Event Listings
Venue: Pioneer Works
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Description: With economies crashing, techno fascism uploading, and the nuclear war boiling, what better way to celebrate the end of the world than drag queen wrestling?
Pioneer Works is excited to present Chokehole’s newest drag spectacular, ARMAGEDDON. A hilarious take on current events, the performance features Chokehole’s divas taking center stage—to throw, flip, and fling each other across the ring and into your hardened hearts. With acrobatics and custom backstage videos, ARMAGEDDON features Raúl de Nieves’s band Hairbone performing a live, halftime show within the artist’s Main Hall exhibition, In Light of Innocence. This smackdown is not to be missed!
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Venue: farm.one
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Description: Stuck in your writing? In need of a little more time or inspiration? Drink ’N Draft makes space for you to get out of your head and onto the page. Each night includes a series of visual prompts that lead you toward new creative choices in your work, and the chance to experiment with different styles of writing. You’re invited to write something new, continue a work-in-progress, or see where the evening takes you. We’ll finish with optional time to share what you’ve written. All genres welcome, no experience necessary.
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PITCH BLACK LISTENING w/ GROOVE OBSCURA
Venue: Silence Please
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Description: In apartheid South Africa, The Beaters returned from a newly independent Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) reborn as Harari - reclaiming their African name and sound in defiance of a regime built on erasure.
Across the Atlantic, Oneness of Juju channeled the same...
This is an 18+ event
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Listening Session w/ Blu:sh
Venue: Silence Please
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Description: Blu:sh is a French dj/producer based in Berlin. His output is an open invitation to join him in a deep appreciation of music and the connections it creates between sounds and people. His music and sets explore various moods in the house / after hour / brea...
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Venue: Index
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Description: Join The Healing Project for a letter-writing night in support of Peter Mukuria, an incarcerated artist, activist, and longtime collaborator with THP. Peter was recently transferred without explanation, blocked from communications, and placed in solitary confinement. As The Healing Project seeks to secure Peter legal representation, we are gathering to send him letters that express our encouragement and solidarity. RSVP at the link in bio.
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Mizuno Demo Night Boogie Down @ McCarren Track
Venue: Brooklyn Running Company
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Description: A night with Mizuno Running USA at McCarren Track. Fast shoes, flashing lights and that Wednesday night energy. We'll bring the shoes - you bring the moves. Demos of Neo Vista, Neo Zen, and Wave Rider available. Meet at Brooklyn Running Co. – Williamsburg. Link in bio to register.
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Venue: Public Records
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Live • 7PM Tickets Kennebec + Slow Meadow
Venue: Public Records
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Live 7PM Live • 7PM Tickets Kennebec + Slow Meadow
Venue: Public Records
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Recipe.site & Mixtures Launch Party
Venue: Index
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Description: Recipe.site is launching their new platform and community cookbook, Mixtures Vol. 1, at Index Greenpoint. The event will feature food prepared by cookbook contributors from their recipes, drinks, and celebration. Co-founders Alex and Conor will co-host with food creative Steph Lau.
Tags: food-drink, community, networking, festivals
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NTHNL + Ben Shirken + Miram Elhajli
Venue: Public Records
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Description: NTHNL + Ben Shirken + Miram Elhajli will perform live in the Sound Room.
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Live • 7PM Tickets NTHNL + Ben Shirken + Miram Elhajli
Venue: Public Records
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Live 7PM Live • 7PM Tickets NTHNL + Ben Shirken + Miram Elhajli
Venue: Public Records
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Condesa & Gin: Nueva York llega a PR
Venue: Mr Melo
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Description: Este próximo jueves 13 de noviembre traemos desde Brooklyn, NYC a @mr.melobar con un back to back entre @el_mas_alla_hifi y @grietavsj dos experiencias distintas, same cool vibes. Beats by: @mr.melobar , founders & @djtresdos.
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Crystal Guardian Custom Earplug Pop-Up
Venue: Public Records
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Description: Get fit for custom silicone earplugs fit to your anatomy with -10dB, -15dB, -20dB or -25dB musician-quality filters. $150/pair. No appointments; first come, first served. Each fitting takes approximately 8 minutes and usually a line forms. Please enjoy a coffee and bite while you wait. FAQ here: https://www.crystalguardian.xyz/about/#FAQs.
The ear impression process consists of checking the ear canals for wax, and if they are clear, placing a foam block inside and backfilling the canal with a silicone material that sets in four minutes. If you have an earwax cleaning routine, it is recommended to do it prior to meeting. If you know you have very waxy ears, you should get them professionally cleaned before an appointment.
RSVP does not guarantee a fitting. Please arrive early. Outside food and drinks not permitted.
Tags: workshops, health-wellness, pop-up
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Wellness • 11AM Tickets Crystal Guardian Custom Earplug Pop-Up
Venue: Public Records
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Description: Get fit for custom silicone earplugs fit to your anatomy with -10dB, -15dB, -20dB or -25dB musician-quality filters. $150/pair. No appointments; first come, first served. Each fitting takes approximately 8 minutes and usually a line forms. Please enjoy a coffee and bite while you wait. FAQ here: https://www.crystalguardian.xyz/about/#FAQs.
The ear impression process consists of checking the ear canals for wax, and if they are clear, placing a foam block inside and backfilling the canal with a silicone material that sets in four minutes. If you have an earwax cleaning routine, it is recommended to do it prior to meeting. If you know you have very waxy ears, you should get them professionally cleaned before an appointment.
RSVP does not guarantee a fitting. Please arrive early. Outside food and drinks not permitted.
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Wellness 11AM Wellness • 11AM Tickets Crystal Guardian Custom Earplug Pop-Up
Venue: Public Records
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Description: Get fit for custom silicone earplugs fit to your anatomy with -10dB, -15dB, -20dB or -25dB musician-quality filters. $150/pair. No appointments; first come, first served. Each fitting takes approximately 8 minutes and usually a line forms. Please enjoy a coffee and bite while you wait. FAQ here: https://www.crystalguardian.xyz/about/#FAQs.
The ear impression process consists of checking the ear canals for wax, and if they are clear, placing a foam block inside and backfilling the canal with a silicone material that sets in four minutes. If you have an earwax cleaning routine, it is recommended to do it prior to meeting. If you know you have very waxy ears, you should get them professionally cleaned before an appointment.
RSVP does not guarantee a fitting. Please arrive early. Outside food and drinks not permitted.
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Listening Session w/ Neil Kryszak
Venue: Silence Please
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Description: Neil Kryszak is a photographer, visual artist, and DJ whose work explores the space between sound and image. His photography in fine art, music and commercial spaces - shares the same moody, psychedelic atmosphere as his sound curation, blending rhythm-for...
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Venue: Metrograph
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Description: Louisiana woman Fox Rich’s 21-year campaign to secure her husband’s release from prison, where he was serving out a 60-year sentence for robbery, is the subject of this, one of the most acclaimed nonfiction works of the 21st century. Using mother-of-six Rich’s decades of home movies as well as original material shot in ravishing black and white, Bradley creates a spellbinding narrative of fortitude in the face of despair that puts very specific human faces on the too-often abstracted issue of the mass incarceration of Black people in America.
Distributor: Amazon Studios
Q&A with editor Gabriel Rose on Friday, November 14th
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Venue: Public Records
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Live • 7PM Tickets Photay + Samir Langus
Venue: Public Records
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EXTRA SPICY PLEASE 1 Year Anniversary Party
Venue: Honey's
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Description: Come celebrate 1 year of heat, sweat, and connection on the dance floor. What started as a small gathering has grown into a space for dancers, dreamers, and night-movers who like their music with a little kick. Featuring a stellar lineup of DJs: @rose.kourts, @amitamarsanto, @tallbrowndude, @wareshevik.music, and @anicheintheworld. A night filled with not only music but also vendors, specialty drinks, and food. Part of the profits will be donated to a local charity.
Tags: music, nightlife, food-drink, community, dance
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Live 7PM Live • 7PM Tickets Photay + Samir Langus
Venue: Public Records
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Venue: Metrograph
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Description: Loosely adapted from an 1830 short story of the same title (also known as “St. John’s Eve”) by Ukrainian writer Nikolai Gogol, Illienko’s second feature as director is the symbol-rich tale of a farmer, Petro (Boris Khmelnitsky), who, prevented from wedding the lovely Pidorka (Larisa Kadochnikova) by her disapproving father, turns for assistance to a demon who promises to expedite their union… for a price, of course. A key inspiration for Robert Eggers’s Nosferatu, The Eve of Ivan Kupalo, like A Spring for the Thirsty before it, is distinguished by Leonid Hrabovsky’s intricately designed soundscapes, here employed to create and sustain a pervasive atmosphere of otherworldly strangeness.
Introduction by Pylyp Illienko, Film Producer and son of Yuri Illienko on Friday, November 14th
35mm Sovscope print from Yuri Illienko's personal collection
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DIAL Showcase: Eddie Fowlkes + Special Guest / Zeina + Lauren Ritter / Dor Levi
Venue: Public Records
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Description: DIAL Showcase featuring Eddie Fowlkes + Special Guest, Zeina + Lauren Ritter, and Dor Levi.
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Club • 11PM Tickets DIAL Showcase: Eddie Fowlkes + Special Guest / Zeina + Lauren Ritter / Dor Levi
Venue: Public Records
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Dial 25: Lawrence + Eddie Fowlkes / Zeina + Lauren Ritter / Dor
Venue: Public Records
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Club 11PM Club • 11PM Tickets Dial 25: Lawrence + Eddie Fowlkes / Zeina + Lauren Ritter / Dor
Venue: Public Records
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Archiving as Ritual: Crafting Your Soft Yearbook
Venue: Index
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Description: In Archiving as Ritual, you’ll gather images, thoughts, memories, griefs, delights from the past year, and begin shaping them into an experimental yearbook. Over four sessions on Zoom, artist and archivist @shapelessclouds.x guides you through reflection, layering, and creative assembly. Register at the link in bio!
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Venue: Metrograph
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Description: Illienko’s feature debut, completed the same year as Sergei Parajanov’s Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors, on which Illienko had served as cinematographer and in which A Spring for the Thirsty actress Larisa Kadochnikova also appears, would not be released until 1987, at which time audiences were able to see one of the most formally audacious films in the history of Ukrainian cinema, a work which depicts, almost entirely without dialogue, the daily and inner lives of an elderly widower (Dmitri Milyutenko) living in proximity to the Dnieper River. This almost absurdly simple “story”—if it can be called as much—becomes in Illienko’s hands something extraordinarily complex and, shot on special high-contrast stock and featuring a collage-like soundtrack by Leonid Hrabovsky, disarmingly strange and ravishingly beautiful.
35mm print from Yuri Illienko's personal collection
Introduction by Pylyp Illienko, Film Producer and son of Yuri Illienko on Saturday, November 15th
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Spoonerism presents: Punjabi Disco Listening Session with Kuljit Bhamra and Naya Beat
Venue: Public Records
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Description: Punjabi Disco is the first-ever British-Asian electronic dance album recorded—released in the same year as Charinjit Singh’s classic Ten Ragas To A Disco Beat. A groundbreaking amalgam of disco, acid house, and Punjabi folk melodies by the OG West London vocalist Mohinder Kaur Bhamra, it’s a quietly revolutionary LP that has long been unknown and inaccessible to even the deepest of diggers. Over 40 years after its initial limited release, our friends at the LA-based archival label Naya Beat have brought Punjabi Disco back to life for the proper reception it deserves.
Punjabi Disco was produced by Mohinder’s eldest son and the legendary bhangra pioneer Kuljit Bhamra. For the reissue, Naya Beat founders Turbotito & Ragz brought together the past and the present by pairing the remastered original studio recordings with new interpretations by Peaking Lights, Danger Boys, Psychemagik, Dexter+Franz, Mystic Jungle, Baalti, and Say She She’s Piya Malik. The release was named The Guardian’s “Global Album of the Month”, and has been praised by BBC, DJ Mag, Mixmag, and In Sheep’s Clothing among other publications.
Kuljit Bhamra and Naya Beat will sit in conversation with celebrated South Asian music journalist Vrinda Jagota [Pitchfork, Taste, LA Review of Books] for a Q&A and listening session at Public Records’ Upstairs this Saturday, November 15th from 4-6 PM. The conversation will be archived and released on Spoonerism’s monthly radio show on Half Moon BK. Copies of Punjabi Disco will be available for purchase as well.
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Live 4PM Live • 4PM Tickets Spoonerism presents: Punjabi Disco Listening Session with Kuljit Bhamra and Naya Beat
Venue: Public Records
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Description: Spoonerism presents a Punjabi Disco Listening Session with Kuljit Bhamra and Naya Beat at Public Records. This event celebrates the reissue of 'Punjabi Disco', the first-ever British-Asian electronic dance album recorded, released in the same year as Charinjit Singh’s classic Ten Ragas To A Disco Beat. The groundbreaking album, a mix of disco, acid house, and Punjabi folk melodies by Mohinder Kaur Bhamra, has been brought back to life by LA-based archival label Naya Beat. The reissue features remastered originals and new interpretations by various artists.
Kuljit Bhamra, the album's original producer and bhangra pioneer, along with Naya Beat, will engage in a Q&A and listening session with South Asian music journalist Vrinda Jagota. The event will take place in Public Records’ Upstairs on Saturday, November 15th from 4-6 PM. The conversation will be archived for Spoonerism’s monthly radio show on Half Moon BK. Copies of 'Punjabi Disco' will also be available for purchase.
Tags: music, talks-lectures, community
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The White Bird Marked with Black
Venue: Metrograph
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Description: Set during and immediately after World War II in a Hutsul village in Bukovyna—straddling the border between the western Ukraine and Romania and claimed by both—Illienko’s magnum opus follows a family of traveling folk musicians led by a world-weary patriarch, his three sons divided in their wartime allegiances. (Ivan Mykolaichuk, who co-wrote the film and would later become a director in his own right, plays the fervent communist of the trio.) The Soviet and the Axis powers are vying for control, but for anyone reading between the lines, a more nuanced picture emerges, with political sympathies exploited and Ukrainian land usurped. The White Bird Marked with Black is a masterclass in dynamic camera movement, including bravura 360-degree tracking shots and a usage of telephoto lenses that recalls Illienko’s work as DP on Sergei Parajanov’s Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors.
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Venue: Public Records
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Live • 7PM Tickets Ashni + Slowspin
Venue: Public Records
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Live 7PM Live • 7PM Tickets Ashni + Slowspin
Venue: Public Records
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Love Injection / Jihad Muhammad + k.tea / Ben Hixon
Venue: Public Records
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Club • 11PM Tickets Love Injection / Jihad Muhammad + k.tea / Ben Hixon
Venue: Public Records
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Club 11PM Club • 11PM Tickets Love Injection / Jihad Muhammad + k.tea / Ben Hixon
Venue: Public Records
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Performa presents: Terra Femme
Venue: Metrograph
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Description: Metrograph is proud to once again participate as a venue of the Performa 2025 Biennial—three weeks of new visual arts performance taking place at leading art and cultural institutions across the city of New York, from November 1-23—hosting a very special revival of the lauded lecture-performance by filmmaker Courtney Stephens, Terra Femme.
“Bridging the gap between moving image and performance, Terra Femme tells the story of amateur female filmmakers from the early 20th century as they document their distant travels, seeing the act of filmmaking as one that is both liberatory and reflective of our own prejudices. As Performa built our programming series “If It Moves: Art and Performance After Cinema” for the Performa 2025 Biennial, Courtney’s voice felt vital to include: self-reflexive, immaculately researched, and surprisingly personal, Terra Femme calls into question the motivations behind filmmaking’s first century––particularly our desire to figure out our most pressing questions and to see our lives reflected back to us.” —Performa, Madeleine Seidel, Assistant Curator, and Ikechúkwú Onyewuenyi, Curator and Manager of Curatorial Affairs
Q&A with filmmaker Courtney Stephens moderated by Performa assitant curator Madeleine Seidel on Sunday, November 16th
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Susan Buck-Morss on Commonist Ethics, The Vanguard, and Visual Studies
Venue: Woodbine
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Description: Join the Woodbine Research Group for a conversation with Susan Buck-Morss on the vanguard and the avant-garde, commonist practice and ethics, and the role of visual studies in the global imagination. This is part of Woodbine's roving fall events series in partnership with different venues around the city. Our discussion will focus on key questions from a survey of Buck-Morss’ work including: How are we to conceive of a commonist ethics? To what degree is intellectual, avant-garde, and vanguard production affecting the outside world and working against class and other forms of exploitation? What kind of community can we hope for from a global dissemination of images, and how can we create it? Susan Buck-Morss is a multi-disciplinary scholar whose political theory emerges out of a constellation of historical material, visual images, and contemporary events. She is a core faculty member of the CUNY Graduate Center’s Committee on Globalization and Social Change. Her focus on sensory experience as the source of philosophical revelation is the topic of her most recent experimental book, Seeing/Making Room for Thought (2023), co-authored with Kevin McCaughey (designer of Woodbine’s journal The Reservoir), and Inventory Press' Adam Michaels. Her early studies on the Frankfurt School are Dialectics of Seeing: Walter Benjamin and the Arcades Project (MIT Press, 1989) and The Origin of Negative Dialectics: Theodor W. Adorno, Walter Benjamin, and the Frankfurt School (Free Press, 1979).
Tags: talks-lectures, educational, community, politics
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Venue: Metrograph
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Description: Released in the year of the Declaration of State Sovereignty of Ukraine, with the formal dissolution of the Soviet Union laying just just ahead, Illienko’s adaptation of stories written during incarceration in the 1970s by the director’s onetime collaborator Sergei Parajanov depicts the repeated and increasingly desperate attempts of a prisoner (Viktor Solovyov) to escape his hellish confinement. Filmed in the same Ukrainian prison where Parajanov—who was dying of cancer during the production of Swan Lake. The Zone—had been held in the 1970s, Illienko’s bracingly tactile, dialogue-sparse work of allegorical realism is both a tender goodbye to Parajanov and a wary welcome to an uncertain future.
35mm print from Yuri Illienko's personal collection
Q&A with Pylyp Illienko moderated by Dr. Yuri Shevchuk (Columbia University) on Sunday, November 16th
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An Evening with Mat and Jenn playing Carissa’s Wierd
Venue: Public Records
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Description: Carissa’s Wierd founders Mat Brooke and Jenn Champion reunite for an intimate set. They will play curated songs from the Carissa’s Wierd catalogue stripped down as a duo and share some stories. Carissa’s Wierd was founded by Jenn Champion and Mat Brooke in 1995 not long after the pair met in Tucson, Arizona. Brooke and Champion ended up living and playing music in Seattle where they refined their songwriting prowess and musical aesthetic. Known for their intertwining guitars and vocals and acute sadness, the band made an indelible mark on the city and its scene.
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Live • 7PM Tickets An Evening with Mat and Jenn playing Carissa’s Wierd
Venue: Public Records
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Description: Carissa’s Wierd founders Mat Brooke and Jenn Champion reunite for an intimate set. They will play curated songs from the Carissa’s Wierd catalogue stripped down as a duo and share some stories. Carissa’s Wierd was founded by Jenn Champion and Mat Brooke in 1995 not long after the pair met in Tucson, Arizona. Brooke and Champion ended up living and playing music in Seattle where they refined their songwriting prowess and musical aesthetic. Known for their intertwining guitars and vocals and acute sadness, the band made an indelible mark on the city and its scene.
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Scientific Controversies: Deep Thoughts of Artificial Minds
Venue: Pioneer Works
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Description: While much of the public’s conversation around AI focuses on its social and ethical implications, we turn to those who truly understand what could actually be happening inside this AI black box, the opaque internal system of the AI. How close are machines to thinking? Will machines have minds, and if so, will they have any insight into their own thoughts? What might their minds reveal about our minds? So many questions.
Computer science pioneer Yann LeCun and Google DeepMind research lead Adam Brown join our Director of Sciences Janna Levin in conversation. Yann LeCun is one of the foundational figures in modern AI. A Turing Award winner, he’s the chief architect behind deep learning and convolutional neural networks. LeCun is presently Chief AI Scientist at Meta. Adam Brown is a research scientist and group lead on Gemini, Google DeepMind’s large language model, and has helped drive the astonishing progress of these AI systems as they have evolved from babbling preschoolers to International Math Olympiad gold medallists. The trio will explore how machines do what they’re doing and if machines can indeed actually think. Together, they’ll probe the boundaries of current machine learning, human understanding, and the tantalizing possibility of machine consciousness.
Before and after the conversation, enjoy grooves by DJ Black Helmet, fresh Mexican food by For All Things Good, and stargazing in the garden with the Amateur Astronomers’ Association, weather-depending. A special-edition patch designed by artist Andrea Lauer will be available for purchase at the event.
Tags: science, tech, talks-lectures, music, food-drink, art
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Live 7PM Live • 7PM Tickets An Evening with Mat and Jenn playing Carissa’s Wierd
Venue: Public Records
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Description: Carissa’s Wierd founders Mat Brooke and Jenn Champion reunite for an intimate set.
They will play curated songs from the Carissa’s Wierd catalogue stripped down as a duo and share some stories.
Carissa’s Wierd was founded by Jenn Champion and Mat Brooke in 1995 not long after the pair met in Tucson, Arizona. Brooke and Champion ended up living and playing music in Seattle where they refined their songwriting prowess and musical aesthetic. Known for their intertwining guitars and vocals and acute sadness, the band made an indelible mark on the city and its scene.
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Venue: farm.one
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Description: Come make your own bonsai tree! Bonsai Bar is hosting one of their amazing beginner workshops in the Brew Lab. You'll get your own tree, pot, and tons of hands-on teaching from one of Bonsai Bar's incredible instructors.
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Venue: Public Records
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Live • 7PM Tickets Helado Negro
Venue: Public Records
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Creative Showcase: Fall Forum Quickfire
Venue: Index
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Description: Creative Showcase returns! Join us for an evening of fast-paced, 20-slide presentations from five creatives sharing recent work across design, tech, music, and science. From matchbook ephemera to live-coded music and climate storytelling, this seasonal gathering invites curiosity, connection, and inspiration. Featuring talks by Natalia Dyer, Nicole Fox, Dan Hemerlein, Katie Ehrlich, and Michael Bass, and hosted by Katie Ehrlich. Snag a ticket at the link in bio!
Tags: design, tech, music, talks-lectures, educational
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Live 7PM Live • 7PM Tickets Helado Negro
Venue: Public Records
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Venue: Public Records
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Description: Ken Yates + Liv Greene performing live at Public Records in the Sound Room.
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Live • 7PM Tickets Ken Yates + Liv Greene
Venue: Public Records
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Live 7PM Live • 7PM Tickets Ken Yates + Liv Greene
Venue: Public Records
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The American Analog Set perform “Magic Hour” (2 Nights)
Venue: Pioneer Works
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Description: Pioneer Works is proud to present the American Analog Set for the Brooklyn debut of Magic Hour, a special seated performance in our Main Hall. An intimate, immersive live show, Magic Hour features thoughtfully selected songs from the band’s first six albums: The Fun Of Watching Fireworks, From Our Living Room To Yours, The Golden Band, Know By Heart, Promise Of Love, and Set Free. It’s also the band’s first proper show in nearly 20 years.
First conceived in their hometown of Austin, Magic Hour features original members Andrew Kenny (guitar, vocals), Jesse Lee (bass), Tom Hoff (keys, guitar), Sean Ripple (vibes, vocals), and special guest Matthew Frank (drums, percussion). The show is presented in a fully seated, theatrical environment enhanced by immersive lighting and set design by Lisa Laratta (Paper Chairs). More than a carefully staged retrospective of the American Analog Set’s early discography, it’s something quieter, more intimate: a sonic memory book of the slowcore, post-rock, and lo-fi lullabies that defined a cult corner of American indie music from the late ’90s through the mid-2000s.
About the Artist
Formed in Austin in the mid-90s, the American Analog Set quietly became cult legends of American indie music with their distinctive blend of analog warmth, ambient textures, and minimalist pop restraint. Over six albums between 1996 and 2005, the band developed a sound that drew from German kosmische, ‘90s slowcore, and home-recorded psychedelia—always intimate, often hypnotic, and never in a rush.
Formed in Brooklyn in 2009 by three Texas ex-pats (Lance Scott Walker, Birdlikebats, and Nicholas Phelps), Bull Thieves released one self-titled album before going underground in 2011, after which Walker pivoted to work on his books about Houston hip-hop (Houston Rap Tapes, DJ Screw: A Life In Slow Revolution) and the other band members relocated. In 2024, Walker fully rebooted the band in New York with his best friend, the artist Joan LeMay (Quantum Criminals: Ramblers, Wild Gamblers, and Other Sole Survivors From the Songs of Steely Dan) playing bass, and after a few shows as a duo they were joined by drummer Liana Katz (Brooklyn Cyclones Surf Squad) at the center of a larger collective that includes collaborations with the original Bull Thieves as well as Houston producers JGtheengineer and Stenographer. The core trio of Walker, LeMay, and Katz plays a noisy grade of indie rock that descends from Texas punk threaded with shoegaze and the rap/jazz/funk/R&B back catalogues that have informed their other artistic pursuits. Bull Thieves released the 7-inch "Pasture Kills" b/w "Wild Own" in May 2025, with an album, Rattlesnake & Swan, to follow.
This program takes place within artist Raúl de Nieves’s site-specific installation, In Light of Innocence. Learn more about the exhibition here.
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Fenne Lily + Free Range + Isaac Pierce
Venue: Public Records
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Description: Live event featuring Fenne Lily, Free Range, and Isaac Pierce in the Sound Room.
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Live • 7PM Tickets Fenne Lily + Free Range + Isaac Pierce
Venue: Public Records
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Live 7PM Live • 7PM Tickets Fenne Lily + Free Range + Isaac Pierce
Venue: Public Records
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Description: Fenne Lily + Free Range + Isaac Pierce performing live in the Sound Room.
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The American Analog Set perform “Magic Hour”
Venue: Pioneer Works
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Description: Pioneer Works is proud to present the American Analog Set for the Brooklyn debut of Magic Hour, a special seated performance in our Main Hall. An intimate, immersive live show, Magic Hour features thoughtfully selected songs from the band’s first six albums: The Fun Of Watching Fireworks, From Our Living Room To Yours, The Golden Band, Know By Heart, Promise Of Love, and Set Free. It’s also the band’s first proper show in nearly 20 years.
First conceived in their hometown of Austin, Magic Hour features original members Andrew Kenny (guitar, vocals), Jesse Lee (bass), Tom Hoff (keys, guitar), Sean Ripple (vibes, vocals), and special guest Matthew Frank (drums, percussion). The show is presented in a fully seated, theatrical environment enhanced by immersive lighting and set design by Lisa Laratta (Paper Chairs). More than a carefully staged retrospective of the American Analog Set’s early discography, it’s something quieter, more intimate: a sonic memory book of the slowcore, post-rock, and lo-fi lullabies that defined a cult corner of American indie music from the late ’90s through the mid-2000s.
About the Artist
Formed in Austin in the mid-90s, the American Analog Set quietly became cult legends of American indie music with their distinctive blend of analog warmth, ambient textures, and minimalist pop restraint. Over six albums between 1996 and 2005, the band developed a sound that drew from German kosmische, ‘90s slowcore, and home-recorded psychedelia—always intimate, often hypnotic, and never in a rush.
This program takes place within artist Raúl de Nieves’s site-specific installation, In Light of Innocence. Learn more about the exhibition here.
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An Evening with Haley Heynderickx and Max García Conover
Venue: Public Records
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Description: Haley Heynderickx and Max García Conover made their second collaborative record in the spirit of Woody Guthrie. From opposite corners of the country, the two songwriters spent a year sharing songs while reading Woody’s words and biographies, slowly exploring a patchwork of Americanism to see where their stories fit. García Conover, half-Puerto Rican, and Heynderickx, half-Filipina, found themselves with this collection of music about the legacy of colonialism, generational identity, commercialism, and the slippery target of addressing social equity in song. Heynderickx’s precise, delicate eloquence met García Conover’s vivid, angular poetics in a barn in Vermont, where this record was recorded directly to tape in five days. With guitars, voices, and some found percussion, they played the record straight through, channeling Woody’s union of spontaneity, sweetness, and defiance.
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Live • 7PM Tickets An Evening with Haley Heynderickx and Max García Conover
Venue: Public Records
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Description: Haley Heynderickx and Max García Conover made their second collaborative record in the spirit of Woody Guthrie. From opposite corners of the country, the two songwriters spent a year sharing songs while reading Woody’s words and biographies, slowly exploring a patchwork of Americanism to see where their stories fit. García Conover, half-Puerto Rican, and Heynderickx, half-Filipina, found themselves with this collection of music about the legacy of colonialism, generational identity, commercialism, and the slippery target of addressing social equity in song. Heynderickx’s precise, delicate eloquence met García Conover’s vivid, angular poetics in a barn in Vermont, where this record was recorded directly to tape in five days. With guitars, voices, and some found percussion, they played the record straight through, channeling Woody’s union of spontaneity, sweetness, and defiance.
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Live 7PM Live • 7PM Tickets An Evening with Haley Heynderickx and Max García Conover
Venue: Public Records
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Description: Haley Heynderickx and Max García Conover made their second collaborative record in the spirit of Woody Guthrie. From opposite corners of the country, the two songwriters spent a year sharing songs while reading Woody’s words and biographies, slowly exploring a patchwork of Americanism to see where their stories fit. García Conover, half-Puerto Rican, and Heynderickx, half-Filipina, found themselves with this collection of music about the legacy of colonialism, generational identity, commercialism, and the slippery target of addressing social equity in song. Heynderickx’s precise, delicate eloquence met García Conover’s vivid, angular poetics in a barn in Vermont, where this record was recorded directly to tape in five days. With guitars, voices, and some found percussion, they played the record straight through, channeling Woody’s union of spontaneity, sweetness, and defiance.
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Tadeo + Julia Govor / Heels & Souls / Zotos
Venue: Public Records
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Club • 11PM Tickets Tadeo + Julia Govor / Heels & Souls / Zotos
Venue: Public Records
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Club 11PM Club • 11PM Tickets Tadeo + Julia Govor / Heels & Souls / Zotos
Venue: Public Records
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Description: Tadeo + Julia Govor / Heels & Souls / Zotos
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Venue: Metrograph
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Description: Filho’s narrative feature debut, largely shot in the director’s own home and around the quarter of Recife that he grew up in, Neighboring Sounds—a film whose title suggests its meticulous sound design, which plays no small part in creating a sense of mounting ambient anxiety—is a slow-burn drama of collective communal unease and rankling resentments, in which a group of area residents band together to hire security as a buffer against the sinister have-nots they imagine waiting to ransack their little redoubt. “Burrows deep to expose the unarticulated though ever-present sense of dread gripping its bourgeois characters… What Mendonça demonstrates so potently is the psychic toll exacted by the elite’s refusal to directly address Brazil’s pervasive class imbalances, as the affluent immure themselves in well-appointed spaces tricked out with surveillance cameras.” —Melissa Anderson, Artforum
Distributor: The Cinema Guild
Q&A with director Kleber Mendonça Filho on Saturday, November 22nd
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Seeking Truth in the Olive Groves: A Guided Tasting with Bea Olive Oil & Off-Menu
Venue: Index
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Description: Join us for an afternoon of tasting and reflection with Beatrice Karp, founder of Bea Olive Oil, as she shares insights from her recent Tuscan harvest and guides us through the philosophy, flavor, and care behind her olive oil. Presented by Off-Menu Mag, this sensory experience pairs storytelling, seasonal bread, and freshly pressed oil to spark conversation around food, truth, and intentional living. Register at the link in bio!
Tags: food-drink, talks-lectures, educational
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An Evening with Haley Heynderickx + Max García Conover [Night Two]
Venue: Public Records
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Description: Haley Heynderickx and Max García Conover made their second collaborative record in the spirit of Woody Guthrie. From opposite corners of the country, the two songwriters spent a year sharing songs while reading Woody’s words and biographies, slowly exploring a patchwork of Americanism to see where their stories fit. García Conover, half-Puerto Rican, and Heynderickx, half-Filipina, found themselves with this collection of music about the legacy of colonialism, generational identity, commercialism, and the slippery target of addressing social equity in song. Heynderickx’s precise, delicate eloquence met García Conover’s vivid, angular poetics in a barn in Vermont, where this record was recorded directly to tape in five days. With guitars, voices, and some found percussion, they played the record straight through, channeling Woody’s union of spontaneity, sweetness, and defiance.
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Live • 7PM Tickets An Evening with Haley Heynderickx + Max García Conover [Night Two]
Venue: Public Records
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Description: Haley Heynderickx and Max García Conover made their second collaborative record in the spirit of Woody Guthrie. From opposite corners of the country, the two songwriters spent a year sharing songs while reading Woody’s words and biographies, slowly exploring a patchwork of Americanism to see where their stories fit. García Conover, half-Puerto Rican, and Heynderickx, half-Filipina, found themselves with this collection of music about the legacy of colonialism, generational identity, commercialism, and the slippery target of addressing social equity in song. Heynderickx’s precise, delicate eloquence met García Conover’s vivid, angular poetics in a barn in Vermont, where this record was recorded directly to tape in five days. With guitars, voices, and some found percussion, they played the record straight through, channeling Woody’s union of spontaneity, sweetness, and defiance.
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Live 7PM Live • 7PM Tickets An Evening with Haley Heynderickx + Max García Conover [Night Two]
Venue: Public Records
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Description: Haley Heynderickx and Max García Conover made their second collaborative record in the spirit of Woody Guthrie. From opposite corners of the country, the two songwriters spent a year sharing songs while reading Woody’s words and biographies, slowly exploring a patchwork of Americanism to see where their stories fit. García Conover, half-Puerto Rican, and Heynderickx, half-Filipina, found themselves with this collection of music about the legacy of colonialism, generational identity, commercialism, and the slippery target of addressing social equity in song. Heynderickx’s precise, delicate eloquence met García Conover’s vivid, angular poetics in a barn in Vermont, where this record was recorded directly to tape in five days. With guitars, voices, and some found percussion, they played the record straight through, channeling Woody’s union of spontaneity, sweetness, and defiance.
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For Future’s Sake + Frank & Tony / AIDA + Galen / Jeremie Delon
Venue: Public Records
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Frank & Tony + Rick Wade + For Future’s Sake / AIDA + Galen / Jeremie Delon
Venue: Public Records
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Club • 11PM Tickets Frank & Tony + Rick Wade + For Future’s Sake / AIDA + Galen / Jeremie Delon
Venue: Public Records
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Club 11PM Club • 11PM Tickets Frank & Tony + Rick Wade + For Future’s Sake / AIDA + Galen / Jeremie Delon
Venue: Public Records
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LayeRhythm presents: Triple Thread
Venue: Public Records
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Description: LayeRhythm presents: Triple Thread - Street Dance x Rap x Beats | 3v3 Invitational Battle. Each battle team is made up of 1 dancer, 1 emcee, and 1 producer. After each round, category winners are reshuffled into new teams, except for the final round where the winning team is crowned as a unit. Rounds are themed/game-based. Winners each receive a $400 prize. DJ sets before and after battles. All battle participants are invite-only, but attendance is open to the public.
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Live 4PM Live • 4PM Tickets LayeRhythm presents: Triple Thread
Venue: Public Records
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Description: LayeRhythm presents: Triple Thread - Street Dance x Rap x Beats | 3v3 Invitational Battle. Each battle team is made up of 1 dancer, 1 emcee, and 1 producer. After each round, category winners are reshuffled into new teams, except for the final round where the winning team is crowned as a unit. Rounds are themed/game-based. Winners each receive a $400 prize. DJ sets before and after battles. No open prelims; all battle participants are invite-only. Attendance is open to the public.
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Patrice Bäumel Open To Close
Venue: Public Records
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Club • 9PM Tickets Patrice Bäumel Open To Close
Venue: Public Records
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Description: Patrice Bäumel Open To Close - Club, Sound Room
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Club 9PM Club • 9PM Tickets Patrice Bäumel Open To Close
Venue: Public Records
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Venue: Public Records
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Description: On her latest release, Another View, Kalia Vandever’s quartet leans into a taut, clear-eyed study of cycles and grooves with elegiac melodies that effloresce into something dynamic, nearly bursting with life. The album features Vandever’s trombone leads, meeting Mary Halvorson’s elastic guitar lines in shifting light, alongside Kanoa Mendenhall [bass], Flanafi [guitar], and Kayvon Gordon [drums], letting repetition breathe in a mutable structure. Underneath is a narrative about idealization curdling into dread, the way the drafts and shadows of a “dream house” reveal themselves once you move inside. Vandever has drawn, in part, from Carmen Maria Machado’s inventive memoir In the Dream House [Graywolf Press, 2019].
In the context of her solo work and the songcraft she’s honed in collaborative projects like tilt [Vandever’s trio with Isabel Crespo Pardo and Carmen Quill], Vandever’s Another View feels like a multilayered dream. The repetition and shifting motifs are songlike, melancholic, hopeful, volatile. Each listen is another angle, another room, another view. The album releases in full on November 14 via Northern Spy Records.
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Live • 7PM Tickets Kalia Vandever Quartet
Venue: Public Records
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Description: On her latest release, Another View, Kalia Vandever’s quartet leans into a taut, clear-eyed study of cycles and grooves with elegiac melodies that effloresce into something dynamic, nearly bursting with life. The album features Vandever’s trombone leads, meeting Mary Halvorson’s elastic guitar lines in shifting light, alongside Kanoa Mendenhall [bass], Flanafi [guitar], and Kayvon Gordon [drums], letting repetition breathe in a mutable structure. Underneath is a narrative about idealization curdling into dread, the way the drafts and shadows of a “dream house” reveal themselves once you move inside. Vandever has drawn, in part, from Carmen Maria Machado’s inventive memoir In the Dream House [Graywolf Press, 2019].
In the context of her solo work and the songcraft she’s honed in collaborative projects like tilt [Vandever’s trio with Isabel Crespo Pardo and Carmen Quill], Vandever’s Another View feels like a multilayered dream. The repetition and shifting motifs are songlike, melancholic, hopeful, volatile. Each listen is another angle, another room, another view. The album releases in full on November 14 via Northern Spy Records.
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Live 7PM Live • 7PM Tickets Kalia Vandever Quartet
Venue: Public Records
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Description: On her latest release, Another View, Kalia Vandever’s quartet leans into a taut, clear-eyed study of cycles and grooves with elegiac melodies that effloresce into something dynamic, nearly bursting with life. The album features Vandever’s trombone leads, meeting Mary Halvorson’s elastic guitar lines in shifting light, alongside Kanoa Mendenhall [bass], Flanafi [guitar], and Kayvon Gordon [drums], letting repetition breathe in a mutable structure. Underneath is a narrative about idealization curdling into dread, the way the drafts and shadows of a “dream house” reveal themselves once you move inside. Vandever has drawn, in part, from Carmen Maria Machado’s inventive memoir In the Dream House [Graywolf Press, 2019].
In the context of her solo work and the songcraft she’s honed in collaborative projects like tilt [Vandever’s trio with Isabel Crespo Pardo and Carmen Quill], Vandever’s Another View feels like a multilayered dream. The repetition and shifting motifs are songlike, melancholic, hopeful, volatile. Each listen is another angle, another room, another view. The album releases in full on November 14 via Northern Spy Records.
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Benji B + Lovie / Jenifa Mayanja + TBA / D’Sean
Venue: Public Records
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Club • 11PM Tickets Benji B + Lovie / Jenifa Mayanja / D’Sean
Venue: Public Records
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Benji B + Lovie / Jenifa Mayanja / D’Sean
Venue: Public Records
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Description: Benji B + Lovie / Jenifa Mayanja / D'Sean playing across the Club, Sound Room, The Atrium, and Upstairs.
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Club 11PM Club • 11PM Tickets Benji B + Lovie / Jenifa Mayanja / D’Sean
Venue: Public Records
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Venue: Public Records
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Description: rosewater is a full-day cultural experience and benefit curated by UNDEFINED celebrating the brilliance of diasporic communities across South Asian, Africa, West Asia [SWANA], & surrounding regions, such as Sri Lanka, through sound, ritual, + art rooted in community and giving back.
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Club • 3PM Tickets rosewater
Venue: Public Records
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Description: rosewater is a full-day cultural experience and benefit curated by UNDEFINED celebrating the brilliance of diasporic communities across South Asian, Africa, West Asia [SWANA], & surrounding regions, such as Sri Lanka, through sound, ritual, + art rooted in community and giving back.
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Ritual: Colored Craig + Keenan Orr + Niyah West
Venue: Public Records
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Description: Ritual: Colored Craig + Keenan Orr + Niyah West will be performing at Public Records.
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Club 3PM Club • 3PM Tickets Ritual: Colored Craig + Keenan Orr + Niyah West
Venue: Public Records
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Description: Ritual: Colored Craig + Keenan Orr + Niyah West will be performing at Public Records.
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Club 3PM Club • 3PM Tickets rosewater
Venue: Public Records
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Description: rosewater is a full-day cultural experience and benefit curated by UNDEFINED celebrating the brilliance of diasporic communities across South Asian, Africa, West Asia [SWANA], & surrounding regions, such as Sri Lanka, through sound, ritual, + art rooted in community and giving back.
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Venue: Index
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Description: ChinatownJS is a quarterly event for developers and creative technologists to share short (10-minute) talks on their ideas and projects. We're looking for three speakers to present at our next event.
Tags: tech, networking, talks-lectures
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Venue: Metrograph
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Description: Its title a reference to the Islamic term for the narrow bridge that one crosses over hell en route to paradise, Laxe’s sun-bleached survivalist white-knuckler—joint winner of the Jury Prize at the most recent Cannes Film Festival, and the Spanish entry for the 98th Academy Awards—is a film of ecstasy and purgatory, of physical trials and spiritual elevation. It follows the middle-aged Luis (Sergi López) as he arrives in Morocco, his young son and pet dog in tow, to follow the trail of his adult daughter, now five months missing, whom he fears has joined an acid-fried band of roving sybarites who’ve plunged into the desert in search of a fabled rave. A persistent techno score by Kanding Ray (awarded Best Soundtrack at Cannes), alternately trancelike and urgent, combines with the majestic aridity of the landscape to imbue Sirāt with a sense of apocalyptic augury, delivered upon in its explosive and unforeseeable plot twists.
A NEON release
Q&A with director Oliver Laxe on Friday, December 5th
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Venue: Metrograph
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Description: Filmed in and around the village in Galicia’s Serra dos Ancares mountains where the director’s grandparents were born, Fire Will Come is the story of Amador (Amador Arias), a convicted firebug who, having finished serving out a prison sentence for arson, has come home to live with his mother, Benedicta (Benedicta Sanchez, like Arias, a nonprofessional actor), his awkward attempts to acclimate himself to life on the outside complicated when an out-of-control blaze devastates the countryside and already-suspicious neighbors’ tongues commence to wagging. A contemplative film about everyday life as lived in a place where the majesty of nature is a constant, unavoidable fact, regarding with reverent awe both the lush landscapes of the “Green Spain” of the northwest and the tongues of flame that threaten to consume it.
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Venue: Metrograph
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Description: Returning to Japan after five years abroad, Tamae (Yoshiko Okada), who has become a star actress in that time, hopes to pick up where she left off with Shigeko (Toshiko Kojima), the daughter that she left behind to pursue fame. Instead, she finds her husband, Atsumi (Nara Shinyo), has remarried, and that Shigeko has grown attached to her new stepmother (Yukiko Tsukuba), and that even as Atsumi faces bankruptcy, fame and fortune may not be enough to lure Tamae’s daughter back to her side. Naruse’s earliest surviving feature, adapted from a 1913 novel by Shunyo Yanagawa, showcasing vivacious and emphatic camerawork that may surprise those only familiar with the director’s more contemplative later work.
35mm print courtesy of the National Film Archive of Japan
One screening only!
Live piano accompaniment by Makia Matsumura on Saturday, December 6th
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Stained Glass Class with Jonny Campolo
Venue: Pioneer Works
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Description: Join us Sunday, December 7, between 12–5 pm for a hands-on stained glass workshop inspired by Raúl de Nieves’s exhibition In Light of Innocence. Jonny Campolo will lead the class, teaching participants how to score, cut, break, grind, copper tape, flux, solder, stain, live, laugh, and love with glass. Participants will leave the workshop with a small stained glass piece of 6–8" of their own design to hang in a window.
Space is limited in this class, and requires advance registration. The enrollment fee is $160 per person. The class provides all required materials and refreshments. To enroll, please complete the sign-up form and send the enrollment fee via Venmo payment to [@jonnycampolo](https://venmo.com/u/JonnyCampolo).
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Venue: Metrograph
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Description: Fending for herself and her young son by serving sailors in a harbor-side bar, abandoned mother Omitsu (Sumiko Kurishima) sees only further suffering ahead when her charismatic ne’er-do-well husband, Mizuhara (Saito Tatsuo, an Ozu regular), reappears begging her forgiveness, but is ultimately helpless to resist his blandishments and her neighbors’ sermons on the subject of forgiveness. The kinetic camerawork here belongs to Naruse’s silent period, but in other regards Every-Night Dreams—with its keen documentation of the dismal realities of economic uncertainty and its tale of the inevitable triumph of inherent weaknesses of character over the will to self-improvement—is perhaps the Naruse silent that most clearly anticipates the mature masterpieces ahead.
35mm print courtesy of the National Film Archive of Japan
One screening only!
Live piano accompaniment by Makia Matsumura on Sunday, December 7th
Part of Early Naruse: Five Silents and a Talkie
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Venue: Metrograph
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Description: Working as a waitress in Tokyo’s Ginza district, Sugiko (Shinobu Setsuko) envisages a bright future ahead for herself with a marriage proposal on the table from beau Harada (Yuki Ichiro), and film studio talent scout Yukihiko (Ryu Chishu) tempting her with the promise of stardom. Even being clipped by a passing car at first seems like a blessing in disguise for Sugiko, for the driver, Hiroshi (Yamanouchi Hikaru), is rich, single, and soon smitten with the injured young woman—but fairy tale endings were never Naruse’s stock in trade, and our heroine soon learns that Hiroshi’s affection for her is by no means shared by her new in-laws. The first appearance in Naruse’s cinema of the auto accident as a quintessential and terrible aspect of modern urban life, preceding by decades the life-altering smash-ups of Hit and Run and Scattered Clouds.
35mm print courtesy of the National Film Archive of Japan
One screening only!
Live piano accompaniment by Makia Matsumura on Sunday, December 7th
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Live 7PM Live • 7PM Tickets Anysia Kym & Tony Seltzer + JADALAREIGN + dj blackpower
Venue: Public Records
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Club 11PM Club • 11PM Tickets Simone de Kunovich + Baba Stiltz / Mo Yasin + Ella Hussle / Stay Out West
Venue: Public Records
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Description: Simone de Kunovich‘s avant-garde electronics draw from well-researched forays in cinema and fashion. The Italian producer has spent years developing his mysterious sound, which leans toward organic house percussive-driven techno, and ’80s nostalgia. Baba Stiltz’s spaced-out selections are reflective, somewhat melancholy, and range from disco-influenced burners to downtempo electropop with sojourns into beat-making. Ella Hussle has a West Coast energy and commercial-level tastemaking that harmoniously combines with Mo Yasin‘s finely-tuned, sound-system-driven selections. Stay Out West is Donny Burlin and Analog Soul’s Kat Smith. The downtempo duo are skillfully reviving chillout rooms and other outward-bound dance floors.
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Venue: Pioneer Works
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Description: Calling all book lovers, small presses, labels, complainers, and noise-makers: Press Play is back for its sixth edition! A two-day fair of books, records, art, ephemera, and conversations, Press Play is all things that defy categorization.
Become an exhibitor that has something bold to say about how we read, listen to, and engage with culture today. Applications are open now through September 14, 2025.
Stay tuned for more information about the fair, taking place on December 13–14, 2025.
Press Play is organized by Pioneer Works. Publishing at Pioneer Works includes our imprint, Pioneer Works Press, and magazine, Pioneer Works Broadcast, the new print issue of which will debut at Press Play.
This program takes place within artist Raúl de Nieves’s site-specific installation, In Light of Innocence. Learn more about the exhibition here.
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Christmas Classic Ping Pong Tournament
Venue: farm.one
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Description: Farm.One is hosting our second annual Christmas Classic Ping Pong Tournament. Come hang at the farm and compete for prize money, but more importantly: bragging rights. Entry Fee: $20 (Includes 1 Free Beer) First Place: $160 Check & Special Gift Second Place: Entry Fee Back. Note: This is not for the faint of heart. This tournament is for non-professional players who dominate the rec room or community leagues! Format will depend on total sign ups (as of now, capped at 24 participants), but the semis and final will be BEST 2 out of 3. There will be room for spectators, so bring your friends!
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Meshell Ndegeocello, Cory Henry, Annie & The Caldwells
Venue: Pioneer Works
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Description: Pioneer Works and Winter Jazzfest join forces with the city’s most adventurous jazz festival to host an unforgettable evening featuring three singular voices in contemporary music: Meshell Ndegeocello, Cory Henry, and Annie & The Caldwells.
Meshell Ndegeocello is the quintessential Winter Jazzfest artist—restlessly collaborative, multi-disciplinary, and fiercely dedicated to chronicling the experiences of Black Americans through song. Across projects that braid soul, jazz, and spoken word, her work radiates the creative impulse to bring joy, pain, birth, death and all life’s events in words and music—always unflinching, and deeply grooving. Opening, GRAMMY-winning keyboard visionary Cory Henry brings the church with him—melding gospel, jazz-funk, and R&B uplift. His recent project Church draws on his musical heritage and family, a testament to an artist whose work moves feet and hearts alike.
Mississippi’s Annie & The Caldwells testify with disco-tinged gospel soul straight from West Point, MS. As Annie says, “My family is my band,” and their multigenerational harmonies and sibling rhythm section turn lived experience into praise, perseverance, and party.
NYC Winter Jazzfest is a dynamic catalyst for the future of jazz, showcasing a wide spectrum of innovative artists while championing the music’s role as a force for cultural and social change. Now over two decades strong, the festival is a vital platform for emerging talent, offering artists meaningful exposure through alignment with the APAP conference and access to a global network of industry professionals who attend every year.
Learn more about the festival on its website.
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Venue: Pioneer Works
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Description: In partnership with World Music Institute, Pioneer Works is proud to present the renowned Ukrainian quartet DakhaBrakha in the Main Hall on March 1, 2026. Rooted in traditional polyphonic folk and layered with global influences, DakhaBrakha's spellbinding sound has captivated audiences around the world.
DakhaBrakha is a music quartet comprised by musicians Marko Halanevych, Iryna Kovalenko, Olena Tsybulska, and Nina Garenetska from Kyiv, Ukraine. Their self-proclaimed “ethno chaos” sound spans years of performances prior to Russia’s 2022 invasion, but war is in everything now. They masterfully blend Ukrainian traditional music with influences from around the world, resulting in an unexpected new sound.
They are troubadours, activists and educators. Though their name means Give/Take in the old language, DakhaBrakha is new Ukraine, both pre-colonial and post-Soviet, working within a global network of art and music. They aim to help audiences see Ukraine not as a monolith, but as a cosmopolitan culture that takes in other cultures, and gives in return.
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Venue: Pioneer Works
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Description: Pioneer Works is proud to present the long-awaited return of instrumental rock trio The Dirty Three for a rare live performance at Pioneer Works and their first in New York City since 2009.In June 2024, the band released Love Changes Everything, breaking a 12-year wait for new music from the Australian instrumental rock band. Now, the band reunites and sets sail across the ocean for their first North American tour since 2012. To the Main Hall they bring impassioned live performances that stir up a volcanic force each time: plunging into an explosive free fall in one moment, then morphing into a divine pool of emotions in an effortless flow. Like witnessing any supernatural phenomenon, it's an overwhelming experience that stays with you.About The Dirty ThreeLike Tortoise, Gastr del Sol, and, later, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, The Dirty Three helped reinvent the language of indie rock in the mid-‘90s. Guitarist Mick Turner, drummer Jim White, and violinist Warren Ellis were busy members of the fertile Melbourne scene in the ‘80s, shuttling in and out of assorted scabrous bands. Their collective reputation grew quickly after they formed The Dirty Three in 1992, their savage and unhinged shows in Australian pubs leading to an international record deal and major tours. Horse Stories, Ocean Songs, and Whatever You Love, You Are established them as a truly great improvisational act, reframing the terms of a power trio by adding absolute punk gusto to music that sounds a little like jazz, a little like a string band, and a lot like nothing else. On 2024’s unstoppable Love Changes Everything, their first album in a dozen years, The Dirty Three proved that their vocabulary and chemistry have only expanded.
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The Running Ground: Reading, Q&A, and Signing with Nicholas Thompson
Venue: Brooklyn Running Company
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Description: Join @nxthompson in Park Slope for a live reading and Q&A from The Running Ground. Good conversation, light refreshments and a space for runners and readers alike to connect. Link in bio to register with @withforte.co
Tags: literature, talks-lectures, community, sports
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