{"title": "They Returned Home", "start": "2026-11-16T16:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-16T17:30:00-05:00", "place": "The Center for Ballet and the Arts", "address": "Cooper Square 20", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "society/indigenous"], "description": "NYU Libraries, together with Local Contexts and Center CIRCL, presents a screening of the short documentary \"Awasəwehlαwə́lətinα wikəwαmok | They Returned Home,\" followed by a discussion with Dr. Jordan Kinder, associate professor of Media, Culture, and Communications. The film charts the groundbreaking work undertaken by the Penobscot Nation to restore Penobscot cultural authority within institutions in Maine and beyond. The event also highlights the Local Contexts Hub, a tool for supporting Indigenous Data Sovereignty newly available to researchers at NYU. After the screening there will be refreshments and a chance to view and experiment with the Local Contexts Hub tool in the 3rd Floor Lounge.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/they-returned-home-81230/", "official_url": "https://nyu.libcal.com/event/17872525", "image": "https://noky.io/images/a5a4540dcaae94d0ce86c400b3314c40112e71769c6a91e6959ce4b36f4c3c54-600.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-16T16:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-16T17:30:00-05:00", "place": "The Center for Ballet and the Arts", "address": "Cooper Square 20", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Native Heritage Month at Parsons Welcomes Southwest Pueblo Talent", "start": "2026-11-11T16:30:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-11T23:59:00-05:00", "place": "Sky Ice", "address": "5th Avenue 63, 11217", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["occasion/native-american-heritage-month", "society/indigenous"], "description": "A panel conversation during Native Heritage Month exploring how Indigenous fashion, dance, cultural identity, and creative expression intersect. Indigenizing Parsons brings together three Pueblo artists from the Southwest: Than Povi Martinez, Sage Mountainflower, and Loren Aragon. Patricia Michaels, Assistant Professor of Indigenous Knowledges and Fashion Design, moderates the discussion. The event is presented by Indigenous Rising at The New School and is free to attend.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/native-heritage-month-at-parsons-welcomes-southwest-pueblo-t-112651/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ec712dce26f2fde9dd5db2f42928cbb369f5c4eeaee78228dbdb6d1c07e6fe2e-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", "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": "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, "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": "In Conversation: Southwest Pueblo Artists", "start": "2026-11-11T16:30:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-11T23:59:00-05:00", "place": "The New School", "address": "West 12th Street 66, 10011", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/fashion", "society/indigenous", "dance"], "description": "A panel conversation brings together three Pueblo artists from the American Southwest to explore the intersections of Indigenous fashion, dance, cultural identity and creative expression. Indigenizing Parsons presents it, and it is presented by Indigenous Rising at The New School. The speakers are Than Povi Martinez (Tewa, Pueblo de San Ildefonso), Sage Mountainflower (Ohkay Owingeh, Taos Pueblo, Diné) and Loren Aragon (Acoma Pueblo), moderated by Patricia Michaels (Taos Pueblo, Assistant Professor of Indigenous Knowledges and Fashion Design). The conversation explores how Indigenous artists and designers draw on their relationships to community, cultural knowledges and ancestral practices to inform their contemporary creative work.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/in-conversation-southwest-pueblo-artists-88296/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ec712dce26f2fde9dd5db2f42928cbb369f5c4eeaee78228dbdb6d1c07e6fe2e-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Workshop with Relative Arts", "start": "2026-11-15T14:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-15T15:00:00-05:00", "place": "Children's Museum of Manhattan", "address": "West 83rd Street 212, 10024 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["art/indigenous-art", "community"], "description": "Workshop with Relative Arts is an interactive workshop for all ages, part of Native American Heritage Month. It is led by Liana Shewey (Mvskoke) of Relative Arts, an Indigenous-owned creative space, retail shop, and cultural hub in New York City's East Village. The session takes place in the museum's Inside Art space.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/workshop-with-relative-arts-114353/", "official_url": "https://cmom.org/event/workshop-with-relative-arts/", "image": ""}, {"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, "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": "Archiving Home: A Community of Practice", "start": "2026-11-14T10:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-14T17:00:00-05:00", "place": "Hunter College", "address": "Park Avenue 695, 10065 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/migration/diaspora", "history/archives"], "description": "Archiving Home: A Community of Practice is a culminating event that is part showcase, part workshop, and part happening, highlighting the work of Archiving Home participants and inviting dialogue with the community and other practitioners. It is a collaborative initiative between Centro, the Dominican Studies Institute, and the Haitian Studies Institute, which brought together archivists, cultural workers, and community memory practitioners working with diaspora- and ethnic studies-focused archives. Attendees can learn about non-traditional diasporic archival practices, connect with others interested in diasporic memory work, and engage with the emotional, spiritual, and personal side of archiving. Through shared meals, public workshops, and collective zine-making, participants explored technical and ethical challenges of bilingual materials and community-centered approaches.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/archiving-home-a-community-of-practice-66617/", "official_url": "https://www.hunter.cuny.edu/event/archiving-home-a-community-of-practice/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/0a84445f7e8fb813475ded6b2ef1e7f6952a9e43f080a4c436a653cbadfe6285-600.webp"}, {"title": "Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Land", "start": "2026-09-10T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-12-31T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Old Stone House", "address": "3rd Street 336, 11215", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/contemporary", "society/indigenous"], "description": "Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Land is an art exhibition at the Old Stone House in Brooklyn. Guest-curated by Jeremy Dennis, a member of the Shinnecock Indian Nation and executive director of Ma's House & BIPOC Art Studio, it features work by Luanne Redeye, Ella Mahoney, Leonard Harmon, and Dennis himself. The show presents Redeye's monoprint collage, Mahoney's Theories of belonging, Harmon's ntapi nuxwis (I Am Here My Grandchild) and Grandma Warned Me, and staged photography by Dennis. A free opening reception with the artists takes place on September 16, 2026, from 6 to 8 PM.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/life-liberty-and-the-pursuit-of-land-54592/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/89f07abb0b0e5e5b62b92bea09854aac9cfd2c7b7d33e152d84010df6bd0ccec-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, "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": "Urban Biocultural Restoration & Indigenous Continuance", "start": "2026-11-17T13:45:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-17T15:00:00-05:00", "place": "John Jay College of Criminal Justice", "address": "524 West 59th Street, L.64.00 New Building, New York, NY 10019", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["nature/environment", "society/indigenous"], "description": "A conversation about urban ecology and Indigenous continuance, exploring how cultural diversity and biodiversity intersect in urban environments and how green spaces can sustain living cultures and diverse ecosystems. It features Lily Kunkel, a Two-spirit ecologist of Cherokee and Choctaw descent and Ph.D. student at Columbia University, and is part of Planting the Estuary on Campus at John Jay College, an interdisciplinary project on the Hudson River estuary as a site for ecological learning, reflection, and connection.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/urban-biocultural-restoration-indigenous-continuance-53325/", "official_url": "https://www.jjay.cuny.edu/news-events/events/urban-biocultural-restoration-indigenous-continuance", "image": ""}, {"title": "Short Film Screening: Elijah (2024) & Community Discussion", "start": "2026-11-14T15:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-14T16:30:00-05:00", "place": "Brooklyn Public Library", "address": "Cadman Plaza West 286, 11201 Brooklyn", "price": "free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/short-film", "society/identity"], "description": "A free afternoon screening of the short film Elijah (2024), followed by a community discussion. The talk explores identity, family, and acceptance with special guest Jillian Celentano, a licensed clinical social worker, educator, and author. The event is presented by Image Maker Films Inc at the Brooklyn Heights Branch of the Brooklyn Public Library.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/short-film-screening-elijah-2024-community-discussion-66207/", "official_url": "https://brooklyn.org/event/short-film-screening-elijah-2024-community-discussion/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/f7776f111db5537d9a1718d0469c35577b6ea8c5cc0a51801cffabf73d8d0bae-2000.webp"}, {"title": "A Radical Thread", "start": "2026-11-05T19:30:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "UnionDocs Center for Documentary Art", "address": "Onderdonk Avenue 352, 11385 Ridgewood", "price": "$12", "price_from": "12.00", "price_to": "12.00", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "society/environmentalism"], "description": "A screening of the film A Radical Thread, followed by a conversation between filmmaker Jeanne C. Finley and filmmaker Lynne Sachs. The film tells of a back-to-the-land community on California's San Juan Ridge, founded in the late 1960s as an alternative to American consumer culture, which organized against clear-cutting, river damming, and open-pit gold mining. It tells this story through an 83-foot tapestry created over seventeen years by Marsha Stone and a collective of artists and community members, weaving in archival footage of poet Gary Snyder and reflections from Nisenan spokesperson Shelly Covert. Afterward, the two filmmakers discuss collaborative storytelling, art and environmental activism, and collective memory in the face of ecological change.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/a-radical-thread-57168/", "official_url": "https://uniondocs.org/event/a-radical-thread-2026-11-05/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/1f1334d0b6b4ddc016b9b2e1d13371190520e9ee84632cd22a7b59f10d99b8a1-600.webp"}, {"title": "Learning Mnobmadzewen: Indigenous Perspectives on Health Systems and Equity", "start": "2026-11-10T15:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-10T16:00:00-05:00", "place": "Weill Medical College of Cornell University", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["science/medicine", "society/indigenous"], "description": "A conversation for Native American Heritage Month about how Indigenous perspectives are shaping health equity and driving healthcare improvement. The Office of Culture, Inclusion, & Employee Experience hosts Katie Lynch, Chair of the Center for Native American Youth's Youth Advisory Board and doctoral researcher at the University of Michigan. Drawing on her research, she will show how Indigenous communities have long embraced learning, adaptation, and community care. Participants will explore the intersections of research, medicine, and Indigenous perspectives while considering the future of equitable healthcare.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/learning-mnobmadzewen-indigenous-perspectives-on-health-syst-81688/", "official_url": "https://events.weill.cornell.edu/event/office-of-culture-inclusion-employee-experience-orgdevweillcornelledu-november-2026-events-diwali-a-cultural-showcase-friday-november-6-400-pm-600-pm-weill-greenberg-center-1305-york-avenue-2nd-floor-conference-rooms-wgc-a-b-join-the-office", "image": "https://noky.io/images/21553c8e230dead04d9dc0bb6b1286f12ef3f630d0e672435b55dfb092ad72c0-1200.webp"}, {"title": "KoKo NYC Documentary Screening and Open Play Day at the Lot", "start": "2026-11-07T15:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-07T18:00:00-05:00", "place": "The KoKo Lot", "address": "440 19th St, Brooklyn, NY 11215", "price": "Free, donations encouraged", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "film", "tags": ["art/sculpture", "film/documentary", "diy"], "description": "An afternoon at the KoKo Lot combining an Open Play Day with a screening of the short documentary 'KoKo NYC – Sculptures on Wheels' by Cody Powers, followed by the Derby Dispatch by Afton Okwu and a panel discussion with Cody Powers and KoKo kids. Roger Ferney-Cortés leads a Collective Roll up Workshop earlier in the day. All ages are welcome, though waivers are required for anyone under 18 and kids 12 and younger must be with an adult. The activities are free with donations encouraged to support KoKo NYC teen programming.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/koko-nyc-documentary-screening-and-open-play-day-at-the-lot-54604/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/7539f3ecf2ac4b61796f2867aa345ff698debadea954b2d7b91578d1697316c5-2000.webp"}]}