{"title": "Queer|Art Summit: Becoming What We Practice", "start": "2026-11-21T00:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-22T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Performance Space 122", "address": "1st Avenue 150, 10009", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "festivals-street", "tags": ["occasion/pride", "society/queer", "art"], "description": "Queer|Art Summit: Becoming What We Practice is a two-day summit of workshops and conversations on community practices and queer artistry in times of crisis, closing with an afterparty of DJ sets and live performances from USHKA and the Illustrious Blacks. It is organized by Queer|Art in honor of the 15-year anniversary of Queer|Art|Mentorship, bringing together artists, scholars, and organizers to answer Alexis Pauline Gumbs' question, 'What are the intergenerational and evolutionary ways that we become what we practice?' Curated by Reya Sehgal, Rio Sofia, viento izquierdo-ugaz, Nile Harris, Zefyr Lisowski, and Catching on Thieves, and produced by Buffy Sierra with the Performance Space New York staff, it is supported by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and UGG. Sliding scale tickets cover the full weekend of programming, including the afterparty, and support Queer|Art's mentorship for queer and trans artists across the United States.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/queerart-summit-becoming-what-we-practice-54722/", "official_url": "https://performancespacenewyork.org/shows/queerart-summit-becoming-what-we-practice/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c9ad00249c5b0066dba267a06038edc2bc501627ca4f676d68c2600f69c243b1-1200.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-21T00:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-22T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Performance Space 122", "address": "1st Avenue 150, 10009", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"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", "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": ""}, {"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, "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": "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", "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": "Radical Permanence: Artists Cultural Producers and The Interconnection of Struggles", "start": "2026-11-13T16:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-13T19:00:00-05:00", "place": "P.I.T. Records and Books", "address": "South 5th Street 411, 11211 Brooklyn", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/activism", "society/politics"], "description": "A talk with Marco Baravalle (Sale Docks, Venice), Nitasha Dhillon and Amin Husain (Decolonize This Place), and Kazembe Balagun (Maysles Documentary Center), with further guests to be announced. Baravalle presents his book 'The Battleground of Art: Radical Curating in the Crisis of Neoliberalism' and his concept of 'radical permanence', drawn from two decades of art activism with Sale Docks, an autonomous collective in Venice. It opposes the neoliberal regime of mobility of artists and art workers through self-management, social rootedness and resistance, linking struggles against artwashing, gentrification and labour precarisation. The speakers discuss activist practices in Venice, New York and Palestine and the role of artists and cultural producers in the global interconnection of struggles.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/radical-permanence-artists-cultural-producers-and-the-interc-54885/", "official_url": "https://www.propertyistheft.org/events/kp5imszmm09yfp4g9umdbu6e9mb0gv", "image": "https://noky.io/images/92238af6021126d570becfa05f089e1935b51430b5eca1f9bcb4cc344c39bbd7-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Madison Square Park Conservancy’s 2026 Public Art Symposium", "start": "2026-11-13T09:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "SVA Theater", "address": "West 23rd Street 333, 10011 New York", "price": "Free and open to all, registration is required", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/public-art"], "description": "A symposium of talks bringing artists together around public art in civic space, held at a theater on West 23rd Street. It is hosted by Madison Square Park Conservancy, whose 13th annual edition is inspired by Roberto Lugo's Alfarero del Barrio (Village Potter). Participants include Frida Kahlo – Guerrilla Girls, Miguel Luciano, Roberto Lugo, Margarita Rosa, Bonafide Rojas, Derick \"D.\" Cross, Rigoberto Torres, Quiara Alegría Hudes, John Ahearn, Max Gruber, Grace Yasumara and Kraal \"Kayo\" Charles, with support from the Henry Luce Foundation. It is free and open to all, with registration required.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/madison-square-park-conservancys-2026-public-art-symposium-56269/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c9271bc0c475873cffe247de388d9fe2226021ef7c23384a61e288ad10dff699-2000.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", "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": "Queer Martial Arts", "start": "2026-11-10T18:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-10T20:00:00-05:00", "place": "Brooklyn Community Pride Center", "address": "Fulton Street 1360, 11216 Brooklyn", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["sport/martial-arts"], "description": "Queer Martial Arts is an inclusive and playful Pencak Silat class, a Southeast Asian martial art open to all levels of experience, all body types, and all genders. It explores self-defense, breathwork, mindfulness, and dance, encouraging community and healthy movement. It is taught by Ilana and Steph, student instructors (\"Pelatih\") from Open Circle Academy affiliated with Mande Muda USA.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/queer-martial-arts-51626/", "official_url": "https://www.lgbtbrooklyn.org/event-details/queer-martial-arts-2026-10-27-18-00", "image": "https://noky.io/images/4c9c82d80001aa9d8467e4b5bf36481f4489910893b0bf5bbc0fdd0527c8b12c-600.webp"}]}