On New Year's Day, visitors can see a model train exhibit, meet a snake up close (to celebrate The Year of the Snake), and experience the museum's daily exhibits.

Fifty of the area's up-and-coming and veteran comics will come together to tell the first jokes they've written for the new year.

Oscillators are one of the many building blocks of musical synthesizers. Adults and teens can learn the basics of soldering, and then make a simple musical synthesizer.

The Yellow Room Gang is a collective of Michigan singer-songwriters.

There will be a second show at 8:30pm.

This will include crafting events, trivia, and film screenings-- with "Ponyo" showing at 11am, and "Howl's Moving Castle" showing at 2pm.

There will also be an 8:45pm set.

Polky blends traditional Polish music with sounds and rhythms from across the globe.

Gear Lords is a regularly occurring hardware / live set/ electronic music showcase series.

Balazero is the author of “Unhinged in Ethiopia: Two Thousand Kilometers of Hell and Heaven on a Bicycle”

There will also be a separate ticketed show at 9:30pm.

There will also be comedy by Andrew Turner.

Tickets are available at the website of the Interfaith Center for Spiritual Growth. The show will also be livestreamed.

This will feature 60 tables of vinyl, CDs, posters, and memorabilia.

The orchestra will perform pieces including Anton Bruckner’s Symphony No. 8.

Sevigny will tell the story of botanists Elzada Clover and Lois Jotter. They explored and documented the flora of the Grand Canyon in 1938, defying expectations.

Activist Bill Ayers will explore the concept of freedom in eight essays.

Moises Borges is a Cleveland-based guitarist and vocalist who was born in Brazil. Ava Preston is a jazz vocalist. There will also be a separate ticketed show at 8:30pm.

Bruegl will talk about the blood and heartache that Indigenous nations faced with the creation of the National Park system.

Adams is the author of "The Containment: Detroit, the Supreme Court, and the Battle for Racial Justice in the North".

There will also be a separate ticketed show at 9:30pm

This multimedia performance features original compositions that draw attention to the effects of climate change.

The film is about a 1979 military coup that shook the capital city of Seoul, altering the fate of South Korea

The festival will feature 100+ whiskeys, hand crafted cocktails, a food truck, live music and vendors. There will be a second session from 7:30 to 10pm.

There will also be a ticketed show at 9pm.

There will also be a 7:30pm set.

Erika Alexander is an actress, activist, entrepreneur, creator, producer, and director. A livestream will be available at MLK dot Umich dot edu.

Dr. IIyasah Shabazz is an author, educator, and producer, and Malcolm X's third daughter. Information is at MLK dot Umich dot edu.

This will be for everyone who's worried about our country's future. There will be music, dancing, and a chance to meet people who support equity, justice, & respect for all.

This will be delivered by Tambra Raye Stevenson, a nutrition educator and food justice activist. Registration is at the Food Literacy for All course site at the U of M.

MOODS mixes lo-fi drum’n’bass beats, free improvisation, jazz embellishments, and psychedelic soundscapes.

The two former mayors will talk about governing in a time of crisis.

There will also be an 8:45pm set.

Members of the troupe will be in conversation with film director Eric Ting.

The original members will be joined by two New Orleans musicians, Chris Severin and Kyle Roussel. There will also be a separate ticketed show at 9:30pm.

The duo will perform their multi-movement piece “Hexagons”. 

This will be on the third floor.

The expo will feature vintage radios, audio gear, video stuff, gaming devices, records, and parts of all kinds.

There will be a lion dance, drumming, and children's folk dance performances. Visitors can also learn to use a Chinese drum and make crafts.

Catherine Kautsky of Lawrence University will present a lecture and recital. She will place Debussy's piano music in the context of the end of the 19th century.

The collective combines classical, contemporary, jazz and world music, with a focus on the music of Greece and the Greek diaspora.

The orchestra will perform George Gershwin's Concerto in F (to celebrate its 100th anniversary), and other works. There will be a pre-concert lecture at 7:15pm.

Visitors can learn about breadboards, switches, LEDs, motors, and lots of components, in this hands-on experience.

There will also be an 8:45pm set.

The Slouches are a Dixieland/punk/polka band from Hamtramck.

There will also be an 8:45pm set.

Over 60 ice carvings will be on display, from small carvings to large displays. "Frozen II" will be showing in the Penn Theater. The festival continues through February 2nd.

New Nostalgia is a Chicago-based fusion horn band that blends jazz, pop and rock. There will be a separate ticketed show at 9:30pm.

Eight experimental, documentary, animation, narrative, and hybrid short films will be shown from last year's film festival. That will be followed by a Q&A.

There will also be a separate ticketed show at 9pm.

Third Coast Percussion will perform its arrangements of Philip Glass's "Aguas de Amazonia". A separate piece will feature different musicians performing Beethoven's "Diabella Variations".

Writer and producer Mark Stryker will discuss the film in a Q&A after the screening. The film premiered last year.