Events for April 7, 2012
Saturday, April 7
Scott P. Phillips teaches this free on-going Saturday class for Lafayette and the East Bay community. Tai Chi is known for its gentle power, beautiful silk-spiraling movements, numerous health benefits, extraordinary balance and meditation in motion.
We meet at the Lafayette Reservoir under the big tree …
The Dahlia Society of San Francisco will hold the annual plant and tuber sale at the Hall of Flowers in Golden Gate Park.
Come early for the best selections of flowers. Plants are $5 and tubers are $3. Dahlia experts will be on hand to answer …
Easter in Oakland’s idyllic Lakeshore neighborhood is one artsy and button-cute affair.
In the coming week before the 25th Annual Lakeshore Easter Parade & Derby Decorating Contest, neighborhood kids are invited to come down to merchants on Lakeshore who display little plastic hats called derbies, buy …
SFSU presents a preview screening of Disconnect: A Film on Cell Phones & Cancer at a Conversation on The Effects of Technology on Personal & Public Health
A Free Community Dialogue with free lunch & drinks.
Schedule:
9:00: Check-In & Social Time & Overview
10:00 Disconnect – a preview …
Jump-start your spring garden with some homemade compost. Aside from giving veggies and flowers a healthy start, composting encourages beneficial organisms in the soil and can help break the life cycle of plant pests and disease.
Join Garden For the Environment for this fun, hands-on class …
Join San Francisco Recreation and Parks Department for an “Alice in Recreation Land” Spring Eggstravaganza on April 7, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., at Sharon Meadow in Golden Gate Park.
This Family Event Features:
Egg Hunts
Carnival Rides
Jumpy Houses
Arts & Crafts
Entertainment
Rib Cook-Off between Rec and Park, SF Police …
Inspired by the idea of producing local, fresh food from what was an urban waste stream, Back to the Roots has since grown to create the Grow-Your-Own Mushroom Garden which lets anyone, across the country, grow their own gourmet mushrooms at home from recycled coffee …
Liberty Tax is hosting a Road Side Party to try to drum up business for tax season. It’s a free family event with live music, free food (BBQ and pizza), refreshments, children’s activity center, Mary Kay with free samples, face painting, MADD (Mother’s Against Drunk …
San Francisco author Francis Tapon will deliver a multimedia presentation about Europe’s hidden side. Discover the side of Europe that few know.
See hundreds of photos covering 25 Eastern European countries. Francis will discuss the 20th anniversary of the fall of Yugoslavia and the USSR – …
Saturday, April 7, 2012, the 25th Street Collective (25C) is hosting a Saturday Soiree- an afternoon of wine tasting and live music from MEME, featuring the sustainable works of the 25th street fashion collective along with 17 other local artisans.
From apparel and accessories to chocolate …
In celebration of the 75th Anniversary of the construction of the Golden Gate Bridge, Golden Gate Jubilee takes place on Saturday, April 7, 2012 from 1-4pm at the Music Concourse in Golden Gate Park.
The afternoon event serves as a preview of San Francisco Carnaval with a …
There’s no snow in Tahoe and you didn’t get Burning Man tickets…
It’s that time of year again friends, so perk up your ears and powder those cotton tails, BunnyCon is celebrating its 3rd year in San Francisco bar-hopping down Polk Street on Easter Saturday – …
Are you outgoing, intriguing and competitive? Are you up for anything and everything? Are you ready to live inside a house while multiple cameras record your every move and sound 24/7? Are you willing to compete for $500,000 against other players as aggressive and ambitious as you are? If …
Come to the Brava Theater Center Community Open House and meet and greet the new Executive Director, Stacie Powers Cuellar, and current Operations Manager Jocelyn Thompson, with performances by new resident company Loco Bloco and current resident artists Cuicacalli Escuela de Danza, 915 Cayuga, and …
Contributors to a new book will discuss the deep connections of Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo to the city of San Francisco, and will be on hand for a book signing.
Contributors to this collection explore how Vertigo resurrects the stories of San Francisco’s violent past, how sightseeing informs the act of …
14 Black Poppies curates an afternoon and evening of arts & healing with film, music, dance, and spoken word performances, arts/crafts vendors, community mandala creation, interactive fortune writing, and on-site tattooing for the Mission Arts and Performance Project (MAPP).
You’re invited to view a gallery of …
Novella Carpenter and Willow Rosenthal’s The Essential Urban Farmer guides readers from day one to market day, advising on how to find the perfect site, design a landscape, and cultivate crops.
For anyone who has ever grown herbs on windowsills, or tomatoes on fire escapes, this …
Visit this unique tiny art gallery/performance space in the Inner Richmond to listed to a special concert featuring the improvised instrumentation by Zu Zed duo includes electric guitar, vocals, electric uke, vocals, found objects, finger cymbals, snare drum, and fairy sauce. Root beer and homemade …
Arc Gallery presents ‘Lost and Found’, a group exhibit featuring thirteen Bay Area artists renowned for their creative use of discarded objects. This survey of Bay Area assemblage addresses materials reborn to a second life as an item to treasure, given restitution for service as …
On Friday, April 6th, Pink Mammoth is proud to bring back to Mighty DJ/producer/remixer Jimpster. The evening begins with an open pisco punch bar from 9-10:30pm with Pink Mammoth resident DJs Gravity, JDubYa, Markie B, Moe Moe, and RawC holding down the decks in the main …
Bang On play Britpop and Indie favorites live at Grant and Green for this 90s-rific concert – think Oasis, Blur, Pulp, James, New Order and the Stone Roses. Hey Rogue opens the (FREE) show.
Every first Saturday of the month is Leisure time at the Cat Club.
DJs Aaron Axelsen and Omar spin classic Brit pop, Madchester, mod, ’90s indie, dancey shoegaze and ’60s soul all night. With visual by Vis a Vis and karaoke by Union Jack Off, the fun …
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 …
