Events for April 22, 2012
Sunday, April 22
Did you know trampoline is an Olympic sport? You’re invited to come watch Northern California’s and Nevada’s best tumbling and trampoline athletes compete for a state championship title
There is a great deal of local talent in the sport and it is growing in popularity. Over 160 …
Celebrate Earth Day & National Landscape Architecture Month with a casual bike tour of San Francisco public spaces. Tour will start downtown, winding north and stopping at historical and contemporary sites designed by landscape architects.
This is the best time of year to bike ride in …
Trumer Pils and SF Surfrider are hosting an Earth Day beach clean-up and block after-party featuring live music from The Mermen & The Boars.
The beach clean-up will be followed by a free, Earth Day block party celebration in front of The Riptide from 12 to …
Get ready to swing in Golden Gate Park every sunny Sunday at “Lindy in the Park,” a weekly free event near the de Young Museum, when the streets of Golden Gate Park are closed to traffic and the dancers take over.
Lindy in the Park | Free Outdoor …
Explore downtown architecture from as early as 1891 up to today. You’ll see famous buildings and little-known treasures while discussing the architects and design trends that changed the face of America. 30 buildings in two hours.
These free, regularly scheduled tours are offered only for individuals …
Journalist John Stossel presents No, They Can’t. Utilizing his three decades in journalism, Stossel combines sharp insights, common sense, and documented facts to debunk conventional wisdom and challenge popular opinion about the role of our nation’s government. Stossel is co-anchor of ABC’s 20/20.
Free with RSVP.
Take a special hosted one-hour audio walking tour based on our recently published anthology Ten Years That Shook the City: San Francisco 1968-1978.
Meet in the middle of Balmy Alley, between 24th and 25th. Suggested donation of $ – $10.
Flash Mob Meditation at City Hall on Earth Day 2012 coordinated with 300+ cities around the world.
We will meet in front of the stairs of City Hall at 2:45pm so that we can find a good spot to sit together. Please make sure that you …
Travel back in time to meet a few of classical music’s greatest composers: grumpy Johnny Bach and his twenty children, deaf Ludwig B. who can only hear music inside his head, and present-day Gabi Frank who will show us how different things are today for …
Whole Foods hosts the “Do Something Reel Film Festival” with a screening and Q&A of “The Apple Pushers,” follows five immigrant street-cart vendors who are offering fruits and vegetables in New York neighborhoods where fresh produce isn’t widely available.
The screening will be followed by a …
Heath Hen Films has captured the California state park crisis in their documentary appropriately named The First 70.
70 California state parks have been identified for closure. The closure of these parks should be of great concern to anyone who is an outdoor enthusiast.
Join us on …
Chanteuse Jennifer Muhawi and Pianist Douglas McKeehan will perform in celebration of their recent release: Ciel de Paris, which features classic French songs from the late 1800′s – 1966. If you like Edith Piaf, or Charles Trenet, or even jazz standards that crossed over to …
Solo Sundays: Hilarious, Heartbreaking & Provocative Solo Performances presents select samplings of veteran virtuosos and top emerging talent in the intimate StageWerx Theatre.
See two performances on Sunday April 22nd – a solo opera entitled “Failing That” and a play about Bruce Lee called “I Know …
The Berkeley Underground Film Society is a club for collectors, researchers, and film enthusiasts in the East Bay and San Francisco Area.
Every Sunday they reach into their archives for a selective film history of unseen, rarely projected, or otherwise obscure 8mm, 9.5mm, and 16mm prints.
Berkeley Underground Film …
The San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park will be featuring a free exhibit celebrating San Francisco’s rich maritime heritage with painted murals, historic film, and over 360 artifacts from the park collection.
On Thursday, April 19th at 11am, Park Superintendent Craig Kenkel will cut the ribbon. NPS …
Every Sunday
Visit the Bay Area Free Book Exchange (open every Saturday and Sunday from 9 am to 6 pm in El Cerrito) and take home up to 100 books for free.
Yes, all 10,000+ books on all the shelves are available to the public, free of charge. …
Spend a Football Sunday the way it was meant to be enjoyed – stuffing your face full of free BBQ. Every Sunday football game, Ace’s gives sports fans a free plate of burgers, sausages, and all the gooey fixins that go with it. Enjoy drink …
Free Yoga on Sundays in Dolores Park at 11am, provided by the teachers of the Purusha Yoga community.
Free Yoga Flow in the Park
Come and play outdoors, in nature. Enjoy inverting, reverting and melting into the ground. Join us on weekends for a rejuvinating morning flow …
Get ready to swing in Golden Gate Park every sunny Sunday at “Lindy in the Park,” a weekly free event near the de Young Museum, when the streets of Golden Gate Park are closed to traffic and the dancers take over.
Lindy in the Park | Free Outdoor …
During the first two weekends in June, the 2012 East Bay Open Studios connects the public with over 400 artists in 14 cities in the East Bay. Since 1979, this event remains the largest art event in the region and draws an annual audience over 50,000.
East …
Come learn the basics of Capoeira, a Brazilian martial art, at the Jack London Square Farmers’ Market.
This cardio and strength training class includes learning the basic movements and acrobatics of this beautiful art form, as well as getting a chance to play with other …
Take a trip back to the 1930s just by heading to SoMa and visiting the California Historical Society’s A Wild Flight of the Imagination: the Story of the Golden Gate Bridge – a brand new historical exhibit honoring the bridge’s 75th anniversary.
Experience the story of the …
Check out a an exhibit presented by Ripley’s Believe It or Not including a 13-foot model of the Golden Gate Bridge, constructed out of 30,000 toothpicks and glue in the lobby of the Hyatt Regency in San Francisco.
In addition you can view a 1/3rd scale …
Want free reserved seating, reserved parking and free beverages and snacks during a Stern Grove event this summer? All you have to do is volunteer!
Volunteer positions include ushers, information booth staffers, bike valet, donation collectors, greeters, set up/take down experts and much more.
Sign up to …
Sundays are Dollar Days at Golden Gate Fields. If you haven’t made it out yet, you should check out the thoroughbred action of horse racing. Nearly everything costs just a single buck at Golden Gate Fields in Albany.
Some Sundays there are also free concerts at …
There is a place in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park that is heaven for Bay Area inline skaters and roller skaters who like to boogie to the funky beat on wheels. The area is is called, “Skatin’ Place”. It is located at 6th Avenue and …
The Milk Bar presents “Bluegrass Sundays,” a free weekly concert with three bands performing 90-minute sets, each playing old-timey bluegrass, Americana, folk, blues, and other sub-genres of acoustic music.
Bluegrass Sundays
Every Sunday | 2 pm-10 pm
Milk Bar | 1840 Haight Street, SF
FREE
Bands generally start at 4 pm, 6 …
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 …
Finish off the weekend at Molotov’s and enjoy an afternoon of free food (usually around 3pm) every Sunday between games of pool, retro pinball, and some serious punk rock ‘tude. While it’s usually burgers and hot dogs, occasionally the bar mixes it up with pizza, …
Since Sundays are the only day of the week that their kitchen’s closed, consider this Bender’s gift to you. Every Sunday from 3pm till 7pm, they’ll treat the public to a free BBQ with burgers, veggie options, or whatever else the bar’s in the mood …
Comstock Saloon, SF’s throwback saloon on the edge of the Financial District hosts Honky Tonk Sundays. In the spirit of the wild west, guests can experience tunes from DJ Blaze Orange’s vinyl collection of 20th century American country music and throwback food from Saloon Chefs Carlos …
As a testament to keep Sunday a Funday, the designers at 5th Stitch Collective are throwing a little party every Sunday in August to launch a new t-shirt design each week.
Mingle with the designers, see our newest designs, and snack up on some free cookies …
San Francisco City Guides offers a free night-time guided walking tour of North Beach.
It’s where food, culture, colorful history, and unexpected views all intersect in an erstwhile Italian ‘urban village’ that was also cradle to San Francisco’s bohemia.
North Beach By Night | 2012
May through October …
