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READING: Come watch 10 writers perform their works — in any way other than a typical reading — in front of a panel of judges ready to boot them off stage at any moment at The Literati Gong Show at Madam’s Organ (2461 18th Street NW). 6:30 p.m. Free.

>> Iota (2832 Wilson Blvd., Arlington) is also hosting a reading tonight from seven speakers, followed by a performance by a bunch of local bands: Greenland, Laughing Man and Black Telephone. The reading starts at 7 p.m., the music at 9. $10.

FASHION: See both human and dog models prance their way down the runway tonight at the Fashion for Paws 2011, the Washington Humane Society’s fundraising event at Teatro Goldoni (1909 K Street NW). There will also be dog-themed cocktails, like the German Shepard Shirley Temple and the Bubbly Bulldog, a photobooth and giveaways from Georgetown Cupcake and Vitaminwater. RSVP required. 7 p.m. $20.

MUSIC: See three performances (tap dancing, piano playing and singing, and stringed instruments) by artists all under 25 years old at the Kennedy Center Millennium Stage (2700 F Street NW), part of their “Concerts for Young People by Young People” series. 6 p.m. Free.

MOVIE: This year’s North African Film Festival begins tonight at the National Museum of African Art (Lecture Hall, Sublevel 2, 950 Independence Avenue SW) with a screening of Cairo Time. 7 p.m. Free.

>> Learn “how Los Angeles’ Ferus Gallery forever changed the cultural climate of the West Coast” at a screening of the documentary The Cool School tonight at the Corcoran (500 17th Street NW). 6:30 p.m. $12.

>> See the 1972 “environmental and dystopian science fiction” movie Silent Running tonight at a screening at the Smithsonian American Art Museum (8th and F Streets NW). Free.