Give up on your New Year’s resolutions and do this stuff instead.
MONDAY
Reading at The Poetry Project: Feng Sun Chen and Ken L. Walker. 8pm. Read an interview with Feng Sun Chen and listen to her read her poetry here.
Shotz by The Horse Trade Theater Group at Under St Marks Theater. Get buried under an avalanche of short ensemble plays. 7pm and 8:30pm.
TUESDAY
The Book Report Reading at (le) poisson rouge. Come watch Leah Umansky, Miracle Jones, and Kevin Carter read their book reports, first-grade-style. 7pm.
WEDNESDAY
Anthology Film Archives will be showing Barbara Rubin’s Christmas On Earth (1963), Jonas Mekas’s To Barbara Rubin With Love (2006), and Andy Warhol’s Screen Test featuring Rubin. 7:30pm.
Shake off your turkey stupor, slither off the couch, and go to these events.
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. 7:00 PM.