{"title": "Sidewalk Study WASHINGTON, DC: THE NAMES WE CARRY", "start": "2026-10-31T15:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-10-31T17:30:00-04:00", "place": "Strother School of Radical Attention", "address": "Washington Street 55, 11201", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "tours", "tags": ["history", "literature"], "description": "This is a Sidewalk Study taking place in the U Street corridor in Washington, DC. It is held by the Strother School of Radical Attention and centers on Toni Morrison's 'Song of Solomon'. Participants will time travel through the historic U Street corridor and the newly re-opened African American Civil War Museum, starting from 'The Spirit of Freedom' sculpture, to learn what the past wants to impress upon us about the names we carry and what it takes to seek justice.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/sidewalk-study-washington-dc-the-names-we-carry-56196/", "official_url": "https://www.schoolofattention.org/events/iulaet77uzaa5zytkxzicjzf9r133q-jdaee-axshl-3npbb-yssnd", "image": "https://noky.io/images/15a75f27b35ff8a2de73271fa5aeae2e54c77f244c27605ab60a25838bd8f5b6-2000.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-10-31T15:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-10-31T17:30:00-04:00", "place": "Strother School of Radical Attention", "address": "Washington Street 55, 11201", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "SVA Destinations Information Session: Legacy Leadership Journey to Alabama", "start": "2026-11-02T19:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-02T20:00:00-05:00", "place": "School of Visual Arts", "address": "East 23rd Street 209, 10010", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/civil-rights-movement"], "description": "School of Visual Arts hosts an information session about its SVA Destinations Legacy Leadership Journey to Alabama. 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It is led by Prof. Namwali Serpell, a novelist, critic, and scholar of English at Harvard and author of On Morrison (Hogarth 2026). 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The exhibition fills the museum's main galleries and is organized around five topics: civics, history, family and kinship, map-making, and care for the environment. Its title quotes \"Bless this Land,\" a 2019 poem by former US poet laureate and Indigenous activist Joy Harjo, an important influence on the show. Guided by American democratic ideals of participation and experimentation, it invites visitors to consider their own role in conversations about the past and future of the United States, on the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/bethany-collins-66128/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ba7f3513fe9acec48cf83a6c0a0478436c1e83edf85250da286ffd6ceeab0424-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Naima Ramos-Chapman: In Place of Monuments", "start": "2026-11-06T19:30:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Apollo Theater", "address": "West 125th Street 253, 10027 New York", "price": "$25", "price_from": "25.00", "price_to": "25.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.ticketmaster.com/event/00006519DF8B9C86", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/play", "society/racism"], "description": "A staged reading of the one-act play \"In Place of Monuments\", part of the Apollo Works in Process Series, presented by the Apollo. The play, by Naima Ramos-Chapman, centers the friendship of two Black American and Caribbean friends and examines how state-sanctioned violence threatens to tear their family and community apart. Through recalling memories across time and incorporating movement and dance, it aims to create a portal for audiences to envision more just and liberated futures for Black and Brown people. The reading is followed by a talkback with the creatives.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/naima-ramos-chapman-in-place-of-monuments-51069/", "official_url": "https://www.apollotheater.org/event/apollo-new-works-naima-ramos-in-place-of-monuments", "image": "https://noky.io/images/9358ca52963fb66e5e081b518918365f8df1020d3d1e3843395423eec923c3ca-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Closer-Look Tour", "start": "2026-11-06T13:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-06T14:00:00-05:00", "place": "American Folk Art Museum", "address": "Lincoln Square 2, New York", "price": "Free (registration required)", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "tours", "tags": ["art/folk-art"], "description": "Closer-Look Tour is a public tour of the current exhibition, Locating Girlhood: Place and Identity in Early American “Schoolgirl” Art, at the American Folk Art Museum. The tour is led by Gallery Educators, and visitors meet in the Museum Atrium. 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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": "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": "", "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": "Danny Simmons: The Journey of Spirit", "start": "2026-09-11T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-11-07T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Westwood Gallery", "address": "Bowery 261, 10012 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting/abstract-painting"], "description": "\"Danny Simmons: The Journey of Spirit\" is an exhibition of paintings and works on paper at Westwood Gallery NYC. Planned with the artist and curated by James Cavello, it is the first presentation of his work following his passing in June 2026. Its centerpiece is \"Full Circle\" (2023), an eleven-panel mixed-media installation selected by MTA Arts & Design for a glass art commission at the Jamaica Bus Depot in Queens, shown alongside seventeen recent works from the final years of his life. Through vibrant abstraction, layered textiles such as Kente cloth and batiks, and expressive mark-making, Simmons explores ancestry, identity, memory, and belonging.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/danny-simmons-the-journey-of-spirit-67465/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/af53fe2eaaecd2a93b43f285be4994897fc7f1f93eb745512734f8fe903614e5-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Raise Your Voice: Curator-led Tour", "start": "2026-11-11T18:30:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Museum of the City of New York", "address": "5th Avenue 1220, 10029 New York", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://35948.blackbaudhosting.com/35948/tickets?tab=3&txobjid=cf1953e5-423a-4bfb-a460-1d8fbe19df62", "category": "tours", "tags": ["art/design/graphic-design/poster", "society/activism"], "description": "A curator-led tour of the exhibition Raise Your Voice: New York Activism at the Museum of the City of New York. This one-hour tour looks at the signage of social movements with Josh MacPhee, creator of the interactive poster maker featured in the exhibition. MacPhee is a designer, artist, and archivist, a founding member of the Justseeds Artists' Cooperative and Interference Archive, and author or editor of publications including Signs of Change and Signal. The tour is part of the museum's monthly series with curator Sarah Seidman and its Free Late-Night Wednesdays.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/raise-your-voice-curator-led-tour-54056/", "official_url": "https://www.mcny.org/event/raise-your-voice-curator-led-tour-0", "image": "https://noky.io/images/557cdbb318a20c720dc819a312a33377618c649fbe9849bd536c255e1e7b3141-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Bible Study Week 4 (Good Trouble)", "start": "2026-11-01T09:45:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-01T10:45:00-05:00", "place": "Madison Avenue Baptist Church", "address": "Madison Avenue 129, 10016", "price": "FREE", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["religion/christian/bible-study", "history/civil-rights-movement"], "description": "A Bible study session titled 'Good Trouble', the fourth week of a four-session Sunday series. It is led by Rev. Dr. Derrick Harkins and pairs Scripture with the story of Bayard Rustin, focusing on strategy, inclusion and the cost of conscience. The series explores the lives of Fannie Lou Hamer, John Lewis, Dolores Huerta and Bayard Rustin as models of faithful civic witness. Participants can join in person or online via Zoom.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/bible-study-week-4-good-trouble-53689/", "official_url": "https://mabcnyc.org/event/fall-bible-study-week-4/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/a7cc6226c68108502e77557f7ecb06ab5423480c5bb116b2ba3a74952e5dd8b4-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Book Event – Gerald Cyrus: Uptown Odyssey", "start": "2026-11-04T18:30:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "International Center of Photography", "address": "Ludlow Street 84, 10002 New York", "price": "$5", "price_from": "5.00", "price_to": "5.00", "tickets_url": "https://buy.acmeticketing.com/orders/262/calendar", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/photography/documentary-photography"], "description": "A book event at the International Center of Photography celebrating the release of Gerald Cyrus's monograph Uptown Odyssey, offered both in person and online. It features a conversation between photographer Gerald Cyrus and artist and writer Gioncarlo Valentine. Uptown Odyssey gathers Cyrus's black-and-white photographs of Harlem made across the 1990s, moving from the streets and subway to the neighborhood's nightclubs and music scene. In-person tickets cost $5 and do not include access to ICP's galleries.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/book-event-gerald-cyrus-uptown-odyssey-53182/", "official_url": "https://www.icp.org/events/book-event-gerald-cyrus-uptown-odyssey", "image": "https://noky.io/images/4abb96bf1824de0d0e5253b8c2b710f53925cc94908b04b490436e2b0daf5fe3-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Still On After / Sala Sadio", "start": "2026-10-30T18:30:00-04:00", "end": null, "place": "Arts on Site", "address": "Saint Marks Place 12", "price": "$30.00 (+$1.50 service fee)", "price_from": "30.00", "price_to": "30.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "dance", "tags": ["stage/contemporary-dance"], "description": "\"Still On After / Sala Sadio\" is an evening of performance at Studio 3R, the performance space at Arts on Site on 12 St Marks Place. It presents \"Still On After\", a work exploring what it means to be the \"Achiever\" versus the \"Observer\", asking whether pausing to notice, listen and be curious might become a form of action, and what openness to seeing things differently could mean for our sense of self and relationships. It is shared alongside \"Sala Sadio\", described as a solo choreographed work, with @_trea_ credited. The event is hosted at Arts on Site's Studio 3R, a performance space in New York City.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/still-on-after-sala-sadio-51081/", "official_url": "https://www.artsonsite.org/events-1/still-on-after-sala-sadio", "image": "https://noky.io/images/110643621edf3b0a3064de762ef7dce30eb59d59d9f370c4f6a4c6c2bedf0548-2000.webp"}, {"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", "tickets_url": "", "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. 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The talk marks the exhibition 'Spotlight: Derek Fordjour', which features a new work by the artist alongside a commissioned text by journalist and author Donovan X. Ramsey. The conversation is part of the Foundation's Spotlight series, pairing new artworks with commissioned writing to create dialogues between visual art and authors, critics, and scholars. The discussion starts half an hour after the event opens.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/in-conversation-derek-fordjour-and-katy-siegel-56577/", "official_url": "https://www.flagartfoundation.org/events/in-conversation-derek-fordjour", "image": "https://noky.io/images/a335b845ec19f51ba3b214373e0d6bad4099accd0385f0fcf4a70189effe431f-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Collage + Storytelling with Diane Ifill", "start": "2026-10-30T14:00:00-04:00", "end": null, "place": "The Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop (RBPMW)", "address": "West 39th Street 323, New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["art/collage"], "description": "Collage + Storytelling with Diane Ifill is a hands-on event about the art of storytelling through collage, with all materials provided. Participants can bring their own family photos, photo collections, or magazines to enrich their creative experience. It is led by Diane Ifill and held in conjunction with the Where We Art: Black Women Artists Now! exhibition at the Blackburn Study Center. The workshop takes place on the 2nd floor of EFA RBPMW, a program of the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/collage-storytelling-with-diane-ifill-56869/", "official_url": "https://www.rbpmw-efanyc.org/collage-storytelling-with-diane-ifill", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ca456b0c7ca005c443f34be2f55103bb8eb2abcbd8146592d10ff726075414b8-2000.webp"}]}