Delray Beach's best week in months happens mostly in one building. Arts Garage on NE 2nd Avenue has a Soul Train Award winner on Saturday, a Grammy-nominated flutist next Friday and an open mic in between, and Morikami and The Set fill the gaps with a Japanese dance workshop and a Thursday night of live music on a neighborhood plaza. Here are five things worth leaving the house for between Oct. 17 and Oct. 23.

Saturday, Oct. 17: Nicole Henry at Arts Garage

If you only go to one thing this week, make it this. Nicole Henry is a Miami-trained jazz and soul singer with a Soul Train Award for Best Traditional Jazz Performance, four top 10 albums across the U.S., Japan and the U.K., and a recent record, Time to Love Again, that climbed to No. 4 on the U.S. jazz radio chart. She has been working professionally since 2004 and has performed in 20 countries, and she has also carried leading roles on stage in The Color Purple and The Bodyguard.

This weekend she brings a new program that mixes jazz with classic soul, backed by Pete Wallace on piano, Jean Caze on trumpet and Jamese McCoy on bass. The show runs 8 to 10 p.m. at Arts Garage, 94 NE 2nd Ave., and tickets are $61.50 to $66.50 with fees included. A Friday performance on Oct. 16 came first, so Saturday is the one still ahead.

Why go: Arts Garage is a small room, and Henry is the kind of singer people usually hear in much bigger ones. Sitting this close is the whole point.

Sunday, Oct. 18: a butoh workshop at Morikami

Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens is running a three-hour butoh dance workshop from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Morikami Theater. Butoh is a form of Japanese dance theater that took shape around 1959 and has since spread worldwide. It is slow, breath-led and built on images rather than steps.

The session is taught by Pınar Sinka, a performer, visual artist and curator who founded PIArtButoh, which Morikami describes as South Florida's first butoh organization. Participants work through basic butoh forms, image and transformation exercises, Qi-focused movement and slow improvisation to music, and there is a short segment on the philosophy behind it. It is an adult workshop, the fee is $60, and you have to register ahead of time on Morikami's site. Morikami offers it again on April 4, 2027, so this is one of only two chances this season.

Why go: almost nothing else in Palm Beach County lets you try butoh with your own body, and three hours in the Morikami Theater on a Sunday morning is a good way to find out whether it speaks to you.

Tuesday, Oct. 20: Spoken Word Open Mic

On the third Tuesday of every month, Arts Garage turns its stage over to anyone with something original to say. The Spoken Word Open Mic covers poetry, storytelling and song lyrics, and every piece has to be the performer's own. Each reader gets three to five minutes, a stoplight tells you when time is nearly up, and the mic goes off if you run over. Up to 24 performers make it into a night.

It runs 8 to 10:30 p.m. Watching costs $20 online or $25 at the box office, performing costs $10, and every ticket comes with two drinks. Performer sign-up opens at 7 p.m. and closes at 9 p.m., in person or by a QR code handed out that night. The host sets the running order, so arriving first does not guarantee going first. Everyone in the room has to be 18 or older, and 21 with ID to drink.

Why go: the strict clock keeps the night moving, and a room of two dozen local writers is a fast way to hear what Delray is actually thinking about.

Thursday, Oct. 22: Sounds of The Set at Libby Wesley Plaza

Sounds of The Set is a small neighborhood evening at Libby Wesley Plaza, 2 SW 5th Ave., from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. The J Sharp Band plays, vendors from Blackmer's Market set up local small-business shopping, and the evening spills down the block to The Hive at 34 SW 5th Ave. It is put on by The Set, The Coalition and the Downtown Development Authority, and the next date on the calendar is not until Jan. 28, 2027.

The listing does not mention a ticket price, so check the event page before you go.

Why go: it is the one event on this list built around a neighborhood rather than a stage, and with only two dates on the books, missing this one means a three-month wait.

Friday, Oct. 23: What a Night! with Néstor Torres

The week closes back at Arts Garage with Néstor Torres, a flutist who folds his Caribbean roots and classical training into jazz improvisation. His résumé runs to 18 recordings, five Latin Grammy nominations, a Latin Grammy win for Best Pop Instrumental Album and a Grammy nomination for Best Latin Jazz Album.

The program pairs his own songs with Great American Songbook standards and Latin jazz, including music from his Latin Grammy-nominated album Jazz Flute Traditions. His band is Jorge Luis Sosa on keyboard, Adolfo Herrera on drums, Samuel Burgos on bass and Edwin Bonilla on percussion. The show runs 8 to 10 p.m., and tickets are $61.50 to $66.50 with fees included. Arts Garage also lists a Saturday performance.

Why go: a four-piece Latin rhythm section behind a flute in a room this size is loud, warm and physical in a way that recordings never quite catch.

How to plan the week

Three of these five are at Arts Garage, and its box office answers at 561-450-6357 from 1 to 5 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday. The Morikami workshop is the only one that needs advance registration and has a real cap on space, so book that first. If you can only do two, make them Henry on Saturday and Torres on Friday: two of the best live musicians in South Florida, six days apart, a short walk from Atlantic Avenue.