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MUSIC: Head to the Clarice Smith Center for the Performing Arts for the kick-off of Sonic Circuits, the area’s largest festival of experimental, noise and avant-garde music. Tonight’s event is free, starts at 7 p.m. and features performances by Elliott Sharp, Annea Lockwood & Tom Buckner, and many more.

Tickets are still available to see The Walkmen tonight at the 9:30 Club. Here We Go Magic, whom we interviewed back in June, open. $15, 7 p.m.

READING: The K Street Busboys and Poets hosts an intriguing author reading tonight, with Michael Largo discussing and signing copies of his book, Genius and Heroin: The Illustrated Catalogue of Creativity, Obsession, and Reckless Abandon Through the Ages. 6:30 p.m., free.

MOVIE: We’ve been hearing great things about Teza, a new film by Haile Gerima set in Germany and Ethiopia which examines the displacement of African intellectuals, both at home and abroad, through the story of a young, idealistic Ethiopian doctor. It’s playing tonight at the Avalon Theatre at 8:15 p.m.

FOOD & DRINK: It’s Share our Strength’s Great American Dine Out this week, where proceeds from participating restaurants will go to community programs across the country that provide help to children at risk of hunger. Go to the site and enter in your zip code to find a participating restaurant.