8:30 pm: Theater

“Thanks and Gratitude: After the Bird” is a post-turkey-day serving of staged readings, poetry and music by such Asian American writers and artists as Velina Hasu-Houston and Noel Alumit at Highways Performance Space.

* “Thanks and Gratitude: After the Bird,” Highways Performance Space, 1651 18th St., Santa Monica, Saturday-Sunday. $12. (213) 660-8587.

8:15 pm: Pop Music

Sarah McLachlan had a modestly successful career going as a singer-songwriter. Then suddenly last summer she became one of pop music’s most impressive entrepreneurs by mounting the Lilith Fair, an all-woman festival tour that whipped the competition. She also turned in a new album, “Surfacing,” which will figure strongly in the Canadian’s Universal Amphitheatre show.

* Sarah McLachlan at the Universal Amphitheatre, 100 Universal City Plaza, Universal City. Sold out. (818) 622-4440.

7:30 pm: Movies

The UCLA Film Archive’s The Art of the Hubleys, a collection of films made by Faith Hubley, her late husband, John, and their daughter Emily, will screen at UCLA. A founding family of independent animation, the Hubleys will be represented by nine shorts, including the premieres of Faith Hubley’s “Beyond the Shadow Place” and Emily Hubley’s “One Self: Fish/Girl.” (See Screening Room, Page 24.)

* The Art of the Hubleys, James Bridges Theater, Melnitz Hall, near Sunset Boulevard and Hilgard Avenue, UCLA. $4-$6 (310) 206-FILM.

2 & 8 pm: Music

Anyone who enjoys the four-part harmony of barbershop music can watch the world’s best chorus--Santa Fe Springs’ own Masters of Harmony--in a Christmas concert in La Mirada. The three-time international champs will be joined by other singers, including barbershop quartets and a children’s choir.

* Masters of Harmony Christmas Concert, La Mirada Theater for the Performing Arts, 14900 La Mirada Blvd. $12 for matinee, $16 for evening. (562) 430-5238.

9 pm: Pop Music

One of the most provocative artists to emerge from the drum-and-bass division of England’s dance-music world, Goldie jumps off the Jane’s Addiction tour, where he’s the opening act, to headline his own show at the Troubadour.

* Goldie at the Troubadour, 9081 Santa Monica Blvd., West Hollywood. $15. (310) 276-6168.

8 pm: Theater

“Yuletidings!,” humorous stage works by Elias Stimac at the Road Theatre celebrating the winter holidays, includes “The Twelve Dates of Christmas,” a man’s search for the perfect mate; “Three Wise Guys”; and “A’Carolling,” in which three women set out to meet the men of their dreams. Host for the evening: Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.

* “Yuletidings!,” Road Theatre, Lankershim Arts Center, 5108 Lankershim Blvd., North Hollywood, Thursdays-Saturdays, 8 p.m.; Sundays, 7 p.m. through Dec. 21. $12. (818) 761-8838.

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FREEBIE: Martin Dancers perform at Lankershim Arts Center in North Hollywood, 3 p.m. (818) 752-2616,