JANUARY 7–29
The Piccolini Trio’s “Circus in a Trunk” is back at Canal Park Playhouse.

JANUARY 8
Saturday Night Fever screens for free at Tribeca Grand.

JANUARY 11
“Join 92YTribeca for a special conversation about The New Group’s production of Russian Transport, as playwright Erika Sheffer, actress Janeane Garofalo and moderator Julian Sheppard discuss the play’s backstory and its journey to the stage. Russian Transport is a suspenseful family drama set in the Russian Jewish community of Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn.”

JANUARY 14
At 92YTribeca: “The 2nd Annual Cabo Verde Expo of NYC brings the flavors and rhythms of the tiny island archipelago to New York City with an exposition of the music, film, fashion, and visual arts of Cabo Verde.  This year’s event will feature the music of: ZeRui DePina, a singer, composer and instrumentalist known for his unique voice, heartfelt compositions and dynamic stage presence; and Candida Rose, whose soulful renditions blend her Cape Verdean roots with her love of jazz, creating a style she’s coined KabuJazz. The event will also feature a film, art, and a fashion show spotlighting the creations of Cape Verdean-American artists.”

JANUARY 15
Taxi Driver screens for free at Tribeca Grand.

JANUARY 17–FEBRUARY 5
“What happens when you get six of the best figurative artists in the world together in one room? ‘After School Special,’ an exhibition featuring original work by the Full-time faculty of the New York Academy of Art. Harvey Citron, Catherine Howe, John Jacobsmeyer, Margaret McCann, Edward Schmidt, and Wade Schuman.”

JANUARY 19
Broadway Danny Rose screens at 92YTribeca.

JANUARY 21
“92YTribeca proudly presents a special evening featuring two of the most talented pianists in modern jazz—Jason Moran and Geri Allen. Recently appointed the Kennedy Center’s Artistic Adviser for Jazz, groundbreaking jazz pianist/composer and 2010 MacArthur Fellow Jason Moran takes the stage with his trio The Bandwagon, featuring bassist Tarus Mateen and drummer Nasheet Waits. [...] This concert also features a special solo performance by pianist, composer, and educator Geri Allen, a musician of extraordinary breadth and exceptional sensitivity.”

JANUARY 22
Sweet Smell of Success screens for free at Tribeca Grand.

JANUARY 25
At 92YTribeca: The Telephone Book (1971). “Super rare 35mm film screening of a forgotten classic from the New York Underground! Sexually frustrated gamine Alice (Sarah Kennedy) is freed from her apartment-bound malaise when she receives the world’s greatest obscene phone call from one ‘John Smith,’ sending her on a picaresque journey through the Manhattan white pages in search of its maker. As Alice encounters ego-crazed porn directors, perverted psychologists, and priapic shut-ins, her trip grows more and more deranged, interrupted by first-person interviews with phone freaks and climaxing in one of the nuttiest half-hours of 1970s cinema.”

JANUARY 28, FEBRUARY 11 AND 18
The BMCC Tribeca Performing Arts Center is proud to present the talented winners of this year’s Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition in piano. This year’s three finalists—Kristopher Bowers in First Place, Joshua White in Second Place and Emmet Cohen in Third Place—will perform three solo concerts on January 28, February 11, and February 18 respectively.

JANUARY 28
Beaches sing-and-cry-along at 92YTribeca.

JANUARY 29
Wall Street screens for free at Tribeca Grand.

FEBRUARY 3
Husband-wife duo The Bengsons bring their Vaudevillian indie folk back to 92YTribeca.

FEBRUARY 8–MARCH 3
“Soho Photo Gallery is honored to present the winners of its second Small Works National Competition [...]. We initiated this competition to recognize those photographers who still enjoy the discipline of creating small masterpieces in an era when large photographs—very large—are in vogue. The competition’s rules stated that the height and width of entries could not exceed six inches in each direction.”

FEBRUARY 14
At Pen Parentis‘s free literary salon: Writers Austin Ratner, Stephen Stark, and Amelia Kahaney.

MARCH 27–28
Joan Osborne plays City Winery. You may like her for “One of Us,” but I always preferred “Right Hand Man.”

APRIL 25–26
The Bacon Brothers play City Winery.

A previous Pen Parentis event

NOVEMBER 8
“You are warmly invited to meet Elissa Schappell and Greg Olear [at] The Pen Parentis Literary Salon at Gild Hall. Their beautiful upstairs Libertine Library on the second floor is transformed into a place where people like you and me go to talk books and meet with authors who have kids. Books vended by Bluestockings for signings. Readings. Conversation. Wine.”

NOVEMBER 8
“The Mysterious Bookshop and Akashic Books will celebrate the release of New Jersey Noir. Editor Joyce Carol Oates will be here along with contributors including Bradford Morrow, S.J. Rozan, Jonathan Santlofer, Edmund White, Sheila Kohler, Gerald Stern, Michael Carroll, S.A. Solomon, C.K. Williams, Hirsh Sawney, Jeffrey Ford, and Lou Manfredo. Joyce will also sign copies of her new anthology, The Corn Maiden and Other Nightmares.”

NOVEMBER 9–DECEMBER 22
At Apexart: “‘The Walls That Divide Us’ addresses the proliferation of state and city separation barriers across the globe as symbols of dissent in contemporary politics. Featured works explore phenomena including imperialistic enterprises, contested territories, security policies, border control, revolutionary movement, and mass protest.”

NOVEMBER 11
“Maslow 6 is pleased to welcome Donna Ferrato! Join us for a special event: Tribeca’s own Donna Ferrato will be signing copies of her new book: Tribeca 9/11/01-9/11/11.”

NOVEMBER 12–19
At Art in General: “I’ll Raise You One…” by Zefrey Throwell. “Each day for a week, from 10:30 a.m–6 p.m., seven players will gather around a white table in the storefront Project Space of Art In General to gamble away what most consider so dear, their clothes. At the end of each round, the players will get dressed and begin again, creating a meditative repetitious action that continues over the course of a workday.”

NOVEMBER 14
From BMCC Tribeca Performing Arts Center: “Please join us for our monthly get-together celebrating Tribeca, its businesses, the neighborhood and its friends. Everyone is welcome at the Flea Theater on Monday November 14, any time between 6:30 and 9 p.m. This is a free event—anyone with an interest in Lower Manhattan is welcome to attend. The food and drinks are free as well. Frankly Wines will provide libations while Da Mikele will bring pizza and MaxDelivery will be donating wonderful nibblybits.”

NOVEMBER 17–DECEMBER 3
“Surrounded” at One Art Space: “The poignant influence of New York City on the lives and artwork of four powerful, emerging Latin American artists: Ramiro Gamboa (Mexico), Renzo Ortega (Peru), Luciana Toyos (Argentina), and Juan Gabriel Zorrilla (Colombia).”

NOVEMBER 18
John Wesley Harding’s Cabinet of Wonders at City Winery: “The house band for that special show will be The King Charles Trio featuring Peter Buck (REM), John Wesley Harding (Appearing as Himself), Scott McCaughey (The Minus Five), Jenny Conlee-Drizos, Chris Funk, John Moen, Nate Query (members of The Decemberists).”

DECEMBER 15
Holiday caroling and the Trinity Youth Chorus’ rendition of Benjamin Britten’s “Ceremony of Carols” at St. Paul’s Chapel. It’s free.

DECEMBER 18
“Theater at Trinity presents its annual [free] reading of Israel Horovitz’s adaptation of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol: Scrooge and Marley, a multi-generational event with audience participation at St. Paul’s Chapel.”

JANUARY 7
Toad the Wet Sprocket, Ari Hest, and Willy Porter play City Winery. I love Ari Hest! Although I wish I hadn’t learned that this song was about the month of June.

FEBRUARY 15–16
Richard Thompson plays all-request shows (“Superbass”!) at City Winery.

FEBRUARY 20
Marcia Ball and BeauSoleil play City Winery.

SEPTEMBER 29–NOVEMBER 5
At the World Financial Center’s Courtyard Gallery: “‘Tao/The Way’ features over 50 works of art including large-scale ink paintings, beautiful tea ceramics, and abstract expressionist calligraphy by Adam T. Bernard, who spent 11 years studying Taoism and Chan (Zen) in Taiwan while working for a range of local artists, from a master potter to a scroll-mounter.”

OCTOBER 6
At 92YTribeca: “The Eclectic is a new concert series that gives a modern flair to the cabaret tradition. The evening features both standards and originals, representing a mix of pop, rock, musical theatre, R & B, country and jazz performed by Broadway’s finest and independent musicians. Produced by Rashad V. Chambers and Michael T, who also serves as music director and host.”

OCTOBER 6–NOVEMBER 5
R 20th Century is excited to announce the second solo exhibition of works by Brazilian designer Hugo França. The exhibition will feature a stunning new series of massive Casulo—Portuguese for ‘cocoon’—sculptures in solid Pequi and Imbuia woods.” That’s one of his pieces above.

OCTOBER 11
The free Pen Parentis Literary Salon presents Matt Costello and John Langan: “The ‘emerging master of the elegant macabre’ (so named in Locus Magazine) shares the stage with the creator of such multimillion sellers as The 7th Guest to read from new work, sign books, and discuss how their writing careers were influenced by becoming parents.”

OCTOBER 16
The 12th-annual Inside Tribeca Loft Tour, to benefit the Friends of Duane Park: “This year’s line-up of more than 10 lofts displays a wide variety of tastes and architecture with distinctive elements. They include an apartment that features a boxes-within-boxes architectural style, making up four bedrooms, each in a separate windowed box, so that the modern Danish furniture appears suspended in mid-air. Another apartment on view featured in Interior Design magazine was transformed from a raw asymmetrical space with exposed ducts and wires into a balanced, yin-yang centered living space [...]. This space highlights a choice art collection with pieces from such well-known artists as Keith Haring, Robert Rauschenberg and Andy Warhol [...]. Tickets are available in advance for $50 at duanepark.org or for $55 from Duane Park, at Hudson and Duane Streets, at 12:30 on the day of the tour.”

OCTOBER 21–JANUARY 23
The McNeill Art Group Tribeca Project Space inside Artisan Lofts’ lobby presents The Westward Eye, “an exhibition that looks into the current state of the Los Angeles contemporary art scene, giving viewers a peek at artists who are continuing the legacy of the unique artistic vision of Los Angeles. Artists included are Nano Rubio [that's his painting at left] , Karl Hahn, Stephanie Farr, Karen Chu, Alexander Kroll, Tony Brown, Scott Santangelo, and Samantha Thomas. An opening reception will take place on Friday, October 21st, from 6–9 p.m.” After that, it’s by appointment only.

OCTOBER 27
“A new kind of party and a new kind of dance class” at 92YTribeca: New York Night Train’s Land of 1000 Dances. Jonathan Toubin, the DJ and brain behind the Soul Clap and Dance-Off, has been researching the dance crazes of the 1960s and finding ways to bring them to a contemporary club culture. Learn how to ‘pony’ like Bonie Maronie, ‘hitch hike’ across the floor, pass the ‘bug,’ and kill that ‘roach’! Georgia Walker, Sarah King and special guest dancers show you how the steps are done in front of B.A. Miale’s famous keytar-triggered visuals—which not only tell you the name of the steps, but show you old clips of your favorite artists performing them.” I’m so there. And I should warn you—I dance. You’ll know when I get really excited because I slap the floor.

OCTOBER 28
92YTribeca hosts a sing-along screening of Labyrinth.

AUGUST 22
From council member Margaret Chin’s office: From 3:30 to 4:30 p.m., “French Open champion Li Na will make an appearance at the USTA’s Mobile SmashZone [...] at Sara D. Roosevelt Park in the Chinatown District of Manhattan. She will participate in tennis activities with children from the local area to encourage health and fitness in the Asian community. In addition, Li Na will have an autograph session.”

AUGUST 27
Dar Williams will play City Winery after a screening of Vanishing of the Bees.

SEPTEMBER 6–11
At St. Paul’s Chapel (Broadway and Fulton): “The public will be invited to tie white ribbons—symbols of remembrance—with the words ‘Remember to Love’ on the fence of St. Paul’s Chapel from  September 6 through September 11. Names and prayers may be written on the ribbons.” (10 a.m.– 6 p.m.)

SEPTEMBER 8–OCTOBER 8
“Spaces & Places,” paintings by Babette Herschberger and Beatricia Sagar, is at Cheryl Hazan Gallery.

SEPTEMBER 8–OCTOBER 29
Opening at Apexart: “Private Stash, curated by jazz pianist Fred Hersch. The show includes examples of his work, his musical and visual inspirations, and a showing of his recent operatic production My Coma Dreams, based on the visions he saw during a two-month coma.”

SEPTEMBER 8–OCTOBER 9
At One Art Space: “Daniel Belardinelli’s new exhibit, Vital Signs [...] draws upon a constellation of addictions, personal loss and his own struggle to communicate verbally, producing wildly dynamic images that teeter between inner angst and an outwardly directed attempt to achieve meaningful contact. [...] The artist was also personally affected by the events of 9/11—a last minute change of plans prevented Belardinelli from joining an uncle on the ill-fated Flight 93. Dysfunction, loss and the sounds, beat and culture of the nightclub scene resonate through Belardinelli’s work.” Pictured above: “Born Into This.”

SEPTEMBER 9–15
Tribeca Film is screening three films at Tribeca Cinemas:
••• Beware the Gonzo (“the story of a 17-year old student who starts a revolution in his high school”)
••• Brother’s Justice (“Actor Dax Shepard makes the decision to abandon comedy in pursuit of his true dream: to become an internationally-renown martial arts star”; Shepard directed, too)
••• Grave Encounters (“Lance Preston and the crew of ‘Grave Encounters,’ a ghost-hunting reality television show, are shooting an episode inside the abandoned Collingwood Psychiatric Hospital, where unexplained phenomena has been reported for years.”)

SEPTEMBER 11
Counter-programming! The Crosby Street Hotel chose the tenth anniversary of 9/11 to screen that recent documentary about New York Times photographer Bill Cunningham.

The May Pen Parentis salon

SEPTEMBER 13
The Pen Parentis Literary Salon features writers Rebecca Wolff (The King, The Beginners), Sarah Gardner Borden (Games to Play After Dark), and Frank Haberle (winner of the Pen Parentis fellowship). The accompanying photo is not of them.

SEPTEMBER 13
INVASION! opens at the Flea (previews start Sept. 6): “While INVASION!—written by Swedish-Tunisian playwright Jonas Hassen Khemiri—isn’t set directly against the backdrop of September 11, it does—with wit, humor and a deft slyness—evoke some of the suspicions, prejudices and matters of cultural identity about Middle Easterners that resulted.”

SEPTEMBER 15–JANUARY 7
Opening at the Museum of Jewish Heritage: “‘Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race’ [which] shows how the Nazi regime aimed to change the genetic makeup of the population through measures known as ‘racial hygiene’ or ‘eugenics,’ and the role that scientists in the biomedical fields played in legitimizing these policies. When Nazi racial hygiene was implemented, the categories of persons regarded as biologically threatening to the health of the nation were greatly expanded to include Jews, Gypsies, and other minorities. Ultimately, Nazi racial hygiene policies culminated in the Holocaust.”

SEPTEMBER 16
From reader Kellee: “There’s a CD release party for Nation Beat on September 16 at 9 p.m. at 92YTribeca. I met band leader Scott Kettner several weeks ago and had a blast watching the band perform. Nation Beat’s music is described as a ‘fusion between thunderous Brazilian maracatu drumming and New Orleans second line rhythms, Appalachian-inspired blue grass music, funk, rock and country-blues.’ Scott himself is a pretty interesting guy and percussionist who plays a mean tambourine. (I’m not kidding—it’s actually a pandeiro—cousin to the tambourine). He can make it sound like a full set of drums.”

Here are just a few of the highlights on tap this week. More info on these—and the full slate—is in the Tribeca calendar of events.

Monday
The Manhattan Youth Downtown Community Center hosts a free weekly classical music concert for all ages: “If you can read music, bring your violin, viola or cello and join us for some great music and a lot of fun.”

Tuesday
Chaz Bono—Cher’s son (born as a girl named Chastity)—reads at Barnes & Noble. Transgender people are so unbelievably brave. ••• Pen Parentis’s literary salon features Ann Hood, Marina Budhos, and Cara Hoffman. ••• South Korean film Re-Encounter screens for free at Tribeca Cinemas: “Hyehwa is a veternarian’s assistant living a quiet life when suddenly her high school sweetheart reappears one day and tells her that the child they thought died when he got her pregnant at 18 is still alive. Lyrical and intimate, it’s a movie that sees two people tear themselves up in quiet desperation.” That’s the best kind! ••• The Blind Boys of Alabama and the Oak Ridge Boys play City Winery.

Wednesday
Robert Wilson’s “Video 50″ is at 92YTribeca: “A duck cackling into a microphone; a woman’s pancake-makeup-ed face staring tearfully into a smoking toaster; an ordinary couple having a hot dog eating contest on a sunny Sunday morning. With 100 brief episodes strung together for maximum befuddlement, Wilson doles out both the grotesque and the gorgeous.” ••• Reading at Apexart as part of its Almost Famous Reading Series: Marcy Dermansky, Heather Kristin, Albert Mobilio, Stephen O’Connor.

Thursday
The windmill-shaped New Amsterdam Plein & Pavilion opens at Battery Park. Attend the 10:30 a.m. ribbon-cutting, if you want. RSVP at 212-408-0111 or special.events@parks.nyc.gov. ••• The Nerve Tank’s “The Attendants” opens at the World Financial Center Winter Garden: “‘The Attendants’ is an interactive multimedia performance featuring two performers enclosed within an eight-foot, transparent cube and a new ‘score’ [Scary use of quotes! —Ed.] by composer Stephen Moore. Audiences can communicate with the performers via text messaging from mobile phones or home computers, which then appear on two plasma screens flanking the cube.” A preview is here. ••• Like teen angst? You’ll get lots of it at 92YTribeca’s “Mortified” show of monologues.

Friday
For the kids: The Paper Bag Players are at the BMCC Tribeca Performing Arts Center. ••• At 92YTribeca, Dilys E. Blum, senior curator of costumes and textiles at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, discusses the museum’s well-regarded show about couturier Roberto Capucci (that’s one of his dresses at left). ••• 92YTribeca screens Zoolander and Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure. Keanu rules.

Saturday
The opening of “Dormeur,” a show of work by Vincent P. of the Paris art collective Les Gros Monsieur. Visitors can take one of the 600 photographs (which I believe are all of Vincent P. sleeping). ••• Crash Test Dummies play City Winery. ••• Andrei Konchalovsky’s production of “Uncle Vanya” is at the BMCC Tribeca Performing Arts Center. ••• 92YTribeca screens 1973′s Walking Tall.

Sunday
92YTribeca has a walking tour about “the early history of Jewish colonial New York.” ••• Taylor Hicks plays City Winery. ••• Joanie Leeds plays for kids at 92YTribeca.

As for ongoing events, you might consider…
“It’s the end of the world as we know it, or mighty close to it, in Laurel Haines’s agreeably disjointed [play],” said the New York Times in its review of Laurel Haines’s “Future Anxiety,” getting its world premier at the Flea. “And while its many, many inhabitants may not exactly feel fine, they’re largely at peace with a world in which China imports American debtors as slave laborers, and the unemployment rate has dropped to a mere 65 percent.” Photo by Richard Termine for the New York Times.

Monday
Jim Connors of the National September 11 Memorial & Museum is giving the CB1 WTC Redevelopment Committee an update on logistics.

Tuesday
Writers Arthur Phillips and Whitney Terrell read at the Pen Parentis literary salon. ••• Colin Hay plays City Winery (also Wednesday and Friday).

Wednesday
Shirley MacLaine appears at Barnes & Noble to read from her new book, I’m Over All That! ••• The CB1 Tribeca Committee, where I’ll spend much of the time debating where to drink afterward. ••• Church Street School for Music and Art’s dance party at Santos Party House. Someone turned me on to host Andrew W.K.’s Twitter feed, which is pretty wonderful.

Thursday
Poets House commemorates Poem in Your Pocket Day by handing out poems at various spots. I’m hoping to participate. ••• Flashdance at 92YTribeca.  ••• Shelby Lynne plays City Winery; I’ll be there. Her “I Am Shelby Lynne” album is so good. Hey,  maybe she should cover “Maniac!” Imagine it slow and bluesy: I’m just a steel town girl on a Saturday night, looking for the fight of my life….

Friday
Strait-Jacket at 92YTribeca: “Joan Crawford stars as Lucy, a wife who takes an axe to the heads of her husband and his lover after catching them together. Twenty years later, just out of the asylum, she reunites with her daughter Carol (Diane Baker). Carol encourages her mother to spruce up her appearance with a flattering dress and some very clunky bracelets, but becomes concerned with her mother’s odd reaction to her fiancé.” It’s followed by 1987′s The Stepfather.

Saturday
Earth Day at the Visionaire: “Indulge in eco-friendly treats, hands-on activities, take-home gifts and more. Tours of green operating systems (microturbine, air filtration, solar photovoltaic panels, etc.) throughout the building and speakers sharing everyday living tips will be featured too!” Well, it’s not Andrew W.K.’s idea of a party…. ••• For kids: “Room on the Broom” at the BMCC Tribeca Performing Arts Center. ••• At 92YTribeca: Hollywood Shuffle and a Cry-Baby sing-along.

Sunday
Today’s the day for locals to buy single-screening tickets (a day before non-locals) to the Tribeca Film Festival. ••• An afternoon of jazz (from the Alan Levin Trio) and poetry at Bogardus Plaza.

As for ongoing events, you might consider…
Two exhibits of photography by Ed Kashi (“Aging in America” and “Madagascar”) are at the World Financial Center Courtyard Gallery. I’m assuming this one is from “Aging in America,” unless Madagascar is not at all what I thought.

••• From Doodledeals: $59 for a full-leg and bikini wax at Euphoria Spa.

••• From Groupon: Burger Burger, which I guess is in FiDi.

••• Pen Parentis is celebrating: Two authors who have read at the group’s literary salon, Jennifer Egan and Darin Strauss, recently won National Book Awards; a third, Austin Ratner just won a lucrative Jewish Book Award. Anyway, the 2011 Pen Parentis Writing Fellowship for New Parents is accepting applications through Apr. 20.

••• From TheDealist: $30 for three 55-minute boxing lessons at Church Street Gym.

••• Help a reader out: “I’m looking for an indoor basketball court to take my son to on the weekends. I live in Tribeca.  So far my research has come up empty (Chelsea Piers rents their courts out on the weekends). Any thoughts of a school or rec center that allows the public to use their facilities for a fee?”

••• From the Harrison: “February 18, we will be doing a special service. Chef Michael Schwartz of Michael’s Genuine Food & Drink [Good restaurant! —Ed.] in Miami will be will be joining us for “Michaels’ Genuine at The Harrison.” He will be preparing a few of his signature dishes along with Jimmy, Steve and Justin. We will offer a menu of 3 to 5 of Michael’s dishes along with our full menu.”

••• Yorganic will be giving away coffee Feb. 21–26 (that’s next week, Monday to Saturday).

••• Gilt City has a deal for the Pinot Noir Walkaround at Tribeca Grill.

••• Pen Parentis has announced a new book club, The Literate Parent: “Combine your knowledge and experience in parenting with your love of reading in this book club focused exclusively on great books written by authors who have kids of their own. Discuss the ways in which parenthood might have influenced the author in writing his or her book. Discussions are led by prize-winning author and Pen Parentis executive director, M. M. De Voe, herself a mother of two and Lisa Garrigues, award-winning writer and author of Writing Motherhood. The following week, participants are invited to join Pen Parentis Literary Salons with the authors themselves.”

••• At this month’s Pen Parentis literary salon: writers Patricia Henley, Thaisa Frank, and Nance Van Winckel. (Tuesday)

••• South Korean film A Barefoot Dream, screens at Tribeca Cinemas; it’s “a scrappy burst of soccer adrenaline.” (Tuesday)

••• CB1 Tribeca Committee: The big discussion will be about Hazelden’s plans for a halfway house at 283 W. Broadway, and we may finally learn about the plans for 59 Reade, f.k.a. Spaghetti Western. (Wednesday)

••• Joyce Carol Oates appears at Mysterious Bookshop to support Give Me Your Heart, a collection of her stories published by the bookshop’s own Otto Penzler. (Wednesday)

••• On the agenda of the CB1 Landmarks Committee: application for storefront renovation of 151 Hudson, and an application for enlargement of window, replacement of door, and relocation of awning at 227 W. Broadway—in other words, Columbine’s plans to move next door. (Thursday)

"Sparrow #1" by Sandi Daniel (courtesy Soho Photo)

••• Of course, there’s a bunch of interesting ongoing stuff, too—such as Sandi Daniel’s solo show at Soho Photo: “My first Soho Photo exhibition is about nature’s often overlooked beauty. I find these small creatures on walks and in my garden. While photographing them in a portrait setting, I try to bring out their amazing shapes and textures. Although most are dead, they still radiate beauty and energy as if they were still alive.”

••• Free LunchBreak drawing lessons—on your iPhone, Android, iPad, etc.—at the World Financial Center (Monday–Thursday).

••• A Y+30 panel on how people will communicate in the future, with Josephine Dorado (Kidz Connect, Fractor.org, This Spartan Life), Hilary Mason (bit.ly), Carol Parkinson (Harvestworks, TELLUS), Eric Skiff (NYC Resistor, BarCamp), David Solomonoff (Internet Society of New York, State University of New York, United University Professions), and Jeremy Pesner. Poor Jeremy. (Monday, 92YTribeca)

••• Whole Foods Tribeca’s crafts fair, with vendors from the city—including okatk, whose coin purses are shown at left. (Tuesday)

••• This month, Pen Parentis’s salon is also a benefit for the organization—someone has to keep founder M.M. De Voe in ermine and pearls (just kidding, M.!)—with a suggested donation of $20 to listen to and mingle with authors Liz Rosenberg, John Reed, and Lena Roy. (Tuesday)

••• Deborah Treisman, fiction editor of The New Yorker, leads a reading of authors—including Gary Shteyngart, Wells Tower, and Nell Freudenberger—from the magazine’s 20 Under 40 initiative. This is a great chance to hand Triesman that manuscript you’ve spent years working on—not. (Wednesday)

••• Pelavin Gallery hosts the Art in a Box sale exhibition. There’s more info on that here. (Thursday)

••• Of course, there’s a bunch of interesting ongoing stuff, too. This week, let’s spotlight the travel photography of Rick Sammon, on view at Soho Photo through Dec. 31: