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19th ANNUAL CHRISTMAS FESTIVAL

That snowman can mean only one thing. No, it’s not a Young Jeezy convention, though if anyone sees those bootleg angry-Frosty T-shirts, please pick one up for us. Rather, it’s a local tradition so hallowed that we won’t even complain we haven’t put away the Halloween decorations yet: a three-day craft and artisan fair at the Hynes Convention Center, the highlight of which is an extravagant gingerbread-house bake-off | World Trade Center, Seaport Hotel, Northern Ave, Boston | November 4-6 | $10 | 617.385.5000 | http://www.christmascraftfestival.com/

BEANPOCKET

With apologies to the Beanpot, Boston Billiards is hosting its first annual tournament to benefit the Ellie Fund for breast-cancer research. Unlike the Beanpot, it’s open to all comers — you don’t have to be a BU, NU, BC, or Harvard jock to win. And it comes with a weekend trip for four to Montreal | Boston Billiards, 136 Brookline Ave, Boston | November 5-6: 11 am–5 pm | $50 per person | http://www.beanpocket.com/.

BREAD AND PUPPET THEATER

In its typically impenetrable way, Vermont’s legendary hippie theatre describes its latest production as an attempt to target the "perfectly correct moment." Hmm. "The moment is this moment and exists only now and then no more. But in order for this moment to be the correct moment, the history that shapes this moment has to be summoned." In order to summon the moment, as you might guess, the usual: big homemade puppets, fresh-baked bread, and separate productions for adults (The National Passion and Circus of the Correct Moment, November 16-20) and for children (The National Circus of the Correct Moment, November 19-20). An unorthodox panel of activists and art experts (including WBUR’s Bill Marx and the president of the Museum of Fine Arts’ security-guard union!) join B&PT founder Peter Schumann for the "3rd Annual Symposium on Subversive Papier Mâché & Other Tools for Creative Dissent" on November 13 | Cambridge Family YWCA Theatre, 820 Mass Ave, Cambridge | $5-$12 | 866.811.4111.

"BREAKING GROUND"

Thanks to his design for the new World Trade Center towers, Daniel Libeskind is now likely the most famous architect in America. He’s also working on his first-ever Boston commission. He’ll discuss that project — the New Center for Arts and Culture — and reflect "on the role of architecture in creating cities, architecture’s relationship to who we are, and his own iconic approach to public space" in conversation with Globe architecture critic Robert Campbell. Be warned: tickets are going fast | Museum of Fine Arts, 465 Huntington Ave, Boston | November 9 @ 7 pm | $18 | 617.369.3306.