THROUGH DECEMBER 24
Canal Park Playhouse is putting on a production of “A Christmas Carol.”

DECEMBER 4
The Slow Food Show at New Amsterdam Market “will feature a select number of start-ups and is open to the public at no charge.”

DECEMBER 6–30
R 20th Century presents “The Objects Show.” See photo for explanation.

DECEMBER 8–29
“One Art Space presents ‘Holiday Art Show,’ a group exhibition by nine artists from different generations and origins with a variation of subjects and media. All artworks will be under $1,000 and part of the profit will be donated to a local homeless charity.”

DECEMBER 11
“The Second Israeli-Russian Film Festival is starting with all-day program on Sunday, December 11, 2011 at Tribeca Film Center, 375 Greenwich. Reception will follow at the Anne Frank Center USA.”

DECEMBER 16
Tin Pan plays the BMCC Tribeca Performing Arts Center: “Drawing from elements of jazz, blues, country, and rock, Tin Pan produces a sound that encompasses the full spectrum of American Roots-style music. The intention of its style is pure and simple: to be enjoyed and to make people dance.”

DECEMBER 16–17
Poets House‘s winter book sale: ‘Come enjoy some cider and peruse a selection of duplicates for sale in the Stanley Kunitz Conference Room on the 2nd floor during our normal hours. All proceeds benefit the library.”

DECEMBER 16–JANUARY 28
“FB Gallery is pleased to present ‘Metropole Remix,’ the first exhibition by Brazilian artist Alê Souto [left] in New York. ‘Metropole Remix’ recreates an imaginary city inspired by the book Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino. The exhibition consist of a mural encompassing the whole first floor of the gallery, four big scale canvases, 10 original prints, a series of drawings (Suburbio remix), and three site specific installations. Alê Souto’s metropolis raises issues which are common of any great world city: Loneliness, mobility, social divide and how technology impacts the urban and human landscape.”

DECEMBER 17
Scott Weiland has a Christmas album (!) and he’ll be playing it at City Winery.

JANUARY 1
Grayson Hugh will be playing a concert at V Café (a.k.a. Viet Café): “Here is a rare opportunity to hear internationally acclaimed singer/songwriter Grayson Hugh and singer Polly Messer perform some of Grayson’s new songs from his new release “An American Record” and his past hits in an intimate, acoustic setting.”

JANUARY 4–FEBRUARY 4
Soho Photo is pleased to announce that January’s guest exhibitor will be Gao Yuan, a Chinese-born artist who will present three bodies of work—’Grafitti,’ ‘Twelve Moons’ and ‘Chinese Gangster’ under the umbrella title, ‘Un(Re)Marked.’ Yuan says: ‘I like to use photography to probe and search the surface of appearances. The first and most fundamental territory that we inhabit is the territory of our own body. The way we adorn it is emblematic of personal and social identity. Patterning the surface of our body serves a dual function of both obscuring and proclaiming, masking vulnerable identity and marking individual status. There is also a contradiction in the act of tattooing as it asserts difference but also shows the willingness to subsume one’s individual identity within a sub-group.'” Also: Member exhibits by Sandy Carrion, Lois Youmans, Sandi Daniel, and Rosalie Frost.

JANUARY 9, 16, 23, AND 30, AND FEBRUARY 6
Steve Earle plays City Winery with Alison Moorer (“and friends”).