The options for a Saturday night in late July are usually quite predictable: Throw back pints of the same beer you did the night before, catch a movie starring actors doing the dramatic equivalent of tying shoelaces, or stand in some hot, humid music venue listening to a band not worth the good money you paid to see them.

Well, Mike Land wants to change all of that, and he hopes that this event will be a good start. "Philadelphia has immense untapped talent, which exists, primarily, outside a 'viable market share,'" says Land, author and organizer of Highwire on the 29th at Highwire Gallery. "The event's more egalitarian than that. Highwire on the 29th dances around, spits on and shakes the hand of 'a viable market.'" Performances will include readings from poet C.A. Conrad and author Christian TeBordo as well as music from bands like Drake, and local photographers, painters and filmmakers will showcase their works. TeBordo, author of The Conviction & Subsequent Life of Savior Neck , says, "There are poets, fiction writers, visual artists, bands — it should be a spectacle. This is an idea that's really caught on in other cities because it kind of shakes up the traditional notion of what a reading is."

And if your only apprehension is that you don't feel like shelling out money to see some struggling charity cases showcase their art, you're wholly mistaken. These artists are neither charity cases nor do they want your money. Land says the objective of the reading isn't about that. "The event's not about money; what money it is about is going to Project H.O.M.E. It's about the idea people like these things, that they like going to them, like doing them and, after this one, might look for them more often." So put your money to good use — the homeless outreach work of Project H.O.M.E. — and your mind in the right place.