{"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": "", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-09T19:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Strother School of Radical Attention", "address": "Washington Street 55, 11201", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"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": ""}, {"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": "Iron + Palm Wine: Koneh Pelawoe", "start": "2026-11-11T00:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-12-19T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Recess", "address": "46 Washington Ave. Brooklyn. NY", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/installation", "music/folk"], "description": "Iron + Palm Wine: Koneh Pelawoe is a sound and moving-image installation at Recess, presented as part of the Session program. The artist YATTA, a Sierra Leonean-American composer and great-niece of the pioneering Sierra Leonean palm wine musician S.E. Rogie, transforms the gallery into an evolving pre-production environment for the project, which is named after Rogie's song \"Koneh Pelawoe,\" meaning \"Please Open Your Heart.\" The installation pairs a collegiate ethnomusicology building with a Southern and West African veranda, bringing together Rogie's songs, recorded conversations, archival materials, and YATTA's compositions of vocals, kora, and field recordings. Through Rogie's musical legacy, YATTA explores the entanglements of Blackness, land, leisure, and extraction, asking what healing possibilities the sounds of West Africa may hold when the psychic weight of labor, migration, and extraction is set down.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/iron-palm-wine-koneh-pelawoe-55301/", "official_url": "https://www.recessart.org/projects/613-iron-palm-wine-koneh-pelawoe", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d73c4aa3a9b5027995631c146a051af6f07fec49bb03fa8002e1497ba0e181eb-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", "address": "384 Broadway, New York NY 10013", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "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": "Opening Reception for YATTA: Iron + Palm Wine", "start": "2026-11-11T18:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Recess", "address": "46 Washington Ave. Brooklyn. NY", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/installation", "literature/poetry", "music/folk"], "description": "An opening reception at Recess for the artist and musician YATTA's Session installation, Iron + Palm Wine: Koneh Pelawoe. Through the musical legacy of Rogie, YATTA explores entanglements of Blackness, land, leisure, and extraction, drawing on palm wine music as a balm for the psychic wounds of the transatlantic slave trade. The evening offers light refreshments, a first look at the installation, and a poetry reading featuring poets from Camille Dungy's 2009 anthology Black Nature.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/opening-reception-for-yatta-iron-palm-wine-55299/", "official_url": "https://www.recessart.org/events/614-opening-reception-for-yatta-iron-palm-wine", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d73c4aa3a9b5027995631c146a051af6f07fec49bb03fa8002e1497ba0e181eb-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Jazz Is Staten Island: Rhythms of the African Diaspora (Local is Global Part II)", "start": "2026-11-07T19:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-07T21:00:00-05:00", "place": "The Carpenter's Shop, Snug Harbor", "address": "", "price": "$25 & Under", "price_from": "20.00", "price_to": "20.00", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/jazz"], "description": "An evening concert closing the Jazz Is Staten Island series, presenting Local is Global Part II: Rhythms of the African Diaspora with a dynamic jazz ensemble. It is presented by Universal Temple of the Arts together with Snug Harbor. The lineup features Asante Santi Debriano on bass, T.K. Blue on saxophone, flute and kalimba, Matt Smythe on keyboard, and Juan Chiavassa on drums. Debriano and Blue, both internationally recognized and longtime collaborators of the late NEA Jazz Master Dr. Randy Weston, continue through their music the storytelling purpose Weston described.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/jazz-is-staten-island-rhythms-of-the-african-diaspora-local-77025/", "official_url": "https://snug-harbor.org/event/jazz-is-staten-island-rhythms-of-the-african-diaspora-local-is-global-part-ii/?slot_id=25136", "image": "https://noky.io/images/8a5af0106c7be358e376fce8ca1f13f2ad63843b0ea5d26381c4547383fd8271-2000.webp"}, {"title": "IN CONVERSATION: sonia louise davis & Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts", "start": "2026-11-14T14:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Hesse Flatow Gallery", "address": "West 26th Street 508, 10001 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art"], "description": "An In Conversation event at the Hesse Flatow gallery celebrating sonia louise davis's solo exhibition, a promise, a portal, possibility. The artist sonia louise davis talks with Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts, author of Harlem Is Nowhere: A Journey to the Mecca of Black America. The program includes a special performance by davis.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/in-conversation-sonia-louise-davis-sharifa-rhodes-pitts-53014/", "official_url": "https://hesseflatow.com/events/113/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/07dd06ba189ea4110533b2518ec6de4fb9ae2ed5b97f9e02ca588e1fc4c20f2c-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Triple Canopy Symposium 2026 (Day 1)", "start": "2026-11-13T20:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Roulette", "address": "Atlantic Avenue 509, 11217", "price": "Free w/ RSVP", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["stage/performance-art", "literature"], "description": "An evening of performances and readings titled Every A-Side Has a B-Side, opening the Triple Canopy Symposium 2026. The magazine Triple Canopy presents its annual symposium together with Roulette, in partnership with Critical Minded. Artists and writers including Sol Cabrini, Jonathan González, Nile Harris, Taja Cheek (L'Rain), T. Lax, and yuniya edi kwon draw on the book On Value, edited by Triple Canopy and Ralph Lemon, to consider the value of liveness and the ideology of ownership. Lemon will introduce the event.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/triple-canopy-symposium-2026-day-1-55465/", "official_url": "https://roulette.org/event/triple-canopy-symposium-2026-day-1/", "image": ""}, {"title": "Matana Roberts Presents: “off the record…”", "start": "2026-11-11T20:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Roulette", "address": "Atlantic Avenue 509, 11217", "price": "$25", "price_from": "25.00", "price_to": "30.00", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/experimental"], "description": "A live solo performance by composer, saxophonist, and sound experimentalist Matana Roberts, presented as part of the ongoing COIN COIN project. The piece moves between memory, imagination, and lived experience, following association rather than chronology, with language, gesture, silence, humor, and chance shaping each telling. Conceived as a celebratory postscript to the COIN COIN recordings, part of which began at this venue, it makes space for ideas and questions beyond those recordings. A free livestream will be available the day of the performance and archived for future viewing.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/matana-roberts-presents-off-the-record-55464/", "official_url": "https://roulette.org/event/matana-roberts-presents-off-the-record/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/9f48fb3c356ab5c14465012ab327ef41ed586b612fda649508a1affe6e27a42a-2000.webp"}, {"title": "adaku, part 2: she shivers with it", "start": "2026-11-11T00:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-15T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "BAM Fisher (Fishman Space)", "address": "", "price": "Tickets start at $45", "price_from": "45.00", "price_to": null, "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/contemporary-dance"], "description": "adaku, part 2: she shivers with it is a dance-theater work presented by BAM in association with L'Alliance New York's Crossing The Line Festival. It was created by sweat variant, the collaborative practice of Okwui Okpokwasili and Peter Born, and continues a speculative trilogy about one family's fractured ancestral memories. Set in a near-future United States, it follows a young woman taught she has no history worth remembering who begins receiving sudden transmissions, opening a multitude of imaginable futures. Running 1 hour 30 minutes with no intermission, the work places Black interiority at the center of an immersive experience at the crossroads of dance, theater, and visual art.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/adaku-part-2-she-shivers-with-it-51174/", "official_url": "https://www.bam.org/dance/2026/adaku2", "image": "https://noky.io/images/7d1960a9a12df5faf2af54f2950a34095c7e9f314d5c5f8c24049bd289f9058a-2000.webp"}]}