Eight winter activities for you to enjoy this weekend in Detroit

As you head into the weekend, here’s what’s coming up in and around metro Detroit. Head over to Detroit Opera for its 20th anniversary performance of “Too Hot To Handel.” Get your comedy fix with the Ms. Pat Ya Girl Done Made It show at Detroit’s Music Hall Center for Performing Arts.

Plus, take a visit to Grand Rapids for the nation’s largest winter festival, the World of Winter Festival. See what’s coming up around town on “One Detroit Weekend” with Dave Wagner of 90.9 WRCJ.

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Experience classical music around town with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra’s Bach & Beyond performances, taking place through Jan. 14 in Southfield, Monroe, Beverly Hills, and at Orchestra Hall.
Laugh the night away Jan. 12 at Detroit’s Music Hall Center for Performing Arts with the Ms. Pat Ya Girl Done Made It comedy show featuring comedian, author, radio host, podcaster and actress Patricia Williams.
Join Detroit’s Little Bang Theory avant-garde music group as they perform a new score alongside Victor Sjostrom’s silent film “The Wind” during the Detroit Institute of Arts Friday Night Live! series at the Detroit Film Theatre on Jan. 12.
Take a trip to downtown Grand Rapids for the nation’s largest winter festival, the World of Winter Festival. The winter festival will feature more than 100 free events through March 10.
Listen to a jazz-gospel rendition of Handel’s classic Messiah with the 20th anniversary of “Too Hot To Handel” at the Detroit Opera House on Jan. 13. The performance features notable Detroit jazz artists, vocal soloists and The Rackham Choir.
Immerse yourself in multimedia artist Lillian Schwartz’s “Whirlwind of Creativity” exhibit at the Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation through March 2024. The exhibit features over 100 artifacts from Scwartz’s career as an artist.
Head over to Mark Ridley’s Comedy Castle in Royal Oak to get your comedy fix this weekend. On Jan. 13, DeAnne Smith will take the stage with support from comedians Richard Mathis and Trevor Tress.
Learn about the life and contributions of Galileo Galilei with hands-on, interactive experiments and exhibits at the Cranbrook Institute of Science’s “Galileo” exhibit, running through June 2, 2024.