Event Listings
Listening Session w/ Kamel
Venue: Silence Please
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Description: Kamel loves to dance. His vinyl collection largely spans from Italo disco to French electro, including some Habibi Funk and other Near-East dance music. Kamel also loves to relax. His more easy-listening collection spans across continents and genres to inc...
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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.
Tags: music, art, community
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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Airbnb Experiences: Farm Dinner with Pierce Abernathy
Venue: farm.one
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Description: Get a rare glimpse of an innovative indoor Brooklyn farm with the chef and content creator. Share a meal he’s prepared around just-picked flowers, herbs, and greens. Join me in the farm’s Brooklyn taproom and settle in with an herb-infused welcome drink. I’ll guide you through stacks of LED-lit greens that stretch up to the ceiling. We’ll pluck herbs, microgreens, and edible flowers from the racks to sample the goods. I’ll make you a three-course dinner with fresh Farm.One produce and share stories about each dish. We’ll talk about how hydroponic farming is changing NY’s food scene. I’ll send you off with a gift. This experience is hosted in English.
Tags: food-drink, educational, talks-lectures, workshops, community
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Audio 101: Analog vs Digital w/ Pete Raho
Venue: Silence Please
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Description: Join Pete Raho of @diyaudio.nyc and @gowanusaudio for a talk all about how analog and digital recording and playback actually work, and why we should care. We live in a digital world - does analog still have a place? And what are phono preamps and DACs ev...
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Design Miami | American Art Furniture 1980-1990
Venue: Superhouse Gallery
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Description: For Design Miami’s landmark 20th anniversary edition, curated by Glenn Adamson, Superhouse Gallery is returning with their third presentation. This presentation channels the radical spirit of American designers between 1980 and 1990, who embraced the handmade, pushed materials, and used design as cultural and political critique, leading to furniture becoming sculpture and function becoming narrative. Ideas still shaping contemporary design today. In partnership with Studio AHEAD who have created a striking postmodern-inspired scenography, done in collaboration with Farrow & Ball.
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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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American Art Furniture: 1980–1990
Venue: Superhouse Gallery
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Description: Superhouse presents “American Art Furniture: 1980–1990,” a rare survey of landmark works available for the first time in over four decades. Bringing together pieces hidden for years with others debuting publicly for the first time, the exhibition reasserts the radical experimentation that defined the era. Featuring Main & Main, Michele Oka Doner, Alex Locadia, Wendy Maruyama, Tom Loeser, and Paul Ludick; A generation that transformed furniture into sculpture and design into cultural commentary.
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Venue: WSA
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Description: Gaetano Pesce returns to 180 Maiden Lane. “Return To Office” brings the 1994 Chiat\Day collection back to the original floor where it was first installed. This presentation expands into a wider retrospective of Pesce’s experiments and prototypes, forming one of the most significant showings of his work in recent years. Presented by Sweeterfat, the exhibition will also include conversations with artists and designers who worked closely with Pesce, offering firsthand perspectives on his process and legacy.
Tags: art, design, networking, talks-lectures
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Written in Brooklyn Presents: Have Yourself a Messy Little Christmas
Venue: farm.one
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Description: It's the most traumatizing time of the year! The holidays are here, and and so are the feelings. Forget the cute and witty holiday card, Have Yourself a Messy Little Christmas is a night of true, hilarious, and awkward stories that unwrap what really happens at then end of the year: family meltdowns, drunken texts, travel disasters, bad presents, and so many regrets. Come for the laughter, stay for the catharsis, and maybe leave with a little less emotional baggage (or at least a story about it).
Tags: talks-lectures, comedy, nightlife, community
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Topo Club Film Series #01: The Cruise
Venue: Index
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Description: Join Topo Club, a community exploring how we relate to place, for a screening of The Cruise (1998) by Timothy “Speed” Levitch, followed by a group discussion on placemaking and belonging, led by architect Manuela Lourenço and civic designer Lucas Vaqueiro. In conversation, we’ll use examples from the film to reflect on how cities are shaped by the people who move through them every day. Register at the link in bio!
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Topo Club Film Series #01: The Cruise
Venue: Index
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Description: Join Topo Club, a community exploring how we relate to place, for a screening of The Cruise (1998) by Timothy “Speed” Levitch, followed by a group discussion on placemaking and belonging, led by architect Manuela Lourenço and civic designer Lucas Vaqueiro. In conversation, we’ll use examples from the film to reflect on how cities are shaped by the people who move through them every day. Register at the link in bio!
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Lanzamiento de “Maricografías del cine peruano: Políticas, creaciones y consumos culturales LGBTIQ+”
Venue: Mil Mundos Books
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Description: Join us for the launch of “Maricografías del cine peruano: Políticas, creaciones y consumos culturales LGBTIQ+” by Fabs Reyna! This book is the first mapping of LGBTIQ+ presence and participation in contemporary Peruvian cinema. Through analysis of public policies, cultural consumption data, and interviews with filmmakers and cultural managers, Fabs documents the advances achieved—but also the exclusions and challenges that persist in an increasingly hostile context for our diversities. Come hear about queer cinema from the margins to the screen, and support independent research that makes our existences visible. In conversation with Fabs Reyna and Cynthia Meléndez.
Tags: literature, cinema, talks-lectures, lgbqt+
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Listening Session w/ Eric Umble
Venue: Silence Please
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Description: Eric Umble (@umblemusic) is a Brooklyn-based DJ, clarinetist, and party producer known for blending classical precision with underground dance energy. A resident of HARDER and Bossa Nova Civic Club, and founder of FACETIME and QUALITY TIME, Eric brings a u...
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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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Listening Session w/ Jaafar
Venue: Silence Please
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Description: Jaafar, an artist and director from Iraq, returns to Silence Please this Saturday for a listening session. Known for his thoughtful and eclectic taste, Jaafar will be sharing a selection of ambient and psychedelic sounds from around the world. His sessions...
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Venue: Mil Mundos Books
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Description: Our last collage workshop of the year is coming up soon! Join us to create a unique piece of artwork. All materials will be provided. Free RSVP at milmundosbooks.com/events
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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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The Revolt Eclipses Whatever the World Has to Offer - Book Release
Venue: Woodbine
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Description: Join us for a discussion with Idris Robinson, Søren Mau, and Gerardo Muñoz, celebrating the release of Idris' book The Revolt Eclipses Whatever the World Has to Offer. From Semiotext(e), "What is it to be Black in America? It is to be constantly given unsolicited advice on how to run your life by people of all stripes, cultures, races, and opinions, so that the message is, by its very design, inconsistent with itself. However, there is one common feature that unites them all, besides their arrogant insistence to respond to what no one has asked of them: you can be sure that not one of these philistines has read—let alone understood—a single line of Plato. It is with this guiding insight that the author seeks to think his own material existence and resolves that philosophy must implicate itself in the utter demise of the alienated and oppressive wasteland in which he has been thrown." Idris Robinson is a philosopher and writer from the New York hinterlands. For over a decade, he has written extensively on crisis, revolt, and political violence. He is currently an assistant professor of philosophy at Texas State University.
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Apart From You preceded by Flunky, Work Hard!
Venue: Metrograph
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Description: The earliest extant film by Naruse, Flunky, Work Hard! is a small miracle of fine-tuned, finicky gag comedy, squirming with uncomfortable punchlines grounded in personal humiliation and the terror of losing face, featuring Isamu Yamaguchi as a down-on-his-luck insurance salesman who, in his flop-sweaty desperation to sell a lucrative policy to the mother of one of his son’s well-heeled playmates, subjects himself and his family to ever-worsening trials of degradation. Paired with the buoyant-yet-brutal tragicomedy Apart from You, in which a new-to-the-game geisha, Terugiku (Sumiko Mizukubo), tries her level best to extend a hand to a rambunctious teenager Yoshio (Akio Isono), an aggressive, antisocial young punk whose resentment of his mother, Kikue (Mitsuko Yoshikawa)—as it happens, Terugiku’s colleague—exists in perfect proportion to his mother’s unstinting adoration of her sainted son. Naruse’s style would change greatly in later years, but his jaundiced view of the human condition, and the nuclear family in particular, would not.
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Filmmaker Magazine 25 New Faces: 2025 Part 1
Venue: Metrograph
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Description: Filmmaker Magazine 25 New Faces: 2025 Part 1 features a collection of short films from emerging directors. The lineup includes "The Non-Actor" by Eliza Barry Callahan, where two women form an intimate connection; "Grandma Nai Who Played Favorites" by Chheangkea, a comedy about a deceased grandmother helping her queer grandson; "As Told By a Corpse" by Yace Sula, a hypnotic personal short; "Video Barn" by Bianca Poletti, an '80s-vibing horror short; "Ragamuffin" by Kaitlyn Mikayla, focusing on an aspiring motocross racer; and "Budget Paradise" by La'Tajh Simmons-Weaver, an ode to Oakland and artists' struggles. The event also includes a Q&A with select filmmakers moderated by Filmmaker Editor-in-Chief Scott Macaulay on Saturday, December 6th.
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Filmmaker Magazine 25 New Faces: 2025 Part 2
Venue: Metrograph
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Description: Filmmaker Magazine 25 New Faces: 2025 Part 2 features a collection of short films from emerging directors. The program includes "WassupKaylee" by Pepi Ginsberg, a witty critique of viral video culture; "A Brighter Summer Day for the Lady Avengers" by Birdy Wei-Ting Hun, a blend of film essay and fiction; "Sister Salad Days" by Adesola Thomas, a Southern gothic ghost story; "Tiger" by Loren Waters, an emotionally transporting portrait of Indigenous artist Dana Tiger; "Queerbait" by Nate Gualtieri, a grippingly suspenseful thriller; and "Crime Film" by Auden Lincoln-Vogel, a short straddling narrative and experimental worlds. The event will also include a Q&A with select filmmakers moderated by Filmmaker Editor-in-Chief Scott Macaulay on Saturday, December 6th.
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Venue: Honey's
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Description: Join GRID, Al-Ahrar, and DJs Against Apartheid at Honey’s December 6th!!! Expect bouncy and forward-thinking sets from local talents Despina, Ramses, Yianna, and Menofilter, with b2b support from the team at GRID. 100% of our promoter proceeds go towards @alahrar_nynj in their efforts of building a network of awareness and advocacy towards releasing Palestinian prisoners. We’re honored to have @djsagainstapartheid tabling alongside them and hope you’ll join us in this night of solidarity 🇵🇸
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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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Afterimages Across Borders: Award-Winning Shorts
Venue: Metrograph
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Description: A one-night-only screening featuring works, currently in award season consideration, by four Asian diaspora filmmakers with roots in Afghanistan, Cambodia, Syria, and Vietnam—their films moving between the personal and political to address themes of kinship, memory, survival, and the traces left, from generation to generation, of the experience of war and migration. Featuring We Were the Scenery, recounting the experience of writer Cathy Linh Che’s Vietnam War refugee parents, recruited as extras for Apocalypse Now during its filming in the Philippines; Grandma Nai Who Played Favorites, in which the title character sneaks away from the afterlife on hearing that her queer grandson is engaged to a woman; One Day this Kid, describing a young, gay Afghan Canadian boy’s coming of age in Vancouver under the scrutiny of his immigrant father; and Who Loves the Sun, a documentary depicting the harsh conditions endured in the makeshift oil refineries of war-torn northern Syria. The program will be followed by a Q&A with the filmmakers.
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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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THREAD REGERTS: THE UGLY RACE TEE GALA.
Venue: Brooklyn Running Company
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Description: A celebration of the absolute worst race tees ever created. Bring your brightest disaster, loudest eyesore, or 2009 'why did they print this?' tech tee. We’ll show off our own race-day regret and crown the Worst Race Day Tee in NYC. Includes bragging rights; mild identity crisis optional. Partnering with a local organization to donate or recycle these relics once they’ve had their final lap. No medals, no PRs.
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Venue: Silence Please
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Description: Vinho is a bi-monthly libation tasting and listening event series, rooted in intentionality and togetherness. With an aim to spotlight some of the best DJs and selectors, Vinho strives to curate an atmosphere that consistently feels slow, warm, and cozy. O...
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ACE Presents: Metropolitan
Venue: Metrograph
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Description: “The first feature film I edited, Metropolitan, was a strange anomaly, a no-budget film about debutantes and their escorts in New York. Whit’s charming and witty script excited me. Coming from an art and experimental film background, my challenge was to help shape the talky, fresh, and unusual project, an intimate portrait of a doomed tribe, balancing its intrinsic depth and unique humor.” —Christopher Tellefsen, ACE
One of the most iconic New York independent films of the ’90s, Metropolitan is an irresistibly quotable comedy of manners and a tour through an Upper East Side peopled by teenage patrician debutantes and dandies. When bright-eyed downwardly mobile Princetonian Edward Clements encounters a group of contemporaries self-dubbed the “Urban Haute Bourgeoisie,” fresh affections and rivalries are forged, and the newcomer is introduced to their manipulations, cruelties, and endless over-intellectualization of emotions.
Distributor: Rialto Pictures
Q&A with editor Christopher Tellefsen, ACE on Friday, December 12th
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Venue: Metrograph
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Description: Rohmer’s first feature-length entry in his “Six Moral Tales” series (following The Bakery Girl of Monceau and Suzanne’s Career) stars Jean-Louis Trintignant as a conscientious Catholic bachelor who is sorely tempted when he meets charming divorcée Françoise Fabian. Néstor Almendros’s black-and-white photography crystallizes the atmosphere of a damp Christmastime in mid-1960s central France while Rohmer exactingly depicts middle-class morals buckling under pressure as the sexual revolution arrives in the provinces. Introduction by editor Christopher Tellefsen, ACE on Friday, December 12th
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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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Venue: Pioneer Works
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Description: Our sixth edition of Press Play, a weekend-long fair of books, records, art, ephemera, talks, and workshops, returns on December 13–14, 2025.
Showcasing over 140 artists, musicians, poets, writers, and exhibitors who defy categorization, Press Play invites you to discover new ways of reading, listening, creating, and complaining about culture. The 2025 program is packed with unfiltered conversations, workshops, and activations—to be fully announced later this month.
Tags: art, literature, workshops, talks-lectures, fairs-markets, community
Tone Glow Presents Pandora and the Flying Dutchman
Venue: Metrograph
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Description: Joshua Minsoo Kim, the Chicago-based culture writer and Editor-in-Chief of Tone Glow—a newsletter about experimental music both new and old that has, since 2024, hosted numerous screenings of independent and avant-garde films—joins Metrograph in-person for a special one-off screening of Pandora and the Flying Dutchman (1951), preceded by a musical performance from singer and pianist Eliana Glass.
In the the fictitious Spanish port town of Esperanza—played by Tossa de Mar in Catalonia—haughty, headstrong heartbreaker Pandora (Ava Gardner) finds herself drawn into the orbit of mysterious stranger Hendrik van der Zee (James Mason), whom she comes to suspect of being the fabled “Flying Dutchman,” a 16th-century captain condemned to sailing the seas until such time as he finds a woman willing to die for love. A ravishingly romantic fairy tale of a film from Lewin, one of the most cultured men to make a living in studio-era Hollywood and probably the only American director of the time who would think to invite Man Ray onto his set to do behind-the-scenes photography, featuring the sublimely saturated Technicolor imagery courtesy English past master cinematographer Jack Cardiff.
“Eliana Glass’s spare, stirring vocal jazz will precede Pandora and the Flying Dutchman, capturing the mesmerizing beauty of Lewin’s Technicolor masterpiece. According to Cardiff, ‘Lewin thought Ava was a goddess’ and obsessively filmed close-ups of her face. This passion recalls Glass’s own love for having muses, allowing them to be ‘embalmed in the music forever.’ For this special performance, she will be accompanied by Luke Bergman on pedal steel. The evening will offer a chance to consider Lewin’s ‘consuming obsessions,’ which include myth, magic, beauty, the nature of art, and the cruelty of love.” —Joshua Minsoo Kim
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The Last Thing I Saw: Eight Hours of Terror
Venue: Metrograph
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Description: For five years now, Nicolas Rapold—critic, former editor-in-chief of Film Comment, and the author of, most recently, The Worlds of Hayao Miyazaki—has been the host of The Last Thing I Saw, conversing about new discoveries in the cinema of yesterday and today with critics, filmmakers, programmers, and other movie lovers, welcoming a who’s who of guests whose numbers include Kelly Reichardt, Sean Baker, RaMell Ross, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Radu Jude, Janicza Bravo, and Abel Ferrara. To celebrate the pod’s fifth anniversary, Rapold joins us to present a screening of Suzuki’s Eight Hours of Terror, the kind of rare, rough-edged gem that the loyal The Last Thing I Saw listener has come to expect to be unearthed on the program regularly.
Their train brought to a halt by a raging typhoon, passengers are crowded into a cramped bus to continue their journey—and here things go from bad to worse, with the appearance of on-the-lam criminals determined to hijack the vehicle. One of Suzuki’s finest films of the 1950s, which shows both the influence of John Ford’s Stagecoach, a personal favorite of the director, and the stylistic dynamism that would soon make him (in)famous.
“Eight Hours of Terror is 78 minutes of Suzuki brilliance! Part thriller, part canny social drama, part master class in visual composition, it's a lovely sample of recent viewing from The Last Thing I Saw podcast—something you recently saw and have to talk about. With me, for some reason.” —Nicolas Rapold
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Venue: Metrograph
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Description: Rather than render the bountiful epigrams of Oscar Wilde’s 1892 four-act stage comedy of the same name as an avalanche of silent film intertitles, Lubitsch “replace[d] witticisms with glances” [New York Review of Books] in his screen adaptation, to create a comedy both distinctly cinematic and, in its own way, entirely true to its source in its deft skewering of the pretensions of Mayfair’s upper crust. May McAvoy, seen the previous year in Lubitsch’s Three Women, has the title role as the wife of an English lord whose sheltered existence is turned upside down when she’s forced to make agonizing decisions concerning the optimal seating chart for a forthcoming dinner party, guests including suave, on-the-prowl bachelor Ronald Colman and Irene Rich’s “notorious” blackmail-minded Mrs. Erlynne, both bringing heaps of trouble in their wakes.
Restored by The Museum of Modern Art, with the financial support of Matthew and Natalie Bernstein.
Live piano accompaniment by Makia Matsamura on Sunday, December 14th
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Venue: Metrograph
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Description: The directorial debut of Vienna-born, Queens-raised von Sternberg—shot on a shoestring in Los Angeles locations including San Pedro’s grim quays, overseen by a monstrous dredger—The Salvation Hunters is a grubby slice of American poetic realism about “humans who crawl close to the earth”—a young couple, the orphaned child who lands in their care, and a succession of hardened heels who conspire to rob the trio of their innocence. A succès d’estime thanks to the enthusiastic endorsement of Charlie Chaplin, who would recruit leading lady Georgia Hale to play opposite him in the same year’s The Gold Rush, and a film whose blunt presentation of life on the margins in the cocksure, booming 1920s remains singularly bracing.
35mm restored print courtesy of the UCLA Film & Television Archive.
Live piano accompaniment by Makia Matsamura on Sunday, December 14th
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Venue: Metrograph
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Description: The dream of the never-ending party becomes nightmare in Buñuel’s smothering, surreal satire, in which well-heeled dinner guests congregating in the music room of a Mexican mansion at the end of an elegant evening find themselves suddenly, inexplicably, unable to leave, their shared veneer of sophistication rubbing off as the hours and days pass to reveal naked savagery lying beneath. “Though irrational, the film is not arbitrary. It translates into actuality the absurd reflections that proceed beneath polite intercourse and conscious thinking.” —Raymond Durgnat
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Venue: Metrograph
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Description: An astringent sendup of snobbish foodie culture and the broader culture it reflects, Mylod’s tart black comedy begins with an Agatha Christie-worthy setup: posh gourmand Tyler (Nicholas Hoult) invites a dutifully impressed peasant (Anya Taylor-Joy) to join him in dining with a small coterie of in-the-know scions of repulsive wealth at an exclusive restaurant on a private island, its kitchen overseen by hot-shit restaurateur Julian Skowik (Ralph Fiennes); what is meant to be a bespoke, once-in-a-lifetime culinary adventure, however, soon becomes a multi-course Omakase ordeal of psychological torment. Fiennes’s performance is a miracle of pitiless solemnity—but it’s impossible to imagine the film being as ferociously funny as it is without editor Christopher Tellefsen’s brilliantly blunt comic timing. Q&A with editor Christopher Tellefsen, ACE on Sunday, December 14th.
Tags: cinema, talks-lectures, food-drink
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Tables of Contents Reading & Holiday Party
Venue: Tables of Contents
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Description: Our last reading of the year is December 16th at @insabrooklyn with three authors whose voices we're so happy to have leading us into 2026: Hala Alyan (I'LL TELL YOU WHEN I'M HOME), Quiara Alegria Hudes (THE WHITE HOT), and Lara Mimosa Montes (THE TIME OF THE NOVEL). This reading will be 6-8pm rather than our usual 7-9 because we're throwing our annual holiday party right after! Readings by each author, dishes and drinks inspired by their passages, a conversation led by @evanhanczor, and books for sale by @booksaremagicbk.
Tags: literature, food-drink, nightlife, festivals
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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!
Tags: sports, community
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Whit Stillman Presents Metropolitan
Venue: Metrograph
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Description: For one night only, director Whit Stillman returns to Metrograph to present a 35th anniversary screening of Metropolitan, one of the most iconic New York independent films of the ’90s and a true Metrograph favorite. An irresistibly quotable comedy of manners and a tour through an Upper East Side peopled by teenage patrician debutantes and dandies, the film follows bright-eyed downwardly mobile Princetonian Edward Clements as he encounters a group of contemporaries self-dubbed the “Urban Haute Bourgeoisie,” fresh affections and rivalries are forged, and the newcomer is introduced to their manipulations, cruelties, and endless over-intellectualization of emotions.
Q&A with director Whit Stillman on Friday, December 19th
Tags: cinema, talks-lectures
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Robert Longo Presents Johnny Mnemonic
Venue: Metrograph
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Description: One of the preeminent gallery art stars of the 1980s, Longo made his feature debut with this hard-boiled adaptation of a William Gibson short story starring Reeves in the title role, a data courier in a dystopian, computer-saturated 2021 who carries his precious cargo implanted in his skull, and who finds himself racing against a 48-hour deadline to find the passwords that unlock the payload before it fatally self-destructs, all while tailed by a corporate-backed yakuza (Takeshi Kitano) and his go-to assassin (Denis Akiyama). Greenlit with a sizable budget after the surprise success of Speed, Longo’s cyberpunk thriller was—in spite of the front-office interference it endured through every step of its production—one of the most unconventional and imaginative studio releases of 1995, and will play Metrograph in the director’s preferred black-and-white edit.
Introduction by director Robert Longo on Friday, December 19th
Tags: cinema, talks-lectures
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False Harmonics #24: Amirtha Kidambi's Elder Ones, Omar Ahmad, sinonó (feat. isabel crespo pardo, Lester St. Louis & Henry Fraser)
Venue: Pioneer Works
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Description: False Harmonics #24 closes out 2025 with an ecstatic lineup of Pioneer Works alumni music residents. The concert features a live-album-release performance by Working Artist Fellow '25 Amirtha Kidambi's band Elder Ones, along with sets from electronic musician and Resident '25 Omar Ahmad and the Latin free folk trio sinonó, led by Resident '25 isabel crespo pardo, with Resident '23 Lester St. Louis (HxH) and Resident '25 Henry Fraser.
Tags: music, nightlife
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.
Tags: music, festivals
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Zine making in Tokyo: Radical Writing, Design & Printmaking
Venue: Index
Date: -
Description: Join our friends @astray_project and an international cohort for a 9-day workshop in Tokyo focused on radical publishing, collaborative study, and Risograph printing. Through seminars, writing salons, and studio sessions, you’ll create your own riso-printed zine exploring themes of resistance, infrastructure, and narrative. The program includes accommodations at a local guesthouse, daily classes, and access to MIDORI.so’s printmaking studio, and a great group of likeminded peers & instructors to learn with and from.
Tags: workshops, art, educational, design
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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.
Tags: music
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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.
Tags: music
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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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