FILM: SF DocFest is going strong! Waiting for Hockney profiles Baltimore artist Billy Pappas, who has spent the past eight and a half years creating a portrait that requires drawing for seven hours a day using a 20x magnifying glass. Now that the masterpiece is finally completed, Pappas is on a mission to find reclusive modern artist David Hockney, the one person whom Pappas believes can justify his decade of work.

9:15 p.m. // Roxie Theater (3117 16th St) // $11

LIT: Joyce Carol Oates, the queen of fictionalized themes of sexual identity, violence, class, and race, will be speaking with Michael Krasny, host of KQED's Forum, about her impressive body of work and her forthcoming novel, Little Bird of Heaven. The novel begins with the murder of a young mother in Sparta, New York, and tells the story in the voices of the woman's son and the daughter of her lover.

8 p.m. // Herbst Theatre (401 Van Ness Ave) // $20, buy tickets