{"title": "Sankofa Series: Anime and Manga in Black...", "start": "2026-10-29T17:00:00-04:00", "end": null, "place": "Langston Hughes", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.queenslibrary.org/programs-activities/older-adults/mail-book", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["film/animation/anime", "society/black-culture"], "description": "Sankofa Series: Anime and Manga in Black America is an in-person session for adults and teens exploring Black anime and manga fandom, including the history of Black America's interest in anime and the growth of the subculture. It is part of the Sankofa Series, a monthly program of the Langston Hughes Community Library & Cultural Center exploring Black history, art, and culture. The series began during COVID-19 in response to national conversations about Black history and the Black Lives Matter movement and is now returning in a new form. October's sessions include a manga drawing workshop, discussions on Black intersectionality and culture in anime and manga, anime film screenings, and talks with creators and fans, drawing on resources from the Black Heritage Reference Center.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/sankofa-series-anime-and-manga-in-black-51105/", "official_url": "https://www.queenslibrary.org/event/002846-0826", "image": "https://noky.io/images/990b70e898807656c6090f05e78fb52069a696bc0abe97328bd7b1a8db844cf4-600.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-10-29T17:00:00-04:00", "end": null, "place": "Langston Hughes", "address": "", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Saturday Craft Series", "start": "2026-10-31T11:00:00-04:00", "end": null, "place": "Langston Hughes", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["art/crafts"], "description": "\"Saturday Craft Series\" is a one-hour craft session where families can make quick and fun crafts together, from paper flowers to origami. 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It is facilitated by BlackMass Publishing, a Black independent press and archive founded by artist and publisher Yusuf Hassan, whose practice examines publishing as a means of documenting, preserving, and circulating knowledge through printed matter. The workshop is inspired by the Schomburg Center's centennial exhibition To Uncover and Reveal to the World: Arturo Schomburg's Library, which displays the 4600-book, pamphlet, art, and manuscript 'seed collection' purchased by the New York Public Library in 1926. Collaging tools are provided; participants should bring magazine clippings, photographs, and other ephemera they wish to incorporate into their zines.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/lets-make-an-anthology-with-blackmass-publishing-55715/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/e3d1e95e84d5e5941741fa6326fd822adf118a01b33f6d9dd9e1d8fae7edebe9-2000.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": "Memento Mori in NYC: The Art of Japanese Life and Death", "start": "2026-11-05T00:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-07T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Resobox", "address": "27th Street 41-26, 11101 Long Island City", "price": "$20 Early Bird (first 100 tickets), $30 General Admission, plus NY sales tax (8.875%), valid for bot", "price_from": "20.00", "price_to": "30.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "festivals-street", "tags": ["society/death"], "description": "Memento Mori in NYC: The Art of Japanese Life and Death is a two-day festival at RESOBOX that brings together artists, thinkers, and makers from Japan and New York to explore life through the lens of death. It opens with a live encoffining ceremony by the nōkanshi Koki Kimura, who with his father served as technical advisor on the Academy Award–winning film Departures, alongside a calligraphy performance by Taisan Tanaka. Visitors can see an art exhibition by more than 20 Japanese artists and craftspeople, attend talks with a Zen teacher, a death doula, and a death-literacy researcher, try a coffin experience and write their own epitaph, and browse a marketplace of Japanese crafts, urns, and keepsakes. No knowledge of Japanese is needed and all are welcome, whatever their beliefs.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/memento-mori-in-nyc-the-art-of-japanese-life-and-death-55326/", "official_url": "https://resobox.com/event/memento-mori-in-nyc/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/355990fa568d46df2b8aaebf4277de9b3ace42282b135df4b2bd6b5208a2fd53-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Jazsalyn: Warpmode, This is not a game!", "start": "2026-01-01T00:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-12-31T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Whitney Museum of American Art", "address": "Gansevoort Street 99, 10014 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/media-art"], "description": "Jazsalyn: Warpmode, This is not a game! is a digital artwork by the Whitney Museum of American Art's artport portal for Internet and new media art. It expands Warpmode, a worldbuilding toolkit of forty prompt-based player cards that the artist created with the curatorial project Black Beyond and published through Metalabel in 2024 to contemplate multidimensional layers of Blackness through four Black Metatheories—Afrofuturism, Afronowism, Afrovoidism, and Afropocalypse. The digital version frames this toolkit as Ancestral Intelligence, the earliest knowledge systems and traditions passed down through generations in Indigenous and diasporic communities, proposing an alternative form of AI rooted in human experience. Visitors' anonymous responses become part of the artwork.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/jazsalyn-warpmode-this-is-not-a-game-67475/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/3f1db1953434f1964cecb48f4dfeecaaa686133e1b4afe0892a9bee1676e9f3b-2000.webp"}, {"title": "I Guess It Was My Destiny To Live So Long", "start": "2026-10-23T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-10-30T00:00:00-04:00", "place": "Peter Jay Sharp Building, Howard Gilman Opera House", "address": "", "price": "Tickets start at $35", "price_from": "35.00", "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://commerce.bam.org/production/55619", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/poetry", "music"], "description": "I Guess It Was My Destiny To Live So Long is a transdisciplinary poetry series honoring the legacy of Brooklyn icon June Jordan. It is curated by Hanif Abdurraqib, a BAM Curator and MacArthur \"Genius,\" now in its third year, and this year spotlights powerful voices from across the African Diaspora. The evening on offer pairs versatile composers and instrumentalists Meshell Ndegeocello and Samora Pinderhughes, who share a night of words and music under the series' banner. The program also includes Poetry Overnight at BAM, Southern Oracles by the Black Air Poets, Be Holding based on a Ross Gay poem, and Stones in the Water with Sarah Kay, Clint Smith, Anis Mojgani, and Abdurraqib.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/i-guess-it-was-my-destiny-to-live-so-long-51198/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ca322bacd44652032ba8e3d49e9c02203731c1f147933a90f0e38b4f8fdc7558-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Iei: A Portrait of the Life You Are Living", "start": "2026-11-05T00:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-07T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Resobox", "address": "27th Street 41-26, 11101 Long Island City", "price": "$180 hair & makeup + portrait (30 min); $50 portrait only (about 10 min); two-day festival admission", "price_from": "50.00", "price_to": "180.00", "tickets_url": "https://resobox.com/event/memento-mori-in-nyc-iei-portrait-session", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["art/photography/portrait-photography"], "description": "Iei: A Portrait of the Life You Are Living is a portrait session where you can be photographed for your own iei, the portrait placed at a Japanese funeral, while you are still alive. 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