Events for May 24, 2012
Thursday, May 24
The 2012 Yerba Buena Gardens Festival is free summer-long outdoor music, theater and dance festival that takes place between May and October each year with nearly 100 events in Yerba Buena Gardens on three stages.
YBGFestival’s famous Thursday Lunchtime Series returns on May 24th with the …
The 48 Hour Film Project is a wild and sleepless weekend in which you and a team make a movie—write, shoot, edit and score it—in just 48 hours. On Friday night, you get a character, a prop, a line of dialogue and a genre, all …
Join the Planning Department for a tour of some of San Francisco’s coolest parklets and learn about this phenomenon that’s taking over San Francisco. Free, but RSVP is required – Limited to 15 people.
Create, schmooze, and nosh at the Museum where you’ll transform recycled paper into treasures with Anthroplogie’s Kayte Terry who will also sign copies of her new book Paper Made!
Then, in honor of the Jewish holiday of Shavuot, affectionately known as the “dairy holiday,” enjoy a …
Eugenia Bone speaks about Mycophilia: Revelations from the Weird World of Mushrooms ($25.99). Engrossing, earthy, surprising, and packed with up-to-date science and cultural exploration, Mycophilia is part narrative and part primer for foodies, science buffs, environmental advocates, and anyone interested in learning about ‘shrooms.
Isadora Duncan was the most famous dancer-choreographer performing in the early 20th century. She mesmerized her audiences by combining natural, free movement with ballet. Isadora was an icon of the art and culture of her times—she personified the period’s fascination with all things Greek, was …
Celebrate the 75th anniversary of the Golden Gate Bridge with a night of swing music and reflection on San Francisco’s beloved icon.
Peruse a pop-up exhibit of the Kinter collection of photographs of the Golden Gate Bridge and Bay Bridge construction, chat with the folks from …
The Yerba Buena Community Benefit District’s Arts in Dialogue series presents Theatre Flamenco featuring the incomparable and rapturous dancer Carola Zertuche.
Meet and mingle at 7 p.m. Theatre Flamenco performs at 8 p.m.
Theatre Flamenco has been named the Best Flamenco Show in San Francisco (SF Weekly) …
Come out for Bicycle Bingo at Actual Cafe. This is a weekly event at the cafe, benefiting East Bay Children’s Book Project.
This week’s prizes will be awarded by Bay Area Bikes, 21st Amendment, and Actual Cafe.
How it works:
1) Get Cards for donations
2) Play your cards …
After playing a handful of amazing live shows at this year’s SXSW, Sweden’s We Are Serenades have announced that they will be hitting the road this May, marking their first headlining U.S tour.
Live, Adam Olenius (Shout Out Louds) and Markus Krunegard (Laakso) – two of …
Win tickets to the opening night of Slipping, part of New Conservatory Theatre’s Pride Season 18. The play is centered in hope and possibility — a collage of the beginning of two lives together.
Alone, numb and friendless after the violent death of his father, high school senior …
Attend an exclusive free sneak preview advanced screening of “Chernobyl Diaries”, the brand new spooky thriller from the creator of “Paranormal Activity.”
Free Film Screening: Chernobyl Diaries
Thursday, May 24, 2012 (8pm)
San Francisco, CA
- RSVP Code: FUNSF6Q6W
Tickets available through GoFoBo.com/rsvp
Tickets are free, but subject to availability.
Exact screening …
IAMSOUND Records returns with another free show in the swanky Velvet Room and Redwood Room of San Francisco’s Clift Hotel.
May 24, 2012: Shlohmo
An LA native, Laufer grew up listening to “stuff like DJ Shadow, Amon Tobin, M83 – stuff with some sort of cinematic vision.” …
Every Thursday
The Mission Community Market is a weekly, outdoor marketplace that celebrates the Mission’s diversity with fresh foods, local businesses, and after-school activities in order to increase economic opportunity, family health and the fun, safe use of streets in the Mission.
Mission Community Market
Barlett @ 22nd, San …
Jack London Square invites you to its 2nd annual outdoor music series, SoundWaves. The series offers free live music by some of the Bay Area’s top performers on five consecutive Thursdays in May and June.
The SoundWaves spring lineup includes a range of local talent including …
So You Think You Can Paint has been cancelled. The last party took place on November 1, 2012.
Self-billed as “The World’s Most Creative Happy Hour,” bring a friend, paint a masterpiece at “So You Think You Can Paint?” at Club Six which opens up their …
If you happen to live in the 94102, 94108, or 94109 zip codes (that’s basically Russian Hill, Nob Hill and Tenderloin), you’ll get more than a cup of tea from your neighbors.
If you buy a drink, then you’ll receive a free drink ticket (on select beers …
Join Kitsch House, an artistic collaboration between local artists Pete Hickok and Jeffrey Augustine Songco, for dancing, mingling, music, mirrors, mood lighting, costumes and libations before a night out on the town.
RSVP before each event and join the pre-party. Bring friends or bring yourself and meet new …
Learn the basics of the art of belly dance with movements that are core fundamentals of all styles of belly dance around the world. This class is geared for beginners to intermediate students who want to learn and have fun. Music in the class is a wide …
Enron combines the jaw-dropping expose of a documentary with absurdist excess and puppets in a multifaceted and dynamic look at the greatest corporate scandal of our time.
>> Sorry! All of the $5 tickets have been claimed.
Tickets are normally $25, but Funcheapers can get the first 100 Tickets for …
On Haitus: Unfortunately 90s Night is on hiatus beginning January 2013.
All that she wants… is to relive the ’90s at the Hi-Fi Lounge every Thursday with 90 cent drinks for 90 minutes (8:30-10pm).
This ’90s dance party jams with DJ ILLBorn spinning “classics” from Montell Jordan,Vanilla Ice, Ace …
