JANUARY 6–FEBRUARY 4
“Diggers, Mimes, Angels and Heads” is at Jack Hanley Gallery. Explains GalleristNY: It “documents a group from about 45 years ago, The Diggers, a band of counter-culture types who organized in the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco in 1966, out of the San Francisco Mime Troupe, providing a variety of free services—and some tremendous Happenings—for the local community.”

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.