{"title": "Sidewalk Study: ROOT LESS in Hudson Yards", "start": "2026-11-05T19:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Strother School of Radical Attention", "address": "Washington Street 55, 11201", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/urbanism"], "description": "A guided group discussion held outdoors, called a Sidewalk Study, meeting in Hudson Yards. It is run by the Strother School of Radical Attention with Samvit & Cherilyn. The session centers on Mindy Fullilove's book 'Root Shock: How Tearing Up City Neighborhoods Hurts America, and What We Can Do About It' and her idea of 'root shock,' the traumatic stress reaction to the destruction of one's emotional ecosystem. It asks how people can find strength when displacement, urban renewal, climate change and migration tear away the infrastructures that stabilize them.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/sidewalk-study-root-less-in-hudson-yards-105128/", "official_url": "https://www.schoolofattention.org/events/sidewalk-study-root-less-in-hudson-yards", "image": "", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-05T19:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Strother School of Radical Attention", "address": "Washington Street 55, 11201", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Sidewalk Study: WANT GROWS IN RAINY PLACES in East Village", "start": "2026-11-12T19:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-12T21:30:00-05:00", "place": "Strother School of Radical Attention", "address": "Washington Street 55, 11201", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/fiction", "wellness/attention"], "description": "Sidewalk Study: WANT GROWS IN RAINY PLACES is a discussion session held in the East Village. It is led by Connor & Anha of the Strother School of Radical Attention, and centers on Tove Ditlevsen's short story 'The Trouble With Happiness' and the silk umbrella its young heroine cannot stop fantasizing about. The group takes a small longing seriously, asking what lies underneath our desires, what their roots are, and whether we can accept them — and ourselves — as they are.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/sidewalk-study-want-grows-in-rainy-places-in-east-village-105130/", "official_url": "https://www.schoolofattention.org/events/sidewalk-study-want-grows-in-rainy-places-in-east-village", "image": "https://noky.io/images/635e4c0900aa3a5a4e9525a2d682852e6f1986f9b71dd296157670bd3747c963-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Sidewalk Study: WORKING THE ROOT in Lincoln Center", "start": "2026-11-09T19:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Strother School of Radical Attention", "address": "Washington Street 55, 11201", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["wellness/attention", "music"], "description": "A Study titled 'Sidewalk Study: WORKING THE ROOT in Lincoln Center', a discussion gathering at the Strother School of Radical Attention, held at Lincoln Center with Lindsee and Eleanor. It takes as its texts Saul Williams's liner notes for D'Angelo's Voodoo, where he calls the artist a 'conjur man' rooted in Hoodoo, Conjure and Rootwork, and Harmony Holiday's essay on the 2026 Grammys tribute to D'Angelo, which she found bereft of its roots. The session asks what remains of an artwork's original intention as it passes from artist to audience, and what is lost to shifting soils and souls.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/sidewalk-study-working-the-root-in-lincoln-center-105129/", "official_url": "https://www.schoolofattention.org/events/sidewalk-study-working-the-root-in-lincoln-center", "image": ""}, {"title": "Beryl Satter, Prof. of History, Rutgers University – “Cash on the Block: The Broken Promise of Reinvestment in Black Urban Neighborhoods”", "start": "2026-11-09T16:30:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-09T18:00:00-05:00", "place": "College of Staten Island", "address": "Victory Boulevard 2800, 10314 Staten Island", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/civil-rights-movement"], "description": "A talk titled “Cash on the Block: The Broken Promise of Reinvestment in Black Urban Neighborhoods.” Beryl Satter, Professor of History Emerita at Rutgers University, will discuss her new book, Cash on the Block, published by Harvard University Press (2026); she is also the author of Family Properties: Race, Real Estate, and the Exploitation of Black Urban America, which won several prestigious awards. The CLUE event is co-sponsored by the CSI Student Pre-Law Club, the Department of Political Science and Global Affairs, the Program in African and African Diaspora Studies, and the Department of Sociology/Anthropology. It takes place at the College of Staten Island, 2800 Victory Boulevard, in the Williamson Theatre, building 1P.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/beryl-satter-prof-of-history-rutgers-university-cash-on-the-52048/", "official_url": "https://www.csi.cuny.edu/beryl-satter-prof-history-rutgers-university-cash-block-broken-promise-reinvestment-black-urban-neighborhoods", "image": ""}, {"title": "Socio-Ecological Vulnerabilities in the Era of Urban Greening", "start": "2026-11-12T14:30:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-12T16:00:00-05:00", "place": "College of Staten Island", "address": "Victory Boulevard 2800, 10314 Staten Island", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["nature/environment", "society/urbanism"], "description": "A talk titled “Socio-Ecological Vulnerabilities in the Era of Urban Greening” at the College of Staten Island. 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Curated by Anna Khimasia, it brings together artists Bahar Behbahani, Rachelle Dang, and Sujin Lim. The panel explores how immigrant and diasporic artists use plants and gardens as a framework and vocabulary for thinking through migration, from transplantation and adaptation to rooting and preservation. It also considers how botanical categories such as \"native\" and \"invasive\" mirror systems that regulate the movement of people.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/plant-ecologies-and-migration-55316/", "official_url": "https://residencyunlimited.org/programs/plant-ecologies-and-migration/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/6bc96eee51c501ecdfa7c6b53fbcb7e30f4599841474af05f12cc255b0ab5b64-600.webp"}, {"title": "The Radical Unpresent — Gregory Sholette in conversation with Naeem Mohaiemen", "start": "2026-11-05T18:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Printed Matter, Inc.", "address": "West 11th Street 231", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/politics", "art"], "description": "An evening talk at Printed Matter, Inc. celebrating the New York launch of Gregory Sholette's new book, The Radical Unpresent: Cultural Resistance in a Fractured World, published by MIT Press. The book argues that a rupture in historical time runs through Brexit, Trump, COVID, and the J6 Capitol attack, casting MAGA as a new \"retro-vanguard\" manufacturing its own imaginary past, and proposes the \"phantom archive\" as a space where artists resist this dislocation through repair and reenactment. Sholette will be joined in conversation by Naeem Mohaiemen, an artist and writer whose work, also featured in the book, excavates institutional memory including the buried archives of the nonaligned movement.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/the-radical-unpresent-gregory-sholette-in-conversation-with-89359/", "official_url": "https://www.printedmatter.org/programs/events/2291", "image": "https://noky.io/images/7a3977df7f7039555c697541f88f912ddf6e822803cc0839507acc201bfe0272-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Homes for People, Not for Profit", "start": "2026-10-25T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-12-05T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Printed Matter, Inc.", "address": "West 11th Street 231", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/street-art", "society/housing"], "description": "A window installation at Printed Matter featuring painted stencils on the store's window, which visitors can watch being made and add to on a collective banner and newsprint posters. It is created by Art Against Displacement, artist Alex Strada, and FEC Tenants Against Demolition, and reactivates Homeless At Home, a 1985–86 project in which artists and architects designed stencils speaking to the public about human dignity and home for everyone. The installation responds to the proximity of NYCHA's Fulton and Elliott-Chelsea Houses, which face demolition under a $1.2 billion plan with private developers. During its run, a supply drive collects winter accessories and hygiene supplies for unhoused community members, and a zine and related publications are displayed.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/homes-for-people-not-for-profit-55016/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/757180e88c841913fbc88aecc8accabe5dd010c1e35a7fa96cacea6cd294262e-2000.webp"}, {"title": "DURATIONS: Triple Canopy presents Civic Crash Course with Chloë Bass, Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste, Hal Foster", "start": "2026-11-09T18:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Public Records", "address": "Butler Street 233, 11217", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/contemporary", "society"], "description": "An evening talk titled 'Civic Crash Course', presented by Triple Canopy as part of the DURATIONS series. It features Chloë Bass, Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste, and Hal Foster and takes place at Public Records in Brooklyn. The event is for ages 21 and up, with an RSVP required and entry on a first-come, first-served basis subject to capacity.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/durations-triple-canopy-presents-civic-crash-course-with-chl-55045/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/49a1d8102a6472ddc081628a6acc42e26e96023605163ec2584529c6b7a85692-2000.webp"}]}