Shake off your turkey stupor, slither off the couch, and go to these events.

 

Joe Fyfe, Untitled, collage, 6×7.

 

MONDAY

Event space The Kitchen is holding a benefit art auction tonight at 7:00 PM. Visit the event page here.

TUESDAY

Curatorial duo Rivet (Sarah Demeuse and Manuela Moscoso) lecture at Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School at 6:30 PM.

No, Dear hosts Boog City’s 10th Annual NYC Small Presses Night at Sidewalk Cafe (94 Avenue A, NY, NY). Books and readings by Ana Božičević, Jackie Clark, B.C. Edwards, Tom Healy, Jeremy Hoevenaar, Dan Magers, and Martin Rock. It goes down at 6:30 PM.

WEDNESDAY

At Housing Works (126 Crosby St, NY, NY), The Bushwick Book Club presents The works of Mark Twain. Come listen to local songwriters sing and play songs inspired by Mark Twain at 7:00 PM.

THURSDAY

Head to Irving Plaza to see Public Enemy, Black Sheep, and X Clan at 8:00 PM.

Roll over to Public Assembly (70 North 6th Street, Brooklyn, NY) for a Kickstarter party for The Rumpus’s first feature film, Happy Baby. Featuring readings by Jami Attenberg and Rick Moody, comedy by Eugene Mirman, and a performance by Sari Botton and Melissa Febos.

FRIDAY

Come to the New Museum (235 Bowery, New York, NY) to hear a performance by No Wave pioneer Arto Lindsay. The skronk (more likely lilting Tropicália) begins at 7:00 PM.