• The Performing Arts Series at BC3 will host the North Pittsburgh Philharmonic performing its annual holiday concert at 8 p.m. Dec. 15 in the Succop Theater on campus.

Tickets are $15 pre-sale, $17 at the door and $10 for students.

Call 724-284-8505 or toll-free 888-826-2829, Ext. 8429, for reservations.

• Pitt's Center for Latin- American Studies and Student Capoeira Club will present a free lesson about capoeira, a Brazilian martial art, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Thursday in the fifth floor dance studio, William Pitt Union, 3959 Fifth Ave. in the Oakland section of Pittsburgh.Registration is required by sending an e-mail to lavst12@ucis.pitt.edu.• The Pitt Women's Choir Ensemble will give a free holiday concert at 8 p.m. Dec. 9 at Heinz Chapel, Fifth and Bellefield avenues, in Oakland. Call 412-624-4125 for more information.

• CMU's College of Fine Arts and its School of Music will present their annual holiday concert at noon Dec. 8 in the Rangos Ballroom in the University Center.Performing will be the Carnegie Mellon Philharmonic, Concert Choir and Repertory Chorus. Admission is free. Call 412-268-2383 for more information.• The Regina Gouger Miller Gallery has opened exhibitions by Dean Kessmann, Pamela Howard and Paul Dickinson.The exhibits will continue through Dec. 17.For more information, visit the Web site www.cmu.edu/millergallery/invite.htm or call the gallery at 412-268-3618.