FILM: The 8th Annual Queer Women of Color Film Festival, which runs all weekend, presents its featured short film screening, I Do And I Don't: From the family values of queer API women raising children, to decades-long love affairs, to good ole shotgun weddings, these films show that jumping the broom and getting hitched are about more than just bells, petals, prayers and ceremony." There will be a reception before the event and a Q&A with the filmmakers after. (6 p.m., Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 701 Mission Street)

MUSIC: Conservatory of Flowers presents New York City-based jazz quartet Rose & the Nightingale, whose latest album, The Spirit of the Garden, blurs the boundaries of world music, folk, and jazz improvisation, performing in collaboration with local San Francisco poets Evan Karp and Silvi Alcivar, setting their new compositions about the Conservatory to music, to be premiered at the event, with the poets. (8 p.m., Conservatory of Flowers, Orchid Gallery, Golden Gate Park, 100 John F. Kennedy Drive)

PHOTOGRAPHY: SFist Memoirs contributor Reynaldo Cayetano Jr. and Inks of Truth present Going Overseas/Native Immigrant, an International photo narrative from a street photography perspective showcasing photographs made in England, Burma, Cambodia, Mexico, Vietnam, Thailand and the Philippines. The event will feature a listening party for Patience's the Virtuous sophomore album, Native Immigrant, and dj & music by Children of the Funk & Indeed. (5 to 10 p.m., Bindlestiff Studio, 185 6th Street)

LITERARY: This month's Writers with Drinks, which combines erotica with literature, stand-up comedy with science fiction and poetry with essays. Plus mystery, romance, memoir, rants and "other," and benefits the Center for Sex and Culture, will feature another stellar line-up of writers, including Anthony Swofford, Geeta Dayal, Vanessa Veselka and Raj Patel. (7 p.m., The Make-Out Room, 3225 22nd Street)