Vietnamese New Year: Celebrate the lunar new year at the 5th Annual Lunar New Year T?t Festival at the corner of Park Blvd. and Presidents Way in Balboa Park at 4 p.m. The holiday celebration features a cultural village, traditional Vietnamese food, carnival rides and stage entertainment. The festival continues on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Adult admission is $5 at the door or $4 online. For more information or to purchase tickets, visit www.sdtet.com or call 619-940-4838.

A (Queer) Geography of Remembrance: Playwright, poet and essayist Cherrie Moraga will read new and selected works at the San Diego LGBT Community Center at 7 p.m. A meet and greet starts an hour early before the reading. The 7 p.m. reading will finish with a Q & A at 8 p.m. and a book singing at 8:30 p.m. Moraga is the co-editor of the groundbreaking book, This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color, the author of Loving in the War Years: Lo Que Nunca Pasó Por Sus Labios, Waiting in the Wings: Portrait of a Queer Motherhood and several collections of plays. The San Diego LGBT Community Center is located at 3909 Centre St. in Hillcrest. For more information, call 619-692-2077 or visit www.thecentersd.org.

Trashing Our Seas: Scientists will discuss their investigation of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch at the Birch Aquarium at Scripps at 11 a.m. Learn how to help save seas from trash overload. Meet Scripps scientists as they share stories and their investigations of a large ocean garbage patch. Become a scientist, investigate ocean samples, discover how a stuffed toy dog ended up 1000 miles off coast. The event is included in regular admission. The Birch Aquarium at Scripps is located at 2300 Expedition Way in La Jolla. For more information, call 858-534-3474 or visit www.aquarium.ucsd.edu.

Burning Man: San Diego members of the Burning Man community will screen a collection of film shorts about the annual arts festival at the Museum of Photographic Arts at 5 p.m. Burning Man is an annual event held in late Aug./early Sept. in the Black Rock Desert in northern Nevada. It takes its name from the ritual burning of a large wooden effigy towards the end of the festival. Many participants describe the event as an experiment in community, radical self-expression and radical self-reliance. An afterparty follows at 4th & B at 10 p.m. Admission starts at $20. The Museum of Photographic Arts is located at 1649 El Prado in Balboa Park. For more information, call 619-238-7559 or visit www.mopa.org.

Fundraiser for Haiti: The San Diego Architectural Foundation will host a fundraiser for Haiti at the Whistle Stop Bar at 8 p.m. The fundraiser will include a “WAVE” presentation in the format 20 images, 20 seconds, live music, presentations and other fun stuff. Organizers request a $20 donation at the door. The event is part of the PechaKucha Global Day for Haiti. All proceeds will go directly to rebuilding Haiti. The Whistle Stop Bar is located at 2236 Fern St. in South Park. For more information, call http://sdarchitecture.org or call 619-232-1385.

Animal concert: Carol Williams, civic organist, will play animal-themed music at Spreckels Organ Pavilion at 2 p.m. Bring your pet for a concert to benefit the San Diego Humane Society. The Spreckels Organ Pavilion is located at 2211 Pan American Road in Balboa Park. Admission is free. For more information, call 619-702-8138 or visit www.sdhumane.org.

Puppet Divas: Emcee Granny Pearl will host a talent and variety show with Eddie Green and his Puppet Divas and Boy Shakira at Brass Rail at 8 p.m. Tickets purchase will benefit Mama’s Kitchen. Brass Rail is located at 3796 Fifth Ave. in Hillcrest. For more information, call 619-298-2233 or visit www.thebrassrailsd.com.

‘Outcasts United’: Literature professor, library staffer Phillip Gunderson will discuss the book, Outcasts United by Warren St. John at the San Diego Public Library, East Village at 6:30 p.m. Outcasts United is the story of a refugee soccer team, a remarkable woman coach and a small southern town turned upside down by the process of refugee resettlement. In the 1990s, that town, Clarkston, Georgia, became a resettlement center for refugees from war zones in Liberia, Congo, Sudan, Iraq and Afghanistan. The town also became home to Luma Mufleh, an American-educated Jordanian woman who founded a youth soccer team to help keep Clarkston’s boys off the streets. These boys named themselves the Fugees, short for refugees. Outcasts United follows a pivotal season in the life of the Fugees, their families and their charismatic coach as they struggle to build new lives in a fading town overwhelmed by change. Outcasts United is part of KPBS and the San Diego Public Library’s One Book, One San Diego program. The San Diego Public Library, East Village is located at 820 E St. in Downtown. For more information, call 610-236-5800 or visit www.sandiego.gov/public-library.

Two Cents with Ophelia: GLTNN Associate Editor Aaron Heier will interview special guest Ricky Walker, aka Ophelia, at the San Diego LGBT Community Center at 7 p.m. Ophelia has been one of San Diego’s most popular drag personalities who, every year, collects blankets and other essentials for low-income and homeless seniors and youth on both sides of the border. Two Cents is an entertaining, informative and interactive social event featuring Heier interviewing the men who move San Diego’s GLBT community. The San Diego LGBT Community Center is located at 3909 Centre St. in Hillcrest. For more information, call 619-692-2077 or visit www.thecentersd.org.

‘Re-Drowning Ophelia’: The Lyceum Theatre will perform Re-Drowning Ophelia at 7:30 p.m. Re-Drowning Ophelia, by Katie Henry who is currently studying dramatic writing at NYU, defies the current trend of likening modern teenage girls to Ophelia. Katie’s younger sister was having a difficult time in school, and the self-help books recommended to her moved Katie to write this play. The teenage girls in Katie’s play are not hapless victims defined by the men in their lives, nor are they easily compartmentalized into boxes. Katie’s characters are free thinkers, exploring religion, sexuality and love from within the potentially confining setting of a Catholic high school. The Lyceum Theatre is located at 79 Horton Plaza in Downtown. For more information, call 619-544-1000 or visit www.playwrightsproject.org.

Aztecs vs. BYU: The San Diego State Aztecs Womens Basketball will compete against the Bringham Young Cougars at Viejas Arena at 7 p.m. Viejas Arena is located at 5500 Canyon Crest Dr. on the campus of San Diego State University. For more information or to purchase tickets, call 619-594-6947 or visit www.cox-arena.com.

Dashboard Confessional: Dashboard Confessional will perform at the House of Blues at 8 p.m. Singer/songwriter Christopher Carrabba became the poster boy for a new generation of emo fans in the early 2000s, having left behind his former band (the post-hardcore Christian outfit Further Seems Forever) to concentrate on vulnerable, introspective solo musings. Last year, Carrabba and his band released their latest album, Alter the Ending. Admission starts at $22.50. The House of Blues is located at 1055 5th Ave. in Downtown. For more information or to purchase tickets, visit www.houseofblues.com or call 619-299-2583.