ART: Project One Gallery presents The Monster Show, featuring work by an impressive line-up of artists paying tribute to classic monsters, ghouls, villains and horror movie characters, as well as sci-fi and cult films. Be sure to dress in costume for the occasion! (7 p.m., Project One Gallery, 251 Rhode Island Street)

DISCUSSION: Bay Citizen & Booksmith present Culture Talks: "Art & Social Change", featuring a panel of local arts heavy-hitters discussing how Bay Area institutions and artists have examined and fostered the discussion about what art is since the transformative 1960s, and how it can affect communities and drive social change. (7 to 9 p.m., Z Space, 450 Florida Street)

MUSIC: SF's Tin Cup Serenade, who shift between "Jazz, Blues, Calypso, weepy Westerns, Mariachi, Noir, Car Chases, Soap Operas, Suicidal diaries, death defying leaps into the musical void," are playing free shows at the swanky and intimate Burrit Room every Tuesday in October. (6 to 9 p.m., Crescent Hotel, 417 Stockton Street)