ART: For the group photography show, I Got 5 on It, twenty photographers were asked to capture five seminal subjects: a chair, a flower, a window, a tree, and the road, in order to celebrate the "overlapping moments of individual creative trajectories."

6 to 10 p.m. // 31 Rausch St. Gallery (31 Rausch St) // free

COMEDY: Bay Area absurdist writer/performer Dan Carbone presents an evening of two award-winning solo performance pieces tragi-comedy “Up From the Ground” and a collection of surreal vignettes and dream sequences, “There Be Monsters!”

10 p.m. // The Dark Room (2263 Mission St) // $8

LITERARY: Babylon Salon, a community of performers, readers, writers, imbibers (of spirits and spirit), and revelers, presents their Spring Reading, featuring authors Peter Orner, Toni Mirosevich, and Kemble Scott. Also featuring Gravity Goldberg, editor of the local lit mag Instant City and writers Matt Stewart and Kristina Marusic.

7 to 9:30 // Cantina (580 Sutter St) // free