ART/LECTURE: Visiting artist Stephen Kaltenbach with speak about his lengthy and diverse career most notably "creating conceptual gestures, magazine advertisements, diagrammatic propositions, 'Street Works,' time capsules, and photorealistic paintings," as part of S.F. Art Institute's free Visiting Artists and Scholars Lecture Series. (7:30 p.m., San Francisco Art Institute, Lecture Hall, 800 Chestnut Street)

COMEDY: Fresh off their national tour, local comedians W. Kamau Bell, Nato Green, and Janine Brito bring their issue-oriented comedy show Laughter Against The Machine back home to Oakland's New Parish for two big shows, featuring some "very special guests." (7 p.m., The New Parish, 579 18th Street)

READING: GuyWriters and LitQuake present "Writing Down the Past: Gay Men Reveal Their Histories," which brings together Bay Area poets and prose writers from diverse backgrounds to read work inspired by their personal histories as gay men. (6 to 8 p.m., GLBT History Museum, 4127 18th Street)