{"title": "Volunteer Orientation", "start": "2026-11-16T19:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Interference Archive", "address": "7th Street 314, 11215 Brooklyn", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["community/volunteering", "society/activism"], "description": "A volunteer orientation for people who want to get involved in a volunteer-run community archive. Interference Archive hosts it, introducing its collection of social movement materials, how volunteers work together in its non-hierarchical structure, and its history and values. Open to everyone interested in collective archival work, with a chance to meet fellow volunteers; space is limited, so an RSVP is asked for.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/volunteer-orientation-106749/", "official_url": "https://interferencearchive.org/event/volunteer-orientation-7/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/2017d0e449ef80f58ff8d317e8b067a7a4990cf9b586d756def535061949d48b-1200.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-16T19:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Interference Archive", "address": "7th Street 314, 11215 Brooklyn", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"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": "Raise Your Voice: Curator-led Tour", "start": "2026-11-11T18:30:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Museum of the City of New York", "address": "5th Avenue 1220, 10029 New York", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "tours", "tags": ["art/design/graphic-design/poster", "society/activism"], "description": "A curator-led tour of the exhibition Raise Your Voice: New York Activism at the Museum of the City of New York. This one-hour tour looks at the signage of social movements with Josh MacPhee, creator of the interactive poster maker featured in the exhibition. MacPhee is a designer, artist, and archivist, a founding member of the Justseeds Artists' Cooperative and Interference Archive, and author or editor of publications including Signs of Change and Signal. The tour is part of the museum's monthly series with curator Sarah Seidman and its Free Late-Night Wednesdays.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/raise-your-voice-curator-led-tour-54056/", "official_url": "https://www.mcny.org/event/raise-your-voice-curator-led-tour-0", "image": "https://noky.io/images/557cdbb318a20c720dc819a312a33377618c649fbe9849bd536c255e1e7b3141-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Open Access: Exploring 130 Years of American Design", "start": "2026-10-08T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-11-13T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Van Alen Institute", "address": "Bond Street 303, 11231", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/installation", "society"], "description": "Open Access: Exploring 130 Years of American Design is an exhibition at Van Alen Institute's Brooklyn space that invites five artists and design teams to respond to the institute's historic archive. Van Alen Institute has spent more than 130 years at the intersection of design ambition and civic life, and its archive of competition boards, jury records, travel logs, and correspondence is one of the most extensive records of American architectural history. Working directly with these materials, the participants ask what the archive reveals about who design has historically served and whom it has erased, through works such as sonic installations summoning uncredited voices and core samples grounding architecture in land history. Visitors are invited to explore the exhibition with curiosity and skepticism, treating the archive as living material to be questioned and reinterpreted.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/open-access-exploring-130-years-of-american-design-57334/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/64844e8853810e08d6817a2b007c3c46562ffdf6503ee3d9177bfd96dd15cd41-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Young Members Circle: Interfaith Volunteering with Sunday Lunch Program", "start": "2026-11-15T05:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Temple Emanu-El", "address": "East 65th Street 1", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["community/volunteering", "religion/jewish"], "description": "A volunteer opportunity in which young members help serve lunch to community members in need, fulfilling the mitzvah of ha'achalat re'evim, feeding the hungry. It is hosted by Temple Emanu-El, which has served lunch for more than 40 years without missing a single week, together with its Muslim partners from Peace Islands Institute. Volunteering is followed by an interfaith pizza lunch at a nearby restaurant, and space is limited.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/young-members-circle-interfaith-volunteering-with-sunday-lun-114050/", "official_url": "https://emanuelnyc.org/calendar/ymcvolunteering-with-sunday-lunch-program/?occurrence=2026-11-15", "image": "https://noky.io/images/472ae51cf746f8c4a61d6eb3483e13a05648775dfd944d94b67cda1d743053f7-2000.webp"}, {"title": "It's My Park at Sitting Area", "start": "2026-11-07T12:30:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-07T15:30:00-05:00", "place": "", "address": "", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["nature/gardening"], "description": "A volunteer session where people help care for ground beds and standing planters at a paved lot in Astoria, Queens known as 'The Sitting Area'. Friends of Triboro G hosts the weekly gathering, and the work includes weeding, seed saving, pruning, and mulching with a focus on accessibility and inclusivity. Volunteers of all ages are welcome and should meet at the lot at 21st St & Hoyt North.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/its-my-park-at-sitting-area-51963/", "official_url": "https://cityparksfoundation.org/events/its-my-park-at-sitting-area-19/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/11f7623f1503ede7fcacdd0ca4aa538fc16c419aaf06863cfb4d53f3d6f19df7-1200.webp"}]}