MUSIC: Oakland's Grand Lake celebrate the release of their new album, Leaves Ellipse, with guests, The Devotionals (featuring Tyson Vogul of Two Gallants) and Anna Ash.
9 p.m. // Amnesia (853 Valencia)
FILM: Tonight’s Radical Light: Alternative Film and Video in the San Francisco Bay Area program, Experimental Animation, features a number of little-known animations by Bay Area artists, focusing on abstract films from the late 1940s and 1950s into the late 1980s. Karl Cohen will be there in person performing a light show interlude highlighting his psychedelic slides, preceded by a screening of his piece, Sidereal Passage, drawn from the live show Flight to the Future.
5 p.m. // PFA Theater (2575 Bancroft Way, Berkeley) // $5.50-9.50
CLUB: Swing-dancing will never get old. Head over to the Rockit Room for a basic lesson or get a refresher and then get hoppin'!
7 to Midnight // Rockit Room (406 Clement Street) // $5