Pencil This In

EVENT: Join a slew of artists, bid on their work and enjoy complimentary cocktails tonight at a benefit for the Seed Project. Artwork from Swoon, Lisa Dahl, Todd Deluca, Troy Dugas, Lee Everett, Midori Harima & Annysa Ng, Fumiko Toda, Sarah Trigg and a whole bunch more will be auctioned. The Seed Project asks that you buy basil seeds and after planting them:

1. Document what you have planted and put the picture online.
2. Take a pledge that you will do something to help change the world for the better.
3. Join a collective that makes art together and adresses world problems. You can even find others and form a planting group.
4. Tell as many people as you can about the project to turn the world into a virtual garden."

6pm // Rare Gallery [521 W 26th St] // Free

MUSIC: Lots of big names playing sold out shows tonight, so if you didn't get tix to the Beastie Boys at Summerstage or TMBG at Bowery, head to a free show with some other big names! Tonight Biz Markie and Lovebug Starski peform for in Jackie Robinson Park. You know the former from that seminal rap hit Just A Friend. Lovebug Starski is often credited with coining the term Hip-hop and was the house DJ club Disco Fever, Club Harlem World and Rennaisance.

7pm // Jackie Robinson Park [145th St at Amsterdam Ave] // Free

MOVIE: Bollywood's Romeo and Juliet-esque Kal Ho Naa Ho combines romance, tragedy and...dance numbers! The movie was also partially filmed in New York, just like this one.

7pm // Socrates Sculpture Park [Broadway and Vernon Blvd] // Free

THEATER: Violist-turned-playwright Michael Hollinger has written a well-received new play called, fittingly, Opus. His taut drama concerns the back-biting, sex, drugs and excess for which string quartets are so notorious. When a lovely young violist wins the open spot on the renowned Lazara Quartet, she unwittingly steps into the turmoil wrought by the disappearance of the man she’s replacing – a drug-addicted former lover of the first violinist! Writing on behalf of The Central Arbiter, Charles Isherwood calls it “an absorbing new play”, “engrossing” and “juicy”. - John Del Signore

8pm // 59E59 Theaters [59 East 59th St] // Tickets cost $60.