Events for August 6, 2011
Saturday, August 6
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 …
It’s prints, photos and pin-ups paradise at the Vintage Paper Fair from Saturday, August 6 to Sunday, August 7 in Golden Gate Park.
An antique show that’s been in the Bay Area for almost 40 years, there are postcards, labels, Art Deco, Art Nouveau, local history …
Get bargains on everything from biographies to sci-fi fantasy at Chronicle Books’ Summer Warehouse Sale from Thursday, August 4 till Saturday, August 6.
Head on down to this local independent publisher, known for its wide array of award-winning books, to take advantage of the hundreds of …
The 1st Annual Dub Fillmore Festival, a music, arts and cultural event in the heart of San Francisco’s Fillmore District is an effort to maintain the vibrancy of the neighborhood and pay homage to the growing dub community throughout the city.
Two stages will serve up …
Join McCormick & Kuletos’ Executive Chef, Liz Ozanich at 11 am for a cooking demonstration featuring the seasonal bounty of the Ferry Plaza Farmers Market. She is followed at 11:45 by Sherri Brooks Vinton, Author of Put ‘em Up!: A Comprehensive Home Preserving Guide …
Check out some capsized crafts while climbing the cliffs at Lands End on the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy’s “Shipwrecks at the Golden Gate” hiking tour on Saturday, August 6.
Follow docent Rich Harned on this moderately strenuous hike to see some of the ships that …
Sample, sip or socialize at the 2nd Annual Noriega Street Food Fair in the Sunset on Saturday Aug. 6, between between 30st and 33rd Avenues on Noriega Street.
The fair is meant to help community residents lead more health-conscious lives by offering healthy cooking demonstrations (including one by …
In honor of the anniversary of the end of WWII, the SS Jeremiah O’Brien and the USS Pampanito are displaying a 6-foot-tall version of Seward Johnson’s famous sculpture depicting the “Times Square Kiss” for two days at Pier 45.
For two days only, from 11 am to 4 …
Make some tamales and trades at Phat Beets Produce’s free “Backyard Crop Swap & Oaxaca Tamale Workshop” on Saturday, August 6 at the North Oakland Farmers Market.
RSVP to max@phatbeetsproduce.org to take advantage of bartering, swapping and trading your hive’s honey for homemade treats, as well as a …
Head out on your Harley for Hammarhead Industries and Triple Aught Design’s three-day bike build in early August.
To end Hammarhead’s month-long journey across the United States, they’ll be at Triple Aught Design’s headquarters from August 4 to 6 so you can watch them build a …
Embark on an exploratory adventure with a walk around the sand dunes at Fort Funston and Lake Merced on Saturday, August 6.
Join guide Alex Genadinik, the host of the 7-Hills of SF and wine scavenger hunt hike, for this unpredictable walk through dense thickets of willow, …
As the old cliché goes, one man’s trash is another man’s treasure, so pack up your usable items, foods, skills and talents and bring them to the monthly East Bay Hella Free Day on Saturday, August 6.
Held every first Saturday of the month, this sister …
Spend a lovely day in the Lower Haight with live art, potlucks and loud music at their neighborhood Summer Art Walk & scavenger hunt from noon to 6 p.m. on Saturday, August 6.
Other activities include art openings, live music, arts & crafts for the kids, a skate …
Join Amoeba in welcoming the San Francisco Rock Project’s House Band of top students to the stage.
San Francisco Rock Project (SFRP) is a nonprofit organization providing intensive performance-based music instruction for young musicians, ages 8-18 in the San Francisco Bay Area. SFRP combines private lessons …
Stop by to take a peek at the super private Peacock Lounge at a special 3pm potluck this Saturday during the Lower Haight Art Walk.
This bar/club on Haight Street with a killer super-retro sign is usually available only for rentals with eclectic opening hours, but …
Each Saturday through September 3rd, the Alameda South Shore Center holds a free outdoor concert in the center of the mall.
This week features Papa’s Garage. Fire up your dancing shoes and dance the blues away. Papa’s Garage is a rockin’, high-energy blues band that will keep …
The Mission Arts Performance Project (MAPP) will be sprawling over 10+ venues as well as public spaces, street corners, bart stations, cafes, bars, taquerias, homes and all around the Mission on Saturday, August 6, 2011 from noon until late.
The event features taking common spaces and …
Sing, exchange stories and eat free s’mores at a bonfire on the beach until midnight with YeaShOre, a local Jewish organization that throws bonfires parties like this on Ocean Beach and in Emeryville several times a year.
Everyone is welcome (in other words, you don’t have to …
The San Francisco Theater Festival is an annual free day of live theater with over 100 performances that takes place August 7th at Fort Mason.
But in advance of this festival are six “Festival in the Neighborhoods” days – also free, but encouraging you to visit …
Prepare your peg-leg and eye-patch for an outdoor showing of “The Princess Bride” and a pirate-themed costume contest at Berkeley’s Center Street Summer Cinema event on Saturday, August 6.
Starring Cary Elwes and Robin Wright, this film about a young farmhand on a quest to be …
Every summer Film Night in the Park puts on free outdoor movies in parks throughout San Francisco and the Bay Area.
Films are free of charge in beautiful park settings and projected on a giant outdoor screen. Arrive early, spread out a …
See a Saturday night performance at the Mezzanine by Big Sam’s Funky Nation, a music festival favorite who has made their way to the front of the New Orleans music scene.
With Big Sam, the ‘trombone powerhouse’, as their front man, its sure to be a …
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 …
