CONCERTS Portland duo Viva Voce embarks on its first cross-country headlining tour this fall, delivering pop-rock messages about the “Cool Morning Sun” and apocalyptic doom. The Parson Red Heads and White China Gold join at the Triple Door. Sept 9.

It’s a new season of Night School at the Sorrento with artists and entertainers leading booze-infused conversations about their craft. Sunday’s session features offbeat Olympia-based singer-songwriter Kimya Dawson (whose music appeared in Juno) and hip-hop journalist Dream Hampton. Sept 11. update: This event has been postponed until November.]

FILM Pro snowboarder Travis Rice and his buddies will be at McCaw Hall on Saturday for an exclusive screening of new documentary The Art of Flight, featuring crazy backcountry stunts in stunning HD. Sept 10.

Live vicariously through reels of wide, sandy beaches and blistering surf rock during Seattle Art Museum’s new film series Catch a Wave: The Art of Surf Culture. The Endless Summer screens tonight. Sept 8-22.

Cult Polish director Jerzy Skolimowski, known for his daring portraits of outcasts and weirdos in the 1960s and ’70s, has revived his career and shipped a collection of his greatest films to Northwest Film Forum. The retrospective opens Friday with Four Nights with Anna. Sept 9-13.

THEATER Strawberry Theatre Workshop reexamines the 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial in a new production of Inherit the Wind. Big-deal lawyers (played by Todd Jefferson Moore and Reginald Andre Jackson) sling barbs about evolution and creation. Sept 8-Oct 8.

New Seattle art collective Collektor revives Sam Shepherd’s gritty 1985 drama A Lie of the Mind, a portrait of two American families torn apart by spousal abuse, seeking solace and revenge in the rural West. Sept 8-Oct 1.

VISUAL ART Artists from Portland, Seattle, LA, and London showcase their creative compulsions—minutely detailed sketches—in Over and Over: A Small Survey of Obsessive Drawing at Vermillion. Sept 8-Oct 8.

SPORTS Seattle hosts the World Hardcourt Bike Polo Championships at Magnuson Park. Don’t let the tongue-in-cheek team names (Han Polo and the Tusken Raiders?) dupe you into dismissing bike polo as hipster hooey. It’s as serious as a mallet to the face. Sept 9-11.

SPECIAL EVENT This year’s after-hours shopping crawl Fashion’s Night Out is going to be big. Seattle Met’s Where What When blog has the definitive FNO Seattle game plan and the skinny on the dress code. Sept 8.