BENEFIT: SF Camerawork presents the second annual Looking Forward, Giving Back benefit, an evening of music, photography, and a silent auction benefiting First Exposures, which provides free weekly photography classes for underserved youth, who are matched one-to-one with a photographer who serves as a mentor.

6 to 9 p.m. // SF Camerawork (657 Mission Street) // $25-250

LITERARY: Head over to the "Uptown Tenderloin Historic District" for a salon and open mic hosted by Caveat Lector, featuring a social hour, a reading by local poet Clara Hsu, followed by an open mic -- musicians and poets welcome!

6 to 8 p.m. // Little Bird Coffeehouse (835 Geary Street) // free (purchase appreciated)

ART: The San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery presents Urbanition, an inaugural exhibition celebrating the gallery's two-year partnership with Sydney-based, multi-disciplinary art center CarriageWorks. For Urbanition, the selected artists created proposals that range in subject matter from improving immigrant rights to commuting by jetpack, and from revamping the Sutro Baths to making BART a more human-centric system. The ideas are all addressed to the Mayors of San Francisco and Sydney as visionary solutions for making each city more humane, green, and livable.

7 to 9 p.m. // SFAC Gallery (401 Van Ness Avenue) // free