ART

LASTING IMPRESSIONS Eight Italian artists are under the museum microscope in the exhibit “Senso Unico” at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center. The artists, including Paolo Canevari, Rä di Martino, and Francesco Vezzoli, were chosen for their contributions to European contemporary art in the last decade. Through Monday, January 7, Thursday–Monday, noon–6 p.m., P.S.1, 22-25 Jackson Ave. at 46th Avenue, Long Island City, Queens, 718-784-2084, $5 general, $2 students and seniors, free for members.

HOLIDAY

MAKE YOUR OWN MENORAH “Imaginative Hanukkah Light Sculptures,” an art workshop and gallery tour at the Jewish Museum, is geared toward children between ages 8 and 12. A selection of the museum’s collection of Chanukah lamps is on display, including pieces with intricate designs such as curving snakes and branching trees. Participants can sketch and then create their own menorah from self-hardening clay. Sunday, 10:30 a.m.– 12:30 p.m., Jewish Museum, 1109 Fifth Ave. at 92nd Street, 212-423-3200, $12 general, $10 children, reduced admission for museum members.

MUSIC

THE NIGHT VISITORS The Little Orchestra Society presents “Amahl and the Night Visitors,” which is featured as part of its “Happy Concerts for Young People” series. A cast of shepherds, shepherdesses, live animals, and kings tells the tale of a young boy who discovers that miracles happen when you give from the heart. The orchestra performs music written by composer and librettist Gian Carlo Menotti, who died earlier this year. Menotti had staged this production especially for the Little Orchestra Society. Saturday, 11 a.m. and 1 p.m., Lincoln Center, Avery Fisher Hall, 10 Lincoln Center Plaza, between Broadway and 65th Street, 212-875-5900, $10–$40.

DIVINE CHORUS The Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine hosts its annual Cathedral Christmas concert. The program includes performances by the Cathedral Choristers and Stewart Brass Works. Special guest performers include Three Mo’ Tenors, the stars of the Off-Broadway show of the same name. Saturday, 7:30 p.m., Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine, 1047 Amsterdam Ave., between 111th and 112th streets, 866-468-7619, $20. To purchase tickets online go to ticketweb.com.

PAINTINGS

JACOB’S LADDER TO A NEW WORLD Seventeen panels of Jacob Lawrence’s “Migration Series” are on view at the Whitney Museum. Lawrence is best known for his depictions of the emigration of African-Americans to the industrial cities of the North from the South during the first half of the 20th century. The panels were borrowed from the series’ permanent home in Washington, D.C., the Phillips Collection. Selections from the exhibit include “The Migration Series, Panel 1” (1940–41), above. Through Sunday, January 6, Wednesday–Thursday, 11 a.m.–6 p.m., Friday, 1–9 p.m., Saturday–Sunday, 11 a.m.–6 p.m., Whitney Museum of American Art, 945 Madison Ave. at 75th Street, 800-944-8639, $15 general, $10 students, free for members and city public high school students.

POETRY

THE JOSHUA CREED Joshua Beckman, right, is the featured speaker during “The New Salon: Readings and Conversations With Emerging Poets,” presented by the Poetry Society of America. Mr. Beckman reads from and discusses “Shake” (Wav Books), in which he bemoans the depravity of American urban life. Tonight, 7 p.m., New York University, Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House, 58 W. 10th St. between Fifth and Sixth avenues, 212-254-9628, free.

TALKS

A VERY FINE HOUSE The landmark First Houses, on 3rd Street and Avenue A in the East Village, were built in 1935 as a means to provide below-market-rate housing to low-income families. The Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation presents “First Houses: A Monument of the Past, A Model for the Future,” a discussion on the topic of public housing. Panelists include an assistant corporation counsel in the Real Estate Litigation Division of the New York City Law Department, Warren Shaw. Tonight, 6:30 p.m., St. Mark’s Church, Parish Hall, 131E.10thSt.,between Second and Third avenues, 212-475-9585 ext. 35, free, reservations required.

THEATER

JUNIORS ON BROADWAY Thirty students from Fiorello H. La Guardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts are cast in the school’s production of “City of Angels,” the Tony Award-winning musical with original music by Cy Coleman and lyrics by David Zippel. Set in 1940s Los Angeles, the show follows the efforts of a young writer as he pens a screenplay for a Hollywood producer. The production features a score performed by a 20-piece jazz ensemble, and is presented on a custom-built revolving stage. Tomorrow and Saturday, 7 p.m., Sunday, 3 p.m., Fiorello H. La Guardia High School, 100 Amsterdam Ave. at 65th Street, 212-496-0700, $20. To purchase tickets online, go to laguardiahs.org.

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