Outbound -- next train, N Wednesday, now approaching. Tonight: The San Francisco Public Library has invited Caldecott-winning book illustrator Tomie DePaola for the 10th annual Effie Lee Morris Lecture. Effie Lee Morris was the coordinator of children's literature at the SFPL from 1963-77 and was a pioneer in spearheading the development of children's library resources. The lecture is free and starts at 6:30 p.m. in the Koret Auditorium of the Main Library.

Thursday: Come see Trannyshack favorite Fauxnique in her non-faux female guise, as she and other local women choreographers with the Fellow Travelers Performance Group debut their new dance/theater pieces in a program called "Women on the Edge 2006." These performances are part of Exit Theater's DIVAfest. Exit Stage Left, at 156 Eddy Street, 8 p.m, sliding scale $12-20. Shows run through May 20 if your Thursday is busy with something else.

Friday: Try out some contemporary classical at the Volti choral group's final San Francisco performance this season. Volti, along with the SF Chamber Orchestra, is pairing Benjamin Britten's Cantata Misericordium, about the Good Samaritan, with a a piece by Bay Area composer Andrew Imbrie setting a Walt Whitman poem about a father and daughter to song. Volti will also premiere a piece by their resident composer Mark Winges, called "Open the Book of What Happened." 8:00 p.m., First Unitarian Universalist Church at Franklin and Gough, tickets $20.