{"title": "Sankofa Series: Anime and Manga in Black...", "start": "2026-10-29T17:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-10-29T18:00:00-04:00", "place": "Queens Public Library", "address": "14th Road 151-10, 11357 Whitestone", "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 of a monthly program exploring Black history, art, and culture. The Sankofa Series, run by the Langston Hughes Community Library & Cultural Center, began during COVID-19 amid national conversations about Black history and the Black Lives Matter movement, and is being brought back in a new form. This month it explores the Black anime and manga fandom, covering the history behind Black America's interest in anime, the growth of the subculture, and more, with weekly sessions including a manga drawing workshop, discussions on Black intersectionality and culture in anime and manga, anime film screenings, and talks with creators and fans. The program draws on resources from the Black Heritage Reference Center and online resources, and is funded through a grant from the New York State Black Legislative Task Force.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/sankofa-series-anime-and-manga-in-black-55181/", "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": "2026-10-29T18:00:00-04:00", "place": "Queens Public Library", "address": "14th Road 151-10, 11357 Whitestone", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Let’s Make an Anthology with BlackMass Publishing", "start": "2026-11-02T13:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture", "address": "Malcolm X Boulevard 505, 10037 New York", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.eventbrite.com/e/lets-make-an-anthology-with-blackmass-publishing-tickets-1998262942252", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["art/collage", "diy/zines"], "description": "A hands-on zine publishing workshop in which participants craft a collective zine and produce their own knowledge, culminating in a limited edition collective anthology printed for pickup at the Schomburg Center after the program. 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": "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. It is put on by Queens Public Library at its Langston Hughes location and is open to adults and teens.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/saturday-craft-series-53513/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/169a825bcc20759705ea774580aac8d8260281f4c660dcb7675e8f5999553057-600.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 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"}]}