upcoming dates for the community health initiative...upcoming dates for the community health initiative (CHI) free clinic! held at @anotherworldbk, the CHI is a collaboration between ARCNYC & @forourliberation, with support from @projectstay_nyc (STI testing) & @g_rebls (PCR quality COVID/flu testing)
see you on 10/4, 11/1, and 12/6 12-2pm ❤️
to quote our zine, “What is the CHI?”:
“The CHI is a political project with a political agenda aimed at moving the needle closer to revolution. It acts as an incubator and prototype form of communist/communalized healthcare, with medic comrades providing free healthcare and resources to the community, as well as disseminating these skills to the broad masses. This is all contextualized within a framework and political objective that invigorates the masses to question their current circumstances, feel incentive to seize the hospitals that are greedy and do not serve their people, and care in a much deeper way about each other.
Our goal is to unite revolutionary minded healthcare practitioners and community members in the provision of basic medical care to the people of Crown Heights and beyond. Our goal is not to necessarily provide comprehensive medical care in order to fill the gaps left by the state; we do not seek to hold this clinic because we hope to fully meet the needs of the masses through this and thereby, convince them that they need us. Rather, we hold these monthly clinics because it is the vehicle through which we meet and engage with the masses, care for them, agitate them, build community and trust with them, and ultimately bring them into struggle against the forces of capitalist imperialism. We understand that to fully meet their needs, that means agitating, uniting, organizing, and mobilizing them, the people of the world, into overthrowing the beast that is the capitalist imperialist regime—the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie—and replacing it with a dictatorship of the proletariat. It means helping each other realize the strength in our unity and the power of the people. It means a global revolution, an all encompassing turn towards a new era, the era of a socialist transition.“
Guided tour of the physical internet as seen in Manhattan’s Lower East Side.
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Sun, Nov 1 at 1:00 PM
Elizabeth Street Garden
literary / research,sci-fi / rebel tech
Join Rhizome and Ingrid Burrington (@lifewinning),...Join Rhizome and Ingrid Burrington (@lifewinning), author of “Networks of New York: An Illustrated Field Guide to Urban Internet Infrastructure,” this Sunday, November 1st for a guided tour of the physical internet as seen in Manhattan’s Lower East Side.
Using the vernacular of a nature field guide, Burrington will identify often overlooked network objects, utility markings, electronic equipment and sensors, and buildings we pass by everyday that are instrumental to global internet activity.
We will meet at 1pm outside of Elizabeth Street Garden. The tour will last approximately an hour.
Break the Chain is an NYC-DSA campaign which seeks...Break the Chain is an NYC-DSA campaign which seeks an end the Palestinian genocide by building towards a people's arms embargo in New York City. Our pressure targets include JFK Airport, through which hazardous cargo is shipped to Israel to commit genocide and endless wars of aggression. By facilitating arms shipments to Israel, JFK airport is compromising the safety of both workers and the traveling public. For this day of action we will be tabling in Rufus King park, just two blocks from Jamaica Station, where workers and passengers take the AirTrain to JFK airport. Volunteers will have the opportunity to table, flyer the nearby AirTrain station, and approach local business owners and community organizations to put up posters endorsing our campaign. Join as we build people power in the community for an arms embargo at JFK!
Learn more and sign our petition calling for an arms embargo at JFK here: https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/arms-embargo-now-end-jfk-shipments-to-israel
Join us for a FREE Sashiko workshop, where we’ll e...Join us for a FREE Sashiko workshop, where we’ll explore the beautiful Japanese art of visible mending. Learn how simple stitches can transform worn fabrics, extend the life of your clothes, and turn repair into something beautiful.
At Repair Café El Barrio, we believe that repair is not just about fixing things. It’s about creativity, care, and reconnecting with what we already own.
📅 Sunday, November 1
⏰ 2–4 PM
Come stitch with us! 🧵
#RepairCafeElBarrio #Sashiko #VisibleMending #ArtOfRepair #14streety
Come meet your neighbors and enjoy music in the su...Come meet your neighbors and enjoy music in the sun! Explore our new event space, browse records and eco library . All are welcome.
[williamsburg]
Glasshaus Cafe (28 Herbert St, Brooklyn, NY 11222)
literary / research
Winterfat Presse's third writing circle will be on...Winterfat Presse's third writing circle will be on Sunday, November 1st, in respect to fall and around the theme: "Lessons of the Land."
To cooperate with the natural order of things, to let ourselves hibernate, rot, be reborn, in no particular order but always quite inevitably... how can we learn to mirror the land with grace?
There is so much to cite from the cyclical nature of the world, and much to reflect on regarding the communities that have built in respect to the land, treating its hierarchies and changes as something to adapt around, rather than to take advantage of or sacrifice.
This workshop will ask questions that connect us to our bodies, their relationship to the changing season, how we see ourselves in the world around us, and how we can engage with more intention and excitement in these tumultuous times. There is always the earth (at least for now, and hopefully for much longer!).
Please bring paper and something to write with! We will have printed packets with writings to discuss and prompts to peek at. See you on Sunday ;-)
This event will be facilitated by our editors Lucille Lindberg and Nya Morgan, and is free to all who need it. We just ask that you support the venue by buying something small. The venue is wheelchair accessible.
@ big bar (21+), 75 e. 7th st., east village, mnhtn
music / sound
ACCESS: 21+ ♿️ limited space! arrive early or ente...ACCESS: 21+ ♿️ limited space! arrive early or enter thru band; will check restroom width
October 11: 7pm-9pm Jon Madof & Eyal Maoz, 9pm-11pm Ben Goldberg's Invisible Guy (w/ Michael Coleman, Hamir Atwal)
October 18: 9pm-11pm Ben Goldberg's Invisible Guy (w/ Michael Coleman, Hamir Atwal)
October 25th: 7pm-10pm Magic Dub (Gregory LaPine, Greg Jackson, Trevor Holder, & guests)
November 1: 8pm-10pm Dizzy Ventilators (Yusuke Yamamoto & Daniel Jodocy)
November 8: 7pm-9pm Jon Madof/Nate Rappaport Duo
November 22: 7pm-9pm Yoshie Fruchter's Pitom
November 29: 8pm-10pm Miriam Elhajli & Jason Lindner Duo
🔄 Presenting the 2026/2027 calendar for First Mon...🔄 Presenting the 2026/2027 calendar for First Mondays at Performance Space New York:
🖤Season Opening – THE LESBIAN BODY by Monique Wittig | Oct 5: William M. Burton, Lazz Kinnamon, and more
🖤Unruly | Nov 2: Owen Park, Betty Shamieh, Rivers Solomon
🖤Material | Dec 7: Alvin Eng, Maura Finkelstein, Keeanga Yamhatta-Taylor
🖤Icons | Feb 1: Casey Plett, Julia Glass, Thomas Glave
🖤Mythic | Mar 1 : Luis Jaramillo, AM Homes, Robert Gluck
🖤House Favorites | Apr 6: Michael Waters, Aaron Robertson, Jayne Anne Phillips
🖤Great Minds Do Not Think Alike | May 3: Ricardo Montez, Elif Batuman, Benjamin Moser*
🖤Witchy: Season Finale | Jun 7: Juan Martinez, Shelley Marlow, Carmen Maria Machado
💡Organized and curated by Sarah Schulman, First Mondays prioritizes one of the great advantages of living in New York City: hearing new ideas as they are being created, long before they are published and on the shelves.
Dixon Place (LES)
161A Chrystie St., New York, NY 10002
political action,mutual aid / community,image / performance
Join us for five new short plays by Justice Hehir,...Join us for five new short plays by Justice Hehir, Kimber Lee, Sarah Mantell, Ife Olujobi, and a.k. payne, part the Women+ on the Edge of Democracy initiative, which encompasses more than 100 events across the US and beyond. The play readings will be followed by a discussion between representatives of Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee, Families for Freedom, Hot Girls Organize, NY Abortion Access Fund, NYC-DSA, and Theater Workers for a Ceasefire, and resource-sharing & community-building in the Dixon Place Cocktail Lounge.
Players Theatre - 115 MacDougal Street, New York, NY, United States, 10012.
music / sound
Experience the artistry of Heartland Marimba in an...Experience the artistry of Heartland Marimba in an evening celebrating the expressive possibilities of the marimba. Performed by a distinguished ensemble of artists, the program explores the instrument’s remarkable range through music that is rhythmic, lyrical, and imaginative. From intimate moments to vibrant ensemble works, the concert offers a fresh perspective on one of today’s most captivating instruments.
No Age requirements, all are welcome!
On The Origin of Skibidi: A Teach-In on the Internet-ification of Our Everyday Words
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Tue, Nov 3 at 6:00 PM
Williamsburg Library Auditorium
literary / research
67, aura farming, looksmaxxing, rizz, brainrot, cr...67, aura farming, looksmaxxing, rizz, brainrot, crash out, cooked, truth nuke, lowkirkenuinely—chances are, if you’re on the Internet, you’ve heard or said some of these words before. But where does this so-called “Gen Z” slang come from? What do the origins of these phrases—often a combination of African American Vernacular English (AAVE) and incel slang—tell us about language, culture, and power online and offline? And how is the infrastructure of Big Tech playing a role?
Join us for a (NYC, irl) teach-in/workshop exploring the roots of words we love to use (and abuse?) as we unpack more than just etymology to make sense of the vocabulary defining our era of digital globalization, resurging fascism, and the sometimes absurdist, sometimes inscrutable humor we use to get through it all. Is it copium, hopium, or some kind of third secret thing?
This event takes place at the Williamsburg Library Auditorium! Come learn with us from 6-7:30pm on Tuesday, November 3rd 📚
a stacked lineup of readings.
@budsmith
@dea...a stacked lineup of readings.
@budsmith
@deathinmidwinter
@liv008161790
@genevieve_goffman
will read
flyer, always, by the peerless @tali4uu
Caveat NYC
21 A Clinton St. New York, NY
Lower East Side
political action,image / performance
It’s election night! Put your hopes and fears asid...It’s election night! Put your hopes and fears aside and join the live studio audience of Real Life Tonight! This special episode of America’s favorite variety show features music, animals, robots from the future, and an honest-to-goodness Presidential Candidate! And fret not – because we will be checking the polls together at 10 pm.
Featured performers:
Bailey Nassetta, Lucy Livingston, and Isaac Josephthal in “How to Feed your Family: A Lesson in the Natural World”
Dan Fox, 2028 Presidential candidate
Chloe Matonis as Lt. Love
Crawford King on the synthesizer
21+
Please register to see the exact location of this event.
mutual aid / community,sci-fi / rebel tech
TWC NYC General Meeting — Keep the Circuit Breaker...TWC NYC General Meeting — Keep the Circuit Breakers Momentum Going!
Tech Workers Coalition (TWC) New York is resuming regular general meetings! Whether you just spent the weekend with us at Circuit Breakers 2026 or are looking to connect with tech labor organizing for the first time, bring your ideas, takeaways, and energy as we build our local fights ahead.
⚠️ Capacity: Space is capped—please RSVP to secure your spot.
Special thanks to NYC PIT Pop Up for hosting us!
Skip the Small Talk Night at Threes Brewing Greenpoint
$15 (sale; regularly $24)
Wed, Nov 4 at 7:00 PM
Threes Brewing Greenpoint, 113 Franklin St, Brooklyn, NY 11222
mutual aid / community
We’ve all heard that making friends is hard. So le...We’ve all heard that making friends is hard. So let’s do something about it and talk to other human beings!
You’ll pair up with the other nice people who showed up, and switch partners every so often (kinda like speed-dating, but without the speed and without the dating).
A friendly host will lead the whole thing, and we’ll give you question cards to take the conversation a few notches deeper so you don’t accidentally talk about what you do for work six times in a row.
The questions aren’t going to trick you into trauma-dumping. Think: “In what ways are you different from the person you were five years ago? In what ways are you the same?” If you don’t vibe with a question for any reason, you can always pick another one.
Feel free to come alone (most people do-- we promise we won’t make it weird for you) or bring a friend!
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm ET
AGE RANGE | 21+: While many folks who attend our events are in their 20s and 30s, all guests 21+ will be enthusiastically welcome! Please be sure to bring your government-issued ID, as this venue is 21+.
ACCESSIBILITY & OTHER VENUE DETAILS | Wheelchair accessible. The building has a shared lift.
Please join World Poetry at The People's Forum to ...Please join World Poetry at The People's Forum to hear readings from and discussions of recent Palestinian literature appearing in English. Translators Huda Fakhreddine, Omar Berrada, and Sinan Antoon will present their translations of authors Ibtisam Azem, Haidar Al-Ghazali, and Ibrahim Nasrallah, among others.
With the lights out you can dance without worrying...With the lights out you can dance without worrying about 'getting it right'. It's 60 minutes of party classics and tunes to get you moving. Bring a water bottle and comfortable clothes to dance in.
No Lights No Lycra offers a welcoming space for people to dance freely in a friendly, non-threatening, drug- and alcohol-free environment. With the lights dimmed, everyone can dance without worrying about their appearance. Please refrain from using phones on or around the dance floor. We hope you enjoy this opportunity to dance independently in the company of others. Talking is discouraged to enhance the experience
We’re pleased to be hosting NLNL on the first Wednesday of the month with the support of Prime Produce, a cooperatively-run building home to a diverse ecosystem of friends, family, and neighbours who deepen their relationships through collaborating on community service projects. We are aligned with their values and want to create mutual benefit within its ecosystem.
Tickets are $15 suggested donation. Due to limited space, we kindly ask that you obtain a ticket in advance, but we will accept drop-ins as long as their is space on the dancefloor. It is important to us that NLNL remains accessible; we will always have space for you regardless of financial situation.
Join our NYC event mailing below
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Past playlists and other links here
https://linktr.ee/nlnlnyc
An intimate, experimental listening series at @oberon_nyc, curated by @iso.muein + @mauhan
free entry, walk-ins welcome
Wed, Nov 4 at 10:00 PM
7 Freeman Alley
music / sound,sci-fi / rebel tech,image / performance
Each night pairs a live performance with a DJ set,...Each night pairs a live performance with a DJ set, exploring sound as an interface between electronics, people, and space.
Presented in collaboration with @vinylbarshibuya
Nov 4: @jabert_ofishal (live) + @mui____mui (dj).
10pm–12am, rsvp suggested,
Join us for an evening of conversation on plants, migration, and belonging.
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Thu, Nov 5 at 6:00 PM
Residency Unlimited, 360 Court St #4, Brooklyn, NY 11231
mutual aid / community,literary / research
Tea will be served by @teaartsculture.
RSVP to ...Tea will be served by @teaartsculture.
RSVP to info@theimmigrantartistbiennial.com
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“Plant Ecologies and Migration”
Panel Discussion with Artists’ Slides
November 5, 6–8PM
@residencyunlimited
@baharbehbahani
@rachelledangstudio
@_sujinlim
Curated by @annakhimasia_art
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How do immigrant and diasporic artists use plants and the garden to think through migration: transplantation, adaptation, rooting, and preservation? Behbahani, Dang, Lim, and Khimasia discuss how taxonomic categories such as “native,” “non-native,” and “invasive” mirror the language used to regulate the movement of people.
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WITH SUPPORT FROM @asiaartarchiveinamerica
TEA BY @teaartsculture
HOSTED BY @residencyunlimited
#theimmigrantartistbiennial #tiab2026identitycard
In Argentina of the 1970s, dissent was dangerous. ...In Argentina of the 1970s, dissent was dangerous. The polarization of discourse lay the foundations for the Dirty War waged by the Military Junta that ruled the country from 1974 to 1983.
In 1972, the artist Mirtha Dermisache published Diario 1, Año 1 for the “Art and Ideology” outdoor exhibition organized by the Centro de Arte y Comunicación (CAYC) in Buenos Aires. In its format, her piece resembled a typical newspaper, yet it was composed of eight pages of what she coined as “graphisms”: illegible writing closer to scribbles or drawings. Copies of her Diario were distributed gratis and left on park benches for a couple of days before the exhibition was forced to shut down for featuring works that alluded to the massacre of sixteen political prisoners.
Dermisache wanted her works to be read, not simply seen or shown preciously in an exhibition space. She saw the act of reading as a liberatory practice essential to a participatory democracy. Abstraction could be a way to stand up to oppressive acts of political disinformation. The poet Mónica de la Torre wrote about Dermisache in her 2020 anthology Women in Concrete Poetry 1959–1979, placing her work not only within the history of poetry but the socio-political history of Latin America more broadly. She, too, wants Dermisache’s texts to be read.
Monica gives an overview of Dermisache’s work and then invites two guests to read pages from the Diarios.
Lucía Hinojosa Gaxiola is thinking about the body of the text in relation to the body of the reader. She’s interested in how the gestures of asemic letters can transform into haptic sound, a form of sensorial communication that happens before semiotic meaning. Her reading reinterprets Dermisache’s poems as experimental scores that are reread and amplified with synthesizers, field recordings, objects, and many contact microphones.
Andros Zins-Browne is interested in the headline, the paragraph, the sentence, their fonts and indents; in the columns—how they fall, slip, and undermine—as choreographic devices. His performance embodies Dermisache’s graphism through a series of dancing “articles” of concrete poetic movement.
Both performances might bleed into each other.
The evening ends with a surprise—a collective attempt to experience the sonority of many languages you don’t understand.
Meet other nice single people IRL! A friendly host...Meet other nice single people IRL! A friendly host will guide you through one-on-one conversations and tell you when to switch partners. Our question cards help you skip the small talk and see if there’s chemistry.
Not to brag, but we do a really good job with gender balance, and our match rates are way higher than most speed-dating events. Come solo (most people do) or bring a friend!
This one’s for folks ages 30–45 looking for monogamous dating: women who want to date men, and men who want to date women. A year or two outside that range? Totally fine, as long as you’re happy dating people in it!
Trans folks are welcome, and so are gender-nonconforming folks who feel some connection to the identity of "woman" or "man" even if they don't fully fit into one category or the other. We don’t tolerate transphobia here or at any of our events.
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm ET
AGE RANGE | 30-45: This event is centered on people ages 30-45, but we welcome guests a year or two outside of that range who would feel comfortable dating people in the above age group. If you are outside of this age range, don't worry-- we have a lot of other events on our calendar, including all-ages events, that might be a better fit!
ACCESSIBILITY & OTHER VENUE DETAILS | Wheelchair accessible. There will be enough seating to accommodate all guests. Gender affirming restrooms will be available.
Triple Canopy & Electronic Arts Intermix
264 Canal Street, #3W
New York, NY 10013
sci-fi / rebel tech,image / performance
Join Triple Canopy (@triple_canopy) and Electronic...Join Triple Canopy (@triple_canopy) and Electronic Arts Intermix (@electronicartsintermix) on Thursday, November 5, for a conversation–performance between artist and ventriloquist Sophie Becker (@trophysophie) and University of Southern California professor and scholar Sarah Rebecca Kessler (@sarahrebeccakessler).
Ventriloquism, the story goes, emerged in ancient Greece as a form of manipulation, with mistresses of “belly speech” claiming to channel the gods. By the nineteenth century, these false prophets were replaced by a standard stage act: a ventriloquist speaking through a dummy’s lips as part of a magic show, distracting the audience while pulling off a trick. Recently, the art form has seen a resurgence, with a new wave of ventriloquists taking on master-puppet dynamics or speaking the unspeakable (with a dummy channeling the id). The appeal of these old-fashioned acts hinges on uncanniness, as Kessler writes in Out of Sync: Ventriloquism in Popular Media from Vinyl to TikTok (@dukeuniversitypress, 2026), but also on the voice’s vulnerability in the face of new technologies for reproducing, appropriating, and fabricating speech.
On the occasion of Out of Sync’s publication, Kessler will speak about the “age-old embodiment of the disembodied voice” as bridging the history of minstrelsy and “anxieties about media and mediation in the digital era.” Becker, a ventriloquist known for performances with dummies—Jerry and Ronnie—that take on lives of their own, calling Becker’s primacy into question, will join Kessler. In a conversation with Ronnie, Kessler and Becker will reckon with the role of ventriloquism in propping up pseudapostles, inspiring TikTok’s lip-syncers, and ending Milli Vanilli’s career.
The event will include screenings of ventriloquism-related films and videos from Electronic Arts Intermix’s catalogue.
Anti-AI Porn Teach In - Socialist Feminist WG x Tech Action WG
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Thu, Nov 5 at 7:00 PM
NYC-DSA Midtown Office • 315 W 35th St, New York, NY 10001 US
political action,mutual aid / community,sci-fi / rebel tech
Please join us on NOVEMBER 5TH at 7pm for a teach-...Please join us on NOVEMBER 5TH at 7pm for a teach-in and discussion about decriminalizing sex work, led by Emily Warfield, LMSW!
Together, we’ll explore the realities of sex work, challenge common misconceptions, and make space for thoughtful discussion about the rights, safety, and experiences of sex workers. Whether you’re already familiar with the topic or just curious to learn more, all are welcome!
RSVP link in bio 🌸
Poster by the beloved @impgirlart
Pageant
NOTE: Check time of day for each event on website.
literary / research,image / performance
.ᴴᴱᴿᴱ ᴵˢ ʸᴼᵁᴿ ᶠᴬᴸᴸ ˢᶜᴴᴱᴰᵁᴸᴱ.
✦ ꜱᴇᴘᴛᴇᴍʙᴇʀ 17 + ....ᴴᴱᴿᴱ ᴵˢ ʸᴼᵁᴿ ᶠᴬᴸᴸ ˢᶜᴴᴱᴰᵁᴸᴱ.
✦ ꜱᴇᴘᴛᴇᴍʙᴇʀ 17 + 18 — ᴊᴜʟɪᴀ ᴀɴᴛɪɴᴏᴢᴢɪ
✦ ꜱᴇᴘᴛᴇᴍʙᴇʀ 24 + 25 — ᴊᴏʀᴅᴀɴ ᴄᴏʟᴇʏ
✦ ᴏᴄᴛᴏʙᴇʀ 15 + 16 — ɢɪʟʟɪᴀɴ ᴡᴀʟꜱʜ
✦ ᴏᴄᴛᴏʙᴇʀ 22 + 23 — ᴄʟᴀʀᴀ ᴋɪᴍ
✦ ɴᴏᴠᴇᴍʙᴇʀ 5 + 6 — ᴍᴀᴛᴛ ꜱʜᴀʟᴢɪ & ᴍɪʟʟɪᴇ ᴋᴀᴘᴘ
✦ ɴᴏᴠᴇᴍʙᴇʀ 19 + 20 — ʙʟᴀᴢᴇ ꜰᴇʀʀᴇʀ
── .✦Tickets available upon each show announcement (and most of the time a little earlier than that if you look at the website)
── .✦Doors are locked after the show starts, there is no late seating unless specified.
── .✦Tickets are nonrefundable. If your plans have changed and you would like to switch nights, please purchase a new ticket and email us at info@pageant.space with your new order# and your old order#. We will refund your old order#. Due to the heavy volume of ticket switch requests we cannot guarantee refunds if requests do not follow this instruction and format.
── .✦Chair seating is limited and first come first serve! We sell more tickets than chairs. Need a chair? Email us ahead of time and we will save you a seat! With a sign and everything!
Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library (SNFL) in New York City
mutual aid / community,sci-fi / rebel tech
More people need the means and capacity to situate...More people need the means and capacity to situate, question, and shape how AI is used in their daily lives. That’s where AI civics comes in. On November 6, join us online or onsite at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library (SNFL) in New York City to discuss how AI civics can help us meet the moment and realize a more democratic vision of public interest technology. This timely conversation will feature Meg Young, director of Data & Society’s AI Civics program; technology reporter Khari Johnson; Sareeta Amrute, a D&S affiliate and associate professor of strategic design and management at The New School; and Hannah Sassaman, executive director of People’s Tech Project; and will be moderated by Tech Policy Press Editor-in-Chief Justin Hendrix. Together, we’ll explore how people are contesting unchecked AI acceleration; how they are challenging the ways AI systems are being pushed into their schools, workplaces, and communities; and how communities can come together to build on these efforts — at a moment when policymakers are starting to listen.
20s Skip the Small Talk Night at Bibliotheque NYC with SaySimons
$15 (sale; regularly $24)
Fri, Nov 6 at 7:00 PM
Bibliotheque NYC, 54 Mercer St, New York, NY 10013 (SoHo)
mutual aid / community
We’ve all heard that making friends is hard. So le...We’ve all heard that making friends is hard. So let’s do something about it and talk to other human beings!
You’ll pair up with the other nice people who showed up, and switch partners every so often (kinda like speed-dating, but without the speed and without the dating).
A friendly host will lead the whole thing, and we’ll give you question cards to take the conversation a few notches deeper so you don’t accidentally talk about what you do for work six times in a row.
The questions aren’t going to trick you into trauma-dumping. Think: “In what ways are you different from the person you were five years ago? In what ways are you the same?” If you don’t vibe with a question for any reason, you can always pick another one.
Feel free to come alone (most people do-- we promise we won’t make it weird for you) or bring a friend!
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm ET
AGE RANGE | 20s: This event is centered on people in their 20s, but we welcome guests a year or two outside of that range who would feel comfortable being friends with people in the above age group. If you are outside of this age range, don't worry-- we have a lot of other events on our calendar, including all-ages events, that might be a better fit!
ACCESSIBILITY & OTHER VENUE DETAILS | Wheelchair accessible.
This event is sponsored by SaySimons, an app designed to help you understand your communication style, practice things like setting boundaries or turning a good conversation into actual plans, and meet people who share your interests. Curious? Check out their app here: https://www.saysimons.com/
Pageant
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literary / research,image / performance
.ᴴᴱᴿᴱ ᴵˢ ʸᴼᵁᴿ ᶠᴬᴸᴸ ˢᶜᴴᴱᴰᵁᴸᴱ.
✦ ꜱᴇᴘᴛᴇᴍʙᴇʀ 17 + ....ᴴᴱᴿᴱ ᴵˢ ʸᴼᵁᴿ ᶠᴬᴸᴸ ˢᶜᴴᴱᴰᵁᴸᴱ.
✦ ꜱᴇᴘᴛᴇᴍʙᴇʀ 17 + 18 — ᴊᴜʟɪᴀ ᴀɴᴛɪɴᴏᴢᴢɪ
✦ ꜱᴇᴘᴛᴇᴍʙᴇʀ 24 + 25 — ᴊᴏʀᴅᴀɴ ᴄᴏʟᴇʏ
✦ ᴏᴄᴛᴏʙᴇʀ 15 + 16 — ɢɪʟʟɪᴀɴ ᴡᴀʟꜱʜ
✦ ᴏᴄᴛᴏʙᴇʀ 22 + 23 — ᴄʟᴀʀᴀ ᴋɪᴍ
✦ ɴᴏᴠᴇᴍʙᴇʀ 5 + 6 — ᴍᴀᴛᴛ ꜱʜᴀʟᴢɪ & ᴍɪʟʟɪᴇ ᴋᴀᴘᴘ
✦ ɴᴏᴠᴇᴍʙᴇʀ 19 + 20 — ʙʟᴀᴢᴇ ꜰᴇʀʀᴇʀ
── .✦Tickets available upon each show announcement (and most of the time a little earlier than that if you look at the website)
── .✦Doors are locked after the show starts, there is no late seating unless specified.
── .✦Tickets are nonrefundable. If your plans have changed and you would like to switch nights, please purchase a new ticket and email us at info@pageant.space with your new order# and your old order#. We will refund your old order#. Due to the heavy volume of ticket switch requests we cannot guarantee refunds if requests do not follow this instruction and format.
── .✦Chair seating is limited and first come first serve! We sell more tickets than chairs. Need a chair? Email us ahead of time and we will save you a seat! With a sign and everything!
Rodeo
1134 President St.
Brooklyn, NY 11225
Crown Heights
mutual aid / community
Tyger Acupuncture, Healing Roots Collective, and F...Tyger Acupuncture, Healing Roots Collective, and Field Meridians are coming together to make acupuncture more accessible to y(our) community.
As we head into the holiday season, take a moment to unwind, reset, and reconnect. Acupuncture is a safe, gentle, and minimally invasive practice that supports your body’s natural ability to restore balance and promotes well-being across body, mind, and spirit.
Bring a friend. We look forward to seeing you!
Join us for a free intro self-defense workshop at ...Join us for a free intro self-defense workshop at Outbox! We’ll be covering the basics: stretching, conditioning, technique, and theory, with the hope that participants will leave with some super useful foundations that they can add to their self-defense toolkits. Mix that in with movement and pad-hitting and you’ll have an accessible and confidence-boosting good time for all. This workshop is great for beginners, meant to share some simple-to-pick-up techniques that you can practice on your own or with friends!
Sliding Scale - $12.00 to $30.00 ($12 Tickets with code FAITH)
Sat, Nov 7 at 2:00 PM
Bechdel Project
252 Green Street, 3rd Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11222
Greenpoint, Brooklyn
political action,image / performance
Play Without Ceasing is a queer, campy, witchy the...Play Without Ceasing is a queer, campy, witchy theatrical reckoning with evangelical Christianity, religious trauma, and the rise of Christian nationalism. Written and performed by Wren Phoenix and directed by Ash Marinaccio, this part-docudrama, part-revival, part-queer exorcism turns sermons into performance, testimony into ritual, and religious wreckage into something unruly, funny, furious, and liberating. The play explores faith, queerness, and the messy, liberating process of finding your way out of Christian fundamentalism. It also examines the relationship between Christianity and Project 2025, and how we got to this moment socially and politically. Come to church. Bring your baggage. Leave with your glitter.
Produced by Docbloc Projects (Instagram: @docblocprojects)
Cloud City, 85 N 1st St, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, 11249
image / performance
BLOOD, BONES, AND BRUISES. TIL DEATH DO US PART.
...BLOOD, BONES, AND BRUISES. TIL DEATH DO US PART.
A reading of the sickening new play from George Corrin and L Stevens.
Pink Flamingos meets Deathrace 2000, the Cretins are a killer queer biker gang competing to commit the most heinous hit-and-runs. But when the leader of the pack hits a losing streak, she must commit her most revolting crime yet or return to the life she fought like hell to escape.
A note on content: CRETINS pulls from exploitation films, the Theater of the Ridiculous, Vaginal Davis’s “terrorist drag,” and the works of John Waters to create something truly sickening. As such it is filled with extreme violence and sexuality that is at times sexy, upsetting, political, disgusting, immoral, or fun. By recontextualizing queer villains from 60s, 70s, and 80s B-movies, CRETINS offers them the agency and humanity they never had in their original context without sanitizing their cruelty, selfishness, and villainy.
This is a developmental reading of a work-in-progress. We encourage attendees to stick around after the show and discuss the piece with us.
Calling all bisexuals, pansexuals, demisexuals, an...Calling all bisexuals, pansexuals, demisexuals, and queers: we’re throwing a big bi bash! All genders, great vibes, and curated matches by yours truly.
#BisexualDating #BisexualNYC #Bi4Bi #PansexualSingles #BisexualSingles
Sliding Scale - $12.00 to $30.00 ($12 Tickets with code FAITH)
Sat, Nov 7 at 7:00 PM
Bechdel Project
252 Green Street, 3rd Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11222
Greenpoint, Brooklyn
political action,image / performance
Play Without Ceasing is a queer, campy, witchy the...Play Without Ceasing is a queer, campy, witchy theatrical reckoning with evangelical Christianity, religious trauma, and the rise of Christian nationalism. Written and performed by Wren Phoenix and directed by Ash Marinaccio, this part-docudrama, part-revival, part-queer exorcism turns sermons into performance, testimony into ritual, and religious wreckage into something unruly, funny, furious, and liberating. The play explores faith, queerness, and the messy, liberating process of finding your way out of Christian fundamentalism. It also examines the relationship between Christianity and Project 2025, and how we got to this moment socially and politically. Come to church. Bring your baggage. Leave with your glitter.
Produced by Docbloc Projects (Instagram: @docblocprojects)
Cloud City, 85 N 1st St, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, 11249
image / performance
BLOOD, BONES, AND BRUISES. TIL DEATH DO US PART.
...BLOOD, BONES, AND BRUISES. TIL DEATH DO US PART.
A reading of the sickening new play from George Corrin and L Stevens.
Pink Flamingos meets Deathrace 2000, the Cretins are a killer queer biker gang competing to commit the most heinous hit-and-runs. But when the leader of the pack hits a losing streak, she must commit her most revolting crime yet or return to the life she fought like hell to escape.
A note on content: CRETINS pulls from exploitation films, the Theater of the Ridiculous, Vaginal Davis’s “terrorist drag,” and the works of John Waters to create something truly sickening. As such it is filled with extreme violence and sexuality that is at times sexy, upsetting, political, disgusting, immoral, or fun. By recontextualizing queer villains from 60s, 70s, and 80s B-movies, CRETINS offers them the agency and humanity they never had in their original context without sanitizing their cruelty, selfishness, and villainy.
This is a developmental reading of a work-in-progress. We encourage attendees to stick around after the show and discuss the piece with us.
Bossa Nova Civic Club | Bushwick | 1271 Myrtle Ave Brooklyn, NY
music / sound
21+
Three hours of pulled drones, blushed grad...21+
Three hours of pulled drones, blushed gradients, and fluffed ambience from Brooklyn-based Naphtha and Chicago-based o.oo.o.ooo.o.oo.o
Delight Factory
303 Saratoga Ave, Brooklyn NY 11233
Ocean Hill / Brownsville
music / sound
A night of improvisational sound and music for mus...A night of improvisational sound and music for musicians and non-musicians alike, in a beautiful and cozy space. Bring your own instruments or use the venue’s. Play, move your body, or just tune into others during two journeys, each lasting about two hours.
No spectators.
Shoes off.
There is a bar area and loungey art installation for breaks and conversations.
7:30 PM: Doors open, time to settle & mingle
8:00 PM: Jam #1 begins
10:00 PM: Jam #2 begins
Every first Saturday. Amplified and acoustic nights alternate. Acoustic jams are on even months. November is amplified.
To join, please Venmo: @poetsforpal or CashApp: minamorx. Tickets are sliding scale $10-$100. No one will be turned away for lack of funds.
Sat, Nov 7 at 8:00 PM
Boyfriend’s Co-op
mutual aid / community,literary / research
Join us for a night in celebrating Leena Aboutaleb...Join us for a night in celebrating Leena Aboutaleb’s (@leena.jpeg) debut poetry collection, Thalassa. Hosted at Boyfriend’s Co-op we will gather around drinks and hear Aboutaleb read from their collection, followed by a discussion with JinJin Xu (@jinjinxustudio). The evening will be moderated by Mohamad Saleh (@nerdglazed).
Stay for the Open Mic and Market! Open Mic sign ups will begin at 7:30pm. Vendors at the Market include Nature by NU LLC(@naturebynu), (@mzkart_)and Mel Hernandez (@shmellyshmels).
MAKERPARK, 450 Front Street, Staten Island, NY 10304
(across the street from Makerspace)
mutual aid / community,music / sound,image / performance
⭐️ A GRASSROOTS COLLECTIVE OF ARTISTS, EDUCATORS, ...⭐️ A GRASSROOTS COLLECTIVE OF ARTISTS, EDUCATORS, PERFORMERS, MOVERS & SHAKERS, WORKERS OF ALL KINDS have come together, in spite of hopelessness, to present to you… THE GAZA RELIEF CIRCUS ⭐️ a family-friendly, benefit show featuring workshops, live music, stilt walkers, fire breathing and more!
Sunday November 8th, 2026
3PM - 7PM @ MAKERPARK, 450 Front Street, Staten Island, NY 10304
⭐️ Travel Guide: If you take the Ferry into Staten Island, jump on the SIR that is in the Ferry Terminal and take the train two stops to STAPLETON. ⭐️
Tickets are available in advance and at the door, with a donations suggestion of $15-30, no one is turned away for lack of funds. Proceeds will flow to @hcicanada campaign to sponsor Gaza’s displaced and orphaned children.
Common Resonance presents Koe (聲): flute and cello
$20 at the door
Sun, Nov 8 at 5:00 PM
Zürcher Gallery, 33 Bleecker Street, New York, NY 10012 — NoHo, Manhattan
music / sound
Spend a Sunday afternoon with live flute and cello...Spend a Sunday afternoon with live flute and cello music in a downtown art gallery. Common Resonance presents Koe (聲)—Eva Ding, flute, and Emma Kato, cello—in a program celebrating distinctive contemporary voices, including selections from Common Resonance’s Call for Scores.
Sunday, November 8, 2026, 5:00–6:20 PM. Admission is $20 at the door. All proceeds go to the artists. All ages welcome.
For venue accessibility information, contact Zürcher Gallery: studio@galeriezurcher.com or 212-777-0790.
@ big bar (21+), 75 e. 7th st., east village, mnhtn
music / sound
ACCESS: 21+ ♿️ limited space! arrive early or ente...ACCESS: 21+ ♿️ limited space! arrive early or enter thru band; will check restroom width
October 11: 7pm-9pm Jon Madof & Eyal Maoz, 9pm-11pm Ben Goldberg's Invisible Guy (w/ Michael Coleman, Hamir Atwal)
October 18: 9pm-11pm Ben Goldberg's Invisible Guy (w/ Michael Coleman, Hamir Atwal)
October 25th: 7pm-10pm Magic Dub (Gregory LaPine, Greg Jackson, Trevor Holder, & guests)
November 1: 8pm-10pm Dizzy Ventilators (Yusuke Yamamoto & Daniel Jodocy)
November 8: 7pm-9pm Jon Madof/Nate Rappaport Duo
November 22: 7pm-9pm Yoshie Fruchter's Pitom
November 29: 8pm-10pm Miriam Elhajli & Jason Lindner Duo
Garbage Man Stan Film Premiere Featuring Live Music Performances
$18
Sun, Nov 8 at 7:00 PM
Future Space Studios in Ridgewood
music / sound,image / performance
Thee Films is excited to announce the world premie...Thee Films is excited to announce the world premiere of our newest short film GARBAGE MAN STAN. The full film is finally ready to be unleashed upon the world! Come to Future Space Studios in Ridgewood, NY on November 8th to dumpster dive into an evening of film and music! Featuring live music performances before the film by Din Ra, Candace Newmaker and DJ Funny Pat. Films by Erica Schreiner, Charlie Sosnick, Dylan Mars Greenberg, Griffin Conner, Henry Camacho, John Reardon, and Allison Brooks will also be screening before the grand unveiling.
Sinema Club Double Feature: TOTALLY F***ED UP (1993) and NOWHERE (1997)
$10 for existing members / $12 for non-members
Sun, Nov 8 at 7:00 PM
267 Douglass St, 3rd floor, (Gowanus) Brooklyn, NY 11217
mutual aid / community,image / performance
On Sunday, Nov. 8, Sinema Club at House of Scorpio...On Sunday, Nov. 8, Sinema Club at House of Scorpio returns for its penultimate session of 2026!
Given the proximity to the start of the holiday season, it seems fitting to show films focusing on found family, which as we all know is, sometimes, the best family.
The plan is a double feature of films by one-of-a-kind auteur Gregg Araki, whose work often treats its protagonists' sexuality as fluid, and the expression of said sexuality as natural and positive.
Among Araki's movies that are about found family, we'll have two from his early "Teenage Apocalypse" trilogy of the 1990s. First will be TOTALLY F***ED UP (1993), which centers on a group of close-knit LGBTQ teens, and that Araki filmed in the avant-garde style of one of his heroes, Jean-Luc Godard.
Then we hope you'll stick around for NOWHERE (1997), a hyperactive, psychedelic, near-indescribable cult classic depicting a day in the life of a group of young Los Angelenos, which only recently was rediscovered and restored. The cast includes a number of familiar faces who hadn't yet exploded into stardom, but whom you'll likely recognize.
*** Please note that these movies come with trigger warnings. Araki's work is beautiful and interesting, but definitely NOT for the faint of heart.
Doors open at 7pm. Since we're showing two movies, we'll be making a concerted effort to start the first one no later than 7:30pm, so please try to be on time!
House of Scorpio is a venue located in Gowanus, Brooklyn dedicated to sex positivity and a safe space for the LGBTQ community.
Chronically Yours is an award-winning documentary ...Chronically Yours is an award-winning documentary that follows Aubrey Godbey, a 26 year old in Montana, as she learns what it means to date with Multiple Sclerosis.
After the screening, there will be a Q&A with Director Jacob Godbey and subject Aubrey Godbey.
Palestine: Fiber Friends of Falastin! [Interference Archive]
Suggested donation (which helps keep IA’s doors open and lights on, quite literally): $5-$10
Mon, Nov 9 at 6:00 PM
Park Slope
mutual aid / community,image / performance
Join us for another year of monthly fiber arts mee...Join us for another year of monthly fiber arts meetups in support of Palestine: Fiber Friends of Falastin! All dates are listed in the graphic. Check IG to confirm dates, and any schedule changes.
Suggested donation (which helps keep IA’s doors open and lights on, quite literally): $5-$10
This is an exploratory social activity for folks who have basic crochet, knitting, sewing, quilting, weaving, embroidery, (and more!) skills, and who are interested in building community at the intersection of textile-making and social movements.
We have yarn, some crochet hooks, and some scissors to work on a group project in support of Palestine. You are also welcome to bring your own tools and materials, and related projects to work on.
Please note that this is not a workshop designed to teach skills, although you may learn new skills when you come! To participate in the crochet activity you will need to know how to do a chain stitch and a single crochet stitch, which can be learned here.
Masking is always encouraged at Interference Archive. We will provide masks at the door.
We’re excited to partner with Public Records (@pub...We’re excited to partner with Public Records (@publicrecordsnyc) to present three programs for Durations as part of this year’s Triple Canopy Symposium.
🏫 Civic Crash Course with Chloë Bass (@publicinvestigator) & Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste (@crovvns)
Monday, November 9
7 p.m. at Public Records
Free with RSVP
A conversation about the destruction of artworks and how artists understand (or misunderstand) the public—and vice versa.
🌪️ Hurricane in the Fog Machine with Jesús Hilario-Reyes (@morenxx_x) & Benjamin Krusling (@no_ig_benji)
Tuesday, November 10
7 p.m. at Public Records
Free with RSVP
A conversation about sirens and emergency signals—and the interplay between far-reaching sounds, mass movement, transmission, and transcendence.
🎹 An Evening with Terre Thaemlitz (Live Piano) & Ciarán Finlayson (@sneezejoy)
Sunday, November 15
7 p.m. at Roulette
$35 (plus fees)
The legendary house producer, DJ, and writer Terre Thaemlitz (aka DJ Sprinkles) will perform her first composition for solo piano live at Roulette, followed by a conversation with Triple Canopy contributing editor Ciarán Finlayson.
🔗 Visit the link in our profile to RSVP or purchase tickets!
⭐ Triple Canopy’s annual symposium is a manifestation of the magazine’s concerns and collaborations, in person and in real time. The multiday gathering brings together artists, writers, performers, and researchers to address the role of culture in responding (or contributing) to a range of critical issues. The 2026 Triple Canopy Symposium is presented in partnership with Critical Minded (@criticalminded_community).
The rest of our program, hosted at Roulette (@roulette_intermedium) on November 13 and 14, will be announced soon. Stay tuned!
The visual identity for the 2026 Symposium was created by Kevin Dong (@kevin.dong).
192 Books, Chelsea
192 10th Ave, New York, NY 10011
political action,literary / research
192 Books presents a reading and conversation with...192 Books presents a reading and conversation with sociologist Ho-fung Hung, author of Greenback Empire, and legal scholar Will Bateman, author of The Fiscal Fed, in conversation with economic historian Adam Tooze. Greenback Empire is a critical history of the US dollar’s dominance in the world economy, and what has kept China’s currency from overtaking it. With China now rivaling the United States on the world stage, a critical question hangs in the balance: will the Chinese renminbi challenge the status of the dollar and, in doing so, deprive America of its “exorbitant privilege”? The Fiscal Fed is a revelatory history of how the Federal Reserve finances American power. Central banks, we are told, are economic superpowers that must remain independent of modern democratic governments. The US Federal Reserve’s presumed insulation from politics affords it autonomy and credibility to control inflation and promote economic stability, or so the story goes. All 192 Books events are free to attend and do not require an RSVP. First come first seated.
Millennial Skip the Small Talk Night at Threes Brewing Gowanus
$15 (sale; regularly $24)
Tue, Nov 10 at 7:00 PM
Threes Brewing Gowanus, 333 Douglass St, Brooklyn, NY 11217
mutual aid / community
We’ve all heard that making friends is hard. So le...We’ve all heard that making friends is hard. So let’s do something about it and talk to other human beings!
You’ll pair up with the other nice people who showed up, and switch partners every so often (kinda like speed-dating, but without the speed and without the dating).
A friendly host will lead the whole thing, and we’ll give you question cards to take the conversation a few notches deeper so you don’t accidentally talk about what you do for work six times in a row.
The questions aren’t going to trick you into trauma-dumping. Think: “In what ways are you different from the person you were five years ago? In what ways are you the same?” If you don’t vibe with a question for any reason, you can always pick another one.
Feel free to come alone (most people do-- we promise we won’t make it weird for you) or bring a friend!
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm ET
AGE RANGE | 30-45: This event is centered on people ages 30-45, but we welcome guests a year or two outside of that range who would feel comfortable being friends with people in the above age group. If you are outside of this age range, don't worry-- we have a lot of other events on our calendar, including all-ages events, that might be a better fit! Please be sure to bring your government-issued ID, as this venue is 21+.
ACCESSIBILITY & OTHER VENUE DETAILS | Wheelchair accessible. The building has a shared lift.
We’re excited to partner with Public Records (@pub...We’re excited to partner with Public Records (@publicrecordsnyc) to present three programs for Durations as part of this year’s Triple Canopy Symposium.
🏫 Civic Crash Course with Chloë Bass (@publicinvestigator) & Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste (@crovvns)
Monday, November 9
7 p.m. at Public Records
Free with RSVP
A conversation about the destruction of artworks and how artists understand (or misunderstand) the public—and vice versa.
🌪️ Hurricane in the Fog Machine with Jesús Hilario-Reyes (@morenxx_x) & Benjamin Krusling (@no_ig_benji)
Tuesday, November 10
7 p.m. at Public Records
Free with RSVP
A conversation about sirens and emergency signals—and the interplay between far-reaching sounds, mass movement, transmission, and transcendence.
🎹 An Evening with Terre Thaemlitz (Live Piano) & Ciarán Finlayson (@sneezejoy)
Sunday, November 15
7 p.m. at Roulette
$35 (plus fees)
The legendary house producer, DJ, and writer Terre Thaemlitz (aka DJ Sprinkles) will perform her first composition for solo piano live at Roulette, followed by a conversation with Triple Canopy contributing editor Ciarán Finlayson.
🔗 Visit the link in our profile to RSVP or purchase tickets!
⭐ Triple Canopy’s annual symposium is a manifestation of the magazine’s concerns and collaborations, in person and in real time. The multiday gathering brings together artists, writers, performers, and researchers to address the role of culture in responding (or contributing) to a range of critical issues. The 2026 Triple Canopy Symposium is presented in partnership with Critical Minded (@criticalminded_community).
The rest of our program, hosted at Roulette (@roulette_intermedium) on November 13 and 14, will be announced soon. Stay tuned!
The visual identity for the 2026 Symposium was created by Kevin Dong (@kevin.dong).
EAI and Rhizome present Trust & Safety, a screenin...EAI and Rhizome present Trust & Safety, a screening and conversation addressing the challenges faced by organizations entrusted with preserving artworks that test cultural, technological, and institutional limits.
The program features a selection of works from EAI’s collection by Peggy Ahwesh (@ahwesh_peggy), Alex Bag (@alexbag666), Ellen Cantor, Barbara Hammer (@barbarahammerestate), and Muntadas (@a_muntadas1955). The works were selected in relation to Vimeo’s content moderation policies and the limitations those policies pose for an archive of challenging media. After EAI encountered repeated problems hosting works on Vimeo, Rhizome assisted with the migration of EAI’s video holdings to PeerTube, an open-source platform that allows organizations to maintain greater control over their digital infrastructure.
Following the screening, Rebecca Cleman of EAI and Michael Connor of Rhizome will discuss the formation of alternative systems for distribution and access.
Artists and independent media organizations have long developed their own channels of circulation in response to cultural and institutional barriers. Histories of queer experimental media are especially bound up with these challenges. Artists created alternative networks for engaging sexuality, identity, and desire at moments of stringent cultural suppression. Today, commercial platforms apply standardized moderation systems to material whose meaning requires crucial historic context.
Trust & Safety considers how arts organizations build and maintain their own technological infrastructure, and how federated systems such as PeerTube might support new networks for the circulation of challenging work.
Event date: Nov 10, 2026 7-9pm. RSVP does not guarantee entry.
Book Launch: Mud Songs with Patricio Ferrari and Urayoán Noel
0
Wed, Nov 11 at 7:00 PM
192 Books, Chelsea
192 10th Ave, New York, NY 10011
literary / research
192 Books presents a reading and conversation with...192 Books presents a reading and conversation with the author of Mud Songs, Patricio Ferrari, who will be joined by translator author Urayoán Noel. Mud Songs Elsehere Book I, by polyglot poet, literary translator, and Fernando Pessoa scholar Patricio Ferrari, is a lyrical and archival journey through languages, inheritances, and crossings. This visionary collection reveals a multilingual poetics of arrival, attentive to histories of migration, loss, and renewal. Book I of the Elsehere multilingual trilogy celebrates the living body of language, teeming with its many voices carried across generations. Buenos Aires, a protagonist, speaks in tongues, from castellano (“last of the Italian dialects”) and lunfardo (“argot porteño”) to its “talismanic / barrios // filled with ventriloquist hands.” A home of many places and an “immigrant” unto itself, the city preserves words and gestures once spoken in homes and experienced still on the streets, in tango lyrics, or in a mate gourd passed hand-to-hand. Here, language becomes a meeting place of selves. All 192 Books events are free to attend and do not require an RSVP. First come first seated.
Pianos: The Mezzanine, 158 Ludlow St, New York, NY 10002 (Lower East Side)
mutual aid / community
Meeting people in NYC shouldn’t require a dating a...Meeting people in NYC shouldn’t require a dating app or a friend with a rooftop. Spend a night at Pianos talking one-on-one with a bunch of new people, using question cards worth putting your phone down for. Show up solo-- we promise we won't make it awkward.
This is a 21+ event.
7:00 PM EST. Presented by PIANOS.
Brooklyn Peace Center
23 Marcus Garvey Blvd
Brooklyn, NY 11206
mutual aid / community,literary / research,image / performance
Join us on Thursday, November 12th for our third c...Join us on Thursday, November 12th for our third communal conversation. During this encounter, we will converse about our relationship to death in regards to art making and communal life.
We will then carry the themes of the discussion into a group ritual where we present offerings to an altar and continue to speak, feel, and eat together.
Doors at 5:30pm.
The P.I.T. (Property is Theft)
411 South 5th St, Williamsburg BK
literary / research
Sol and Joey will read at The P.I.T. for our next ...Sol and Joey will read at The P.I.T. for our next event in the 2026 Fall Reading Series, curated by Sahar Khraibani and Emily Martin. New chaplets of raw, in-process work will be available at the reading. See you there!
Thursday, 11/12 @ 6pm
Flyer by Sahar Khraibani
Anti-AI Porn Teach In - Socialist Feminist WG x Tech Action WG
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Thu, Nov 12 at 7:00 PM
NYC-DSA Midtown Office
political action,mutual aid / community,literary / research
Earlier this year over the course of 11 days, Elon...Earlier this year over the course of 11 days, Elon Musk’s Grok generated over 3 million sexualized images of non-consenting strangers and celebrities. 23,000 of those images featured children. This isn’t new, deepfakes are as old as the internet, but generative AI has introduced a new accessibility to the creation of convincing, exploitative material.
On NOVEMBER 12TH, join SocFem + Tech Action for a teach-in on AI pornography: how it’s made, how current laws still leave survivors without real recourse, and what we can do about it.
Poster by @montyboomin
Twice a year, Ugly Duckling Presse throws a party to celebrate a new season of books and chapbooks.
10
Thu, Nov 12 at 7:30 PM
232 3rd St #E303
literary / research
Join us on November 12 in our Gowanus studio. Door...Join us on November 12 in our Gowanus studio. Doors at 7:30, readings promptly at 7:45.
Tickets at the link in bio or on our site!
Thanks @varietycoffee & everyone.
Come get the best: the world’s largest place insid...Come get the best: the world’s largest place inside a place inside a place. Escape to 𝙏𝙄𝙈𝙀𝙎 𝙎𝙌𝙐𝘼𝙍𝙀 𝙇𝘼𝙎 𝙑𝙀𝙂𝘼𝙎, where the mouth of the tourist trap is open wide, the perverse allure of artificial nature flows, and the mirage of ever-elusive Change hovers in the unbearable distance.
If you liked @jennifervanilla, you’re gonna LOVE @kyealive’s (the Artist Formerly Known as Jennifer Vanilla) feverish new work of existential “musical theater,” 𝙏𝙄𝙈𝙀𝙎 𝙎𝙌𝙐𝘼𝙍𝙀 𝙇𝘼𝙎 𝙑𝙀𝙂𝘼𝙎, a performance album-in-process that overlays the casino implosions of Las Vegas (did you know they do that?) with the spectacle of a self-aware midlife crisis.
Is change predicated on destruction?
Must we be in a constant state of reinvention to earn our place??
How is a person like a building???
How is a performer like a casino????
Should we even be trying to escape, or is here, magic enough?????
RIYL: gabbing over gabber, happy hardcore for hardcore happiness, water features, one prosthetic breast, drum sampler as punching bag, redemptive flow toys, chocolate chip cookies
ONE NIGHT ONLY!
Thu Nov 12
7:30 doors, 8pm show
$15
flier by @lucaventer
photo by @dadisiloh
political action,mutual aid / community,literary / research
If apocalyptic times and spectacles expose the gen...If apocalyptic times and spectacles expose the genocidal and geocidal structures of this world, how are cultural workers and activists disentangling their aesthetics from such webs? While capitalism, imperialism and cisheteropatriarchy deploy technofascism to coopt and annihilate all resistance to its dictates, decolonial artists continue to imagine new ways to rupture, dismantle and denounce systems of total death, in the long lineage of militant and guerilla movements from Algeria to South Africa, Puerto Rico, Palestine and beyond. What does decolonization mean today and how does it trouble the realm and study of aesthetics? What is an anarchic poethics of this time? How can we sustain autonomous practice and resistance as global webs of interconnected struggle?
We will reflect on these urgent concerns and imagine other ways of making, organizing and gathering that shatter oppressive systems.
Presented with @_undoxx_ and @culturalsolidarity
LGBTQIA+ Skip the Small Talk Night at Bibliotheque NYC
$15 (sale; regularly $24)
Fri, Nov 13 at 7:00 PM
Bibliotheque NYC, 54 Mercer St, New York, NY 10013 (SoHo)
mutual aid / community
We’ve all heard that making friends is hard. So le...We’ve all heard that making friends is hard. So let’s do something about it and talk to other human beings!
You’ll pair up with the other nice people who showed up, and switch partners every so often (kinda like speed-dating, but without the speed and without the dating).
A friendly host will lead the whole thing, and we’ll give you question cards to take the conversation a few notches deeper so you don’t accidentally talk about what you do for work six times in a row.
The questions aren’t going to trick you into trauma-dumping. Think: “In what ways are you different from the person you were five years ago? In what ways are you the same?” If you don’t vibe with a question for any reason, you can always pick another one.
Feel free to come alone (most people do-- we promise we won’t make it weird for you) or bring a friend!
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm ET
AGE RANGE | All Ages: While many folks who attend our events are in their 20s and 30s, all guests of all ages will be enthusiastically welcome!
ACCESSIBILITY & OTHER VENUE DETAILS | Wheelchair accessible.
Strother School of Radical Attention
55 Washington Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201
mutual aid / community,literary / research,sci-fi / rebel tech
Join artist and activist elin o’Hara slavick for a...Join artist and activist elin o’Hara slavick for a lecture & workshop in conjunction with Haunted by Light, our upcoming exhibition on photoreactive media. elin will share her art practice and research on nuclear weapons and powerplants, and show us how to make our own cyanotypes!
We encourage you to bring your own object to turn into a cyanotype print. Objects around or under 8x10’’ with various opacities work best.
Haunted by Light (November 5-December 18, 2026) is co-curated by Katherine Guinness (@gakather) and features elin o’Hara slavick (@elinohara), Natasha Viosna Moody (@nvmoody), David Koh (@koh.working), Dan Ortiz Leizman(@apocalypsephenomenology), Leigh Davis (@leighdavisprojects), and Cinthya Santos-Briones (@cinthyasantosb).
Image courtsey of the artist
Who's the Boss - Bossware, AI, and Workplace Surveillance
0
Sat, Nov 14 at 3:00 PM
Brooklyn Public Library Info Commons, Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn
mutual aid / community
In this session, we will discuss “bossware” and wo...In this session, we will discuss “bossware” and workplace surveillance: how digital tools are used to monitor, track and record employees, and what it means for workers’ privacy and autonomy.
Bossware includes a range of tools from keystroke tracking and screen monitoring software to biometric collection and facial recognition technology, meaning no industry is safe from its reach. Additionally, artificial intelligence is increasingly being used workplace surveillance tools to expand the scope of data being collected and analyzed, posing a risk of increased discrimination and bias in employment-related decisions.
We will talk about the real-life ramifications of bossware, the changing legal and legislative landscape, and how increased surveillance contributes to an already unequal power balance that undermines workers’ trust and autonomy.
political action,literary / research,sci-fi / rebel tech
Misogyny has long shaped the technological imagina...Misogyny has long shaped the technological imaginary. Prejudices about what technology is, who it serves, and who labors to produce it funnel into biased datasets, skewed user testing, and the structures of digital tools. Oligarchs at the helm of tech empires prophesize a coming apocalypse, which they consciously accelerate, and then preach the necessity of preserving digitized human consciousness at the expense of actual human lives. Meanwhile, their dystopian ideals structure supply chains, corporate policy, digital platforms, and our so-called smart devices. How does this biocidal bias constrain not only our capacities in the present, but also our ability to imagine technologies for a future in which human life actually flourishes?
For Technomisoginary, the cultural theorists Sophie Lewis and Kalindi Vora will discuss the ways in which misogyny and colonial ideology shape contemporary technologies, and how we might combat tech leaders’ annihilatory ethos. Together, they will consider what liberated reproduction (both social and biological) looks like and how devalued, feminized forms of labor—what Vora has called “life support”—might be reimagined and properly remunerated. Can our collective aspirations for care work and supportive technologies extend beyond the horizon of proper compensation and include, as Lewis has written, “living big, dying well, and making things look and feel like love”? Their conversation will be moderated by Rachel Ossip, Triple Canopy’s deputy editor.
This event is part of the 2026 Triple Canopy Symposium, presented in partnership with Critical Minded.
political action,literary / research,sci-fi / rebel tech
From Kalshi to Polymarket, prediction markets have...From Kalshi to Polymarket, prediction markets have pitched themselves as forces of altruism and democratization, with marketing materials claiming to enable people to “plan for, hedge, and even harness perceptions of future events” through “accurate, unbiased forecasts.” Alleging that the public will be able to turn a profit on their shared “collective wisdom” through their apps, these platforms have been trumpeted as Silicon Valley and Wall Street’s latest innovation. Andreessen Horowitz, the Bay Area–based venture capital firm, went as far to declare prediction “the successor to postmodernism.” The proselytizing has worked so far: Prediction markets have distanced themselves from gambling and been designated as “financial exchange services,” leveraging a loophole in federal law to bypass the Securities and Exchange Commission’s regulations. They’ve gained notoriety through aggressive marketing, partnership deals—from news broadcasters like CNN to awards shows like the Golden Globes—and dystopian headlines generated by winning bets made on the Palisades Fire and the capture of Nicolás Maduro.
For Bets in a Burning House, writers David Hill, Ayesha A. Siddiqi, and Jacob Silverman—who have all tracked the rise of prediction markets amid political uncertainty and economic instability—will address historical precedents as well as contemporary policies and politics. Drawing from their writing and research, they’ll ask who benefits from the relevant technologies and how to assess which risks are worth taking (and which are to be avoided). As prediction markets push to “financialize everything,” who will profit from speculating on—or manipulating—the future, and at what cost? The conversation will be moderated by Ha Duong, Triple Canopy’s editorial coordinator.
This event is part of the 2026 Triple Canopy Symposium, presented in partnership with Critical Minded.
Mood Ring - Bushwick
1260 Myrtle Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11221
political action,music / sound
You may see this event and think this may just be ...You may see this event and think this may just be another weird early night show in Bushwick. But no. Mad or What is a journey into the souls of some of Brooklyn’s most twisted souls, where BootyLoaf BabyMade will take a piece of your booty, bake it into a delicious loaf of bread and eat it while laying down his dextrous bars on the mic.
DJ Thank God will shred your cognition with the bewildering sounds of Attention Deficit Dance Music and Brazilian Tecnobrega.
DJ Memories Everlasting and Poignant will shock you with his homemade mixing equipment, bouncing between boingy bassline beats and quirked up Twee bangers in a startlingly danceable fashion for the fact he only uses MIDI files.
Finally, DJ Ducky is going to give a lecture on the contradictions of modern life, frenetically blending fried SoundCloud Sigilkore deep cuts, Trashwave, Soca and more in transitions so nonsensical they defy the laws of physics and shatter the listener’s perception of reality, but simultaneously done with enough empathy and feeling that the listener is reminded of the cosmic threads which bind us all together.
In our increasingly fractured isolating world, togetherness and solidarity are more important than ever, which is why proceeds from this show will be going to the NYC Democratic Socialists of America.
Wheelchair accessible + street parking. 18+ event.
Land as Archive: synthesizing environmental, personal, and political histories
$25-$250
Sat, Nov 14 at 7:30 PM
Hello Market, Lower East Side
46 Market St
New York, NY 10002
literary / research,image / performance
As Embodied Earth’s 2026 season comes to a close, ...As Embodied Earth’s 2026 season comes to a close, we’re bringing together the artists we’ve worked with this year for an exciting discussion on artmaking as an extended engagement with the land. Join us to celebrate the past year of programming and learn how our artists synthesize natural materials with familial, political, even municipal histories across several artistic disciplines!
The panel will feature
sTo Len
E. Saffronia Downing
Rose Malenfant
Chyna Cassell
After the discussion, we’re partying with @no.diivvaa, signature cocktails from Ginfuse, and an interactive arts activation inspired by our Climate Utopias series!
mutual aid / community,literary / research,image / performance
Morgan Bassichis has spent several years reanimati...Morgan Bassichis has spent several years reanimating the legacies of queer and Jewish icons through neurotic stand-up comedy, incantatory songs, and historical excavations. In 2017, Bassichis began adapting Larry Mitchell’s cult book The Faggots & Their Friends Between Revolutions (1977) for performance and facilitating its reissue. Over the past few years, Bassichis turned to the late comedian and performance artist Frank Maya in their acclaimed off-Broadway solo show Can I Be Frank?, which won two Obie Awards. Next year, Bassichis will take on the Amy Winehouse songbook.
For Ghosted, Too, Bassichis will deliver a talk on their compulsion to commune with the dead. “Adoration has a way of keeping the deceased at least a little bit alive,” Bassichis writes. “I will sometimes refer to them as ghosts, but a bit reluctantly, because that is a term I have only ever heard from the living.” Considering ghosts as manifestations of “unfinished business,” Bassichis will offer provisional reflections on performance as a mode of necromancy, or “visitationship.”
This event is part of the 2026 Triple Canopy Symposium, presented in partnership with Critical Minded.
Tea for the Inner Winter: A Nourish Event Celebrating Asha Frost’s New Book
125
Sun, Nov 15 at 2:00 PM
The Morgan Library & Museum
225 Madison Avenue (between 36th and 37th Streets)
New York, NY 10016
mutual aid / community,literary / research
As the days shorten and the light pulls inward, we...As the days shorten and the light pulls inward, we’re gathering in New York for something soft and sacred: an afternoon tea party celebrating the release of Asha Frost’s new book, The Inner Winter, Sunday November 15.
This is an invitation to slow down. To sit with a warm cup, in good company, and remember that rest is not something you earn. It’s something you tend.
Join us for a Mini-Wintering Ceremony, a little space to slow down, soften, and remember that we don’t have to keep pushing through every season of our lives.
Together, we’ll make room for rest, reconnect with the wisdom within us, and honor the parts of ourselves that are asking for a gentler way forward. There will be a little reflection, a little medicine, and a reminder that even in our winters, we are not broken. We are becoming.
We can’t wait to gather with you, share The Inner Winter, and remind you that you are the medicine you’ve been looking for.
Join us in celebrating those close to us who have ...Join us in celebrating those close to us who have passed on, comrades who died for the cause, and innocents who fell victim to state sponsored violence. Don't mourn, organize!!
Text me at 917-574-6943 to access building
We’re excited to partner with Public Records (@pub...We’re excited to partner with Public Records (@publicrecordsnyc) to present three programs for Durations as part of this year’s Triple Canopy Symposium.
🏫 Civic Crash Course with Chloë Bass (@publicinvestigator) & Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste (@crovvns)
Monday, November 9
7 p.m. at Public Records
Free with RSVP
A conversation about the destruction of artworks and how artists understand (or misunderstand) the public—and vice versa.
🌪️ Hurricane in the Fog Machine with Jesús Hilario-Reyes (@morenxx_x) & Benjamin Krusling (@no_ig_benji)
Tuesday, November 10
7 p.m. at Public Records
Free with RSVP
A conversation about sirens and emergency signals—and the interplay between far-reaching sounds, mass movement, transmission, and transcendence.
🎹 An Evening with Terre Thaemlitz (Live Piano) & Ciarán Finlayson (@sneezejoy)
Sunday, November 15
7 p.m. at Roulette
$35 (plus fees)
The legendary house producer, DJ, and writer Terre Thaemlitz (aka DJ Sprinkles) will perform her first composition for solo piano live at Roulette, followed by a conversation with Triple Canopy contributing editor Ciarán Finlayson.
🔗 Visit the link in our profile to RSVP or purchase tickets!
⭐ Triple Canopy’s annual symposium is a manifestation of the magazine’s concerns and collaborations, in person and in real time. The multiday gathering brings together artists, writers, performers, and researchers to address the role of culture in responding (or contributing) to a range of critical issues. The 2026 Triple Canopy Symposium is presented in partnership with Critical Minded (@criticalminded_community).
The rest of our program, hosted at Roulette (@roulette_intermedium) on November 13 and 14, will be announced soon. Stay tuned!
The visual identity for the 2026 Symposium was created by Kevin Dong (@kevin.dong).
Rest, Restore, Resist: Spiritual Care for Challenging Times
$50 - 100
Mon, Nov 16 at 5:00 PM
Stony Point NY, with transportation provided from Manhattan
political action,mutual aid / community
These are challenging times for New Yorkers and ot...These are challenging times for New Yorkers and others. ICE is attacking our communities, and authoritarianism is taking a toll on our souls. Along with organizing, advocacy, and service, our moment calls for compassionate spiritual care – to support ourselves and our neighbors as we build sustainable movements for social change. On November 16-17, the Interfaith Center of New York, Stony Point Center, Hands Off NYC, and The Beacon will answer this call through an overnight retreat providing spiritual care for faith leaders, activists, and impacted community members.
The Rest, Restore, Resist retreat will be held at Stony Point Center in Rockland County, with transportation provided from Manhattan. Overnight stay is encouraged, but single-day registration for Tuesday 11/17 is also available. People of all faiths and none are welcome! Learn more and register at https://bit.ly/rest-resist.
The retreat will include an introduction to movement chaplaincy, as well as healing practices drawn from diverse faith traditions. Participants will build relationships through dialogue and practice, while learning self-care and community wellness skills. We will take a moment to reflect and connect in the midst of the struggle against authoritarianism. Please join us!
Rest, Restore, Resist: Spiritual Care for Challenging Times
$50 - 100
Tue, Nov 17 at 9:00 AM
Stony Point NY, with transportation provided from Manhattan
political action,mutual aid / community
These are challenging times for New Yorkers and ot...These are challenging times for New Yorkers and others. ICE is attacking our communities, and authoritarianism is taking a toll on our souls. Along with organizing, advocacy, and service, our moment calls for compassionate spiritual care – to support ourselves and our neighbors as we build sustainable movements for social change. On November 16-17, the Interfaith Center of New York, Stony Point Center, Hands Off NYC, and The Beacon will answer this call through an overnight retreat providing spiritual care for faith leaders, activists, and impacted community members.
The Rest, Restore, Resist retreat will be held at Stony Point Center in Rockland County, with transportation provided from Manhattan. Overnight stay is encouraged, but single-day registration for Tuesday 11/17 is also available. People of all faiths and none are welcome! Learn more and register at https://bit.ly/rest-resist.
The retreat will include an introduction to movement chaplaincy, as well as healing practices drawn from diverse faith traditions. Participants will build relationships through dialogue and practice, while learning self-care and community wellness skills. We will take a moment to reflect and connect in the midst of the struggle against authoritarianism. Please join us!
We’ve all heard that making friends is hard. So le...We’ve all heard that making friends is hard. So let’s do something about it and talk to other human beings!
You’ll pair up with the other nice people who showed up, and switch partners every so often (kinda like speed-dating, but without the speed and without the dating).
A friendly host will lead the whole thing, and we’ll give you question cards to take the conversation a few notches deeper so you don’t accidentally talk about what you do for work six times in a row.
The questions aren’t going to trick you into trauma-dumping. Think: “In what ways are you different from the person you were five years ago? In what ways are you the same?” If you don’t vibe with a question for any reason, you can always pick another one.
Feel free to come alone (most people do-- we promise we won’t make it weird for you) or bring a friend!
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm ET
AGE RANGE | All Ages: While many folks who attend our events are in their 20s and 30s, all guests of all ages will be enthusiastically welcome!
ACCESSIBILITY & OTHER VENUE DETAILS | Wheelchair accessible. There will be enough seating to accommodate all guests. Gender affirming restrooms will be available.
La Casa de Los Pueblos, 366 E 146th St, Bronx, NY 10455
political action,mutual aid / community,literary / research
Join us for a guided reading discussion on the Civ...Join us for a guided reading discussion on the Civil Right's Congress's We Charge Genocide, alongside texts by Filiberto Ojeda Rios, Malcolm X, and Nick Estes.
On the 75th anniversary of We Charge Genocide, this reading discussion, which is led by The Walter Rodney / Flores Magón Library & Commons, will contemplate the strategy that took the struggle of Black folks out of the realm of the national and placed it on an international stage. We will look to the goals of Malcolm X’s Organization of Afro American Unity (OAAU), which likewise viewed Black people in the U.S. as part of a global majority. This year also marks the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Greasy Grass, when the Lakota Sioux, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho defeated the U.S. Army's 7th Cavalry, killing Lieutenant Colonel Custer. We will read about Lakota resistance and think together about this call by Malcolm to withdraw from the Imperial settler colonial project and wonder about what this kind of mass abandonment by the dispossessed could do. The reading discussion is free and open to all, but registration is required; readings will be shared with all registrants in advance of the event.
This guided reading discussion is the second in a series organized by the Center for the Study of Social Difference in 2026-2026. The series responds to the U.S. semiquincentenial and its accompanying officially sanctioned celebratory accounts of the past. It offers a counternarrative to these accounts through study sessions dedicated to works with alternative anniversaries that undertake a critical appraisal of U.S. history and historical struggles and that reflect the experiences of minoritized communities.
Photograph: "Castro and Malcolm x" by julierohloff, licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0.
A new almanac, not just for farmers anymore.
From...A new almanac, not just for farmers anymore.
From @or_books + @sister.divines farm.
Compiled and edited by
ANA RATNER
Echoing The Old Farmer’s Almanac, this annual offers a fun, fact-filled, and beautifully designed guide to the coming year through a quirky, progressive, and environmentally friendly lens.
“This visually delightful map to the year ahead is a gem of a companion.”
—Hyperallergic (2025)
“Ratner dreamed up a version that had the silliness, colorfulness, and chaotic energy, but also spoke to the realities of nature and ecology now . . . a New York City-specific, full-bleed marvel.”
—Study Hall
“A unique and inherently fascinating compendium of facts that is thoroughly ‘reader friendly’ in organization and presentation . . . especially and unreservedly recommended.”
—Midwest Book Review
“Continuing a centuries-old publishing tradition, but through a very different lens.”
—North Fork Sun
Pageant
NOTE: Check time of day for each event on website.
literary / research,image / performance
.ᴴᴱᴿᴱ ᴵˢ ʸᴼᵁᴿ ᶠᴬᴸᴸ ˢᶜᴴᴱᴰᵁᴸᴱ.
✦ ꜱᴇᴘᴛᴇᴍʙᴇʀ 17 + ....ᴴᴱᴿᴱ ᴵˢ ʸᴼᵁᴿ ᶠᴬᴸᴸ ˢᶜᴴᴱᴰᵁᴸᴱ.
✦ ꜱᴇᴘᴛᴇᴍʙᴇʀ 17 + 18 — ᴊᴜʟɪᴀ ᴀɴᴛɪɴᴏᴢᴢɪ
✦ ꜱᴇᴘᴛᴇᴍʙᴇʀ 24 + 25 — ᴊᴏʀᴅᴀɴ ᴄᴏʟᴇʏ
✦ ᴏᴄᴛᴏʙᴇʀ 15 + 16 — ɢɪʟʟɪᴀɴ ᴡᴀʟꜱʜ
✦ ᴏᴄᴛᴏʙᴇʀ 22 + 23 — ᴄʟᴀʀᴀ ᴋɪᴍ
✦ ɴᴏᴠᴇᴍʙᴇʀ 5 + 6 — ᴍᴀᴛᴛ ꜱʜᴀʟᴢɪ & ᴍɪʟʟɪᴇ ᴋᴀᴘᴘ
✦ ɴᴏᴠᴇᴍʙᴇʀ 19 + 20 — ʙʟᴀᴢᴇ ꜰᴇʀʀᴇʀ
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── .✦Doors are locked after the show starts, there is no late seating unless specified.
── .✦Tickets are nonrefundable. If your plans have changed and you would like to switch nights, please purchase a new ticket and email us at info@pageant.space with your new order# and your old order#. We will refund your old order#. Due to the heavy volume of ticket switch requests we cannot guarantee refunds if requests do not follow this instruction and format.
── .✦Chair seating is limited and first come first serve! We sell more tickets than chairs. Need a chair? Email us ahead of time and we will save you a seat! With a sign and everything!
Liz's Book Bar, 315 Smith St, Brooklyn, NY 11231 (Carroll Gardens)
mutual aid / community
Meet other nice single people IRL! A friendly host...Meet other nice single people IRL! A friendly host will guide you through one-on-one conversations and tell you when to switch partners. Our question cards help you skip the small talk and see if there’s chemistry.
Not to brag, but we do a really good job with gender balance, and our match rates are way higher than most speed-dating events. Come solo (most people do) or bring a friend!
This one’s for folks ages 30–45 looking for monogamous dating: women who want to date men, and men who want to date women. A year or two outside that range? Totally fine, as long as you’re happy dating people in it!
Trans folks are welcome, and so are gender-nonconforming folks who feel some connection to the identity of "woman" or "man" even if they don't fully fit into one category or the other. We don’t tolerate transphobia here or at any of our events.
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm ET
AGE RANGE | 30-45: This event is centered on people ages 30-45, but we welcome guests a year or two outside of that range who would feel comfortable dating people in the above age group. If you are outside of this age range, don't worry-- we have a lot of other events on our calendar, including all-ages events, that might be a better fit!
ACCESSIBILITY & OTHER VENUE DETAILS | This venue may not be fully wheelchair accessible. Please see our NYC calendar for other accessible events.
ART/NY Mezzanine Theatre, 502 West 53rd Street, New York, NY 10019
image / performance
For its 10th Season, EPIC is finally claiming a st...For its 10th Season, EPIC is finally claiming a story its artists have asked it to tell for years. Staged in the round and co-directed by Aubrie Therrien and Meghan Dodd, the production is cast and shaped by a Neurodivergent company - artists bringing their own experience to a story that has most often been told about them. The audience sits on all four sides, close enough to be inside Christopher's world rather than watching it from outside.
Paid Protest Comedy for the NYC DSA Socialist Feminist Working Group
15
Fri, Nov 20 at 7:30 PM
Starr Bar
mutual aid / community,image / performance
Come out to Paid Protest Comedy on 11/20 at @starr...Come out to Paid Protest Comedy on 11/20 at @starrbarbk Bar. We're raising funds for the NYC DSA Socialist Feminist Working Group! We have a great lineup and we'll guarantee you'll have a great time. Why would we lie to you? 👁👁
Pageant
NOTE: Check time of day for each event on website.
literary / research,image / performance
.ᴴᴱᴿᴱ ᴵˢ ʸᴼᵁᴿ ᶠᴬᴸᴸ ˢᶜᴴᴱᴰᵁᴸᴱ.
✦ ꜱᴇᴘᴛᴇᴍʙᴇʀ 17 + ....ᴴᴱᴿᴱ ᴵˢ ʸᴼᵁᴿ ᶠᴬᴸᴸ ˢᶜᴴᴱᴰᵁᴸᴱ.
✦ ꜱᴇᴘᴛᴇᴍʙᴇʀ 17 + 18 — ᴊᴜʟɪᴀ ᴀɴᴛɪɴᴏᴢᴢɪ
✦ ꜱᴇᴘᴛᴇᴍʙᴇʀ 24 + 25 — ᴊᴏʀᴅᴀɴ ᴄᴏʟᴇʏ
✦ ᴏᴄᴛᴏʙᴇʀ 15 + 16 — ɢɪʟʟɪᴀɴ ᴡᴀʟꜱʜ
✦ ᴏᴄᴛᴏʙᴇʀ 22 + 23 — ᴄʟᴀʀᴀ ᴋɪᴍ
✦ ɴᴏᴠᴇᴍʙᴇʀ 5 + 6 — ᴍᴀᴛᴛ ꜱʜᴀʟᴢɪ & ᴍɪʟʟɪᴇ ᴋᴀᴘᴘ
✦ ɴᴏᴠᴇᴍʙᴇʀ 19 + 20 — ʙʟᴀᴢᴇ ꜰᴇʀʀᴇʀ
── .✦Tickets available upon each show announcement (and most of the time a little earlier than that if you look at the website)
── .✦Doors are locked after the show starts, there is no late seating unless specified.
── .✦Tickets are nonrefundable. If your plans have changed and you would like to switch nights, please purchase a new ticket and email us at info@pageant.space with your new order# and your old order#. We will refund your old order#. Due to the heavy volume of ticket switch requests we cannot guarantee refunds if requests do not follow this instruction and format.
── .✦Chair seating is limited and first come first serve! We sell more tickets than chairs. Need a chair? Email us ahead of time and we will save you a seat! With a sign and everything!
Ugly Duckling Presse Workshop: Sentences that Stick with Sara Duff
Free with RSVP
Sat, Nov 21 at 2:00 PM
Zoom
literary / research
We’ll take a look at prose that thrives on the lin...We’ll take a look at prose that thrives on the line-level, select and dissect sentences, and try to see what’s happening within. Participants can bring existing lines to revise from notebooks or works-in-progress. We will also be generating new material. Beyond style, we’re looking for a psychological ringing that can happen after certain sentences—engaging with form, content, placement, and song.This workshop is free, but please register on our site (link above).
Upper West Side - The Reverie Room
163 W 72nd Street
*please note, the performance is located on the second floor with no elevator access
mutual aid / community,image / performance
Get ready for your favorite unconventional fairyt...Get ready for your favorite unconventional fairytale like you’ve never seen before: part cabaret, part proof of concept, and 100% guaranteed to be a ki, OGRE reimagines the story of Shrek as an epic t4t love story. Combining music from the original film franchise, the Tony-award winning musical, and classic LGBTQ+ anthems, follow along with brooklyn director niqo torrez- featuring your favorite up-and-coming queer artists- as they use the power of dramaturgy to draw parallels between the cult classic and their own experiences of transitioning in modern America. A night of radical queer joy and resistance, OGRE will leave you feeling empowered to own your own fairytale ending.
Ugly Duckling Presse Workshop: Territories of Play: A Translation Workshop with Miguel Coronado
$75.00
Sun, Nov 22 at 2:00 PM
In-Person at the UDP Studio, Gowanus, Brooklyn
literary / research,image / performance
Literary translation is an exhaustive process. The...Literary translation is an exhaustive process. The translator explores and investigates a continuum of revisions, each attempt representing a new leap of faith across language into new territories of reinterpretation. Is it possible to make that process fun? Can we laugh at our work, and at ourselves?
In this generative transcreation workshop, we will think about and practice extreme forms of creative translation, playing and taking great liberties with our original texts. The goal is to have fun writing, and in doing so, we might extract some clarity and truth about the original text that had been hidden from us because we were looking at it too seriously.
Each participant should bring a translation (1 page plus the original text if possible), it does not have to be your own. Using that text as a body and territory of material, we will each create a new poem or translation together. Along the way, we will play a poetry role-playing game. Please register on our website at the link above.
@ big bar (21+), 75 e. 7th st., east village, mnhtn
music / sound
ACCESS: 21+ ♿️ limited space! arrive early or ente...ACCESS: 21+ ♿️ limited space! arrive early or enter thru band; will check restroom width
October 11: 7pm-9pm Jon Madof & Eyal Maoz, 9pm-11pm Ben Goldberg's Invisible Guy (w/ Michael Coleman, Hamir Atwal)
October 18: 9pm-11pm Ben Goldberg's Invisible Guy (w/ Michael Coleman, Hamir Atwal)
October 25th: 7pm-10pm Magic Dub (Gregory LaPine, Greg Jackson, Trevor Holder, & guests)
November 1: 8pm-10pm Dizzy Ventilators (Yusuke Yamamoto & Daniel Jodocy)
November 8: 7pm-9pm Jon Madof/Nate Rappaport Duo
November 22: 7pm-9pm Yoshie Fruchter's Pitom
November 29: 8pm-10pm Miriam Elhajli & Jason Lindner Duo
Tracy Cregan, Conan the Accountant and Earthcreeper
0
Fri, Nov 27 at 6:00 PM
Young Ethel's
506 5th Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11215
South Slope
music / sound
21+ free show, featuring local experimental/drone/...21+ free show, featuring local experimental/drone/ambient/noise artists Tracy Cregan, Conan the Accountant and Earthcreeper
@ big bar (21+), 75 e. 7th st., east village, mnhtn
music / sound
ACCESS: 21+ ♿️ limited space! arrive early or ente...ACCESS: 21+ ♿️ limited space! arrive early or enter thru band; will check restroom width
October 11: 7pm-9pm Jon Madof & Eyal Maoz, 9pm-11pm Ben Goldberg's Invisible Guy (w/ Michael Coleman, Hamir Atwal)
October 18: 9pm-11pm Ben Goldberg's Invisible Guy (w/ Michael Coleman, Hamir Atwal)
October 25th: 7pm-10pm Magic Dub (Gregory LaPine, Greg Jackson, Trevor Holder, & guests)
November 1: 8pm-10pm Dizzy Ventilators (Yusuke Yamamoto & Daniel Jodocy)
November 8: 7pm-9pm Jon Madof/Nate Rappaport Duo
November 22: 7pm-9pm Yoshie Fruchter's Pitom
November 29: 8pm-10pm Miriam Elhajli & Jason Lindner Duo
LGBTQIA+ Skip the Small Talk Night at Threes Brewing Gowanus
$15 (sale; regularly $24)
Tue, Dec 1 at 7:00 PM
Threes Brewing Gowanus, 333 Douglass St, Brooklyn, NY 11217
mutual aid / community
We’ve all heard that making friends is hard. So le...We’ve all heard that making friends is hard. So let’s do something about it and talk to other human beings!
You’ll pair up with the other nice people who showed up, and switch partners every so often (kinda like speed-dating, but without the speed and without the dating).
A friendly host will lead the whole thing, and we’ll give you question cards to take the conversation a few notches deeper so you don’t accidentally talk about what you do for work six times in a row.
The questions aren’t going to trick you into trauma-dumping. Think: “In what ways are you different from the person you were five years ago? In what ways are you the same?” If you don’t vibe with a question for any reason, you can always pick another one.
Feel free to come alone (most people do-- we promise we won’t make it weird for you) or bring a friend!
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm ET
AGE RANGE | 21+: While many folks who attend our events are in their 20s and 30s, all guests 21+ will be enthusiastically welcome! Please be sure to bring your government-issued ID, as this venue is 21+.
ACCESSIBILITY & OTHER VENUE DETAILS | Wheelchair accessible. The building has a shared lift.
Unruly Play is an evening of play for the creative...Unruly Play is an evening of play for the creative community, built on our archive of play in unlikely places: art, games and public interventions from artists, designers and communities we admire. A choreographed evening for creatives, with the archive as backdrop: instructions, bent rules, and strange moments between people who rarely meet.
It’s for anyone who’s been sneaking play into work, or suspects it belongs there.
Ugly Duckling Presse Workshop: Intro to Bookbinding with Keri Kelly
$125.00
Sat, Dec 5 at 1:00 PM
In-Person at the UDP Studio, Gowanus, Brooklyn
literary / research
In this workshop, participants will learn four bas...In this workshop, participants will learn four basic, non-adhesive bookbinding techniques: pamphlet stitch, Japanese stab stitch, coptic stitch, and long stitch. We’ll discuss conventional and creative use cases for these stitches, as well as general bookbinding terminology, procedures, tools, and mise en place. All materials will be provided, and participants will leave with four unique books of their own creation that can serve as notebooks, sketchbooks, or just prototypes for future book arts projects. Please register on our website at the link above — for sliding scale options, please email office@uglyducklingpresse.org.
Welcome to The Ranch: animal sanctuary by day, swi...Welcome to The Ranch: animal sanctuary by day, swingers club by night. With a megachurch across the highway, cops watching closely, and a community flooded with family values, "The Lifestyle" is under attack. Join six local hedonists for an evening at the "animal instincts" fundraiser to save The Ranch, while the very thing feared to tear it all down already lurks the halls. Share in the secrets, gossip, and sabotage deepest desires.
Based on a real squirrel rehab center, Floorwork Art Collective’s "Private Nature" is a satiric tragicomedy about the suburbs, shame, and the lengths we'll take to feed the beasts of uncompromised comfort.
Directed by an Mara Einson and Sarah Powers, with an ensemble of new Floorwork creatives, Matti Parone's raucous and raunchy debut will leave you hot and bothered.
Dress to theme for the animal instincts masquerade.
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This performance is not ADA accessible and involves nontraditional staging.
Content warning: sexual content, slurs, insensitive representations, drugs, violence
DEC 5 | 2PM AND 7:30PM | JUDSON MEMORIAL CHURCH
...DEC 5 | 2PM AND 7:30PM | JUDSON MEMORIAL CHURCH
ALL WE SEE. IS ALL WE ARE. IS ALL WITHIN.
Creature Works presents Split My Soul by choreographer Kelsie Steil.
Split My Soul is a riveting dance-theater production that explores the conflict and integration between seven complex characters: The People's Jester, Lady Martyre, Fizzy Head, Mystery Man, Twisted Mistress, The Kid, and Your Inevitable Death. These characters will work with and against one another, exposing their inner stories and perils, and navigating locally crafted set pieces such as stairs, textural walls, and a plethora of ropes. Set to an original score by renowned composer Michael Wall, Split My Soul provides a cathartic visual and sonic experience to unpack mental health challenges and scenarios. Steil believes the theatrical embodiment of internal characters and archetypes can help heal relationships, build empathy for the attributes and tendencies of ourselves and others, and shift perspectives towards the people and stories of our lives.
(Accessibility notes in ticket link)
THE CAST
Nate Nichols, Mystery Man
Emily Pleadwell, The Kid
Sharoan Cohen, Twisted Mistress
Hannah Haines, Your Inevitable Death
Laura Faherty, Lady Martyre
Jacqui DeFrança, The People's Jester
Nancy Salmon, Fizzy Head
ABOUT THE CHOREOGRAPHER:
Kelsie Steil is a New England–based choreographer, director, and dance artist whose work blends dance and character to create emotionally resonant, story-driven performance. She explores mental health, domestic scenarios, and human archetypes through character profiles drawn from lived or observed experiences. Her choreography seeks the moments where movement and message collide, often leaning into dissonance and a sense of unreality to deepen impact.
Kelsie’s creative process is collaborative and grounded in care. She builds safe, communicative environments for performers, combining rigorous rehearsal with dialogue, group exercises, and playful experimentation that foster trust and emotional risk. Her practice spans live performance, dance film, and interdisciplinary collaboration, often working with composers, filmmakers, and other artists to develop original scores and multimedia elements.
Prior to the founding of Creature Works in 2026, all of Kelsie’s work was presented under her own name. In 2025, she premiered Split My Soul, an evening-length, character-driven work refined through an immersive study of Commedia dell’Arte. The piece demonstrates her signature approach to choreography, blending theatricality, emotional depth, and movement invention. Her collaborative projects include CRAVING THE MYSTIC, adapted into an award-winning film by Jennifer Hoffer, and Rummage Lane, a full-length duet co-created with choreographer Hannah Haines.
Kelsie earned the Contemporary Dance Award at Plymouth State University for her achievements and choreography, recognizing her early commitment to innovation, storytelling, and emotional resonance in dance. Her work has been presented across New England at venues including SPACE Gallery, Lila Dance Festival, Engine, Franco Center, Dance Annex, City Theater, Mechanics' Hall, Meetinghouse Arts and Judson Memorial Church.
upcoming dates for the community health initiative...upcoming dates for the community health initiative (CHI) free clinic! held at @anotherworldbk, the CHI is a collaboration between ARCNYC & @forourliberation, with support from @projectstay_nyc (STI testing) & @g_rebls (PCR quality COVID/flu testing)
see you on 10/4, 11/1, and 12/6 12-2pm ❤️
to quote our zine, “What is the CHI?”:
“The CHI is a political project with a political agenda aimed at moving the needle closer to revolution. It acts as an incubator and prototype form of communist/communalized healthcare, with medic comrades providing free healthcare and resources to the community, as well as disseminating these skills to the broad masses. This is all contextualized within a framework and political objective that invigorates the masses to question their current circumstances, feel incentive to seize the hospitals that are greedy and do not serve their people, and care in a much deeper way about each other.
Our goal is to unite revolutionary minded healthcare practitioners and community members in the provision of basic medical care to the people of Crown Heights and beyond. Our goal is not to necessarily provide comprehensive medical care in order to fill the gaps left by the state; we do not seek to hold this clinic because we hope to fully meet the needs of the masses through this and thereby, convince them that they need us. Rather, we hold these monthly clinics because it is the vehicle through which we meet and engage with the masses, care for them, agitate them, build community and trust with them, and ultimately bring them into struggle against the forces of capitalist imperialism. We understand that to fully meet their needs, that means agitating, uniting, organizing, and mobilizing them, the people of the world, into overthrowing the beast that is the capitalist imperialist regime—the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie—and replacing it with a dictatorship of the proletariat. It means helping each other realize the strength in our unity and the power of the people. It means a global revolution, an all encompassing turn towards a new era, the era of a socialist transition.“
🔄 Presenting the 2026/2027 calendar for First Mon...🔄 Presenting the 2026/2027 calendar for First Mondays at Performance Space New York:
🖤Season Opening – THE LESBIAN BODY by Monique Wittig | Oct 5: William M. Burton, Lazz Kinnamon, and more
🖤Unruly | Nov 2: Owen Park, Betty Shamieh, Rivers Solomon
🖤Material | Dec 7: Alvin Eng, Maura Finkelstein, Keeanga Yamhatta-Taylor
🖤Icons | Feb 1: Casey Plett, Julia Glass, Thomas Glave
🖤Mythic | Mar 1 : Luis Jaramillo, AM Homes, Robert Gluck
🖤House Favorites | Apr 6: Michael Waters, Aaron Robertson, Jayne Anne Phillips
🖤Great Minds Do Not Think Alike | May 3: Ricardo Montez, Elif Batuman, Benjamin Moser*
🖤Witchy: Season Finale | Jun 7: Juan Martinez, Shelley Marlow, Carmen Maria Machado
💡Organized and curated by Sarah Schulman, First Mondays prioritizes one of the great advantages of living in New York City: hearing new ideas as they are being created, long before they are published and on the shelves.
Skip the Small Talk Night at Threes Brewing Greenpoint
$15 (sale; regularly $24)
Wed, Dec 9 at 7:00 PM
Threes Brewing Greenpoint, 113 Franklin St, Brooklyn, NY 11222
mutual aid / community
We’ve all heard that making friends is hard. So le...We’ve all heard that making friends is hard. So let’s do something about it and talk to other human beings!
You’ll pair up with the other nice people who showed up, and switch partners every so often (kinda like speed-dating, but without the speed and without the dating).
A friendly host will lead the whole thing, and we’ll give you question cards to take the conversation a few notches deeper so you don’t accidentally talk about what you do for work six times in a row.
The questions aren’t going to trick you into trauma-dumping. Think: “In what ways are you different from the person you were five years ago? In what ways are you the same?” If you don’t vibe with a question for any reason, you can always pick another one.
Feel free to come alone (most people do-- we promise we won’t make it weird for you) or bring a friend!
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm ET
AGE RANGE | 21+: While many folks who attend our events are in their 20s and 30s, all guests 21+ will be enthusiastically welcome! Please be sure to bring your government-issued ID, as this venue is 21+.
ACCESSIBILITY & OTHER VENUE DETAILS | Wheelchair accessible. The building has a shared lift.
Your three favorite queer performance collectives ...Your three favorite queer performance collectives are calling you home. Come home—home for the holidays, home to your beloved queer family, home to see a curation of nine performers across our communities.
Open Book, SLOTH, and Wet Spot are joining up again for a special end-of-year threesome edition of MENAGE A TROIS. Listen, witness, and experience what it means to find home, in all the ways home exists.
Threesome still means three groups, not an orgy. But what you do at home is your business.
Welcome to The Ranch: animal sanctuary by day, swi...Welcome to The Ranch: animal sanctuary by day, swingers club by night. With a megachurch across the highway, cops watching closely, and a community flooded with family values, "The Lifestyle" is under attack. Join six local hedonists for an evening at the "animal instincts" fundraiser to save The Ranch, while the very thing feared to tear it all down already lurks the halls. Share in the secrets, gossip, and sabotage deepest desires.
Based on a real squirrel rehab center, Floorwork Art Collective’s "Private Nature" is a satiric tragicomedy about the suburbs, shame, and the lengths we'll take to feed the beasts of uncompromised comfort.
Directed by an Mara Einson and Sarah Powers, with an ensemble of new Floorwork creatives, Matti Parone's raucous and raunchy debut will leave you hot and bothered.
Dress to theme for the animal instincts masquerade.
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This performance is not ADA accessible and involves nontraditional staging.
Content warning: sexual content, slurs, insensitive representations, drugs, violence
Palestine: Fiber Friends of Falastin! [Interference Archive]
Suggested donation (which helps keep IA’s doors open and lights on, quite literally): $5-$10
Mon, Dec 14 at 6:00 PM
Park Slope
mutual aid / community,image / performance
Join us for another year of monthly fiber arts mee...Join us for another year of monthly fiber arts meetups in support of Palestine: Fiber Friends of Falastin! All dates are listed in the graphic. Check IG to confirm dates, and any schedule changes.
Suggested donation (which helps keep IA’s doors open and lights on, quite literally): $5-$10
This is an exploratory social activity for folks who have basic crochet, knitting, sewing, quilting, weaving, embroidery, (and more!) skills, and who are interested in building community at the intersection of textile-making and social movements.
We have yarn, some crochet hooks, and some scissors to work on a group project in support of Palestine. You are also welcome to bring your own tools and materials, and related projects to work on.
Please note that this is not a workshop designed to teach skills, although you may learn new skills when you come! To participate in the crochet activity you will need to know how to do a chain stitch and a single crochet stitch, which can be learned here.
Masking is always encouraged at Interference Archive. We will provide masks at the door.
On the occasion of a recent exhibition in Bangkok,...On the occasion of a recent exhibition in Bangkok, the artist Paul Chan wrote a lecture about the great 2nd century Buddhist philosopher Nagarjuna.
“Nāgārjuna never explicitly wrote about art,” he says. “Still,” he continues, “I believe his views on form, motion, and the uses of contradiction can play a role in understanding how art matters, and why.”He gives a new version of the lecture titled Nāgārjuna, or East of the Life, Death, and Afterlife of Art.
He explores the core Buddhist concepts in Nāgārjuna’s philosophy, how they resonate with ancient and modern thinkers from the West (like Sextus Empiricus and Hegel, among others), and offers an idiosyncratic account of art as a way of living and thinking in light of Nāgārjuna’s thought.
Bowery Palace, 327 Bowery, New York NY 10003 (NoHo / East Village)
music / sound
Illustrator is a full-band experience, bringing Ch...Illustrator is a full-band experience, bringing Chris Urriola's recordings to the stage with younger New York artists and longtime collaborators from the city's rock and jazz communities: alternative rock, post-punk, new wave. 21+.
Bibliotheque NYC, 54 Mercer St, New York, NY 10013 (SoHo)
mutual aid / community
Meet other nice single people IRL! A friendly host...Meet other nice single people IRL! A friendly host will guide you through one-on-one conversations and tell you when to switch partners. Our question cards help you skip the small talk and see if there’s chemistry.
Not to brag, but we do a really good job with gender balance, and our match rates are way higher than most speed-dating events. Come solo (most people do) or bring a friend!
This one’s for folks ages 30–45 looking for monogamous dating: women who want to date men, and men who want to date women. A year or two outside that range? Totally fine, as long as you’re happy dating people in it!
Trans folks are welcome, and so are gender-nonconforming folks who feel some connection to the identity of "woman" or "man" even if they don't fully fit into one category or the other. We don’t tolerate transphobia here or at any of our events.
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm ET
AGE RANGE | 30-45: This event is centered on people ages 30-45, but we welcome guests a year or two outside of that range who would feel comfortable dating people in the above age group. If you are outside of this age range, don't worry-- we have a lot of other events on our calendar, including all-ages events, that might be a better fit!
ACCESSIBILITY & OTHER VENUE DETAILS | Wheelchair accessible.
Bibliotheque NYC, 54 Mercer St, New York, NY 10013 (SoHo)
mutual aid / community
We’ve all heard that making friends is hard. So le...We’ve all heard that making friends is hard. So let’s do something about it and talk to other human beings!
You’ll pair up with the other nice people who showed up, and switch partners every so often (kinda like speed-dating, but without the speed and without the dating).
A friendly host will lead the whole thing, and we’ll give you question cards to take the conversation a few notches deeper so you don’t accidentally talk about what you do for work six times in a row.
The questions aren’t going to trick you into trauma-dumping. Think: “In what ways are you different from the person you were five years ago? In what ways are you the same?” If you don’t vibe with a question for any reason, you can always pick another one.
Feel free to come alone (most people do-- we promise we won’t make it weird for you) or bring a friend!
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm ET
AGE RANGE | 20s: This event is centered on people in their 20s, but we welcome guests a year or two outside of that range who would feel comfortable being friends with people in the above age group. If you are outside of this age range, don't worry-- we have a lot of other events on our calendar, including all-ages events, that might be a better fit!
ACCESSIBILITY & OTHER VENUE DETAILS | Wheelchair accessible.
LGBTQIA+ Skip the Small Talk Night at Bibliotheque NYC
$15 (sale; regularly $24)
Wed, Jan 20 at 7:00 PM
Bibliotheque NYC, 54 Mercer St, New York, NY 10013 (SoHo)
mutual aid / community
We’ve all heard that making friends is hard. So le...We’ve all heard that making friends is hard. So let’s do something about it and talk to other human beings!
You’ll pair up with the other nice people who showed up, and switch partners every so often (kinda like speed-dating, but without the speed and without the dating).
A friendly host will lead the whole thing, and we’ll give you question cards to take the conversation a few notches deeper so you don’t accidentally talk about what you do for work six times in a row.
The questions aren’t going to trick you into trauma-dumping. Think: “In what ways are you different from the person you were five years ago? In what ways are you the same?” If you don’t vibe with a question for any reason, you can always pick another one.
Feel free to come alone (most people do-- we promise we won’t make it weird for you) or bring a friend!
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm ET
AGE RANGE | All Ages: While many folks who attend our events are in their 20s and 30s, all guests of all ages will be enthusiastically welcome!
ACCESSIBILITY & OTHER VENUE DETAILS | Wheelchair accessible.
Skip the Small Talk Night at P&T Knitwear Bookstore
$15 (sale; regularly $24)
Fri, Jan 22 at 7:00 PM
P&T Knitwear Bookstore, 180 Orchard St, New York, NY 10002 (Lower East Side)
mutual aid / community
We’ve all heard that making friends is hard. So le...We’ve all heard that making friends is hard. So let’s do something about it and talk to other human beings!
You’ll pair up with the other nice people who showed up, and switch partners every so often (kinda like speed-dating, but without the speed and without the dating).
A friendly host will lead the whole thing, and we’ll give you question cards to take the conversation a few notches deeper so you don’t accidentally talk about what you do for work six times in a row.
The questions aren’t going to trick you into trauma-dumping. Think: “In what ways are you different from the person you were five years ago? In what ways are you the same?” If you don’t vibe with a question for any reason, you can always pick another one.
Feel free to come alone (most people do-- we promise we won’t make it weird for you) or bring a friend!
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm ET
AGE RANGE | All Ages: While many folks who attend our events are in their 20s and 30s, all guests of all ages will be enthusiastically welcome!
ACCESSIBILITY & OTHER VENUE DETAILS | Wheelchair accessible.
Bibliotheque NYC, 54 Mercer St, New York, NY 10013 (SoHo)
mutual aid / community
Meet other nice single people IRL! A friendly host...Meet other nice single people IRL! A friendly host will guide you through one-on-one conversations and tell you when to switch partners. Our question cards help you skip the small talk and see if there’s chemistry.
Not to brag, but we do a really good job with gender balance, and our match rates are way higher than most speed-dating events. Come solo (most people do) or bring a friend!
This one’s for folks ages 30–45 looking for monogamous dating: women who want to date men, and men who want to date women. A year or two outside that range? Totally fine, as long as you’re happy dating people in it!
Trans folks are welcome, and so are gender-nonconforming folks who feel some connection to the identity of "woman" or "man" even if they don't fully fit into one category or the other. We don’t tolerate transphobia here or at any of our events.
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm ET
AGE RANGE | 30-45: This event is centered on people ages 30-45, but we welcome guests a year or two outside of that range who would feel comfortable dating people in the above age group. If you are outside of this age range, don't worry-- we have a lot of other events on our calendar, including all-ages events, that might be a better fit!
ACCESSIBILITY & OTHER VENUE DETAILS | Wheelchair accessible.
We’re so excited to host Dale Smith and Casper Lee...We’re so excited to host Dale Smith and Casper Lee, both visiting from out of town, with hometown hero Nicole Wallace to celebrate their incredible new books. @smithdalemartin ‘s The Passenger is just out from Wave, and @casper_a_mattress ‘s debut is new from @spiral.editions . @nmwnmwnmwnmw ‘s latest chapbook, anangoonsag, is forthcoming very soon from auric. Come join us for what will be a beautiful night:
Thursday 10/8
8pm
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