The local Guitar Society of Fine Art presents a diversity of cultural styles and techniques at its International Guitar Night featuring Lulo Reinhardt, Itamar Erez, Stephen Bennett and Brian Gore at 4 p.m. at PNC Recital Hall, 600 Forbes Ave., Duquesne University. Tickets are $30; call 412-612-0499.

On Martin Luther King Jr. Day, enjoy free admission to the August Wilson Center for African American Culture, 980 Liberty Ave., from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tour the exhibits. Participate in arts and crafts, including sculpting with clay. Listen to storytellers. Watch a film about Dr. King in the state-of-the-art Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield Education Center. For information, call 412-258-2700 or visit AugustWilsonCenter.org.

Gab Bonesso holds her Comedy Party at the Bricolage Theater, 937 Liberty Ave., Downtown, at 9:30 p.m. Bonesso specializes in alternative comedy and definitely is an alternative to traditional club comedy. Pittsburgh City Paper's Readers Poll named her Pittsburgh's Best Comedian, and she has performed in San Francisco, New York, L.A., Chicago, Philadelphia and Seattle, with such comedic luminaries as Richard Lewis, Will Durst, Christian Finnegan, Dan Levy, Sandra Bernhardt and Eddie Brill. Her cutting-edge comedy was a regular fixture on the John McIntire show on WTZN-FM. Her show will follow the Cultural Trust Gallery Crawl, and during the crawl, Bricolage will stage another Bonesso project, "4 Real, 4 Real: A night of storytelling," which she co-produces and co-hosts with Robert Isenberg.

Tickets for the Comedy Party are $10. For reservations or more information, contact Tami at tami@webbricolage.org.

Argentine installation artist Martin Bonadeo is the subject of a retrospective, "Alba Magica," that will open from 6:30 to 8 p.m. at Wood Street Galleries, 601 Wood St. (above the T station), Downtown. Visitors may interact with the seven installations, which include projections, luminal sculptures and electronic objects that explore the ways in which we approach and measure time and space. It's free. Information: 412-471-5605 or woodstreetgalleries.org.

The Pittsburgh Symphony's BNY Mellon Grand Classics series starts up after the holiday break with a big program. Pianist Emanuel Ax performs Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 5, known as the "Emperor," and maestro Manfred Honeck gives his interpretation of Bruckner's magnificent Symphony No. 7. It's 8 p.m. both nights at Heinz Hall, 600 Penn Ave., Downtown. Tickets start at $20; 412-392-4900.

"Jeremy Wade: There Is No End to More" takes place at the New Hazlett Theater, Allegheny Square East, North Side, at 8 p.m. Director and choreographer Jeremy Wade juxtaposes layers of animation, still images, movement and sound in an ambitious performance and visual art work exploring global pop culture. Taking a playful and cynical look at Japanese kawaii (cute) culture, Wade exposes themes of consumption, delusion and aberration. It's created by Hiroki Otsuka, Veith Michel, Brendan Dougherty, Katja Mitte and Henning Stroh and features actor/dancer Jared Gradinger. Tickets are $20, $10 for students and Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh members. For tickets call 412-237-8300 or visit www.ticketweb.com.

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