Main Event: InLiquid v.12 Benefit & Silent Auction
Fri., Feb. 10, 6-10 p.m.
Crane Arts Building (1400 N. American St., Philadelphia)
$40 in advance and $50 at the door
The visual artist hub's biggest fundraiser continues to grow, held this year inside the vast Ice Box Project Space of the Crane building. There's a Second Thursday and Young Professionals Preview Party on Thursday from 6-9 p.m. and a VIP Preview Party earlier on Friday from 4-6 p.m.

Clothes Swap at The Fire
Sat., Feb. 11, 1-5 p.m.
The Fire (412 W. Girard Ave., Philadelphia)
$3 with clothing donation, $5 without
Sometimes a few drinks is what it takes to help us part with some of our favorite shirts and skirts. The Fire enables such spring cleaning with its clothes swap, including $5 fresh jalepeno Bloody Marys and $3 pints of Lager. Bring as many of your gently used items and take as many as you wish. Men's and women's clothes on hand, but no kid's clothes (no room).

The Ex-Files -- A First Person Arts StorySlam
Tues., Feb. 14, 8:30 p.m.
World Cafe Live (3025 Walnut St., Philadelphia)
$8 for First Person Arts members, $10 for non-members (tickets available only at door, make table rese4rvations by calling 215-222-1400 after 10 a.m.)
Last year's sold-out anti-Valentine's Day slam inspires this year's The Ex-Files, which features 10 storytellers onstage with their true tales of love lost suitable for couples and non-coupes alike. R. Eric Thomas hosts and Flying Kite contributor and former storytelling champion Amanda Feifer O'Brien will perform.

PHOTOS:  First and fourth photographs courtesy of First Person Arts (by Erik Vonie)