Events for May 21, 2011
Saturday, May 21
SF Refresh’s goal is to create six daylong citywide events that enable San Franciscans to receive free whole body care in community garden settings in 2011.
For the second SF Refresh, there are events in Bernal Heights, the Bayview and Visitacion Valley.
Walking Trash Pick-Up Event:
8am | …
See furniture, art and other items made from downed urban trees, meet the artisans and watch demonstrations of how these trees are milled into lumber. Tables, bed frames, chairs and other items will be available for purchase.
This is the first-ever Urban Forest Product Showcase. In …
This annual festival celebrates children’s heritage through country-specific dances and foods.
Worldly Dance Performances (10 am to 6 pm)
There will be 22 different traditional dances performed by kids with parents from 22 different countries all over the world, including: Afghanistan, Argentine, Bosnia, China, Brazil, Ireland, Korea, …
Want to grow-your-own fruits, vegetables and flowers? CUESA is here to help. Join us for a day celebrating gardening in your own backyard (or fire escape or windowsill).
South Driveway:
10:00-1:00 Visit CUESA’s grow-your-own display with information on Bay Area gardening from local experts. Also visit …
The Bay Area’s popular outdoor festival season officially kicks-off in Mountain View at this vibrant springtime celebration of the arts featuring stellar live music, artist showcases, a car show, food and drinks.
Admission is free. Festival runs all weekend, May 21-22.
A La Carte & Art features:
Live …
Downtown Oakland is undergoing a renaissance (let’s not call it gentrification, just to be nice). Local residents and visitors can glimpse both today’s happening scene and landmarks from Oakland’s past during the 2011 Oakland Tours season.
There are eight different tours, each led by a volunteer …
Tillamook Cheese is a bright orange hue and the first 100 folks to dress like the cheese get free admission to the SF Zoo. Yep, you read that right.
Today only, starting at 10 am, wear your brightest, Tillamookest, orange duds (should be easy with all …
SF Refresh’s goal is to create six daylong citywide events that enable San Franciscans to receive free whole body care in community garden settings in 2011.
Activities include: gardening classes, yoga, life coaching, meditation, trauma care, nutrition classes, massage, acupuncture, movement classes, preventative health care information and …
San Francisco merchants throughout the city will be showing off their unique styles, creativity and merchandise on Saturday, May 21. Discover only in San Francisco finds while enjoying all the sales, discounts and lots of free stuff.
Just look for the small business week …
An all-day (and almost all-night) market with 50 vendors, full bar, street performers and DJs. From 11am to 4pm the market focuses on “take-homeables” – jams, produce, soaps, desserts etc. The second shift of the market (6pm to 12am) will be mainly hot food that’s …
Come to free-for-all bluegrass picking party in Golden Gate Park starting at noon and going ’til 6 pm at the Dahlias Picnic Area near the Conservatory of Flowers.
Bring a Dish or Instrument: Bring a side dish or something to throw on the grill along with …
When it comes to oceans and marine wildlife, it’s not often you hear good news, but here it is: harbor porpoises are back in the SF Bay Area. These cousins of whales and dolphins have finally returned after a 65-year absence.
In Search of Porpoises: Bridge Walk
Your guide …
Redwood City’s 10th Annual Pet Parade starts at Noon in the Courthouse Square. There’ll be contests, cute animals in funny clothes, pet tricks and myriad other ways to celebrate your critters.
Best pet costume contest
Best Pet and Owner Look-a-like contest
Most Unusual Pet contest
Best Pet trick contest
Photos …
SF Refresh’s goal is to create six daylong citywide events that enable San Franciscans to receive free whole body care in community garden settings in 2011.
Activities include: gardening classes, yoga, life coaching, meditation, trauma care, nutrition classes, massage, acupuncture, movement classes, preventative health care information and …
Hank Williams died on Jan. 1, 1953, in the back seat of a car, on the road to a New Year’s Day gig in Canton, Ohio. That lonesome death, a result of drugs and alcohol, centers Steve Earle’s first novel, which revolves around a character …
After eight years of Pub Crawling, CrawlSF has expanded into a brand new neighborhood for 2011 – The Haight! Not only with the crawl be lots of fun, but you get great drink specials at each of the bars with drinks as low as $2 …
The 10-member string SF Chamber Orchestra is joined by youth choirs from Cantare Con Vivo and the Vallejo Choral Society for this sonic tour of the globe.
Featuring selections from Brazil, the Dominican Republic, Maori, China, Russia, the Czech Republic, Scandinavia, England, and the United States.
[ Register for …
Open Opera is a genteel group of performing pros in their 3rd year of putting on free opera concerts in Bay Area parks.
Their season tour of East Bay green spots continues with a concert in Live Oak Park, in the Claremont Hills of Berkeley. Bring …
Anyone can do a Screen Print with simple materials and this event will show you how to do it.
Make-Your-Own Shirt Workshop: At the end of the workshop each person will be going home with their personally designed screen and printed t-shirt. Our group will provide all …
Hey! It’s Judgement Day, folks! Might as well spend it watching some lady rockers from the bands Female Trouble (a 60′s-style naughty pop act) and Two Against One make mahem and shred guitars.
There’s cheap beer and delicious women… or it is delicious beer and cheap women? It’s …
Doomsdayers are forecasting the End of the World this weekend. What do you want to be doing when it all ends?
The Center for Sex & Culture will hold its annual fundraising event showcasing solo sexuality on May 21-22, 2011.
The 2011 Live Masturbate-a-Thon: Arm (and Hand)-ageddon:
It’s …
The Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum presents a night of comedy short subjects full of slapstick from some of the silent film greats like Chaplin, Keaton and Laurel & Hardy.
Frederick Hodges plays the piano live to accompany.
The Rink (1916, Lone Star) featuring Charlie Chaplin, Edna …
The 23-member Pomona College Choir and Glee Club celebrates its 120 year history with this concert tour. The concert includes chamber music from the 16th century to the present. The evening will feature music by Briggs, Byrd, Duruflé, Howells, Lassus, Martinů Mendelssohn, Morley, Palestrina …
The American Philharmonic-Sonoma County concludes its 11th season with “Más Pasión con QuinTango,” a tribute to the tango and a showcase for the music of noted Latin American and Spanish composers. Jeremy Cohen will lead the orchestra. The Bay-Area-based Cohen, a violinist and …
The Friends of Duboce Park (with Park & Rec’s blessing) is bringing you an outdoor screening of one explosive San Francisco-based flick: The Rock. Friends of the Harvey Milk Recreation Center will once again provide popcorn and other refreshments for sale.
The movie will start when …
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 …
