Events for May 7, 2011
Saturday, May 7
Celebrating El Cinco de Mayo since 1862… ¡Viva México! Free fun for the whole family celebrating Hayward Area Mexican/Mexican-American/Latino/Hispanic History.
The Battle of Puebla
Student Awards
Singers & performers
Folclóricas Escolares
Los federales del norte Mariachi
Dancing
CUESA is proud to host Fifth Floor Executive Chef David Bazirgan. Chef Bazirgan was just awarded three-and-a-half stars by the SF Chronicle for his exciting and delicious new menu at Fifth Floor. He shops the Ferry Plaza Farmers Market at least once a week and …
The classy Marina joint Eastside West is hosting its second Kentucky Derby Day Party, an event that drew tons of suitably posh attires and fancy hats last year. Features live Derby Jazz all day long.
If you’re going to be watching the horseys duke it out, …
Stop by and give lawn bowling a try with free lessons and check out what is one of the Park’s hidden treasures: the oldest municipal bowling club in the country and a turn of the Century clubhouse christened back in the day by John McLaren …
CUESA is happy to welcome Linda Carucci back to the kitchen. Linda is the director of the International Culinary School at The Art Institute of California-San Francisco and the author of Cooking School Secrets For Real-World Cooks. Join us in the kitchen for this year’s installment …
Is the environmentalism movement as we know it outdated? Should environmental goals be linked with other broad social and economic goals? As a consumer–driven economy and wasteful society, should we shift the focus of the movement towards a make–your–own sustainable practice rather than trying to …
Race on down to The Republic and watch the Kentucky derby while donating to a good cause. And put on your best Derby attire for special prizes (just wondering: how many Hunter S. Thompsons will there be out there?)
Derby is from 1:00 – 4:00
guest bartenders from 4:00 – 4:45
drink …
Watch the Kentucky Derby and enjoy some delicious bourbon thanks to the complimentary open bar hosted by Basil Hayden’s Bourbon.
Live Derby broadcast on 8 Plasma TVs
Sounds by DJ Cams
Hottest Hat in the House contest with prize
Hosted Bourbon bar & hosted Brunch
Chocolate Bourbon Truffles
Free event, but RSVP Required
Ricardo Lemvo’s blend of Afro-Cuban rhythms with pan-African styles – soukous, Angolan semba and kizomba – has been described by the LA Times as “seamless and infectious.”
This Congo-born artist of Angolan ancestry is the embodiment of the Afro-Latin Diaspora which connects back to Mother Africa …
On this hearty walk, a multitude of stairways connects comfortable Inner Sunset residential streets with dramatic chert outcroppings offering magnificent views of San Francisco, the Pacific Ocean, and the Marin Hills.
This free San Francisco City Guides walking tour is offered May & October Only
May Schedule:
Saturday, …
High on the list of gotta-have-’em treats are Kara’s Cupcakes and their unique flavors like Sweet S’mores to Peanut Butter Milk Chocolate Ganache.
Join Kara Haspel Lind—founder of Kara’s Cupcakes—as she demonstrates how to whip up the treats, both regular and gluten-free, that have made her …
Ever Isles Is Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith and ever-changing others. Their album Cocoon was recorded with Jeremy Robert Harris within the walls of a homemade mattress room by candlelight in a rustic cabin and a Victorian chapel on Orcas Island, Washington State. The album was mixed …
Kiddos—forget the paper hearts with glitter glued on and make Mom something a little more enviable: jewelry.
Local designer Charlotte Hensler will be leading a free jewelry making workshop in Paxton Gate’s Curiosities For Kids on Mother’s Day Eve. (Making jewelry for yourself or your dad …
See the latest fashions walked up and down the catwalk by up-and-coming designers as the Academy of Art University School of Fashion graduates debut their latest collections.
Free, but RSVP required
In a multiverse where up to 10 alternate yous exist, you must chase and defeat your alternates, absorb their power, and make them your minions. To do so, you’ll share information with other players in your universe, and exchange powers with other players in alternate …
Open Opera is a genteel group of performing pros in their 3rd year of putting on free opera concerts in Bay Area parks.
This is their first Oakland concerts and they picked the idyllic Dimond Park, located off Fruitvale Avenue. Bring your family or a date …
On Saturday, May 7, fans are invited to come out to the ballpark early to watch some of the world’s best skateboarders perform at the Thrasher Magazine’s 30th Anniversary Ramp Jam, presented by Vans.
Some of skating’s biggest names are scheduled to perform on a mini-ramp …
Yes, there will be beer to sample. This highly entertaining small-business memoir documents Jeremy Cowan’s early days of delivering beers in his grandmother’s Volvo, to winning awards 13 years later at top craft beer festivals around the country for his HE’BREW beer and Coney Island …
The How-To Homestead 11-in-11 Tour wraps up it’s 11-district journey with its last show of the spring.
These cheap workshops teach locals a really cool, homebody skill that will enrich your lives.
In this stop in San Francisco’s District 9 at Mission Arts Center, you’ll learn all …
For millions of people around the world, the bicycle provides access to education, health care, markets, and a better future.
With My Own Two Wheels, a feature-length documentary by Hubub Films, weaves together five stories from around the world into a single narrative about the bicycle …
The author Carlos Salomón, a Fruitvale resident and Director of the Latin American Studies Program at Cal State East Bay, will discuss his new book, Pio Pico, the Last Mexican Governor of California.
Pico held office before the U.S. Mexican War in 1846-48, and was of …
SF in SF is in their 6th year of bringing authors and films to San Francisco – tonight they welcome science fiction authors Andrea Hairston and Howard V. Hendrix for a night of readers and Q&A with the authors, a book signing and schmoozing in …
April through October, Mount Tamalpais State Park and the SF Amateur Astronomers host monthly astronomy lectures and star parties. The astronomy lectures start shortly after sunset (around 8 pm) at the Mountain Theater above Rock Springs.
After the lecture, the public is invited to view the stars …
After nearly two decades, the reunited musical duo of Mark Zanandrea and Melanie Clarin, plus Josh Housh on bass, have produced 15 new sparkling tunes from the pop underground. It Thing sprang from the minds of former Cat Heads, Mark Zanandrea and Melanie Clarin. Their …
Every Saturday
Come try the 7-minute National Fitness Campaign Workout and see what Core Training, Squatting, Pushing, Lunging, Pulling, Agility and Bending can achieve.
On-site staff will be available every Saturday and Sunday in April, 8am-5pm.
Bootcamps held every 2 hours (8am, 10am, 12pm, 2pm, 4pm), so be on …
Come and play outdoors, in nature. Enjoy inverting, reverting and melting into the ground. Join us on weekends for a rejuvinating morning flow
and meditation for body, mind, and spirit.
Purusha yogis teach free yoga on Saturday mornings in Alamo Square Park at 9:00am as part of the Purusha Seva …
The Golden Gate Bridge is turning 75 in 2012 and every Saturday during the summer, you can join Sports Basement for a guided run through Presidio National Park.
The route will change weekly, but will always feature breathtaking views of the iconic Golden Gate Bridge. …
In celebration of the reopening of the Betty Ann Ong Chinese Recreation Center, the Movement in the Parks Program brings you a limited series of free Zumba classes on Saturdays, November 3 – December 15, 2012 from 10:30am-11:30am.
>> Please note there is no class on November 24th.
RSVP …
Come and play outdoors, in nature. Enjoy inverting, reverting and melting into the ground. Join us on weekends for a rejuvinating morning flow
and meditation for body, mind, and spirit.
Purusha yogis teach free yoga on Saturday mornings in Golden Gate Park at 11 am, as part of the …
Enjoy meeting complete strangers or bring a partner while engaging in dance styles from the Caribbean.
You will be given an introductory class on Cuban Salsa as well as the romantic Bachata from the Dominican Republic.
No better way to enjoy this dance than outside in the …
Love art, but find the Murmur to be more like a Scream? Then the Saturday Stroll might be just what the artist ordered.
Many of the galleries that participate in Oakland’s highly popular Art Murmur gallery scene are extending their First Friday festivities to include Saturday …
Bring your family, friends, a blanket or low lawn chair, and a picnic to enjoy free professional theatre by the San Francisco Shakespeare Festival. This year the festival features Henry V, the Bard’s exciting tale about the rise of a young king and the glories and costs …
Thee Parkside hosts “Free Saturday Happy Hour Shows” on most Saturday afternoons – a free concert featuring rock and punk bands from all over the Bay Area. But make sure you check Thee Parkside schedule to confirm for any given week; they sometimes skip weeks.
Free …
Sure, Lucky 13′s always loaded with free popcorn and goldfish – but, if you’re looking for something more sustainable with your rockabilly and punk on the jukebox, be sure to drop by their outdoor patio on Saturdays between 4 pm and 7 pm.
The menu each …
Join a series of free outdoor screenings in downtown Berkeley this summer, as the Pacific Film Archive projects onto the wall on Center Street.
This August, they bring you Cerebral Cinema — some brain-addled beauties from the silver screen. These smart-ass films won’t raise your IQ, …
Come one, come all to a free family or animated movie night in the garden at Saint Leo”s Church on Piedmont Avenue in Oakland.
The movies are shown every Saturday in the month of July in 2012 – July 7, 14, 21 and 28 on the …
