{"title": "WANTED: The Black Wild West – A Conversation on Race, Resistance & Rewriting History", "start": "2026-11-05T15:30:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-05T17:00:00-05:00", "place": "Hunter College", "address": "Park Avenue 695, 10065 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/racism", "stage/musical", "history"], "description": "A panel conversation inspired by the new Broadway musical WANTED: The Legend of the Sisters Clarke, exploring the Black Wild West and the roles society assigns us and we perform, and our power to rewrite them. It is presented by the Kaleidoscope Dreams Foundation and Hunter College Office of the Arts, led and moderated by Kennedy Jopson, KDF's Dramaturgy and Engagement Fellow. The panel features Alexa Smith (The Public Theater), Kaja Dunn (Carnegie Mellon University), and Kimberly Henderson (Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture). Artists, scholars, and cultural practitioners discuss the contested meanings of freedom and the stories we inherit, challenge, and reclaim.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/wanted-the-black-wild-west-a-conversation-on-race-resistance-113180/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ab7dfcc947306d86a12abb0a6b28b4e3103c0f232788ac63d673466655bb496a-600.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-05T15:30:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-05T17:00:00-05:00", "place": "Hunter College", "address": "Park Avenue 695, 10065 New York", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"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. 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It celebrates Locke's first career monograph, Steve Locke: I Said What I Said, and accompanies his exhibition of the same title at the gallery. The discussion explores Locke's interdisciplinary practice and his engagement with portraiture, desire, race, and memory, examining the histories of racial violence, anti-Blackness, and the Western art historical canon.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/i-said-what-i-said-steve-locke-in-conversation-with-robert-r-50911/", "official_url": "https://www.alexandergray.com/news/3231-i-said-what-i-said-steve-locke-in/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/96e9d2d26d198261cf3bfd188ddce7c05c7d94958da02efae161e071d08cdd6d-2000.webp"}, {"title": "IN CONVERSATION: sonia louise davis & Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts", "start": "2026-11-14T14:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Hesse Flatow Gallery", "address": "West 26th Street 508, 10001 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art"], "description": "An In Conversation event at the Hesse Flatow gallery celebrating sonia louise davis's solo exhibition, a promise, a portal, possibility. 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It centers on Frederick Douglass and the unfinished argument over American democracy, asking who \"we\" is in \"We the People\" and who gets to speak. It was conceived and directed by Charlotte Brathwaite and created in collaboration with June Cross, Nia O. Witherspoon, Alexis Marcelo, artists from IMPACT Repertory Theatre, and students from The New School's School of Drama. 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Writers Dwayne Washington and Brandon Jackson, fresh off a sold-out run at Green Room 42 and a developmental reading of their first public work Influenced with ATC Theater in Pittsburgh, present a high-energy show. The Juilliard- and Berklee-trained collaborators draw on world music, R&B, jazz, classical, and hip-hop, and feature songs from three musicals in development celebrating Black joy, bold storytelling, and a fresh take on what Broadway can sound like. 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The play, by Naima Ramos-Chapman, centers the friendship of two Black American and Caribbean friends and examines how state-sanctioned violence threatens to tear their family and community apart. Through recalling memories across time and incorporating movement and dance, it aims to create a portal for audiences to envision more just and liberated futures for Black and Brown people. The reading is followed by a talkback with the creatives.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/naima-ramos-chapman-in-place-of-monuments-51069/", "official_url": "https://www.apollotheater.org/event/apollo-new-works-naima-ramos-in-place-of-monuments", "image": "https://noky.io/images/9358ca52963fb66e5e081b518918365f8df1020d3d1e3843395423eec923c3ca-2000.webp"}, {"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": "Jazz Is Staten Island: Rhythms of the African Diaspora (Local is Global Part II)", "start": "2026-11-07T19:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-07T21:00:00-05:00", "place": "The Carpenter's Shop, Snug Harbor", "address": "", "price": "$25 & Under", "price_from": "20.00", "price_to": "20.00", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/jazz"], "description": "An evening concert closing the Jazz Is Staten Island series, presenting Local is Global Part II: Rhythms of the African Diaspora with a dynamic jazz ensemble. It is presented by Universal Temple of the Arts together with Snug Harbor. The lineup features Asante Santi Debriano on bass, T.K. Blue on saxophone, flute and kalimba, Matt Smythe on keyboard, and Juan Chiavassa on drums. Debriano and Blue, both internationally recognized and longtime collaborators of the late NEA Jazz Master Dr. Randy Weston, continue through their music the storytelling purpose Weston described.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/jazz-is-staten-island-rhythms-of-the-african-diaspora-local-77025/", "official_url": "https://snug-harbor.org/event/jazz-is-staten-island-rhythms-of-the-african-diaspora-local-is-global-part-ii/?slot_id=25136", "image": "https://noky.io/images/8a5af0106c7be358e376fce8ca1f13f2ad63843b0ea5d26381c4547383fd8271-2000.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": "Lorraine O'Grady: Rivers, First Draft Performance", "start": "2026-11-15T15:45:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "The Metrograph", "address": "Ludlow Street 7, 10002 New York", "price": "", "price_from": "12.00", "price_to": "18.00", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "stage/performance-art"], "description": "A special program pairing never-before-seen footage of Lorraine O'Grady's one-time performance Rivers, First Draft with a Tate Modern-commissioned short film by filmmaker and actor Zawe Ashton. The 1982 performance took place in a northern section of Central Park as a 'collage-in-space,' with simultaneous actions on two sides of a stream about uniting the Caribbean and New England heritages and three ages of the self. Ashton's short film shows her visiting O'Grady at her New York home to discuss race, gender, and the challenges for Black women artists, before both visit the Central Park site. A post-screening conversation brings Ashton together with curator Catherine Morris.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/lorraine-ogrady-rivers-first-draft-performance-71879/", "official_url": "https://metrograph.com/film/9999005090-lorraine-ogrady-rivers-first-draft-performance/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c439029b67c3b4b97c21737f78ed44821f7990eb70c99e2ade9b8e7f6d1baf19-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Sidewalk Study: WORKING THE ROOT in Lincoln Center", "start": "2026-11-09T19:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Strother School of Radical Attention", "address": "Washington Street 55, 11201", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["wellness/attention", "music"], "description": "A Study titled 'Sidewalk Study: WORKING THE ROOT in Lincoln Center', a discussion gathering at the Strother School of Radical Attention, held at Lincoln Center with Lindsee and Eleanor. It takes as its texts Saul Williams's liner notes for D'Angelo's Voodoo, where he calls the artist a 'conjur man' rooted in Hoodoo, Conjure and Rootwork, and Harmony Holiday's essay on the 2026 Grammys tribute to D'Angelo, which she found bereft of its roots. The session asks what remains of an artwork's original intention as it passes from artist to audience, and what is lost to shifting soils and souls.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/sidewalk-study-working-the-root-in-lincoln-center-105129/", "official_url": "https://www.schoolofattention.org/events/sidewalk-study-working-the-root-in-lincoln-center", "image": ""}, {"title": "J. Vanessa Lyon: Blackness Thirteen Ways w/ Margo Jefferson & Elizabeth Kendall", "start": "2026-11-13T19:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Books Are Magic", "address": "Smith Street 225, 11231 Brooklyn", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature"], "description": "A book event at the bookstore Books Are Magic in Brooklyn. J. Vanessa Lyon presents her book Blackness Thirteen Ways in conversation with Margo Jefferson and Elizabeth Kendall.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/j-vanessa-lyon-blackness-thirteen-ways-w-margo-jefferson-eli-79166/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "Framing America: Portraiture, Identity, and Belonging", "start": "2026-11-10T18:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Flushing Town Hall", "address": "Northern Boulevard 137-35, 11354", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/photography/portrait-photography"], "description": "A panel talk with photographers Gina Minielli, Jim Richards, Tony Gonzalez, and Zachary Schulman, moderated by curator Stephanie S. Lee. The conversation explores each artist's photographic practice and approach to portraiture, along with ideas of identity, representation, belonging, and lived experience reflected in the Portraits of America exhibition. It ends with an audience Q&A, and a closing reception begins beforehand. All are welcome.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/framing-america-portraiture-identity-and-belonging-52655/", "official_url": "https://www.flushingtownhall.org/show-details/framing-america-portraiture-identity-and-belonging", "image": "https://noky.io/images/f0932397ff4db5ff4428ce1a10df1276c9c4e32fae39f5081b0535ed05b9d591-600.webp"}, {"title": "Hidden Colors 6: The Culture of Resistance", "start": "2026-11-13T00:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Cinema Village", "address": "East 12th Street 22, 10003", "price": "", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "14.00", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "history/usa"], "description": "A documentary that explores the overlooked history of Black American resistance, innovation, survival, and cultural influence. Through historians, scholars, and cultural commentators, it reveals how Black Americans challenged oppression, created lasting institutions and traditions, and helped shape the development of the United States. The film was directed by Tariq Nasheed and features Rizza Islam, Dr. Kaba Kamene, and Tariq Nasheed.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/hidden-colors-6-the-culture-of-resistance-51957/", "official_url": "https://www.cinemavillage.com/Now-Playing/hidden-colors-6-the-culture-of-resistance.html", "image": "https://noky.io/images/a03dde6c1872fe95cebdfca3d89b6f5bb07bd11d868ca70967fdff5082fc629b-2000.webp"}]}