Performances, workshops, and exhibitions are just a few of the types of programs happening across the state, year–round, with the support of HNY’s grant programs for community-centered cultural organizations and graduate students. Unless noted, programs are free and open to all.
Begin the month with a weekend of outdoor excursions exploring local Indigenous heritage in Cold Spring and the surrounding area, and read on for more grantee goings-on in November.
This Friday through Sunday; Nov. 1-3
Native American Heritage Weekend
Multiple times; check link for details
Cold Spring
$5-15 depending on event
The 2nd Annual Native American Heritage Weekend sponsored by the Putnam History Museum takes place this weekend! Events will celebrate the history and culture of local Indigenous Peoples and include guided history hikes at Foundry Cove & Mount Nimham, a hands-on and immersive presentation, and the Putnam History Museum’s award-winning exhibition Indigenous Peoples in Putnam County.
Friday and Saturday, Nov. 9-10 & 16-17
Incorrigibles: Bearing Witness to the Incarcerated Girls of New York
11:00 AM–6:00 PM
The Church – Staatsburg
Free
Incorrigibles is a transmedia art project that focuses on youth justice and social services for girls, using the past to shed light on the present and a better future through art, storytelling, and healing modalities.
This exhibition at The Church – Staatsburg voices the untold stories of those sent to the New York Training School for Girls (NYSTSG) throughout the 20th century. Located nearby in Hudson, New York, the institution was established in 1904 as the only state-run re-educational facility to provide training for “delinquent” or “incorrigible” girls between the ages of 12 and 18, including jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald; it closed in 1975. Members of the public are also invited to join for the closing event on Nov. 16, from 4–9:00 PM.
Saturday, Nov. 16
TOGETHER LOVE SELF – A Series of Poetic Meditations
3:00 PM
Virtual (Zoom)
Stony Brook University PhD student and Humanities Centers Initiative grantee Kara Pernicano is facilitating a series of workshops to practice and write poetic meditations. November’s session is focused on Stability, Grounding & Calm, and participants will dig more deeply into writing meditations with a focus on metaphors. Many meditations explore connecting with nature and utilizing metaphors to usher in a sense of stability, to be rooted like a tree or stable like a mountain. Sign up for this session or the next (Grief, Love & Hope on Dec. 7) via the linked form.
Tuesday, Nov. 19
From Loisaida to the South Bronx: Puerto Rican LGBTQ Culture in NYC
6:30 PM
Virtual (Zoom)
November is Puerto Rican Heritage Month! Celebrate the impact that the Puerto Rican LGBTQ community has made on New York City over the past 80 years, with a special focus on social life, activism, and the arts in the 1990s. Activist Charles Rice-González, co-founder of Gay Men of the Bronx (GMoB) and the Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance (BAAD!), and historian Andrés Santana-Miranda will take part in an intergenerational discussion reflecting on the lasting legacies of pioneers like Antonia Pantoja and Miguel Piñero as well as Puerto Rican LGBTQ life and culture from Loisaida to the South Bronx, and places in between. Amanda Davis from the NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project will host and there will be time for Q&A from the audience.
Friday, Nov. 22
The Seed of the Sacred Fig Sneak Preview Screening + Q&A with Filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof
Film Forum
NYC (Greenwich Village)
6:00 PM
$17 Regular//$11 Members
Facing an eight-year prison sentence, Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof—a longtime critic of his nation of origin’s regime—fled the country and shot his latest film, The Seed of the Sacred Fig. The Cannes’ Special Jury Prize–winner is tense familial drama and “a lacerating critique of a patriarchal regime crumbling from within.” Rasoulof will be in attendance following the Nov. 22 screening to discuss his work.
Through Nov. 23
Multiple dates and times; check website for details
Chelsea (NYC)
$20 Suggested Donation
Notch Theater Company’s new stage production mixes comedy and chaos as workers fight for justice amid hilariously absurd challenges. At Café Utopia, becoming your best self is the goal — until things begin to spiral out of control. This 90-minute comedy is based on real stories from people on the frontlines of today’s unionization movement.
