BEST BETS Sunday 12/10

11am

Festival

An estimated 5,000 people are expected to attend the annual Conejo Valley Hanukkah Festival at the Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza. A holiday boutique featuring more than 45 vendors and foods and music of the season will help mark this celebration. Children will be treated to storytelling, face painting, magicians, a reptile exhibit and various educational and just-for-fun activities. At 1 p.m., spiritual leaders will join government officials for a candle-lighting ceremony. The Conejo Valley Community Children’s Choir will perform Hanukkah songs as the menorah glows.

* Conejo Valley Hanukkah Festival, Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza, 2100 E. Thousand Oaks Blvd., Thousand Oaks. 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Free admission. (818) 991-7111.

3pm

Music

A new ensemble called Angelorum Bach Artists makes its debut appearance at the Chamber Music in Historic Sites series. Led by organist-harpsichordist Edward Murray, members of the new ensemble are singers Ellen Hargis, Philip Cave, Dana Marsh and James Weaver, with instrumentalists Elizabeth Blumenstock and Kim Pineda. At this debut concert, the ensemble will perform Christmas cantatas and organ music by J.S. Bach.

* Angelorum Bach Artists performs at First Congregational Church, Third and Cedar, Long Beach, at 3 p.m. (310) 954-4300. $26 to $33.

4:30pm

Theater

“La Posada Magica,” the musical holiday play by Octavio Solis and Marcos Loya about a young girl’s journey toward rediscovery of the power and magic of Christmas, has become an annual tradition, returning for a seventh year.

* “La Posada Magica,” South Coast Repertory, 655 Town Center Drive, Costa Mesa, Sunday, 4:30 p.m. Regular schedule: Tuesdays-Fridays, 8 p.m.; Saturdays, 3 and 8 p.m.; Sundays, 12:30 and 4:30 p.m. Ends Dec. 24. $18 to $32. (714) 708-5555.

7pm

Theater

In his nationally touring solo show, “Too Jewish? A Mensch and His Musical,” Avi Hoffman transforms Broadway classics into “Oy Glaucoma” and “My Fair Latke.” He also performs a Yiddish rendition of Hamlet’s soliloquy, as he serves as tour guide to contemporary Jewish identity.

* “Too Jewish? A Mensch and His Musical,” UCLA’s Freud Playhouse, Westwood, Sunday at 7 p.m. Regular schedule: Wednesdays-Saturdays at 8 p.m.; Sundays at 7 p.m.; Wednesdays, Saturdays and Sundays at 2 p.m.; New Year’s Eve show and party, Dec. 31, 10 p.m. Ends Dec. 31. $25 to $30; New Year’s Eve, $50. (310) 825-2101.

all day

Art

A selected survey of video and photography works exploring identity and the urban landscape will be featured in “Stan Douglas,” opening at the Museum of Contemporary Art. Composed of three recent film and video installations as well as several series of photographs, the exhibition creates compelling environments with sound that explore significant historical moments of the past century.

* “Stan Douglas,” Museum of Contemporary Art, 250 S. Grand Ave., downtown Los Angeles. Tuesday-Sunday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m; Thursday, 11 a.m.-8 p.m. Adults, $6; students and seniors, $4; children under 12, free. (213) 626-6222.

all day

Crafts

Intricate designs created from hundreds of pieces of fabric offer a historical look at what is much more than a tool for domestic warmth in “Crazy for Quilts: 125 Years of Textiles as Art and History,” opening Sunday at the Pasadena Historical Museum. The exhibition will display 30 quilts from the 1880s to the present and will illustrate how quilts have evolved as a form of artistic expression.

* “Crazy for Quilts: 125 Years of Textiles as Art and History.” Pasadena Historical Museum, 470 W. Walnut St., Pasadena. Ends Feb. 18. Wednesday-Sunday, noon-5 p.m. (626) 577-1660.

FREEBIE

Music director Alexander Treger and his assistant conductor, Mario Miragliotta, lead the American Youth Symphony in a pops program, featuring music by Bartok, Johann Strauss and Haydn in Royce Hall at UCLA, at 8 p.m. (310) 234-8355.

Holiday traditions that were popular in the Southland between 1830 and 1930 will come to life at “A Southern California Christmas at the Homestead Museum,” 15415 E. Don Julian Road, Industry. 1-5 p.m. (626) 968-8492.