{"title": "Unruly", "start": "2026-11-02T19:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Performance Space 122", "address": "1st Avenue 150, 10009", "price": "Pay what you can with RSVP", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature"], "description": "\"Unruly\" is a reading in the First Mondays reading series, featuring Owen Park, Betty Shamieh, and Rivers Solomon. First Mondays brings a wide range of writers presenting new, unpublished work-in-progress to an audience at Performance Space New York. 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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. 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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"}]}