healing-scars-53460/", "official_url": "https://lamama.org/maayuma-li-mubirr/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/92b25eb1f266bcb72ef3c6488400b7467f96fa3309ec1924b4d8c18170d245a1-2000.webp"}, {"title": "The Tower – endurance performance by Peter Cage", "start": "2026-10-31T16:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-10-31T18:00:00-04:00", "place": "Ortega y Gasset Projects", "address": "3rd Avenue 363, 11215", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["stage/performance-art"], "description": "An endurance performance on every Saturday of the group exhibition The Tower. Artist Peter Cage will be plastic wrapped to a sculpture by Nicholas Knight; the performances contain nudity. The Tower is a group exhibition curated by OyG co-director Adam Liam Rose, bringing together artists exploring symbolic archetypes of the tower, from aspiration toward the divine to catastrophe, surveillance, and community resilience, through painting, sculpture, performance, video and more.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/the-tower-endurance-performance-by-peter-cage-54637/", "official_url": "https://adamliamrose.com/the-tower", "image": "https://noky.io/images/80779e83ad802e8ce1e4ed5597b0c3a17611f0d4646306f16ac565c262c98c3e-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Native Voices Karenna—Lay Our Vibration Down", "start": "2026-11-05T19:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-05T20:30:00-05:00", "place": "Cooper Union", "address": "7 East 7th Street, between Third and Fourth Avenues, New York, NY", "price": "Free, first-come-first-served with registration required", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["society/indigenous", "stage/opera"], "description": "Native Voices Karenna—Lay Our Vibration Down is an evening in the Gardiner Foundation Great Hall Forum presenting the New York-stage premieres of two short operas, Trials and Tears and Sacajawea: Women of Many Names. Both pieces are by Dawn Avery, a Grammy-nominated cellist-composer of Mohawk descent, with Danielle Olana Jagelski (Oneida Nation of Wisconsin and Red Cliff Band of Ojibwe) as music director and original video design by Kate Freer. Trials and Tears, a collaboration with artist Ty Defoe commissioned by New Music Theatre Alliance in 2022, responds to Benny Andrews' painting Trail of Tears and connects the forced resettling of Indigenous people with trials leading to incarceration of minorities. Sacajawea: Women of Many Names, made with librettist-soprano Blake Hill-Saya and Shoshone Advisor Francesca Mason Boring, shows Sacajawea from the perspective of her Shoshone ancestral traditions, unfettered from Western mythologies about her life and motivations.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/native-voices-karennalay-our-vibration-down-75364/", "official_url": "https://cooper.edu/events-and-exhibitions/events/native-voices-karenna-lay-our-vibration-down", "image": "https://noky.io/images/30e9c4439e2e624271c3021d72aaf341e5043b486c586d78e474d967d1eb8b40-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Soft Spaces: Heather Marie Scholl and Eva Wu", "start": "2026-09-30T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-11-15T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art", "address": "Wooster Street 26, 10013 New York", "price": "", "price_from": "15.00", "price_to": "15.00", "tickets_url": "https://shopleslielohman.org/products/public-displays-of-affection?variant=49391245394157", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/installation", "society/queer"], "description": "\"Soft Spaces: Heather Marie Scholl and Eva Wu\" is an exhibition at the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, part of a series of installations featuring works by alumni of the museum's Fellowship. The edition on view is a two-person show by Heather Marie Scholl and Eva Wu, with the series curated by Chloe Ming, Assistant Curator / Exhibitions Manager. The \"softness\" of the title reflects the artists' experience of queer-centered spaces as providing safety in process, experimentation, and vulnerability. Across the series, more than three dozen artists present digital and media art, painting, photography, filmmaking, performance, and installation, responding to the ever-changing landscape of LGBTQIA+ experience.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/soft-spaces-heather-marie-scholl-and-eva-wu-53562/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/b37f7e8745d0bef77924193b190f99cb13d574e9baaeac3887be7bfa6e8d02ef-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Invisible Shadows", "start": "2026-10-30T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-11-01T00:00:00-04:00", "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/1284922", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["society/indigenous", "stage/theatre"], "description": "A theater piece told by Indigenous actors about growing up in an urban Indigenous community amid an opioid epidemic. It centers on young people in community prevention programs who face addiction at home, whose hopes collide with learning their cultures and their family's and community's misuse of alcohol and drugs. It is performed by Ikidowin Theater Ensemble, a group from Minneapolis whose members tell stories of their own lives, some having joined as young as eleven. A recurring question runs through it: can one spirit tell another what to do?", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/invisible-shadows-53458/", "official_url": "https://lamama.org/invisible-shadows/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/25f855f5b94ec28683b4bd0441b457c7d65560daada1306dad21750f6efa4be1-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Tahkox: Indigenous Stages Launch of a New Online Journal", "start": "2026-11-12T18:30:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-12T20:30:00-05:00", "place": "Martin E. Segal Theatre Center", "address": "5th Avenue 365, 10016 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/indigenous", "stage/theatre"], "description": "An evening launching the online journal Tahkox: Indigenous Stages, held at the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center. The journal is the world's first interdisciplinary academic journal dedicated primarily to Indigenous authors writing about the theatrical and cultural performance of Indigenous artists and communities around the globe. Published by the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center at the CUNY Graduate Center, it was founded by Opalanietet (Ryan Victor Pierce) and Frank Hentschker and will release its inaugural issue in November 2026. The evening includes a conversation with Opalanietet, Tammy Hailiʻōpua Baker, Pililuaikekaiohilo M. Q. Keala and Frank Hentschker.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/tahkox-indigenous-stages-launch-of-a-new-online-journal-53862/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "Latine Queer Studies Reading", "start": "2026-11-04T18:30:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-04T20:30:00-05:00", "place": "College of Staten Island", "address": "Victory Boulevard 2800, 10314 Staten Island", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/poetry", "society/queer"], "description": "A public evening of queer Latine poetry, at which the Brooklyn-born poet Emanuel Xavier reads from his new book of poems, \"Still, We Are Sacred.\" It is a CC CLUE event hosted by the LGBTQ+ Resource Center and the English Department of the College of Staten Island, and refreshments will be served. Xavier's work bridges spoken word, literary poetry, and queer cultural history, and he has written several collections including Love(ly) Child, Pier Queen, Americano, If Jesus Were Gay, Nefarious, and Radiance. The reading takes place in the Green Dolphin Lounge in building 1C on the college's campus at 2800 Victory Boulevard, admission is free, and it is made possible by funding from the New York City Council to the CUNY LGBTQIA+ Institute with support from the LaGuardia and Wagner Archives.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/latine-queer-studies-reading-52069/", "official_url": "https://www.csi.cuny.edu/latine-queer-studies-reading", "image": ""}, {"title": "Dyani White Hawk", "start": "2026-06-13T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2027-04-18T00:00:00-04:00", "place": "Alexander Gray Associates Gallery", "address": "West 26th Street 510, 10001 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/indigenous-art"], "description": "Dyani White Hawk takes part in the group exhibition Hold to Earth: Works by Contemporary Indigenous North American Artists from Tia Collection. The show brings together 65 works by 38 artists, including two significant new commissions, and is described as a landmark exhibition of contemporary Indigenous North American art on a scale never seen before in the UK. It features sculpture, film, photography, painting, ceramics and fibre art and is the first group exhibition staged in the Underground Gallery in its twenty-year history. It is on view at Yorkshire Sculpture Park in Wakefield, United Kingdom.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/dyani-white-hawk-66126/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/16f6a87f756674966d4520db712fd7e8bdd54cd59d3e1b74e1de69b550e94e0a-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Matthew Lutz Kinoy The Mud Room: Itinerant Artists, Folk Spectacles, and Painted Walls", "start": "2026-09-17T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-11-29T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Amant", "address": "Maujer Street 306, 11206 Brooklyn", "price": "free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/ceramics"], "description": "The Mud Room: Itinerant Artists, Folk Spectacles, and Painted Walls is an exhibition at Amant's AZ gallery built as a theater-in-the-round, with a working ceramic workshop at its center surrounded by four large paintings serving as backdrops. It is by Matthew Lutz-Kinoy, developed with collaborators Natsuko Uchino and Kazunori Hamana, and considers the gallery as a ceramic studio and the studio as a theater. The exhibition reflects on artists, artisans, potters, and muralists whose work has shaped domestic and public spaces, tracing lineages from Aaron Douglas's 1934 mural Aspects of Negro Life to murals by Philip Guston and Reuben Kadish and Keith Haring's public murals. Ceramics are created throughout the run of the exhibition, and the staging is extended through artist dialogues, culinary gatherings, and theatrical performances that frame ceramics as knowledge transmitted through the body, touch, and making.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/matthew-lutz-kinoy-the-mud-room-itinerant-artists-folk-spect-50978/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c98c833cb5e29047b67c11953cb7ea590bad441d329c9fc0b9a07451e6f9e305-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Land", "start": "2026-09-10T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-12-31T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Old Stone House", "address": "3rd Street 336, 11215", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/contemporary", "society/indigenous"], "description": "Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Land is an art exhibition at the Old Stone House in Brooklyn. Guest-curated by Jeremy Dennis, a member of the Shinnecock Indian Nation and executive director of Ma's House & BIPOC Art Studio, it features work by Luanne Redeye, Ella Mahoney, Leonard Harmon, and Dennis himself. The show presents Redeye's monoprint collage, Mahoney's Theories of belonging, Harmon's ntapi nuxwis (I Am Here My Grandchild) and Grandma Warned Me, and staged photography by Dennis. A free opening reception with the artists takes place on September 16, 2026, from 6 to 8 PM.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/life-liberty-and-the-pursuit-of-land-54592/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/89f07abb0b0e5e5b62b92bea09854aac9cfd2c7b7d33e152d84010df6bd0ccec-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Spiderwoman Theater Gala", "start": "2026-11-07T00:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "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/1284917", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["occasion/gala", "society/indigenous"], "description": "A gala evening celebrating 50 years of Spiderwoman Theater. Indigenous artists and the downtown arts community come together in a tribute. It is curated and directed by Murielle Borst-Tarrant and is part of the Spiderwoman global indigenous Theater festival. The program is still to be determined.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/spiderwoman-theater-gala-66702/", "official_url": "https://lamama.org/celebrating-50-years-a-spiderwoman-gala/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/7eb5d8f8ef2dd0bab08b98ca39f3f142eacb72616f82b5f573326f28c0efcdf0-2000.webp"}]}