# JanArtsNYC 2026 Programming Announced
Miranda Brown and Noa Rui-Piin Weiss in !!simon says~~!:));)$$,presented at Judson Church as part of pioneers Go East Collective’s 2025 Out-FRONT! Festival.photo: Steven pisano.
NEW YORK CITY: The Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment (MOME) has announced programming for JanArtsNYC, an annual collection of public performances and industry gatherings in January 2026. Kicking off on Jan. 3, JanArtsNYC centers around the Association of Performing Arts Professionals’s APAP|NYC Conference (jan.9-13), aiming to leverage global audiences drawn to NYC and to highlight the city’s performing arts community.
“We are so proud to onc again present JanArtsNYC, a collection of best-in-class live performance events taking place this January throughout our beloved city,” said Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment commissioner pat Swinney Kaufman in a statement. “For 13 years, JanArtsNYC has helped position January as ‘Performing Arts Month’ in NYC, where the world’s best come annually to premiere a vast unfolding of the newest works in theatre, dance, opera, music and performance.”
This year, MOME and APAP will present a short film that celebrates the coalition of its JanArtsNYC festivals, convenings, and events, produced by filmmaker AJ Wilhelm and Jenny Thomas. Theatre events include the Out-Front! Festival (Jan. 3-11), Under the Radar Festival (Jan. 7-25), PROTOTYPE (Jan. 7-18), and PhysFest (Jan. 8-18). Other events include Live Artery|New York Live Arts (Jan. 7-17) led by Bill T. Jones, Jazz at Lincoln Center’s jazz congress and unity Festival (Jan. 7-9), NYC Winter Jazzfest (Jan. 8-13), the Works & Process Underground Uptown Dance Festival (Jan. 9-13), globalFEST (Jan. 11), and the ISPA (Jan. 13-15) conference.
The Out-Front! Festival will center LGBTQ+ and feminist emerging voices. According to artistic director Gian Marco riccardo Lo Forte, Out-Front! was created to be a “high-vis
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