ART: The Shooting Gallery presents Fahamu Pecou, whose latest exhibition Whirl Trade portrays how the hip hop culture has altered the views of African American men around the world. In the adjoining White Walls Gallery, Minneapolis artist Greg Gossel's latest collection, Sleepwalking, which points out specific imagery from collective memory of the past 50 years including the confederate flag, 1960s race riots, comic book superheroes, pro wrestling, the Reagan war on drugs, and 8 bit video games, will be on display.

7 to 9 p.m. // Shooting Gallery and White Walls (839 Larkin St) // free

LITERARY: This month's Writers With Drinks will feature Tobias Wolff (Our Story Begins, The Barracks Thief), Taylor Mali (What Learning Leaves, Icarus Airlines), Lev Grossman (The Magicians), Andrew Lam (Perfume Dreams, East Eats West), Corrina Bain (Ugly Poems For Ugly People), and Bill Carter (Fools Rush In, Red Summer).

7 to 9:30 p.m. // The Make-Out Room (3225 22nd. St) // $5-10, sliding scale

BENEFIT: Wonderland SF Gallery presents Artists Without Boundaries for Doctors Without Borders, a silent charity auction for Doctors Without Borders, featuring seventeen Peasants and Travelers bags custom-painted by seventeen local artists.

6 to 11 p.m. // Wonderland Art Gallery (2929 24th St) // price not published -- probably free