Battery Park City Repair Fest at the Farmers Market on Saturday, Nov. 8, is your opportunity to get expert coaching on how to fix jewelry, mend textiles, repair small appliances and more. From 10 am to 1 pm. The market is at 6 River Terrace.

Celebrate Diwali, the Hindu Festival of Lights, at the Seaport Museum, 213 Water St., on Tuesday, Nov. 10, from 4 to 6 pm. Among the activities will be Diwali Puppet Storytime and a Diwali dance workshop and performance. Go here for tickets.

Chinese art from antiquity The China Institute, 40 Rector St., showcases selected artworks from 60 years of exhibitions. Dating from as early as 3000 BCE, the roughly 90 objects include fine jades, rare bronze vessels, paintings, calligraphy, and more, on loan from more than 30 institutions and private collectors. On view until Jan. 3. Above: Four-Handled Guan Jar, 8th-9th century.

Celebrating a jazz great The Tribeca Jazz Institute and Academy at the Church Street School for Music and Art presents a fundraiser honoring the legacy of a 20th century jazz giant, trumpeter Art Farmer. There will be performances by participants and faculty of the Jazz institute along with insights on Farmer’s life by author Noal Cohen. Tuesday, Nov. 10 at 7 pm. Go here for tickets.

“Seed Memory” Meeson Pae paints forms that uncannily suggest flowers, fungi and seedpods, but in reality are invented by the artist. On view from Nov. 6 to Dec. 19 at Anat Ebgi, 372 Broadway. Above: “Seed Memory (Dispersa),” by Meeson Pae, 2026.

Native Cinema Showcase, sponsored by the Museum of the American Indian, celebrates the year’s best movies—documentaries, features, animations and shorts—by filmmakers from Indigenous backgrounds. The shows can be streamed for free here from Nov. 13 to 27. Above: “Viksaringitara (“Wrong Husband”)