Ten curated Scope NYC picks for Friday, September 18, 2026.
Charles Burnett and Maya Cade discuss My Brothers Wedding after the six o’clock screening at Film Forum.
Latino disco and after-hours galleries bring Teddy Sandoval’s queer artistic world onto El Museo’s dance floor.
Tommie-Waheed Evans, uwazi zamani and Ain Gordon unpack their collaboration responding to Martha Graham’s American Document.
Ang Lee and Yuen Woo-ping discuss their wuxia collaboration after this MoMA screening of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.
Beth Orton brings the songs of The Ground Above to Bleecker Street, with Kenny Stahl opening the evening.
Jeffrey Zeigler traces Gullah cultural memory through cello, electronics and dance in We Were Fridays at National Sawdust.
This free outdoor production connects Réunion, Puerto Rico and New Orleans through Creole music, storytelling and movement at Bush Terminal.
Red Hook Records turns five with Cyrille, Smith and Naqvi sharing the bill with Amina Claudine Myers at Roulette.
L. Shankar’s electric double violin meets tabla, frame drum and spoken rhythms in a four-musician program at Adler Hall.
Mary Halvorson, Dave Adewumi, Henry Fraser and Tomas Fujiwara bring Canis Major to Close Up’s intimate evening stage.