Events for July 7, 2012
Saturday, July 7
Join Dianda’s Bakery on Saturday July 7th to celebrate 50 years of tradition.
There will be a cake cutting at noon and delicious cream puffs and coffee all day from 6am to 6pm to thank you for being part of our family.
About Dianda’s
In 1962 Dianda’s …
The 2012 Fillmore Jazz Festival returns with live music from morning to evening taking over the streets on three stages on Saturday and Sunday. The largest free Jazz festival on the West Coast, it draws over 90,000 visitors. All performances are free.
The festival takes place …
Trek to multiple springs along the cliffs above the Golden Gate National Recreation Area and Lobos Creek.
This walk will be sometimes hilly, on trails & up and down stairways and four miles or so in length and three to three and a half hours. The hike …
Oh if the walls of the Fairmont could only talk, the tales they could tell. City Guides has extracted a number of these tales and do we have stories to tell. Discover the secrets of the iconic Fairmont Hotel. See this elegant Hotel in all …
Join Flora Grubb to learn how to make your own natural vertical garden.
Lots of plants love to grow on steep, vertical surfaces like cliffs and trees. Using vertical-loving plants like ferns, bromeliads, tillandsias, and other epiphytic plants makes wall gardening super easy and fun. …
Calvary’s 156-year-old church building hosts their 18th annual open house during the 2012 Fillmore Jazz Festival. From noon to 5pm both Saturday and Sunday, visitors are welcome to take a breather from the Jazz Festival and enjoy free tours of original frescoes, tapestry, stained and …
In honor of the 2012 Fillmore Jazz Festival that will be partying outside on the weekend of July 7 & 8, 2012, Yoshi’s Jazz Club in San Francisco is throwing open its doors and throwing a party as well.
There will be free jazz in the …
Join Paxton Gate’s Curiosities for Kids for an entertaining and engaging reading by local author Jory John, a writer, editor and journalist.
He has written for the New York Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Believer, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, the Santa Cruz Sentinel and a variety …
Local hiker extraordinaire, Jill Katz will take you on a long hike from Lands End to Golden Gate Bridge, then to Liverpool Lil’s for food and drinks.
A word from Jill Katz:
We will meet in front of the Lands End Visitors Center. We will then follow …
Explore the unique qualities that have made San Francisco’s landscape what it is, while getting to know the local geology and munching our way through edible seismic science activities.
Discovery Street Tours are adventurous strolls for inquisitive souls, exploring science on the street in San Francisco. On …
Join anarchist and radical publisher AK Press for a “F*ck the Fourth” book sale at their Oakland warehouse from 2 to 7p on Saturday, July 7, 2012.
They’ll be selling their stock of over 40,000 titles to the public, with everything at 25% off. There will …
Bring your friends and family to a day of free opera in the Gardens. This concert will include scenes from a variety of operas and will feature artists from the Merola Opera Program.
The program will feature scenes from Anna Bolena by Donizetti, Mefistofele by …
The Alameda South Shore Center hosts their 2012 Summer Beats Concert series with free outdoor concerts in the center court of their mall.
Beginning Saturday, July 7, 2012, free performances will take place 5-7:00 pm every other Saturday through Labor Day.
Summer Beats Concert Series 2012
Every other …
Show up on Saturday, July 7th at 5:00 pm in Mission Dolores Park in San Francisco and spend the evening rushing between historic locations, clue points and local businesses throughout the Castro and the Mission districts.
Meet at the corner of 20th and Church near the …
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 …
Join the City of Oakley, one of California’s youngest cities, in its celebration of cityhood on Saturday, July 7, 2012.
Held at Freedom Basin Park, there will be music, food, vendors, pony rides, face painting and more. The evening ends with a fantastic fireworks extravaganza.. It all …
An evening of live performances, music and community discussion and interaction through the marriage of art and activism as seen by the Occupy movements of the Bay Area.
YBCA’s Room for Big Ideas will feature artworks and performance by artist Annie Danger, Jessica Tully and …
Come spend the evening with two of genre’s finest practitioners, John Shirley and Richard Kadrey, as they each read a selection from their recent work. San Francisco is fortunate indeed to have the two of them here in residence.
Each author will read a selection from …
Nerd Comedy Show at 50 Mason never gets any better or worse but you can always rest assured it will be awkward and fun.
Bert DiVietri presents Nerd Comedy Show Part 32: the Amazing Spider-Pig.
The Bay Area’s nerdiest comics will be in the house with …
Prince and MJ fans go toe-to-toe on the dance floor as DJs Dave Paul & Jeff Harris mix album cuts, remixes, rare tracks and hits from the two artists at this party. This months theme: Diamonds & Pearls. Break em’ out ladies.
The music is far from …
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 …
The North Bay Mobile Drive-In hits Novato with a renegade outdoor film screening in this DIY flash mob drive-in movie where you watch a flick on a 30-foot screen, tune your radio to 88.3 and drink in your car. Arrive early if you plan to park and watch. There’ll also be space for chairs and …
Come mingle with writers, curators, and organizers from all 27 of the Beast Crawl venues, drink delicious drinks, and dance, dance, dance to music by DJ Chcheze.
This is the final destination, where we all meet up and celebrate after we get our lit fix in …
Come celebrate Independence Day 2012 and see one of the largest fireworks displays in the Bay Area at California’s Great America theme park on Saturday, June 30 and Sunday, July 1 as well as Saturday, July 7, 2012.
Please note that there will not be fireworks …
The next installation of Blicks Mix features DJ Kramer (DISTRIKT) on Saturday July 7th in the Loft at Public Works. Peter Blick and Kramer will be droppin a bumpin mix of house and techno all night long.
Free before 11pm and $5 after. $3 Coronas and Captain …
Every Saturday
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 …
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 …
