LIT: Literary Death Match! "The star readers on the night will be the inimitable Carolyn Cooke (author of The Bostons, a PEN/Bingham Award for fiction, and Daughters of the Revolution, a Top Ten Books of 2011 by the SF Chronicle) LitUp Writers producer and Pushcart Prize-nominee Graham Gremore (and star of solo show "Private Parts"), best-selling author Joe Quirk (The Ultimate Rush, Exult and It's Not You, It's Biology), and short-storyist Kate Milliken (author of If I'd Known You Were Coming, a finalist for the OV Books Short Story Prize)!" Do not miss out! Judges are Mimi Lok (executive director/editor of the McSweeney’s Voice of Witness series), Killing My Lobster's Jon Wolanske (who starred in Gmail Tap's April Fool's commercial), and the SF Examiner's political columnist Melissa Griffin. (7:15 p.m., Elbo Room, 647 Valencia)
FILM: Get to Kabucki early for rush tickets to Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry at SFIFF, filmmaker and journalist Alison Klayman’s persuasive firsthand portrait of artist Ai Weiwei, which begins in 2009 with Weiwei's internet campaign to collect the names of thousands of young victims of shoddy “tofu dregs” schoolhouses otherwise kept anonymous by an intractable government after the 2008 Sichuan earthquake—a campaign inspiring Ai’s powerful outdoor installation at an exhibition in Germany. (9:15 p.m., Sundance Kabuki Cinemas, 1881 Post Street)
TRIVIA: You have a couple hours left to RSVP for Eventbrite's free Design Trivia Night at 111 Minna: "Show off your deep knowledge of art, design, and typography while mixing and mingling with other creatives." (6 to 8 p.m., 111 Minna, 111 Minna Street)