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Japanese Tsukemono Pickling Class with Kyotochef

Sun 1:30pm · New York
💰 Payment (required to confirm registration): Venmo @Kerstin-Du Or Zelle 530-219-6350 🥒 Eat More Vegetables!! A Japanese Tsukemono Pickling Class Vegetables don’t have to be boring and they don’t have to be salads. Join us for a cozy, hands-on pickling class where we’ll explore tsukemono, the traditional Japanese way of preserving and enjoying vegetables using simple seasonings like salt, miso, and citrus. 🥬 What we’ll make (3 types of pickles): • Cucumber Wasabi – fresh & spicy • Yuzu Daikon – bright & aromatic • Misozuke – deep, savory umami ✨ What you’ll learn: • Different types of Japanese pickles (quick vs. fermented) • How pickling supports digestion & gut health • Easy, practical ways to eat more vegetables at home 🥕 What to expect: • All ingredients and tools are provided • Some vegetables may be pre-cut; others you’ll prepare together • You’ll mix seasonings, pack your pickles, and take them home • Recipes will be shared during class 🧑‍🍳 Optional: Feel free to bring your own apron if you’d like. 🛒 Where to buy Japanese seasonings (shared in class): • Sunrise Mart • Dainobu • Mitsuki Japanese Market • Midoriya We’ll also talk about why salt and miso quality matters, and how small ingredient upgrades can make a big difference in flavor and health. Important notes: • Registration is only confirmed after payment is received • No refunds after payment • Tickets may be transferred to a friend if you can’t attend Come curious, leave inspired — and go home with pickles in hand 🥬
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FEMME FOTO PRESENTS: GROUP PHOTO EXHIBITION

Tomorrow 5pm · New York
We invite everyone to join us on Saturday, January 24 for the Femme Foto Group Exhibition! This exhibition is a celebration & gathering of voices and visions - women, femme-identifying, nonbinary, and trans photographers coming together to claim space, visibility, and authorship - contributing to a more expansive and representative creative landscape. The exhibition will feature work from 14 Artists, spanning studio, street, fashion, commercial, documentary, and conceptual photography practices. This exhibition reflects the breadth of a Collective within Femme Foto and marks a moment of growth, connection, & shared creative space as Femme Foto hits their 1 year anniversary. This Exhibition is made possible by FUJIFILM and Foto Care, with additional support from Tether Tools and Godox. All of this support helps make this community-focused event happen. ✨ All are welcome - this event is open to the wider creative community, friends, supporters, and allies. Event Details: 🕔 5:00–9:00 PM 🎟 Raffle at 8:00 PM 📍 42 Allen St, New York, NY 10002 (First Floor) What to Expect: ⭐ Curated photography ⭐ Sponsors interacting with the space & gear ⭐ Interactive photo booth with photographer Emily Teague, showcasing Godox, Tether Tools and Capture One ⭐ The launch of Femme Foto Zine Issue 1 ⭐ Light refreshments ⭐ 8 PM Raffle Prizes from Fujifilm, Foto Care, Godox, and Tether Tools ⭐ New friends and connections ⭐ SWAG Featured Femme Foto Exhibitors: Marissa Alper Alexandra Aroyo Gabriela Gabrielaa Jacarrea Garraway Caitlyn Gaurano Lillian Lightbourn Deb Leal Jay Mason Grace Puffer Manda Quevedo Clarissa Rai Mèlanie Rey Iris Sagitta Carly Starnes Questions?! Reach out to us on Instagram @femmefoto.co and please note the 12pm Workshop is sold out! FEMME FOTO'S MANIFESTO: Femme Foto is a community for women, femme-identifying, nonbinary, and trans photographers of all identities and expressions within the photo industry. We center queer, nonbinary, and trans voices, building space with care, intention, and respect. Femme Foto exists to counter isolation, gatekeeping, and extractive industry norms by prioritizing connection, mutual support, and shared growth. We believe in collaboration over competition, when one of us thrives, the community grows stronger. We are committed to safe, intentional spaces for creative exploration, honoring vulnerability, experimentation, and curiosity without judgment or hierarchy. We value rest, boundaries, and lived experience as essential to creative practice, where presence matters more than performance. To protect the integrity of this space, Femme Foto’s usual events and programming (not this Group Exhibition!) are not open to cisgender men, ensuring room for marginalized voices to lead, speak, and create. Femme Foto is not a brand, it is a collective. We show up with care. We move with intention. We build & create together.
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Scandalo at Dead Letter No.9: Fernandito + Roni

Thu 7pm · Brooklyn
A decade deep and still setting the dance floor on fire Scandalo NYC touches down at Dead Letter No. 9 for a proper Thursday night release. Born in Brooklyn in 2015 and created by DJ fernanDITO, Scandalo NYC has grown into a staple of New York City’s queer nightlife. Built on music, movement, and community, it’s a space where self-expression is the dress code and the dance floor is the meeting point. Expect Scandalo’s signature sound: a joyfully unhinged blend of Italo Disco, classic house, Euro pop, funky beats, and high-energy curveball the kind of selections that pull an eclectic crowd of music lovers, creatives, and free spirits into one sweaty, glowing room. Roni sets the tone a queer multidisciplinary artist, DJ, and producer with releases under RC REDD, bringing big international disco, funk, house, hi-energy boogie, and perfectly-timed oddities into tight, dancer-forward sets. A familiar face across NYC (Public Records, Bierwax, TV Eye, Port Sai’d, Rebecca’s, Hank’s + more), she knows exactly how to read a room and push it forward. Then FernanDITO takes over first stepping into the booth in Venezuela in the early 90s, and never looking back. A lifelong music researcher with decades of dancefloor instinct, his sets are a happy-tempo journey through ecstatic eclecticism: Italo disco, classic and current house, plus flashes of funky electro, pop, R&B, Europop and techno always moving, always building. Come celebrate the legacy. Come sweat with the family. We can’t wait to party with you. Free w RSVP | 21+ | Happy Hour 5PM-8PM | Music at 7PM Kitchen's open late serving Bao Buns
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Lunar New Year Jazz Night at Spicy Moon

Wed, Feb 18 7:30pm · New York
🐎 Lunar New Year Jazz Night: Year of the Horse 🎷🌙 Join us at Spicy Moon for a special Lunar New Year Jazz Night, welcoming the Year of the Horse with rhythm, movement, and community. This year, Lunar New Year begins on February 17 and is traditionally celebrated over 15 days. The Horse symbolizes energy, freedom, and forward motion, and jazz carries that same spirit through swing, improvisation, and soulful expression. This evening is an invitation to step into the new year with presence and connection, guided by live AAPI jazz. Expect an intimate night of thoughtfully curated music, cozy winter vibes, and plant-based comfort food, a space to celebrate new beginnings and gather with friends old and new. Come for the music, stay for the rhythm, leave feeling a little more alive. Band: Peter Lin - Trombone Mỹ Tâm Huynh - Vocals Tomoko Ohno - Keys Kevin Hsieh - Bass 🎷 Live Jazz: AAPI Jazz Collective 🥢 Food & Drinks: Plant-based Szechuan by Spicy Moon 🌹 Doors: 7:00 PM · Show: 7:30 PM ✨ Dress Code Feel free to wear red, gold, or black to welcome the new year energy. ⸻ 🎟️ Tickets $20 Early Bird (first 20 guests) $30 General Admission $35 At the Door (cash/Venmo, if space allows) 💳 Payment Venmo: @Kerstin-Du Zelle: 530-219-6350 Please order at least one food item or non-alcoholic drink to support the venue 🥢🍹 ⸻ ⚠️ Important - After payment, please press “Go” on Partiful so your name appears on the guest list. - Sign-ups without payment will not be counted. Tickets are non-refundable within 2 weeks of the event. - Let’s welcome the Year of the Horse with music, warmth, and community 🎶✨
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V-DATES Feb 13 | DIY Love Journals & Tea Time

Fri, Feb 13 11am · Brooklyn
Love is in the air 💕 With Valentine’s Day just around the corner, we’re excited to share our Pairing V-Dates mini event series. Join us for a cozy, Pairing style Tea Time filled with your favorite Pairing treats and a thoughtful, shared experience designed for two people to celebrate their connection and the love they share. You’ll have everything you need to get creative and put a little love on paper in your very own love journal. So… what’s a love journal?
It’s a space to collect small, meaningful, love filled moments from your life. Something personal you can return to and continue adding to over time as your love story grows. This is a sweet way to switch things up for Valentine’s Day and do something more thoughtful and unique. Dinner is always an option, but sharing an experience like this can make the day feel extra special. Bring your partner, best friend, parent, a first date, a longtime crush…anyone you want to spend the time with!! Each experience is two hours long, with multiple time slots available on February 13th, 14th, and 15th. Spots are limited and expected to fill quickly. How to reserve:
Tickets are available through our Toast site. Each date and time slot is listed as an individual “item,” so be sure to read carefully and select the one that works best for you. Please note - One reservation is for two people. Any questions? Message us on instagram! @pairing.cafe :) Excited to see you there 💖
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PP : Artist Salon

Thu 7:30pm · Brooklyn
UPDATE LOCATION CHANGE 🍑  we’ve garnered so much interest in our next artist salon, (wahoo!) however, this means i can no longer host the usual gathering at my apartment with 50 rsvps. so! we will gather at the intimate studio 1514 (bedstuy’s queer living room space). they do have a 2 drink minimum per person, as this is how S1514 keeps the lights on for community and venue fees low. reminder that an artist salon is a creative session to socialize, share ideas and connect local artists & creatives. this is not the peach pit showcase. however, we will be discussing the art we want to make for the next one! on 1/29 we will: vote together on the next show concept, and get a sense of who’d like to perform, produce, and participate in our peachy community. see you next thursday! xoxo pit crew 🍑 *** Save the date for our first Peach Pit Artist Salon of the new year! Come solo, come with friends, come if you’re simply curious to meet other queer creatives. WHAT: an artist salon is a gathering of artists and creatives with the intention to share ideas, listen to one another, and embolden artistic pursuits. In addition: We’ll touch on the next peach pit performance vol. II (June, 2026), look at the calendar, vote on a show concept, and discuss pit crew opportunities leading up to the show! Food & Bev: N.A. options, amaros and natural wine will be available - the space allows us to gather for a 2 drink minimum per person. Bring a little snack to share or Venmo to contribute to the food fund! Looking forward to our next generative gathering. - pit crew 🍑🍑🍑