BENEFITS

FAMILY FIRST A cocktail party benefits One Family Fund, a charity that aids families of terror victims in Israel. Attendees can also view an exhibit of Israeli art. Tonight, 8-11 p.m., the After Light at the Warhol Factory, 22 E. 33rd St. at Madison Avenue, 973-438-4379, $75.

FAMILY

BARRIO FUN A program of music and stories from Puerto Rico, Cuba, and the Bronx features storyteller David Gonzalez and Larry Harlow and the Latin Legends Band. Saturday, 3 p.m., El Museo Del Barrio, 1230 Fifth Ave. at 104th Street, 212-831-7272, $15 general, $10 members, seniors, and students, $5 children under 10.

FILM

HOLLYWOOD HOLIDAY Writer-director Preston Sturges once said that Hollywood is “a comic opera in which fat businessmen and good fathers are condemned to a conjugal existence with a heap of drunkards, madmen, divorcees, sloths, epileptics, and morphinomaniacs who are – in the considered opinions of the management – artists.” What better fellow to celebrate the holidays with? The Museum of the Moving Image presents a screening series of Sturges work over the next two weeks. Highlights include “Sullivan’s Travels” (1941), which stars Joel McCrea and Veronica Lake in the story of a Hollywood director tired of making cut-and-paste comedies with titles like “Ants in Your Pants of 1939.” He decides instead to make an epic social drama called “O Brother, Where Art Thou?” – a title that the Coen brothers cribbed some 60 years later (Saturday, 4 p.m., Sunday, 2 p.m.). Also being screened this weekend are Sturges’s first feature, “The Great McGinty” (1940), for which he was paid just $10 (Saturday, 2 p.m.) and “Christmas in July” (1940), a comedy about a an office clerk who is tricked into thinking he won a slogan contest (Sunday, 4 p.m.). Series: Saturday through Sunday, January 2, Saturdays and Sundays, times vary, American Museum of the Moving Image, 35 Avenue at 36 Street, Astoria, Queens, 718-784-0077, $10 general, $7.50 seniors and students, free for members.

OFFICE ANTICS The cult hit “Office Space” is screened in the Onion Film Series. Mike Judge’s dark comedy stars Ron Livingston as an office drone who decides to simply stop working. Tonight, 6 p.m. tickets go on sale, 7 and 9:30 p.m. screenings, Anthology Film Archives, 32 Second Ave., between 1st and 2nd streets, 212-505-5181, $8 general, $5 members and students.

THE ACTOR INSIDE Academy Award nominee Javier Bardem talks with Columbia University’s Annette Insdorf before a screening of his biopic “The Sea Inside,” about the writer Ramon Sampedro. Tonight, 7:15 p.m., 92nd Street Y, 1395 Lexington Ave. at 92nd Street, 212-415-5500, $25.

HOLIDAYS

LONGEST NIGHT The Winter Solstice Celebration at Cathedral of St. John the Divine celebrates its 25th anniversary this year. The festivities are a secular holiday alternative. The show is a symbolic journey through the longest night of the year using theatrical effects that highlight the cathedral’s huge space. The return of the sun is represented by the world’s largest tam-tam gong, 7 feet in diameter, which ascends with its player to the 100-foot-high ceiling in the east end of the cathedral. New this year, a giant Chinese “Moon Gong,” played by a percussionist suspended below it, will rise in the opposite end of the Cathedral. A giant “Earth Ball” travels over the audience and then rises into the vault of the nave. Finally, the stage’s centerpiece is a giant, rotating “Tree of Sounds,” a 28-foot-tall spiral sculpture laden with bells, gongs, and chimes. Guest performers include oboist Paul McCandless, uilleann piper Davy Spillane, hand percussionist Glen Velez, gospel singer Theresa Thomason, and the Paul Winter Consort. Tonight and tomorrow, 7:30 p.m., Saturday, 2 and 7:30 p.m., Cathedral of St. John the Divine, Amsterdam Avenue and West 112th Street, 212-662-2133, $32 and $42 general seating, $72 reserved seating. Note: The performance will be broadcast on WFUV 90.7 FM on the winter solstice, December 21, from 8 to 10 p.m., and on December 31 on WNYC 93.9 FM from 10 p.m. to midnight.

MUSIC

ELEGANCE AND MOZART The New York Philomusica Chamber Ensemble performs a program titled “Elegance, Artistry, and Flair.” A talk with members of the ensemble precedes the performance, and a reception follows. Tonight, 7:30 p.m. talk, 8 p.m. concert, Merkin Concert Hall, Abraham Goodman House, 129 W. 67th St. at Broadway, 212-580-9933, $35 general, $30 seniors, $17.50 students.

TRANSFER HERE The Manhattan Transfer perform music from their latest album, “Vibrate,” as well as some of their old favorites. Tonight through Sunday, 8 and 10:30 p.m., the Blue Note, 131 W. Third St. at MacDougal Street, 212-475-8592, $40 at the bar, $55 at a table.

PARTIES

TEARS IN THEIR BEER Members of the leftist activist gathering Drinking Liberally drown their sorrows at a holiday party. Attendees can also enjoy a free beer. Tonight, 7:30 p.m., Rudy’s, 627 Ninth Ave., between 44th and 45th streets, www.drinkingliberally.org, free.

TALKS

TECH TALK Computer artist Cory Arcangel discusses his art’s relationship to technology and demonstrates his work with sampled images, music, and code. Tonight, 6 p.m., Columbia University, 2960 Broadway at 116th Street, LeRoy Neiman Gallery, 310 Dodge Hall, free.

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