New York will be packed with an incredible quantity of humanities events, as the organisation of Performing humanities Presenters yearly Meeting happens, Jan 8th-12th, with satellite holidays surrounding it and then, following on its heels, the Chamber Music America Meeting , Jan 14th-16th. The organisation of Performing humanities Presenters Meeting , yearly held in Jan at the Hilton in NY Town . It is the biggest of its kind and a break for thousands of humanities presenters to see performers in showcases and find just the right acts for their creative seasons. There'll be over four thousand guests, four hundred exhibitors and one thousand performances over the length of the meeting. The 2010 theme is Risk. Opportunity. Now. Presenters and producers come from around the globe, representing numerous locations including theatres, non-profitable humanities presenting organizations, music clubs, holidays and universities. The acts displayed are a totally eclectic group and feature everything from dance to comedy, to cabaret to jazz, classical and world music, circus humanities, novelty acts and theatre. Visit : www.artspresenters.org for complete details on APAP.

During and round the APAP Meeting in NY there are many holidays linked with the meeting, cheaply available to the public and special only to this period of time : The 2010 N.Y.C. Winter Jazzfest, is a 2 night affair, ambitiously illustrating fifty 6 shows by jazz artists in 5 venues, inside walking distance of one another, on Jan 8th and 9th beginning at 6:00PM each night. A 2 night pass is a fair $30 and one night is $25 and the pass permits audience members to go out of and into venues as they would like to catch roughly forty five minute sets of groups appearing concurrently. This year's high spots include : Ben Allison, The Claudia Quintet, Dr. Lonnie Smith, Elliott Sharpened , Jenny Sheinman with Jason Moran, Nicholas Payton, Rudresh Mahanthappa, Carmen Consoli, Lionel Loueke, William Parker, Briggan Krauss, Joel Harrison, Sachal Vasandani, Gretchen Parlato, Bobby Previte, Matt Wilson and Vijay Iyer. The participating places are : Le Poisson Rouge, Kenny's Castaways, Zinc Bar, The Sour End and Sullivan Hall.

All places are either on Bleecker St. Or inside an one-block walk. Visit : www.winterjazzfest.com for complete details. GlobalFEST 2010 is on Jan tenth at Webster Hall, beginning at 7:00PM. 12 world music groups will be shown off across the evening on 3 stages, including : Alif Naaba ( Burkina Faso ), Cara Dillon ( Eire ), Caravan Palace ( France ), Cedric Watson ( U.S.A. ), Frederico Aubele ( Argentina / U.S.A.), Francois Ladrezo and Alka Omeka ( Guadeloupe ), La Cumbiamba eNe Ye ( Columbia / U.S.A. ), La Excelencia ( U.S.A. ), Meta and the Keystones ( Senegal / U.S.A. ), Namgar ( Russia / Mongolia ), Nguyen Le's Saiyuki ( Vietnam / Japan / India / France ) and Nightlosers ( Romania ). Tickets are a fair $40 for the entire evening. Visit : www.globalfest-ny.org for complete details.The below the radar Holiday is a holiday of worldwide drawn theatre and performance art pieces that push the envelope for newness, experimentation and creativeness.

It is essentially held at the general public Theater, where, this year, 10 different productions from the U.S.A, Ireland, U.K, Canada and Poland are playing from Jan 6th -17th. 2 of the shows that sound especially intriguing are ; John Cassavetes' Men , a theater piece primarily based on filmmaker, John Cassavetes' 1970's film Partners , conceived of by Doris Miresco and Silver Stars by Brokentalkers from Dublin, Eire . Other productions that are a part of the holiday are playing at different places around NY City including the HERE humanities Center, P.S. 122 and La Ma , which is featuring an intriguing puppet production of The Demon You Know, by Ping Chong, primarily based on The Demon and Daniel Webster. Tickets are awfully inexpensive at $15 each.