{"title": "Spiderwoman’s Global Indigenous Theatre Festival – Spiderwoman Theater Celebrating 50 Years", "start": "2026-10-30T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-11-07T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "La MaMa", "address": "East 4th Street 66, 10003 New York", "price": "", "price_from": "40.00", "price_to": "40.00", "tickets_url": "https://ci.ovationtix.com/42/store/packages/155113", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["society/indigenous", "stage/theatre"], "description": "Spiderwoman's Global Indigenous Theatre Festival is a series of performances and community events presented at La MaMa, running from October 30 to November 7, 2026. It is staged by Spiderwoman Theater, La MaMa's longtime resident company and a foundational force in Native American and feminist performance, marking its 50th anniversary. The festival brings together Indigenous theatre makers from Aotearoa (New Zealand), Minneapolis, Australia, and Canada, with shows including KŌPŪ, Invisible Shadows, Maayuma li Mubirr (Healing Scars), and All My R(el)ations. The program also features Spiderwoman Workshops and closes with a Spiderwoman Theater Gala celebrating 50 years, created by Murielle Borst-Tarrant.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/spiderwomans-global-indigenous-theatre-festival-spiderwoman-66700/", "official_url": "https://lamama.org/spiderwoman-theatre-50-years/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/7b1183e2c8c0e575b43d0b99fd30b5e21e0d6e3b6f3b0300c5ec74de8bcc194e-2000.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-10-30T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-11-07T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "La MaMa", "address": "East 4th Street 66, 10003 New York", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Spiderwoman Theater Gala", "start": "2026-11-07T00:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "La MaMa", "address": "East 4th Street 66, 10003 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://ci.ovationtix.com/42/production/1284917", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["occasion/gala", "society/indigenous"], "description": "A gala evening celebrating 50 years of Spiderwoman Theater. Indigenous artists and the downtown arts community come together in a tribute. It is curated and directed by Murielle Borst-Tarrant and is part of the Spiderwoman global indigenous Theater festival. The program is still to be determined.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/spiderwoman-theater-gala-66702/", "official_url": "https://lamama.org/celebrating-50-years-a-spiderwoman-gala/", "image": ""}, {"title": "Spiderwoman Workshops!", "start": "2026-10-28T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-11-05T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "La MaMa", "address": "East 4th Street 66, 10003 New York", "price": "free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["stage/theatre", "music"], "description": "Spiderwoman Workshops! is a series of free theatre and cultural workshops, one of which takes place on this day: Song Story with Warren Mason. It is part of the Global Indigenous Theatre Festival at La MaMa, held as Spiderwoman celebrates its 50th Anniversary with groundbreaking theatre companies. Warren Mason, the creator, composer and performer of Maayuma li Mubirr, sits with participants to learn devising song stories, with instruments optional for the ten participants.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/spiderwoman-workshops-66701/", "official_url": "https://lamama.org/spiderwomanworkshops/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/5a5b52ffb101d621b8ea83758dd1b76e570c77b410f579ca3126ea824690a32e-2000.webp"}, {"title": "La MaMa Puppet Festival 2026", "start": "2026-11-11T00:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-12-06T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "La MaMa", "address": "East 4th Street 66, 10003 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://ci.ovationtix.com/42/production/1284054", "category": "festivals-street", "tags": ["stage/puppetry"], "description": "La MaMa Puppet Festival 2026 is an annual festival of contemporary puppet theatre, running November 11 to December 6. Puppetry has been part of La MaMa's programming since 1962, and the venue has hosted annual puppet festivals since 2004. Curated by Denise Greber and Federico Restrepo, this year's festival brings together international puppet artists including Monica Lerch, Tiresias, Tom Lee, Deniz Khateri, and Michelle Beshaw. It presents shows such as Endless Forms, The Undercity, Mirrored Pool, and Husks from Iran.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/la-mama-puppet-festival-2026-66705/", "official_url": "https://lamama.org/la-mama-puppet-festival-2026/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/567bb4e4279fb91888aab03631817b950406788becb0e9c378eae57ace3266dd-2000.webp"}, {"title": "All My R(el)ations", "start": "2026-11-04T00:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-06T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "La MaMa", "address": "East 4th Street 66, 10003 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://ci.ovationtix.com/42/production/1284923", "category": "dance", "tags": ["society/indigenous", "stage/contemporary-dance"], "description": "All My R(el)ations is a multi-disciplinary dance theatre performance and installation by the Indigenous company Aanmitaagzi from Nipissing First Nation, Ontario, Canada, running about 45 minutes. Co-created and performed by the Aanmitaagzi Ensemble under director and choreographic lead Penny Couchie, it is part of the Spiderwoman global indigenous Theater festival. The work brings together professional artists and community, asking who we are in the face of adversity and who we hope to be, built on story-telling luncheons with elders, summer intensives with youth and weekly workshops. Through this intergenerational, multi-year project, the company seeks to make the E and the L no longer silent, so we can return to All My Relations.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/all-my-relations-53461/", "official_url": "https://lamama.org/all-my-relations/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/5f4d74ee441a822cc4992c5dbccc91b8618135a3fa6ee24fe74acca607adb22c-2000.webp"}, {"title": "KŌPŪ", "start": "2026-10-30T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-11-01T00:00:00-04:00", "place": "La MaMa", "address": "East 4th Street 66, 10003 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://ci.ovationtix.com/42/production/1284915", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre"], "description": "KŌPŪ is a theatre show in which the wāhine of the company weave live music, performance, poetry, and poi into a hilariously honest, no-holds-barred account of their femininity on their own terms. It comes from Te Pou Theatre, a kaupapa Māori performing arts company and venue from Aotearoa (New Zealand), and was originally commissioned by Auckland Arts Festival. Written by Tuakoi Ohia and directed by Amber Curreen, it shares the songs of young wāhine Māori navigating the world, following in the footsteps of their naughty nannies from the marae. The 75-minute show has been called a hilarious celebration and gut-wrenching 'me too sis' to wāhine.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/kopu-53457/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c40ffa606faa98864eda10acb1d7262cffdeaed050ff726b337f1efad14cbe63-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Invisible Shadows", "start": "2026-10-30T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-11-01T00:00:00-04:00", "place": "La MaMa", "address": "East 4th Street 66, 10003 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://ci.ovationtix.com/42/production/1284922", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["society/indigenous", "stage/theatre"], "description": "A theater piece told by Indigenous actors about growing up in an urban Indigenous community amid an opioid epidemic. It centers on young people in community prevention programs who face addiction at home, whose hopes collide with learning their cultures and their family's and community's misuse of alcohol and drugs. It is performed by Ikidowin Theater Ensemble, a group from Minneapolis whose members tell stories of their own lives, some having joined as young as eleven. A recurring question runs through it: can one spirit tell another what to do?", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/invisible-shadows-53458/", "official_url": "https://lamama.org/invisible-shadows/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/25f855f5b94ec28683b4bd0441b457c7d65560daada1306dad21750f6efa4be1-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Maayuma li Mubirr (Healing Scars)", "start": "2026-11-04T00:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-06T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "La MaMa", "address": "East 4th Street 66, 10003 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://ci.ovationtix.com/42/production/1284916", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["society/indigenous", "stage/performance-art"], "description": "\"Maayuma li Mubirr (Healing Scars)\" is a 65-minute performance work from Australia. It was created by Yuwalaaraay composer and performer Warren Mason and is presented by Moogahlin Performing Arts, tracing the intergenerational journey lines of First Peoples healing from injustice. Mason blends natural sounds of his Yuwaalaraay homeland, guitar, spoken word and singing styles of his old people, interwoven with movement choreographed with Jo Clancy, Lily Shearer, Kiarn Doyle and himself. The work honours matriarchy, survival, strength and the power of First Peoples storytelling, inviting audiences into a shared catharsis of truth, healing and resilience.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/maayuma-li-mubirr-healing-scars-53460/", "official_url": "https://lamama.org/maayuma-li-mubirr/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/92b25eb1f266bcb72ef3c6488400b7467f96fa3309ec1924b4d8c18170d245a1-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Tiresias Presents New Weird Future: a Work in Process", "start": "2026-11-12T00:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-15T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "La MaMa", "address": "East 4th Street 66, 10003 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://ci.ovationtix.com/42/production/1292091?performanceId=11871516", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["nature/climate", "stage/opera"], "description": "New Weird Future: a Work in Process is a speculative eco-opera and puppet pageant-in-process running at La MaMa. It is written, directed, and composed by Tiresias, who also performs, together with Synead, Wes Garlington aka Klondyke, Ellen Zahniser, Mizuho Kappa, Nicki Kissil, and Emily Batsford. The work imagines futures of multispecies flourishing in the ruins of the Anthropocene, promising utopian visions of eclectic, non-innocent entanglements on Future Earth as a collective act of radical queer defiance against apathetic submission to climate apocalypse.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/tiresias-presents-new-weird-future-a-work-in-process-66708/", "official_url": "https://lamama.org/tiresiaspresentsnewweirdfuture/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/8224396d8efa016b65abe9936821ddaf8a6a728f848175d58ba89a29a3c6e758-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Tahkox: Indigenous Stages Launch of a New Online Journal", "start": "2026-11-12T18:30:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-12T20:30:00-05:00", "place": "Martin E. Segal Theatre Center", "address": "5th Avenue 365, 10016 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/indigenous", "stage/theatre"], "description": "An evening launching the online journal Tahkox: Indigenous Stages, held at the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center. The journal is the world's first interdisciplinary academic journal dedicated primarily to Indigenous authors writing about the theatrical and cultural performance of Indigenous artists and communities around the globe. Published by the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center at the CUNY Graduate Center, it was founded by Opalanietet (Ryan Victor Pierce) and Frank Hentschker and will release its inaugural issue in November 2026. The evening includes a conversation with Opalanietet, Tammy Hailiʻōpua Baker, Pililuaikekaiohilo M. Q. Keala and Frank Hentschker.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/tahkox-indigenous-stages-launch-of-a-new-online-journal-53862/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "La MaMa Kids: Kinding Sindaw Dance Interactive Workshop", "start": "2026-11-07T14:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "La MaMa", "address": "East 4th Street 66, 10003 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://ci.ovationtix.com/42/production/1285644?performanceId=11878160", "category": "kids-family", "tags": ["dance/traditional", "diy"], "description": "La MaMa Kids: Kinding Sindaw Dance Interactive Workshop is a 60-minute workshop where children learn how rhythm, music, and ritual dances tell the story of planting and harvesting rice. It is led by Potri Ranka Manis and Kinding Sindaw, an NYC-based, AANHPI / BIPOC-led non-profit founded in 1992 that preserves the southern Philippines' living traditions through dance, storytelling, kulintang music, and silat. Through movements inspired by farming activities, participants build coordination, teamwork, and confidence, combining music and dance in an ensemble performance. The workshop explores community, celebration, and gratitude while highlighting the importance of preserving living traditions and cultural heritage.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/la-mama-kids-kinding-sindaw-dance-interactive-workshop-66703/", "official_url": "https://lamama.org/lamamakids-kindingsindawworkshop/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/a8a52ad2b91302efce322f3787900f54478854a8c160c1f5cb0af6685b3612ad-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Brooklyn FAM’s 6th Annual Flagship Festival", "start": "2026-11-01T11:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-01T16:00:00-05:00", "place": "Boathouse", "address": "East Drive 101, 11215", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.eventbrite.com/e/brooklyn-fams-6th-annual-flagship-festival-tickets-2001651831511?aff=oddtdtcreator", "category": "festivals-street", "tags": ["art", "music", "occasion"], "description": "Brooklyn FAM's 6th Annual Flagship Festival is a free, family-friendly arts and music festival held rain or shine at the Prospect Park Boathouse. It is organized by Brooklyn FAM, a community-empowering 501(c)3 charitable arts nonprofit, in partnership with the Prospect Park Alliance, American Indian Community House, and NY Immigration Coalition. The event celebrates North, Central, and South American indigenous voices — including Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape, Shinnecock, Matinecock, Montaukett, Unkechaug, Diné (Navajo), Taíno, Colombian, Mexican, and Guatemalan (Maya) — with music and dance performances, workshops, a drumming circle, craft-making, and public art for all ages. This year's theme is \"Shine Your Light,\" and food and drink are available for purchase.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/brooklyn-fams-6th-annual-flagship-festival-66206/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "New Works Fall Festival 2026", "start": "2026-11-02T00:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-23T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Irish Repertory Theatre", "address": "West 22nd Street 132, 10011 New York", "price": "$20", "price_from": "20.00", "price_to": "20.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["stage/theatre/drama"], "description": "New Works Fall Festival 2026 is a festival of readings of new plays at Irish Repertory Theatre. It is run by the theatre's New Play Development Program, which nurtures new plays and musicals exploring Irish and Irish-American stories. This year's lineup presents works by Eoin McAndrew, Karis Kelly, Iseult Golden and David Horan, Hannah Khalil, and Chris Gethard, with readings curated by Nicola Murphy Dubey and Juliette Carbonnier. The program lets writers hear new work aloud with an audience to discover plays for possible future production.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/new-works-fall-festival-2026-53251/", "official_url": "https://irishrep.org/whats-on/new-works-fall-festival-2026", "image": "https://noky.io/images/0091e773d0f5a46708dc7bd56359de4d8b720a33b7951d06f1bfda4761cfdb06-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Open Movement – Fall 2026", "start": "2026-10-04T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-12-13T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Performance Space 122", "address": "1st Avenue 150, 10009", "price": "Free with RSVP / pay what you can", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://ci.ovationtix.com/203/production/1283948", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["dance/movement-dance"], "description": "Open Movement – Fall 2026 is a free program open to all ages, abilities, and levels of experience, held in the theater and offering space for self-guided movement practice along with artist-led workshops. It is curated and organized by Monica Mirabile and hosted by Performance Space New York. Participants may move however they choose—stretching, drawing, dancing, rehearsing, or observing—and past attendees describe it as a sacred space for self-discovery, connection, and grounding towards personal and collective practices. This season also features workshops by artists including Eartheater's child (Nova Harlem), Dorchel Haqq, Charmaine Bee, Andros Zins-Browne, Sophie Ortiz, Gillian Walsh, Sigrid Lauren, and Viva Ruiz, alongside Works In Progress showings by Cristina Moya-Palacios and Viva Soudan.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/open-movement-fall-2026-54719/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/41dcde7a9d71b58bd25d912ebe98c7c8d13f23e2a18cd61bc292e180bd820fa3-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Kate Rigg with Slanty Eyed Mama", "start": "2026-11-01T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-11-07T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "La MaMa", "address": "East 4th Street 66, 10003 New York", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://ci.ovationtix.com/42/production/1294622", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["literature/spoken-word", "music/rock"], "description": "Kate Rigg with Slanty Eyed Mama is a residency at La MaMa built around the spoken word, rock and comedy duo of the same name. Slanty Eyed Mama is award-winning lyricist and singer Kate Rigg (Lady-K) and electric violinist Lyris Hung, who met while studying at the Juilliard School and create a fresh American Asian sound. Their work has taken them twice to the Smithsonian Institute, to headline the PBS Special \"Race is the Place\", and to stages such as LA Grand Performances, the Perth International Festival and the Vancouver Comedy Festival. On November 1 they lead \"Speak Up! Speak Out! Speak Up!\", a free workshop for ages 14-22 on turning stories and feelings into powerful spoken word with improvised musical accompaniment.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/kate-rigg-with-slanty-eyed-mama-53459/", "official_url": "https://lamama.org/kateriggwithslantyeyedmama/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/63d467e6a125927dea076c1e3563ecf6e80e82fe036cc990b3a1d1794f1f8a4f-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Rough Draft Festival", "start": "2026-10-27T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-10-30T00:00:00-04:00", "place": "LaGuardia Performing Arts Center", "address": "Van Dam St 45-50", "price": "Free to attend with a Free RSVP; a $25 Supporter Ticket is also offered", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://ci.ovationtix.com/35690/production/1292857", "category": "festivals-street", "tags": ["stage/theatre"], "description": "Rough Draft Festival is a festival at LaGuardia Performing Arts Center where invited artists share works in progress through performances and conversations with the artists. Behind it is LPAC, as part of its commitment to supporting new work, giving artists opportunities to strengthen storytelling, test new possibilities, and connect with audiences and fellow artists. Audiences are invited into the creative process, seeing how new work evolves through experimentation, revision, and collaboration. On October 27 the program presents \"Skin to Skin - Triptych of an American Epidemic\", created by playwright Jeremy J. Kamps and co-creator Trixie Ndanu Kioko with Houses on the Moon Theater Company, centering the experiences of Black women in a theatrical exploration of health, care, and survival.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/rough-draft-festival-53450/", "official_url": "https://www.lpac.nyc/upcoming-events/rough-draft", "image": "https://noky.io/images/b630d0b2ec7633cd208ae9b1a185ef4184c89e2c7d72c2d34bcf4f710bf63516-1200.webp"}, {"title": "M3 Festival 2026: Terri Lyne Carrington, William Parker, Theo Bleckmann, Martha Redbone, and More", "start": "2026-11-07T19:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Roulette", "address": "Atlantic Avenue 509, 11217", "price": "", "price_from": "35.00", "price_to": "100.00", "tickets_url": "https://m3musicians.org/m%c2%b3-festival-2026/", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/jazz"], "description": "M3 Festival 2026 is the 5th annual in-person festival of Mutual Mentorship for Musicians (M³), featuring a large lineup of composer-performers. It was created by musicians Jen Shyu and Sara Serpa through their non-hierarchical mentorship initiative, presented in partnership with Roulette. The festival spans jazz, creative, electronic, singer-songwriter, experimental, and traditional music, with performers including Terri Lyne Carrington, William Parker, Theo Bleckmann, and Martha Redbone. A free livestream of the performance will be available and archived.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/m3-festival-2026-terri-lyne-carrington-william-parker-theo-b-55463/", "official_url": "https://roulette.org/event/m3-festival-2026/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/dd72197d24f9b5a3f0d2f8b76fc99084f6753d26f751e9d2d0d079414c85dbdb-2000.webp"}]}