Ten curated Scope NYC picks for Thursday, September 24, 2026.
Vinicius Gomes, Ele Salif Howell and Noah Garabedian celebrate VEN Trio’s debut album at the Jazz Gallery, joining guitar, drums and bass.
Saul Levine introduces MoMA’s all-16mm program tracing New York experimental cinema through Deren, Clarke, Menken, Mekas, Jacobs and Frampton.
Miles Okazaki brings Matt Mitchell, Anthony Tidd and Sean Rickman into Close Up for Trickster’s tightly interlocking guitar, piano and rhythm.
Keioui Keijaun Thomas gathers three artists at CPR for works moving through grief, bodily ritual and the cinematic figure of the final girl.
David Suzuki and Tara Cullis perform their autobiographical play about love and climate activism at the Atrium; free walk-up entry, with a conversation afterward.
Vidura Bandara Rajapaksa brings The Paradise Gothic Tour to the Bell House; a full headlining set for his patient, deadpan storytelling.
A New York location scout searches strangers’ apartments for a TV pilot; filmmaker Paula González-Nasser and star Mimi Davila join this sneak-preview Q&A.
Keyboard-and-drums duo DOMi and JD Beck bring their quick-turning rhythmic exchanges to Sony Hall on the WHO ASKED? tour.
Iceland’s múm play in the round at LPR, with violinist and electronic composer Christopher Tignor opening the evening.
Travis Laplante, Laura Cocks, Wendy Eisenberg and Russell Greenberg bring experimental notation off the page for this Roulette book-release performance.