CRAFTY: The holiday season is upon us, which means getting that perfect gift for whoever's egg nog you'll be gathered around this year. Why not try a little D.I.Y.? Every other Monday the Church of Craft meets up and will "provide contact, craft support, advice, knowhowto, instructions, directions, tips, tricks, inspiration, and the blinding love of craft to all who seek it."

7 to 9pm // Rapture Cafe [200 Avenue A] // Free

EVENT: Have you forgotten about the every-other-weekly Williamsburg Spelling Bee (or how to spell some of your favorite words)? Well then, it's time to revisit the WSB and compete for a free bar tab. Or just be a spectator as others stumble over the letters.

7:30pm // Pete's Candy Store [709 Lorimer St, Williamsburg]

MUSIC: Prefuse 73, School of Seven Bells and Blank Blue take the Bowery stage tonight. We've been listening to the master of sonic songweaving, Prefuse 73, for years now and highly recommend this show.

Listen: Megachopped Suite.mp3

8pm // Bowery Ballroom [6 Delancey St] // $15.50

THEATER: Tonight at Joe’s Pub award-winning director Annie Dorsen (Passing Strange) opens an unusually literal “marketplace of ideas” for her upcoming show Democracy in America. The production doesn't open until the end of March at P.S. 122, but from now until February 15th, Dorsen is inviting consumers to be her collaborators by buying “a dance, a song, or the very first word of the show”. Each ticket buyer to tonight’s mysterious event, which features music by Stew and The Negro Problem, is entitled to add one line of text to the finished theatrical product. After tonight, a participatory website will serve as the show’s marketplace and “as an investigation into Alexis de Tocqueville's classic work of political theory. The piece continues to explore his concern that in egalitarian, commercialized America, multiplicity itself becomes a threat to meaning.” – John Del Signore

9:30pm // Joe’s Pub [425 Lafayette St] // Tickets cost $10.