Elder Ones @ False Harmonics #24, Pioneer Works
Dec
16
7:30 PM19:30

Elder Ones @ False Harmonics #24, Pioneer Works

Tuesday Dec 16th @ Pioneer Works
Doors: 7pm | Start: 7:30pm

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.

Free for Pioneer Works members. More details and tickets here.

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Amirtha Kidambi's Outernational: Samora Pinderhughes @ Press Play, Pioneer works
Dec
14
12:45 PM12:45

Amirtha Kidambi's Outernational: Samora Pinderhughes @ Press Play, Pioneer works

Science Studios @ Press Play, Pioneer Works
Sunday, Dec 14, 2025 | 12:45pm - 1:20pm

Amirtha Kidambi's Outernational examines music's revolutionary power through conversations with musicians addressing global crises, exploring how music shapes social consciousness and collective liberation. At Press Play, Kidambi speaks with Pioneer Works resident Samora Pinderhughes about his activist work with incarcerated communities.

Register for either or both days here.

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An Evening with Filmmaker Suneil Sanzgiri @ MoMA
Dec
8
7:00 PM19:00

An Evening with Filmmaker Suneil Sanzgiri @ MoMA

An Evening with Suneil Sanzgiri
Mon, Dec 8 | 7:00 p.m.
MoMA, Floor T2/T1, Theater 2
The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 2

Brooklyn-based filmmaker Suneil Sanzgiri presents two films exploring transnational solidarities and anticolonial movements as part of Modern Mondays at MoMA. The screening will be followed by a conversation with Sanzgiri, moderated by Sophie Cavoulacos, associate curator in the Department of Film.

Two Refusals (Would We Recognize Ourselves Unbroken?). 2024. USA/India. Directed by Suneil Sanzgiri. Film score by Amirtha Kidambi. 34 min.

An Impossible Address. 2025. USA/India/Angola. Directed by Suneil Sanzgiri. Commissioned by Mercer Union, Toronto; and EMPAC—Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, New York. Film score by Amirtha Kidambi. 38 min. New York premiere

Tickets here.

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Elder Ones Residency at Le Guess Who? Utrecht
Nov
8
9:00 PM21:00

Elder Ones Residency at Le Guess Who? Utrecht

Le Guess Who? Utrecht, Amsterdam

Saturday 21:00 - 23:00

COSMOS Foyer / Pandora Studio - TivoliVredenburg

Outernational - workshop, improv and panel session with Saul Williams, Dirar Kalash and Masello Motana

Musician, activist, podcaster and LGW 2025 co-curator Amirtha Kidambi invites us into her vision of ‘Outernationalism’, a concept introduced by the late composer Ryuichi Sakamoto to describe his belief in a world without borders or national identities. At Le Guess Who?, Kidambi presents her own interpretation, Outernational, which focuses on how music can play a central role in building global cultural solidarity and community.In this dynamic 2 hours session, Amirtha will sit down with a number of surprise guests from her curation this year, picking their brains and facilitating a one-off jam session live at COSMOS Foyer.

Tickets and more details here.

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Ava Luna Album Release @ National Sawdust, with Elder Ones and Benét
Oct
18
7:30 PM19:30

Ava Luna Album Release @ National Sawdust, with Elder Ones and Benét

October 18, 2025: Ava Luna / Elder Ones / Benét
Ava Luna Album Release Live at National Sawdust @ 7:30pm
Doors @ 6:30 pm

Ava Luna’s celebrates the release of their sixth LP. The new self-titled album is a testament to almost twenty years of shared musical sensibility, now distilled into its barest elements. An extended lineup for the album release celebration at National Sawdust brings the recorded arrangements to life. Featuring support from Amirtha Kidambi’s Elder Ones and Benét.

More details and ticket information here.

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