The calendar may say 2013, but the holidays aren't over hereabouts: The Conservatory of Dance's annual performance of The Nutcracker Ballet is Jan. 12 at the WNMU Fine Arts Center Theatre (following a Jan. 11 school performance).
Or you can get a jump on spring at WILL's Spring Signup Social on Jan. 10 at the WNMU Global Resource Center. And while you're looking into learning, writers out there can get tips from novelist Steve Havill on Jan. 26 at a workshop sponsored by the Southwest Festival of the Written Word; it's at Bear Mountain Lodge.
To learn about what's up with Gila/Mimbres Community Radio, check out the open house at the nonprofit station's new studio at 519B N. Bullard in Silver City on Jan. 18.
This month has music, too. Join in the Annual 12th Night Dance on Jan. 12 at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship Hall in Silver City, featuring members of the Privy Tipper Band from Tucson, with local legends Bayou Seco and the Fiddling Friends. Or sit and listen to versatile concert pianist Yana Reznik at WNMU on Jan. 25, the latest from the Community Concert Association.