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Three Rooms Press presents
2026 NYC ¡DADA! DO 3
A Highly Eclectic DADA Salon and The Official NYC launch of MAINTENANT 20: Journal of Contemporary DADA Writing and Art
Saturday, November 7, 2026 | 1–4 pm
NYPL Tompkins Square Library
331 E 10th Street, New York, NY | Free Admission
An afternoon of provocative, exuberant, eclectic performance and poetry is slated to hit the stage as Three Rooms Press and Tompkins Square Library present 2026 NYC ¡DADA! DO 3, a wild ride of contemporary DADA performance and poetry by leading NYC-area maverick artists—set, for the first time ever—in the heart of the East Village.
The event is the third of three NYC launch events for the internationally-renowned MAINTENANT 20: A Journal of Contemporary Dada Writing and Art, which features more than 240 visual and literary works by artists and writers from 36 countries and six continents. The event takes place Saturday, November 7, 1–4 pm at NYPL Tompkins Square Library, 331 E. 10th Street. in the East Village. Admission is free. Doors open 12:30pm. Costumes encouraged. Come as you aren’t.
The line-up features live performances from celebrated contemporary DADA artists including Penny Arcade, Mark Blickley, Mary Campbell, Billy Cancel, Pete Dolack, Jeff Farr, Ed Go, Joanne Grumet, Bob Holman, Ron Kolm, Annie Rachele Lanzillotto, Misa Levey, Charles Mingus III, Lois Kagan Mingus, Valery Oisteanu, Jeanne-Marie Osterman, Martina Salisbury, John J. Trause, and Zev Torres. Three Rooms Press co-founders and MAINTENANT editors Peter Carlaftes and Kat Georges host.
MAINTENANT 20: A Journal of Contemporary Dada Writing and Art is the latest of the ongoing annual MAINTENANT DADA journal series, established in 2008. This year’s issue features work on the them of IMPROPERGANDA.
The MAINTENANT series is archived in leading international institutions including the Museum of Contemporary Art–New York, BelVUE Museum–Brussels, Centre Pompidou—Paris, and more. Contributors have included such artists Raymond Pettibon, Molly Crabapple, Mark Kostabi, Fred Tomaselli, Nicole Eisenman, Edel Rodriguez, and Kazunori Murakami, along with writers William S. Burroughs, Gerard Malanga, Charles Plymell, Jack Hirschman, and Jerome Rothenberg, with a strong contingent of punk musician-artist-writers including Grant Hart, Mike Watt, Exene Cervenka, Thurston Moore, and Alice Bag.
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Tompkins Square Library, 331 E 10th St, New York, NY 10009-5005, United States
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