SFist Tonight

ART: Tonight is the start of The Crucible's 9th Annual Fire Arts Festival, an open-air exhibition of interactive fire art, performance and the largest collection of outdoor fire sculpture on the West Coast, which benefits The Crucible’s arts education programs for youth and adults. The fest is at a new venue this year, which is three times larger, and will give attendees much more "bang" for their buck. The festival runs through Saturday, and there will be a free shuttle running between the West Oakland Bart station and the Fire Arts Arena.

8 p.m. // Fire Arts Arena (2020 Engineer Road, Oakland) // $25-75

DANCE: Local aerial dance company Flyaway Productions celebrate the women who built the Bay Area's bridges in their new piece, The Ballad of Polly Ann. The high-tech set is based on the Alfred Zampa Memorial Bridge, and the production was put together with the help of six female bridge workers, labor historian Harvey Schwartz, well-known experimental musician Pamela Z, and "a hell of a production crew," says SF Weekly. The show runs through July 25.

8 p.m. // SomArts Cultural Center (934 Brannan) // $20-25

FILM: The Incredibly Strange Picture Show presents Sid and Nancy, "Alex Cox's valentine to the Blank Generation's Ricky & Lucy." The Dead Kennedy's Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables will be spun before the film.

8 p.m. // Cafe Royale (800 Post St) // free