COMMUNITY: Celebrate the diversity of Lower Haight with an evening of live music, live painting, food, drink, merriment, and merchant discounts at the Lower Haight Art Walk.
7 to 10 p.m. // Haight Street, from Pierce to Webster // free
MUSIC: Portland-based YACHT describes themselves as "kind of a band, but it's mostly a genre-and-media-spanning life project" led by Jonah Bechtolt along with new member Claire L. Evans. Imagine psychedelic power-jams coupled with lots of multimedia elements and audience interaction.
9 p.m. // Rickshaw Stop, 155 Fell Street // $15 - Buy tickets here.
PERFORMANCE: Come unwind after a long day's work at YBCAlive!, which includes three kooky events: Crash Pad Snappy Hour, featuring D.J. Dirty Knees, Drag-tastic Performances, and The Vogue Off Semi's; Crash-OUT: A Psychedelic Speak-Sleazy Side Show, featuring MC's and House Mandame/Bouncers, and 2-T Cells, the infamously infectious underground post-punk, operatic performance band of two, plus Seth Eisen a Sean Feit Duo, Eric-Riddle-Mars-SF Buffoons and EJECTOR-S.F.'s 2 Fag Electronica Band, and Crash Cabaret Where Queers Collide -- SFBoylesque.
5 to 9 p.m. // Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (701 Mission St) // Crash Pad Happy Hour and Crash-OUT are free, Crash Cabaret is free-$10
ART: Varnish Fine Art is having their final exhibition at their current location, which is closing due to eminent domain, featuring Michael Page's ThankYouGoodbye, whose current work is a "cheery, blameless epitaph for our planet and ecosystem as we know it." The show runs through September 12, and Varnish hopes to re-establish a new location soon.
7 to 10 p.m. // Varnish Fine Art (77 Natoma St) // free