{"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": "", "dates": [{"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", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "The Robert Wilson Yearbook -- Launch", "start": "2026-11-05T18:30:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-05T20:30:00-05:00", "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": ["stage/theatre"], "description": "A launch event for The Robert Wilson Yearbook, a peer-reviewed annual journal. The Yearbook was founded in 2025 by the Martin E. 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The launch includes a panel and reception, celebrating an inaugural issue with articles by participants of the Segal Theatre Center Conference: The Legacy of Robert Wilson.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/the-robert-wilson-yearbook-launch-53860/", "official_url": "https://www.thesegalcenter.org/event-details/the-robert-wilson-yearbook-launch-1", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d5238318735fa50ff822bae8cfccf1abe20cbea4ccdec6c0cfeb3402ef71c09f-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": "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": "Book Celebration: The Theatre of Drawing", "start": "2026-11-02T18:30:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-02T20:30:00-05:00", "place": "Martin E. 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The new volume marks PAJ Publications' 50th year of publishing, joining 160 other titles since the press's founding in 1976.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/book-celebration-the-theatre-of-drawing-53859/", "official_url": "https://www.thesegalcenter.org/event-details/book-celebration-the-theatre-of-drawing", "image": "https://noky.io/images/620d04b88ef89e6e5a18f8513ba7e12a98ec45418c5a5a27115146b70f4e5943-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Playing Safe: Queering the Indigenous Performance Archive", "start": "2026-11-05T00:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-07T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Performance Space 122", "address": "1st Avenue 150, 10009", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://ci.ovationtix.com/203/production/1283991", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["society/indigenous", "stage/performance-art"], "description": "A performance presented by grunt gallery at Performance Space 122. Curators Tania Willard and Dana Claxton commissioned a new work by Vance Wright, the gallery's 2026 curatorial fellow, drawing on the gallery's archive and its history with Indigenous performance art. Using actions, natural materials, oration, and sound, Wright's piece explores sacred sexuality, decolonial kink, trust, consent, and the body and the land as archive, grounded in Indigenous queer ways of being.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/playing-safe-queering-the-indigenous-performance-archive-54720/", "official_url": "https://performancespacenewyork.org/shows/playing-safe-queering-the-indigenous-performance-archive/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/1a61500cefb709a9417d77508430a09aec9d3614a028e75c41adb87723879973-1200.webp"}, {"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"}, {"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": "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": "Native Voices Karenna—Lay Our Vibration Down", "start": "2026-11-05T19:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-05T20:30:00-05:00", "place": "Cooper Union", "address": "7 East 7th Street, between Third and Fourth Avenues, New York, NY", "price": "Free, first-come-first-served with registration required", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["society/indigenous", "stage/opera"], "description": "Native Voices Karenna—Lay Our Vibration Down is an evening in the Gardiner Foundation Great Hall Forum presenting the New York-stage premieres of two short operas, Trials and Tears and Sacajawea: Women of Many Names. Both pieces are by Dawn Avery, a Grammy-nominated cellist-composer of Mohawk descent, with Danielle Olana Jagelski (Oneida Nation of Wisconsin and Red Cliff Band of Ojibwe) as music director and original video design by Kate Freer. Trials and Tears, a collaboration with artist Ty Defoe commissioned by New Music Theatre Alliance in 2022, responds to Benny Andrews' painting Trail of Tears and connects the forced resettling of Indigenous people with trials leading to incarceration of minorities. Sacajawea: Women of Many Names, made with librettist-soprano Blake Hill-Saya and Shoshone Advisor Francesca Mason Boring, shows Sacajawea from the perspective of her Shoshone ancestral traditions, unfettered from Western mythologies about her life and motivations.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/native-voices-karennalay-our-vibration-down-75364/", "official_url": "https://cooper.edu/events-and-exhibitions/events/native-voices-karenna-lay-our-vibration-down", "image": "https://noky.io/images/30e9c4439e2e624271c3021d72aaf341e5043b486c586d78e474d967d1eb8b40-1200.webp"}, {"title": "PAGE BREAK Presents: STAGE BREAK", "start": "2026-11-11T19:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-11T22:00:00-05:00", "place": "Littlefield", "address": "Sackett Street 635, 11217 Brooklyn", "price": "$11.79", "price_from": "11.79", "price_to": "11.79", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/fiction"], "description": "STAGE BREAK is a live reading event where four writers read their original short stories with audience members joining them on stage. It is a new edition of the reading series by PAGE BREAK, the only reading series where everyone reads. Three randomly chosen audience members read each story on stage together with its author, one page at a time, alternating between the four readers, and every attendee receives an exclusive zine with the stories printed in it. The lineup features Emma Copley Eisenberg, Kyle Dillon Hertz, Tanaïs and Sara Youngblood Gregory, hosted by Mikey Friedman.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/page-break-presents-stage-break-66794/", "official_url": "https://littlefieldnyc.com/event/?wfea_eb_id=2003222700021", "image": "https://noky.io/images/98eaa38505bc68d9fb3d2c8d71b78a7e00dfadcfbca22ffb17ebd5402340305e-600.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": "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": "Indigenous Food Sovereignty Conversation with Iron Path Farms", "start": "2026-11-11T23:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-12T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "American Indian Community House", "address": "Eldridge Street 39", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://americanindiancommunityhouse.app.neoncrm.com/nx/portal/neonevents/events?path=%2Fportal%2Fevents%2F54948%2Fstorefront%2F244508", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/indigenous", "food-drink"], "description": "Indigenous Food Sovereignty Conversation with Iron Path Farms is a hybrid in-person and virtual conversation with Iron Path Farms' Donor & Ally community. Iron Path Farms is an Indigenous two-spirit led food sovereignty project that reconnects Urban Natives to Indigenous foodways, medicine making, collective care, and ecological practices. Registration is for the November 11th conversation, which follows the Harvest Celebration hosted at AICH on November 7th.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/indigenous-food-sovereignty-conversation-with-iron-path-farm-51006/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "First Mondays: Readings of New Works In Progress", "start": "2026-10-05T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2027-06-07T00:00:00-04:00", "place": "Performance Space 122", "address": "1st Avenue 150, 10009", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature"], "description": "First Mondays: Readings of New Works In Progress is a reading series at Performance Space New York where writers present new, unpublished work-in-progress to an audience. It is organized and curated by Sarah Schulman and aims to build and grow literary community, mixing well-known and rewarded writers with under-recognized artists, emerging writers, and some who have not yet published. The October 5 season opening features Sarah Schulman, William M. Burton, Lazz Kinnamon, and more with THE LESBIAN BODY by Monique Wittig.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/first-mondays-readings-of-new-works-in-progress-67058/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "I Guess It Was My Destiny To Live So Long", "start": "2026-10-23T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-10-30T00:00:00-04:00", "place": "Peter Jay Sharp Building, Howard Gilman Opera House", "address": "", "price": "Tickets start at $35", "price_from": "35.00", "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://commerce.bam.org/production/55619", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/poetry", "music"], "description": "I Guess It Was My Destiny To Live So Long is a transdisciplinary poetry series honoring the legacy of Brooklyn icon June Jordan. 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"}]}